lost 7-2 to the Nationals on Sunday<\/a>. \u201cThere are a lot of discussions, don\u2019t get me wrong. There\u2019s a lot of calls back and forth. In terms of actual proposals and offers, this stuff tends to come as you get much closer to the deadline.\u201d <\/p>\nThere have been a few trades in the past few days, but the Twins have several players who will attract attention from contending teams. At least seven teams sent scouts to Target Field this weekend: the Yankees, Phillies, Mariners, Rays, Rangers, Padres and Reds. <\/p>\n
Relievers Jhoan Duran and Griffin Jax are drawing the most interest on the Twins, though they will carry a high price tag because neither will reach free agency until after the 2027 season. Scouts don\u2019t expect All-Star Joe Ryan to be traded this week because it\u2019s rare for a top starting pitcher to be traded midseason when he\u2019s two years from reaching free agency. <\/p>\n
Harrison Bader, Willi Castro and Danny Coulombe are the ones with the most suitors among Twins players who will be free agents at the end of the season. Chris Paddack, another pending free agent, is expected to have a solid trade market, too. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou want to try to build a pipeline of talent,\u201d Falvey said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some conversations about players with multiple years of team control in years past. We\u2019ve traded and we\u2019ve acquired players with multiple years of control that look like that at the deadline. I feel like we\u2019re going to approach it exactly the same way and continue to try to figure out what the right deals are for the Twins, both short term and long term.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Twins front office was open-minded to operating as a buyer as recently as the All-Star break. The Twins followed by losing six out of nine games to the Rockies, Dodgers and Nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twins President Derek Falvey says he doesn\u2019t label his team as buyers or sellers at any trade deadline,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-27170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}