Saw this Twins Cities Business podcast on Youtube. They detail how the team accumulated so much debt during the covid years and through the loss of television revenue.
Written by Chris Crawford. Not sure who he is.
Four Twins are listed, three in the top 54:
7. Walker Jenkins
44. Emmanuel Rodriguez
54. Kaelen Culpepper
83. Eduardo Tait
https://www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/2026-mlb-prospect-rankings-top-100-players-headlined-by-konnor-griffin-leo-de-vries?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
The Twins offered $5.85 million. Ryan asked for $6.35 million. Interesting that the Twins treat the deadline as a cutoff date and won't further negotiate before the hearing.
https://www.mlb.com/twins/news/twins-arbitration-deadline-2026
Presumably with a Spring Training invite. He made 28 relief appearances last year for the White Sox before being released in September.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/minnesota-twins
Carson McCusker signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Japanese League.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/twins-release-carson-mccusker-to-pursue-opportunity-in-asia.html
The Dodgers placed Stewart on the 15 day IL with right shoulder inflammation.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/baseball/dodgers-reliever-brock-stewart-shoulder-placed-on-15-day-il/ar-AA1KpD2z?ocid=BingNewsSerp
A pretty definite statement by Byron that he plans to remain a Twin his whole career.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/07/byron-buxton-rumors-no-trade-clause-twin-for-life.html
That's a good point. Trading Correa, coupled with other Twins' contracts expiring, would reduce payroll by $70M+ going into the offseason. How much of that amount would the front office be allowed to spend?
Carson McCusker optioned to AAA St. Paul. No corresponding move announced yet.
https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/twins-carson-mccusker-sent-to-triple-a/
Perhaps his 26 July 2021 home run. The two Twins with blue jackets in the dugout next to the water cooler are also in the home run video at the 7/8 second mark.
https://www.mlb.com/video/brent-rooker-homers-3-on-a-fly-ball-to-left-center-field?q=ContentTags == ["hitting","gamepk-633133"] Order By Timestamp DESC&pt=Offensive Highlights&p=0
According to a comment on the MLB.com article on the trade, Gasper is out of options.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/12/red-sox-acquire-jovani-moran-from-twins-for-mickey-gasper.html