Twins Prospect Hot Sheet, July 28, 2025: Connor Prielipp and Other Starters Making Statements

If Prielipp has refined his control  , a promotion is warranted to AAA  , if he continues to develop  , we could see him this season or next year  ...

If coloumbe is traded , a lefthander is needed for relief and he could be promoted for the bullpen from AA , wouldn't be any worse than funderburk in my opinion  ...

Since we drafted him , all I've ever heard is he got some pitches that are major league ready ...

Prielipp can take Dobnak’s innings. 

38 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

Prielipp can take Dobnak’s innings. 

Exactly what I was going to say. The only reason besides money to move Dobnak is to create room for someone else, Prielipp.

Stats are nice, and i know more about prielipp, but what velo do those other 2 have? Because that'll make all the difference as to weather they make it to the bigs or not. 

27 minutes ago, olerud said:

Stats are nice, and i know more about prielipp, but what velo do those other 2 have? Because that'll make all the difference as to weather they make it to the bigs or not. 

Don't have statcast data on Hidalgo since he's never played in a park with public data. 

Ross averages 92.7 on the 2 seam fastball.  Slider, changeup and 4-seam have whiff rates in the low 30%s.  Could be a guy who starts up through AAA, then moves to the pen and the fastball moves up to 95+.

12 hours ago, FlyingFinn said:

Exactly what I was going to say. The only reason besides money to move Dobnak is to create room for someone else, Prielipp.

Definitely time to move Prielipp up, especially with the new vacancy in St. Paul. Hey, I know the injury history and innings limits, but the "kid" is now 24 and apparently healthy, and probably ready for a new  challenge. 

Ross will need to get his velocity up or have something else in his arsenal to do more as he advances. He's fine, I guess, but at 22 in low-A he should be pushing around those kids, and so far he's just been ok, really. He's been fine in his first pro season, but still looks more like a suspect than a prospect to me.

Hidalgo is better positioned with his stuff, but he's still clearly working his way back from the injury and needs a lot of work on his command & control. He's got the stuff to hunt K's, but also doesn't always know where the ball is going, and that WHIP needs a lot of work. Maybe he can crack the Twins top 30, but I'd want to see more.

Prielipp is the real prospect here: he's finally staying on the field and letting his talent shine. The stuff is filthy and you can see exactly why the Twins took a risk on him despite the injury history. He's been oddly hittable this season, however, and it's something to watch with him. Curious to see where his splits end up at the end of the season; he hasn't crushed  LH hitters like you might expect, but it's also a pretty small sample. If he can stay healthy, he's a real guy, but until he gets a couple of healthy seasons under his belt it's going to follow him like a dark cloud unfortunately.

Prielipp when healthy is dominant, like #1 or #2 pitcher dominant.  Health has always been the question mark.  Its why he had 1st round talent but were able to get him in the 2nd round,  and also why he has been on the shelf for a significant portion of the last 3-4 years.  As a lefty,  with his velocity,  spin,  and quality pitches  he definitely looks like are next high quality SP pitcher prospect.  I do like the way they have been handling his workload,  and gradually stretching him out.   

Good job for Hidalgo and Ross, they are doing their jobs but most likely the stuff from either is not good enough.  The splits for July for Hidalgo are not good.  

If you want to talk about a pitcher that is making a statement,  its Bohorquez.  0 ERA for July, only 2 total runs.  He has a .077 Batting average against in 16 innings.  He does need to work on his control,  3 HBP, and 4 BB,  compared to just the 4 hits he has given up.  Like Hidalgo he started off slow,  jumping from FCL, but he has been dominant lately in A ball.   

I wonder if Prielipp can handle bullpen work this year. I’m guessing there is an innings limit on him and he’s at 52 now. Could he handle the change in warmup routine, pitching from the stretch, and the stress of BP duty. He could be used as a starter in a BP game or they could limit him to only begin innings instead of coming in during an inning. Would be great to give him a taste of the big leagues if/when they trade Columbe. 

15 minutes ago, Steve Lein said:

This was part of my summary for Prielipp in the Top Prospect Vote that finished last week:

"Has been giving up hits, but also is a buzzsaw. That's a command issue (as opposed to control, where he's doing just fine with a sub 2.5/9IP walk rate) I will attribute to returning from so many injuries and basically re-learning how to pitch with a new arm."

June was a "bad" month, as he had a near 2.00 WHIP in his four starts, but also had only a 2.45 ERA to go with that. I do not worry about the hits at this point as mentioned above, because he isn't giving up a bunch of runs along with them. 

I like the idea to get him up to the Saints and take some of the Dobnak innings.

I think that's fine, and I agree that he should be expected to have command issues as he's finally getting back on the mound for real baseball after years of missed time for injuries. But it's a reminder that maybe he's not ready to get thrown up to MLB just yet, even though the stuff is elite.

I think he's a really exciting prospect, and would be fine with him coming up to AAA. But I'd pump the brakes on him joining the MLB bullpen

I'm conflicted on Prielipp. Obviously, he's always had stuff and it's fun to dream on, but at this point he's 24 and after throwing 28 college innings he's had 82 career pro innings. I'd love to see an ace, but I really don't know if he'll ever build up to the 150-180 innings range. I wonder if he could be one of those 80-100 innings a year as a bullpen/bulk guy in the future. But still, nice to see him pitching well and healthy this year, hope he gets bumped to AAA soon.

2 hours ago, Connor Gould said:

I'm conflicted on Prielipp. Obviously, he's always had stuff and it's fun to dream on, but at this point he's 24 and after throwing 28 college innings he's had 82 career pro innings. I'd love to see an ace, but I really don't know if he'll ever build up to the 150-180 innings range. I wonder if he could be one of those 80-100 innings a year as a bullpen/bulk guy in the future. But still, nice to see him pitching well and healthy this year, hope he gets bumped to AAA soon.

1 elbow injury cost basically 3 years.  Had to do an additional repair.  Once its fixed its not surprising that they are healthy,  hell just look at Buxton.  I could have swore his career was finished 2 years ago.  Now he plays like nothing happened.  

Prielipp's 2020 season at Alabama is crazy! 21 IP and 5 hits! Hahaha!

Priellipp’s got a chance at a cup of coffee in Sept inMLB if Columbe is traded. If he doesn’t, no big deal because next season he will be knocking the door down. 
Hildago heading to AA is pretty awesome! Time for the next step in his development!