Which Twins Players Are Playing Their Last Games in Minnesota?

Any reason why Trevor Larnach should not be on this list as well? I know most had him on the list last year and were wrong, but the same reasons seem even stronger now.

Larnach is long gone

Why would they not make the QO to Jeffers? Worst case is that you get another year of a great catcher. Would you be overpaying? Maybe, but not by much. And he would likely decline it so he could the long term deal. That means that the Twins that get an extra draft pick. I feel like this is a no-brainer, but I guess it's not.

Twins need a hard reset. Lets try for a 1985, 1986, 1987 remake. Two years building up to a World Series season. Jenkins, Culpepper & Erod are more exciting & fun to watch than the players they replaced. Our better pitchers will be the young guys next year. Zebby looks to be a valuable starter. 

I was confused why Wallner didn't get at least a cup of coffee at end of season, until I saw that in his past 30 AAA games he hit .170 with 48 K in 106 AB. His overall season numbers look okay but striking out 109 times in 334 milb at bats suggest he'll be overseas next year.

I'd suggest Sabato and his MLB minimum salary will be the DH to open 2027, no offense to Mr. Bell who has done about as his history suggested he would.

55 minutes ago, bean5302 said:

Depends on who is in charge of the front office.

Depends on the CBA.

As it is now, if Zoll remains in charge:
Jeffers gone
Bell back
Rogers gone
Ober back
Wallner back
Lewis back

Zoll will keep every asset he has and run the team back unchanged because there's no room left on the 40 man.

Why would Zoll re-sign Bell? The idea that Wallner will be back is very unlikely; even Wallner himself is saying he's going to be somewhere else. This seems like just another blind "I hate the front office!" post. Boring.

As the impending free agent and plausible retirement candidate, Rogers is unlikely to be back next year, but they're going to need to turn over more than one bullpen spot if they are serious about fielding a better team. Minter is also on the way out the door which clears a second spot, but he's another lefty and that still leaves no obvious open spots to upgrade the righty part of the bullpen. One of the current right handed options will need to either be optioned to AAA or outright replaced if they want to avoid repeating this year's mistakes again. 

Will any of these players be back next season , of the players that are mentioned a couple will remain …

as for the direction of the team , the team continues to have no straight forward plan to establish or sustain success …

We've been waiting years for Royce Lewis to do something.  I think he's already peaked.

Not to be too picky but I find this statement absolutely incorrect: “The Twins have spent much of 2026 evaluating what their next competitive roster should look like”.
I think the Twins have done a poor job of this in 2026 and will set back the inevitable rebuild or reload because of it. 

27 minutes ago, jmlease1 said:

Why would Zoll re-sign Bell? The idea that Wallner will be back is very unlikely; even Wallner himself is saying he's going to be somewhere else. This seems like just another blind "I hate the front office!" post. Boring.

History says he will re-sign Bell.  I don't disagree with you about Wallner but if Zoll is in charge Larnach is very likely to be back as well.  They already signaled their intentions the last month when they kept playing  Larnach and didn't call up ERod because they couldn't find at bats for him.

This front office still favors the average or less veteran vs. young players.  If Zoll stays, we will have pretty much the same roster with both Ober and Kremer in the rotation.  And we will see more blunders like Kreidler made yesterday with no hope for the future.

Easily could rattle off about 6-8 names...and I know I'll get ripped for it, but I wish Buxton was headed outta here too. 

4 minutes ago, HarmonK03 said:

History says he will re-sign Bell.  I don't disagree with you about Wallner but if Zoll is in charge Larnach is very likely to be back as well.  They already signaled their intentions the last month when they kept playing  Larnach and didn't call up ERod because they couldn't find at bats for him.

This front office still favors the average or less veteran vs. young players.  If Zoll stays, we will have pretty much the same roster with both Ober and Kremer in the rotation.  And we will see more blunders like Kreidler made yesterday with no hope for the future.

Considering Rodriguez has to be on the 26-man next season and they're likely to give Jenkins every chance to win a job as well, there's very little chance Larnach is back. Keep in mind, Zoll tried to trade Larnach at the deadline. Again, why exactly does Zoll want to bring Larnach back? 

Maybe we'll see Ober back, but as disappointing and frustrating as Ober has been, and as concerning as his loss velocity is...Ober actually has the second highest bWAR of any pitcher on the roster.

Kreidler is a utility guy who will likely be competing with Ben Ross to keep his job. He ain't the reason the Twins are out of contention, and if he's back on the roster it'll hardly be a disaster.

But we have little idea about what Zoll will do to the roster under Tom Pohlad's ownership and having a full off-season in which to work. We don't know what the payroll budget is going to be, we don't know who will be available, we don't know what the market will be like. We don't know if they're going to commit to young players in the OF...but it sure seems likely since Keaschall seems to be off the dirt, Rodriguez can't go back to AAA in 2027, and they love Jenkins (who might need to make some adjustments in AAA, but also might just need to work in the offseason and keep playing in MLB).

1 minute ago, CRF said:

Easily could rattle off about 6-8 names...and I know I'll get ripped for it, but I wish Buxton was headed outta here too. 

Getting rid of Buxton won't make you any happier about the franchise. I guarantee you'll end up mad at the return they got for him, mad that they're not spending money on someone else, mad that he's playing well for someone else, mad at someone else's injury etc. Try to make peace with the fact that it's going to be hard to keep Buxton healthy enough to play more than 100 games or so, but that he'll be very damn good while he does it (that the Twins should have plenty of OF talent to cover for him if he misses extended time again)

Has anyone looked at the standings,this is a 4th place team in a division of teams playing 500 ball. They need to make major roster moves to improve the team in 27. All the talk about Jeffers isn't going to help the team do what needs to be done. Why wait for Lewis to get back to someone he isn't. He had a month or two in his major league career. Time has come to move on from 4th place players.

I guess TP could sit on his hands and wait to see what the CBA looks like,but is that a good idea. Time for him to step up and show the fans he hears them. He now has another year of bad baseball to look at. Running the same team out next with only a couple of changes will only see the same result. They gutted the BP last year now it's time to do that to the position players.

Those are some pretty damning numbers for Wallner's last 30 games especially in an offense-happy league.

Rogers was a reasonable signing off of a decent, although past-his-prime, 2025.  Just watch the Cubs sign him next year and squeeze one more great season out of him before he reverts back to retirement-ready numbers in 2028 (a la Caleb Thielbar).

All Josh Bell has done is lead the team in RBI for the season.  I really hated the signing the first two months especially, but it seemed like once they removed the glove off of his left hand his offense took off.  Do I think he should come back?  Not really.  It is becoming harder and harder to watch one dimensional players, even though they have clearly been a part of MLB since it began, even before the DH role was created.

Sigh.  How much patience can Royce Lewis be shown?  Remember the comments from Derek Shelton that once he was announced as manager Lewis was one of the first players he contacted?  So, yes, he will be back.  We have seen him more healthy this season than previous years.  It seems hard to expect, though, improvement despite his gaudy entrance into the league.  I do not expect him to survive 2027, however.

1 hour ago, DuluthDuke said:

I'd suggest Sabato and his MLB minimum salary will be the DH to open 2027, no offense to Mr. Bell who has done about as his history suggested he would.

The DH will be more by committee in 2027 as we want to play Jenkins, Rodriguez, Buxton and Keaschall all at the same time and they belong in the OF or DH, when the OF is filled with the other three.