{"id":45255,"date":"2025-08-04T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45255\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:11:07","slug":"twins-put-woods-richardson-on-il-select-mccaughan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45255\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Put Woods Richardson On IL, Select McCaughan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins announced Monday that they\u2019ve selected the contract of righty Darren McCaughan<\/a> and placed right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a> on the 15-day injured list due to an illness. No additional corresponding moves were needed, as the Twins\u2019 40-man roster had been sitting at 37 players following last week\u2019s fire sale.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second big league stint of the season for McCaughan, though his surroundings this time around will be much different than they were when he was briefly summoned to the majors back in late March. He tossed 5 1\/3 innings of one-run ball for a team that then harbored postseason aspirations. He\u2019ll now return to a club that saw its roster \u2014 the pitching staff in particular \u2014 gutted ahead of last week\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n

McCaughan, 29, has pitched 72 1\/3 innings in Triple-A this season and been knocked around for a 5.35 ERA. The overall results aren\u2019t particularly pretty, though they\u2019re skewed a bit by a pair of nine-run implosions amid an otherwise serviceable year. He\u2019s set down 20.1% of his Triple-A opponents on strikes and walked a lower-than-average 7.6% of the batters he\u2019s faced.<\/p>\n

McCaughan has a long track record as an innings-eating starter in the Mariners\u2019 system, though he only ever received 14 major league frames with Seattle. He\u2019s since pitched in Cleveland, Miami and Minnesota. In a total of 61 1\/3 big league innings, he\u2019s struggled to a 6.02 ERA. McCaughan sits 89-90 mph with both his four-seamer and sinker. He doesn\u2019t miss many bats and has been homer-prone throughout his time in Triple-A, but he also typically avoids walks and takes the ball every five days. McCaughan has never been on the injured list in the big leagues or in the minors.<\/p>\n

For now, McCaughan will add some length to a Twins bullpen that traded Jhoan Duran<\/a>, Griffin Jax<\/a>, Danny Coulombe<\/a>, Brock Stewart<\/a> and Louis Varland<\/a> for a combined seven younger players last week. There are plenty of innings to go around, and with Minnesota lined up for a bullpen game today, McCaughan could be in line for multiple innings behind scheduled opener Travis Adams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins announced Monday that they\u2019ve selected the contract of righty Darren McCaughan and placed right-hander Simeon Woods…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,31843,462,31844,82],"class_list":["post-45255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-darren-mccaughan","tag-mlb","tag-simeon-woods-richardson","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}