{"id":724418,"date":"2026-06-09T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724418\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:19:17","slug":"d-backs-trade-taylor-rashi-to-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724418\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Backs Trade Taylor Rashi To Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diamondbacks announced they\u2019ve traded reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rashita01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taylor Rashi<\/a> to the Twins for cash considerations. Arizona designated him for assignment on Friday to open a 40-man roster spot for infield prospect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/groovlu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LuJames Groover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has an opening on the 40-man after designating outfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/outmaja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Outman<\/a> for assignment on Saturday. Rashi has a full slate of minor league options, so the Twins wouldn\u2019t need to make any corresponding moves if they assign him to Triple-A St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest bullpen dart-throw for a team trying to cheaply build a functional relief group. The Twins have also acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gomezyo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yoendrys G\u00f3mez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lawreju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Lawrence<\/a> via in-season trades. They added mostly reclamation targets or minor trade pickups over the winter, taking a volume approach after tearing down an excellent bullpen at the 2025 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Rashi is a 30-year-old righty who has appeared in 13 MLB games over the past two seasons. He owns a 5.40 earned run average despite a near-30% strikeout rate over 20 big league frames. Rashi has a stellar 1.03 ERA over 26 1\/3 innings with Triple-A Reno this year. He has fanned an above-average 25.5% of batters faced but walked nearly 12% of opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Triple-A production, an Arizona team light on bullpen depth dropped Rashi from the roster. That\u2019s explained mostly by his below-average velocity, as he averages around 91 mph with his fastball. He leans heavily on his secondary stuff as a result, mixing a slider, curveball and splitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins have the sixth-highest bullpen ERA in MLB. They\u2019ve been better of late, ranking 14th over the past month, but that has come in spite of the third-highest walk rate. G\u00f3mez and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bandaan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Banda<\/a> have worked around some free passes to manage strong recent results as part of a committee approach to leverage spots.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nickpiecoro\/status\/2064157500094734720\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic<\/a> first reported the trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks announced they\u2019ve traded reliever Taylor Rashi to the Twins for cash considerations. Arizona designated him for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85,171667],"class_list":["post-724418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-taylor-rashi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724418","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=724418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}