Neal Cotts

Now that he has addressed the needs for a catcher and power bat with the additions of John Ryan Murphy and Byung Ho Park, one of Terry Ryan's top priorities will be finding an impact lefty for the bullpen.

Here's the latest on some candidates as next week's Winter Meetings approach.

It's 2015 and the Minnesota Twins are playing baseball in September. While that happens every season, what doesn't happen often (or at least for the past four seasons), is meaningful September baseball. Paul Molitor's club finds themselves in the thick of a heated wild card race with just over a month to play.

It wasn't supposed to go like this. Minnesota was not at all defined as a surprise team in 2015. In a stacked AL Central, it was the Twins who were supposed to be sellers, and once again teeter on the brink of losing 90 games. Fortunately, none of that has played out as expected,

The two most recent additions to this Minnesota Twins team were to help prop up a sagging bullpen. True enough, the unit was adequate in the first half as the Twins raced out to as high as 11 games over .500. But early-season darlings Blaine Boyer and the since-demoted Aaron Thompson hit proverbial walls, leaving the Twins’ fans wondering if the club would take steps to address the bullpen before it ultimately sapped their playoff chances.

According to the Twitter feed of the Milwaukee Brewers, the Twins have acquired left-handed reliever Neal Cotts for a player to be named later.