Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Minnesota Twins. Scouting experiences had been compiled with info supplied by trade sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the fifth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Handbook changes are made the place they appear applicable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means might be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview might be discovered right here.
The entire ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the positioning affords that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan knowledge from numerous sources) than this text and integrates each crew’s checklist so readers can examine prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Be aware
Grouped by kind and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Catching Depth
Mickey Gasper, C/1B/2B/LF
Noah Cardenas, C
Diego Cartaya, C
Nate Baez, C/1B
Andrew Cossetti, C/1B
Daniel Pena, C/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 high hand drives his contact, and he can dip into his decrease physique to regulate his bat path. Cardenas isn’t 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 up to now 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 an enormous league physique at a chiseled 5-foot-11, 191 kilos, and produces roughly common energy. The power in Baez’s arms 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 nicely sufficient to catch (for those who’re gonna put a 20 on a catcher’s arm, it’s his) or else he’d be on the principle part of the checklist. 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 desires to enhance again there to develop into a real prospect as a result of he lacks first base energy.
Rookie Ball Names to Know
Teilon Serrano, OF
Ariel Castro, OF
Darwin Almanzar, 3B
Yovanny Duran, CF
Carlos Taveras, 1B
Cristian Bonifacio, 1B/OF
Jensi Infante, RHP
Eli Urena, RHP
Serrano was one of many prospects the Dodgers misplaced throughout their pursuit of Roki Sasaki, as 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 principle part of the checklist. Castro signed for $2.4 million in 2023 as a projectable nook outfield energy bat with hit software threat. He’s Ok’d at a few 33% clip at every rookie ball degree and is doing it once more in 2025 although he’s repeating the complicated. You could possibly argue he was at all times going to be a slow-burn prospect and that, at age 19, he nonetheless is perhaps. Almanzar is an explosive, tightly wound switch-hitting third baseman with crude bat management. He’s very sturdy already and is off to a great begin within the DSL. Duran is a toolsy heart subject prospect with plus velocity and promising energy when he truly runs into contact. He obtained 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 heart subject, however athletically, he appears 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 at the moment sitting 88-90 within the DSL with the makings of a deep, high quality curveball. Urena, 19, is a brilliant free Dominican righty who sits within the 90-93 mph vary. He has an excessive drop-and-drive supply and is a brilliant cell athlete with whippy limbs and a plus-flashing sweeper, however he’s struggling to seek out management proper now.
Utility Depth
Will Holland, UTIL
Ryan Fitzgerald, SS
DaShawn Keirsey Jr., OF
Yunior Severino, INF
Rayne Doncon, INF
Rubel Cespedes, 3B/1B
Jorel Ortega, UTIL
Holland has missed time in 2025 with a fractured finger and hamstring harm, however he’s hit the ball laborious in restricted time and appears fantastic taking part in a mixture of shortstop, heart subject, and different spots. He’s not a great hitter, however his versatility makes him a pleasant upper-level depth possibility. Fitzgerald, 31, has hopped round Triple-A with Boston (who drafted him), Kansas Metropolis, and now Minnesota, briefly debuting this 12 months. He’s a dependable if unexceptional shortstop defender with 40-grade hit and energy instruments, a fantastic upper-level depth possibility due to his protection. Keirsey is a speedy 28-year-old outfielder whose had an enormous league cup of espresso as a pinch-runner and additional 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 software. 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 an enormous 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 crew’s 2022 sixth rounder out of Tennessee, has an excessive pull-and-lift method that permits him to outproduce his uncooked energy in video games. If he can hold doing this towards upper-level pitchers, he’ll at the least be a great Twenty seventh-man kind of depth possibility.
Pitching Tasks
Dylan Questad, RHP
Michael Carpenter, LHP
Hendry Chivilli, RHP
Poor management is the lone factor maintaining Questad off the principle part of the checklist, as he’s strolling 16.4% of hitters at Fort Myers. He has a terrific splitter and a well-defined cutter/curveball combine that offers him the look of a starter in each means aside from the strikes. Carpenter is an undersized lefty with a lot of starter elements. He comes out of Madison School and signed for about $500,000 final 12 months. 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 nicely together 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 Could, he hasn’t pitched once more. He was sitting 93-95 in two-inning bursts with practically pure vertical form however not a ton of motion. He has a budding sweeper, too. Keep in mind that profitable conversion arms are inclined to get higher and click on fairly shortly, although Chivilli is an unusually younger one as he’s nonetheless simply 19.
Older Sleepers
Cody Laweryson, RHP
Cory Lewis, RHP
Tanner Corridor, RHP
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 scuffling with walks at St. Paul, however ought to get a cup of espresso as a depth starter. Corridor has a plus change, and his operating 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 regularly injured, Carlos Correa is commonly dinged, Luke Keaschall, Emmanuel Rodriguez, and Walker Jenkins have handled critical or frequent harm, and Brooks Lee and Connor Prielipp have significant harm histories relationship again to varsity. Many gamers throughout all organizations are injured, however the Twins really feel extra bothered than most, particularly the place gamers. Are they extra threat tolerant with medical stuff within the draft than different groups? Is that this an org-wide power and conditioning concern? Is it simply random, or is that this anecdotal take merely incorrect? No matter which it’s, the Twins ought to discover out for certain and make an adjustment in the event that they decide it’s self-inflicted.
Maybe probably the most fascinating 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 in all a few groups who scout Indy ball laborious and discover a regular stream of potential large leaguers. It’s uncommon for Indy ballers to signal and have success as place gamers, which makes Payton Eeles’ 2024 really particular.
Minnesota’s worldwide scouting division has begun to “go large,” with intelligent, low-bonus targets yielding deeper lessons as a result of it isn’t only one or two gamers getting their complete pool. This kind of technique isn’t typically 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 a variety of big-framed, toolsy hitters with long-term energy projection. They’ve among the many finest assortment of hitters on any DSL roster.
Positional versatility can also be an organizational precedence right here. Plenty of Twins gamers see time at a wide range of positions, together with the high-profile prospects within the system. When this many gamers hold getting injured, it’s useful to have the ability to slide guys round as wanted so you’ll be able to have your 26 most proficient gamers on the massive league roster at any given time.
This technique is true across the league common, most likely a shade above due to Jenkins’ upside, the massive variety of gamers within the 45 and 45+ FV tiers, and the general depth of the system due to 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 may be practically $30 million coming off the books this offseason. Christian Vázquez ($10 million) is the costliest of those, whereas crucial to the crew is Willi Castro ($6.4 million). An ill-fated try to promote the membership makes the short-term payroll path robust to foretell, and the looming league labor strife most likely gained’t assist. There are two waves of expertise right here; the group of upper-level guys who can patch holes across the large league core for the subsequent couple of years, after which the youthful contingent who would possibly find yourself as the primary wave of an enormous rebuild beginning in 2028-29 when the contracts of men like López, Joe Ryan, Buxton, Correa, and Jhoan Duran begin to expire.