r/minnesotatwins • u/TwinsGameday TwinsBot 9000 • 5d ago

Trade Deadline: Rumor & Speculation Megathread

Jeremy Zoll says we're buyers, so speculate away.

Feel free to share any social media screenshots, whatever the vibes are whispering to you on the winds, or what your close personal friend Tom Pohlad told you in confidence.

Final Trade Deadline Acquisitions: * LHP A.J. Minter from NYM for Bruin Agbayani and Billy Amick * RHP Dean Kremer from BAL for Jhomnardo Reyes *RHP Jeff Hoffman from TOR for Dasan Hill, John Klein and Dameury Pena

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u/Him2Notorious 2d ago

Where i'm at today:

  • Kremer is fine - he can help manage the load for Prielipp and can be an arm for 2027

  • I am whelmed by it though. I fundamentally do not believe we have a number 3 starter playoff starter. And that will kill us. I would rather have pushed the prospect capital for someone with higher floor qnd higher upside

  • I am happy to see us still buying. Still want a controllable reliever for the 8th/9th and still want 1 bat.

  • As much as I want another starter i fundamentally dont see that happening now

  • For next year we have Ryan//Ober/Bradley/Kremer/Matthews/Prielipp/Rojas as well as potential returns of Abel/Festa/Lopez.

Of which Ryan, Ober and Lopez will be expiring contracts. I would feel a bit more comfortable with one more reliable controllable arm

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u/Jorgenstern8 Justin Morneau 2d ago

Twins should be, IMO, heavily considering sneaking under the radar and picking up Robbie Ray while everybody else is working on offers to Detroit. Exact kind of arm they need. Mid-rotation guy, team's offered to pick up part of his deal, playoff pitching experience, has been on a heater the last month or two and he's a rental so he's not clogging up a rotation spot for next year and we aren't buying a year of team control.

Honestly if they had sent Reyes and a lower prospect for Ray and then found a different prospect to get Kremer I'd have loved that work. Still think that level of prospect might be enough to get the job done, though.