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Under is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Minnesota Twins. Scouting studies had been compiled with data supplied by business sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the fifth yr we’re delineating between two anticipated reduction roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning reduction pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning reduction pitchers. The ETAs listed usually correspond to the yr a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear acceptable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means could be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview could be discovered right here.
All the ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location affords that includes sortable scouting data for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from varied sources) than this text and integrates each staff’s record so readers can evaluate prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Notice
Grouped by kind and listed so as of desire inside every class.
Catching Depth
Mickey GasperC/1B/2B/LF
Noah CardenasC
Diego CartayaC
Nate BaezC/1B
Andrew CossettiC/1B
Daniel PenaC/1B
Gasper is a 29-year-old switch-hitter with multi-positional versatility that features catcher. He’s very robust to beat with fastballs and is a Twenty seventh-man kind of participant. Cardenas is a contact-oriented catcher with a handsome swing. His prime hand drives his contact, and he can dip into his decrease physique to regulate his bat path. Cardenas will not be an particularly good defender; he’s a 40 receiver with a forty five arm and is probably going a contact-oriented third or fourth catcher. Cartaya was acquired from the Dodgers and outrighted to Triple-A in late April. The previous Prime 100 prospect has seen his strikeouts explode as he’s climbed the minors, and to this point in 2025, he’s Ok’ing greater than 50% of the time. He’s a 23-year-old developmental catcher at Triple-A. Baez was a catcher and infielder at Arizona State, and has centered on catching and first base in professional ball. He has a giant league physique at a chiseled 5-foot-11, 191 kilos, and produces roughly common energy. The power in Baez’s fingers permits him to be on time to button fastballs, which he has an 89% contact charge towards as of this writing. He can’t throw properly sufficient to catch (in case you’re gonna put a 20 on a catcher’s arm, it’s his) or else he’d be on the primary part of the record. Cossetti is a power-hitting catcher from St. Joe’s who has had strikeout points in professional ball. Pena is a squat, 20-year-old Venezuelan backstop with a compact swing and fairly good really feel for contact for a catching prospect. He’s nonetheless tough across the edges on protection and wishes to enhance again there to turn into a real prospect as a result of he lacks first base energy.
Rookie Ball Names to Know
Teilon SerranoOF
Ariel CastroOF
Darwin Almanzar. 3B
Yovanny DuranCF
Carlos Taveras1b
Cristian Bonifacio1B/OF
Jensi InfanteRHP
ElimRHP
Serrano was one of many prospects the Dodgers misplaced throughout their pursuit of Roki Sasakias he signed with Minnesota for about $850,000 in January. He’s a twitchy, medium-framed outfield prospect with quick levers and superior contact really feel, a worthy prospect in whom to pump late-market cash, however not toolsy sufficient for the primary part of the record. Castro signed for $2.4 million in 2023 as a projectable nook outfield energy bat with hit device danger. He’s Ok’d at a couple of 33% clip at every rookie ball degree and is doing it once more in 2025 although he’s repeating the advanced. You may argue he was all the time going to be a slow-burn prospect and that, at age 19, he nonetheless may be. Almanzar is an explosive, tightly wound switch-hitting third baseman with crude bat management. He’s very sturdy already and is off to an excellent begin within the DSL. Duran is a toolsy middle area prospect with plus velocity and promising energy when he really runs into contact. He acquired damage early within the DSL calendar and has barely performed as of publication. Taveras is a burly, lefty-hitting nook bat with current really feel to hit and mature power. He’s performed some middle area, however athletically, he appears to be like like a long-term first base match. Bonifacio is a gigantic lefty-hitting nook bat with above-average bat velocity and uncommon rotational explosion for a man as thick as he’s constructed within the trunk and decrease half. Infante is a wispy 18-year-old righty at 6-foot-3, 170 or so, and is presently sitting 88-90 within the DSL with the makings of a deep, high quality curveball. Urena, 19, is an excellent free Dominican righty who sits within the 90-93 mph vary. He has an excessive drop-and-drive supply and is an excellent cellular athlete with whippy limbs and a plus-flashing sweeper, however he’s struggling to search out management proper now.
Utility Depth
Will HollandUTIL
Ryan FitzgeraldSS
DaShawn Keirsey Jr.OF
Junior SeverinoINF
Rayne DonconINF
Rubel Cespedes3B/1B
Ortega JorelUTIL
Holland has missed time in 2025 with a fractured finger and hamstring damage, however he’s hit the ball exhausting in restricted time and appears superb enjoying a mixture of shortstop, middle area, and different spots. He’s not an excellent hitter, however his versatility makes him a pleasant upper-level depth choice. Fitzgerald, 31, has hopped round Triple-A with Boston (who drafted him), Kansas Metropolis, and now Minnesota, briefly debuting this yr. He’s a dependable if unexceptional shortstop defender with 40-grade hit and energy instruments, a superb upper-level depth choice due to his protection. Keirsey is a speedy 28-year-old outfielder whose had a giant league cup of espresso as a pinch-runner and further outfielder. His utility is only situational; his bat is fairly gradual. Severino is a 25-year-old infielder with plus energy and a paper skinny hit device. Doncon was acquired from the Dodgers as a part of the Manuel Margot commerce. He has trended down the defensive spectrum and is now a 1B/3B match, whereas his offense has stagnated. Cespedes is a lefty-hitting infielder with a giant however errant arm. He’s a greater match at first base, the place his offensive output (common contact and energy, however a bat path that doesn’t get to the pop) is shy of profiling. Ortega, the staff’s 2022 sixth rounder out of Tennessee, has an excessive pull-and-lift method that enables him to outproduce his uncooked energy in video games. If he can preserve doing this towards upper-level pitchers, he’ll at the very least be an excellent Twenty seventh-man kind of depth choice.
Pitching Tasks
Dylan QuestadRHP
Michael CarpenterLHP
Hendry ChivilliRHP
Poor management is the lone factor protecting Questad off the primary part of the record, as he’s strolling 16.4% of hitters at Fort Myers. He has an important splitter and a well-defined cutter/curveball combine that provides him the look of a starter in each means apart from the strikes. Carpenter is an undersized lefty with a number of starter substances. He comes out of Madison Faculty and signed for about $500,000 final yr. The 20-year-old is sitting 92-94 with uphill angle and a slider than tunnels properly off his heater. He additionally sells his changeup properly along with his quick, constant arm stroke. It’s 40 FV stuff on a younger lefty who’s struggling sufficient with walks to maintain him on this part for now. Chivilli was signed as a power-hitting, laser-armed shortstop prospect, however he struggled on offense and has been moved to the mound. After making three appearances in Might, he hasn’t pitched once more. He was sitting 93-95 in two-inning bursts with almost pure vertical form however not a ton of motion. He has a budding sweeper, too. Keep in mind that profitable conversion arms are likely to get higher and click on fairly rapidly, although Chivilli is an unusually younger one as he’s nonetheless simply 19.
Older Sleepers
Cody LawerysonRHP
Cory LewisRHP
Tanner CorridorRHP
Laweryson is a 27-year-old reliever at Triple-A whose funky and misleading supply has helped his fastball play like a plus pitch although it has common velocity. He lacks a second weapon. Knuckler alert! Lewis is a soft-tossing kitchen sink righty who throws his mid-80s knuckleball about 25% of the time. He’s combating walks at St. Paul, however ought to get a cup of espresso as a depth starter. Corridor has a plus change, and his working side-arm sinker offers him a cool look to righties regardless of sitting 89-91 mph, however his management has stagnated and he lacks a glove-side weapon.
System Overview
This must be one of many extra injury-riddled organizations in baseball. Pablo López and Zebby Matthews damage their shoulders a day aside earlier this month, Byron Buxton and Royce Lewis are famous person skills who’re incessantly injured, Carlos Correa is usually dinged, Luke Keaschall, Emmanuel Rodriguez, and Walker Jenkins have handled critical or frequent damage, and Brooks Lee and Connor Prielipp have significant damage histories courting again to school. Many gamers throughout all organizations are injured, however the Twins really feel extra bothered than most, particularly the place gamers. Are they extra danger tolerant with medical stuff within the draft than different groups? Is that this an org-wide power and conditioning difficulty? Is it simply random, or is that this anecdotal take merely incorrect? No matter which it’s, the Twins ought to discover out for positive and make an adjustment in the event that they decide it’s self-inflicted.
Maybe essentially the most attention-grabbing element in regards to the Twins system is all of the undrafted guys who signed out of Indy ball. There are much more gamers within the system than are talked about above who’ve walked this path to professional ball. The Twins are one among a few groups who scout Indy ball exhausting and discover a regular stream of potential massive leaguers. It’s uncommon for Indy ballers to signal and have success as place gamers, which makes Payton Eeles’ 2024 actually particular.
Minnesota’s worldwide scouting division has begun to “go vast,” with intelligent, low-bonus targets yielding deeper courses as a result of it isn’t only one or two gamers getting their complete pool. This type of technique isn’t usually related to buying upside, and is extra about amassing smaller, skill-oriented gamers, however this hasn’t been the case in Minnesota, because the Twins have signed numerous big-framed, toolsy hitters with long-term energy projection. They’ve among the many greatest assortment of hitters on any DSL roster.
Positional versatility can also be an organizational precedence right here. A number of Twins gamers see time at a wide range of positions, together with the high-profile prospects within the system. When this many gamers preserve getting injured, it’s useful to have the ability to slide guys round as wanted so you possibly can have your 26 most gifted gamers on the large league roster at any given time.
This technique is true across the league common, in all probability a shade above because of Jenkins’ upside, the massive variety of gamers within the 45 and 45+ FV tiers, and the general depth of the system because of the Indy ball signees and command-oriented pitchers who make it 43 dudes deep. The membership is hovering round .500 and is 10 video games behind the division-leading Tigers as of this writing. There’s almost $30 million coming off the books this offseason. Christian Vázquez ($10 million) is the most costly of those, whereas crucial to the staff is Willi Castro ($6.4 million). An ill-fated try and promote the membership makes the short-term payroll path robust to foretell, and the looming league labor strife in all probability received’t assist. There are two waves of expertise right here; the group of upper-level guys who can patch holes across the massive league core for the subsequent couple of years, after which the youthful contingent who would possibly find yourself as the primary wave of a giant rebuild beginning in 2028-29 when the contracts of men like López, Joe RyanBuxton, Correa, and Jhoan duran begin to expire.
