Twins' Jack Noble Makes Arizona Fall League Fall Stars Game

Jack Noble is a bit of an unheralded prospect in the Twins organization which is largely the case for most minor league relief pitchers. The 24-year-old was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2022 out of Long Beach State where he posted a 3.36 ERA, a 61:20 K:BB ratio, and led the team with six wins across 10 starts and seven relief appearances in his junior season. He was immediately assigned to the Florida Complex League where he made two appearances, striking out three and walking one while giving up no earned runs.

He started at the same level in 2023, and after three successful starts he earned a promotion to single-A Fort Myers where he made nine more starts and one relief appearance. With the Mighty Mussels he posted a 9.4% K-BB rate and 3.38 ERA / 4.91 FIP across 50 ⅔ innings. He’d again start at the same level in 2024, where he spent a majority of the season, making one start and 32 relief appearances totaling 58 ⅓ innings. He struggled despite being two years older than the average pitcher with a 4.78 ERA / 5.39 FIP but did improve his K-BB rate to 16% and posted a solid 28.8% called strike-whiff rate (CSW). He would be promoted to high-A Cedar Rapids for 3 ⅓ innings and then double-A Wichita for three more innings before his season came to a close.

The righty has an incredibly deep pitch mix featuring a low-to-mid 90s four seam and two seam fastball, the latter of which averages 13.1 inches of horizontal break, as well as a cutter, slider, curve, changeup, and split-finger fastball. While his breaking balls spin at more than 3,000 rotations per minute, he has struggled with control throughout his career posting a lowly 60.1% strike rate in 2024.

His struggles with control notwithstanding, the Twins sent him to the Arizona Fall League where he posted a 5.56 ERA and a 10:7 K:BB ratio in 11 ⅓ innings of work. Now, he’ll look to get an appearance in the 18th annual Arizona Fall League Fall Stars game with first pitch set for 7:00 pm CDT on Saturday, November 9th.