Twins Prospect Hot Sheet: Dasan Hill is En Fuego

The middle of May is an important checkpoint on the minor-league calendar. By this point, organizations have seen enough of their prospects at their current levels to begin rewarding consistent performance with promotions. The sample sizes are no longer tiny, and player development staffs start to make more aggressive decisions based on who is forcing the issue. For the Minnesota Twins, a few names are doing exactly that right now.

Here are three prospects heating up and making their case for the next level.

OF Hendry Mendez– St. Paul Saints
How He Got Here: Mendez quickly showed he knew how to handle professional pitching after signing with Milwaukee in January 2021 for $800,000. He hit for a .316 combined average across the Dominican Summer League, the Arizona Complex League, and his first stateside stops during his debut season.

He reached High-A as a 19-year-old in 2023 before being traded to Philadelphia in the offseason in a deal involving Oliver Dunn. Mendez continued to hit his way through the system in 2024 and 2025, showing strong on-base ability without a great deal of power. He eventually finished strong in Double-A with a .911 on-base plus slugging after joining the Twins organization in the Harrison Bader trade deadline deal.

Hitting the Hot Button: Minnesota began the season with a crowded group of left-handed hitting outfielders at Triple-A, which led to Mendez opening the year in Double A. Injuries to Alan Roden, Walker Jenkins, and Emmanuel Rodriguez opened the door, and Mendez has taken full advantage.

He posted an .857 on base plus slugging in 24 Double-A games before earning a promotion. Since moving up, he has continued to produce at a high level. Over the past week, Mendez has appeared in five games for the Saints and hit .474 with nine hits in 19 at-bats, one double, one home run, six runs batted in, and four walks. The 22-year-old is forcing the Twins to take notice with every game.

LHP Dasan Hill– Cedar Rapids Kernels
How He Got Here: The Twins sought high-ceiling pitching upside by taking Hill in the Competitive Balance Round B of the 2024 MLB Draft. The projectable high school left-hander from Texas signed for $2 million and immediately became one of the most closely watched arms in the system.

He opened his first full season on a workload management plan, but still dominated in the Low-A Florida State League. Hill posted a 2.77 ERA, held opponents to a .190 batting average, and posted a 31.3% strikeout rate over 52 innings. That performance earned him a late-season promotion to High-A Cedar Rapids, where he also contributed in a Midwest League playoff win.

Hitting the Hot Button: The Twins sent Hill back to the Midwest League to start this season, where he remains nearly three years younger than the average competition. Early on, he went through some growing pains, allowing 14 earned runs across his first 12 innings.

Lately, however, he has looked far more comfortable. Hill made two starts this week and delivered 8 2/3 scoreless innings with three walks and 14 strikeouts against 33 batters faced. He has now recorded at least seven strikeouts in four straight appearances. In his most recent outing, Hill went five innings and generated a season high 17 swinging strikes on 72 pitches. The stuff is starting to match the projection, and the results are following.

RHP Reed Moring– Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
How He Got Here: The Twins selected Moring in the 15th round of the 2025 Draft out of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His final college season was interrupted by a UCL strain that sidelined him for six weeks, and he eventually received a platelet-rich plasma injection as part of his recovery.

He made only seven appearances in his junior season, including five starts, but was effective when on the mound. He posted a 2.55 earned run average with a 1.25 WHIP, a 28% strikeout rate, and a 16% walk rate. Minnesota opted to hold him out of game action until the 2026 season.

Hitting the Hot Button: Moring opened his professional career on an impressive run, tossing six straight scoreless appearances to begin his first season. That stretch came to an end on Saturday when he allowed his first earned run.

Before that outing, he had worked 19 2/3 innings without allowing a run, posting a 0.00 earned run average during that span. That streak ranks as the fifth longest in franchise history since modern tracking began in 2005. Moring came just one out shy of becoming only the third player in the Single-A era to reach 20 scoreless innings before a sacrifice fly ended the run. Even with the streak ending, his early dominance has firmly placed him on the prospect radar.

This group shows the range of what prospect development can look like in the Twins system. Mendez is a polished hitter who keeps forcing promotions with consistent contact and on-base ability. Hill is the high-ceiling arm whose stuff is starting to translate into strikeout totals as the strikeout totals pile up. Moring has come out of the gate professionally with historic-level run prevention.

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