A Way-Too-Early Look at the 2026 Minnesota Twins Roster

[Patzky]

3 hours ago, TL said:

There has to be new ownership. New ownership would keep Pablo and Ryan and add a bat, perhaps even trading some of our wealth of prospects for a big bat to play 1B, which would really balance out the lineup. There is potential for 2026 with new ownership in place.  

Uh oh

[mnfireman]

5 minutes ago, JD-TWINS said:

Arbitration & pre-arbitration eligible in ‘26 @ $59M up to (with same total of 23 guys) arbitration & pre-arbitration in ‘27 @ $135M.

I get you are just reporting what you see published but does this seem realistic? Hard for me to fathom this type of increase with one more year of service time……everyone more than doubles salary on average?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/minnesota-twins-salaries-and-contracts.shtml

Agreed, and BR states as much in the link

[mnfireman]

2 minutes ago, Patzky said:

Uh oh

Pohlad's remaining majority owner, is it too early to start drinking?

[Derojo]

I don't understand trading Ryan and Lopez, other than financial constraints. The most difficult positions to fill are starting #1 and #2; closer RP, and #1 catcher who makes the entire pitching staff more effective. Ryan, Lopez, and Jeffers better stay, and the top two or three relievers, as too many have been traded. As for Buxton, sorry, but you are only fifth most critical player on this team, especially with your injury history. Logically, Buxton would be the trade IF he stays healthy through the rest of the season. No one wants to write that.

[Mike Sixel]

On 8/13/2025 at 5:14 AM, jmlease1 said:

Neither Wallner nor Julien made the top 100 lists. Miranda barely cracked a top 100 list in one season. It's not a great track record, but you're underrating Wallner and his career 132 OPS+. Larnach is a platoon outfielder. Lewis Royce has tons and tons of injuries, but still looks like he can be a quality starter.

Rodriguez is yet to be determined; still plenty young, but also constantly dealing with injuries. notably, Kirilloff, Miranda, Gordon, Lewis, and Rodriguez have all had significant injury issues. The inference here is that the Twins made bad decisions on all these players and/or failed to develop them, but for half the list injury issues have derailed their careers in some way. None of these guys had a discernible history of injuries when selected (none of them were guys like Preilipp...or even Keaschall, who was known to have a elbow issue that would need to be addressed). Are you saying the Twins should have known that these guys would all get hurt?

 

Some of those guys were drafted by the previous FO...... Also.