{"id":62989,"date":"2025-08-12T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62989\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:22:09","slug":"twins-deadline-notes-phillies-duran-jax-paddack-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62989\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Deadline Notes: Phillies, Duran, Jax, Paddack, Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t really a shock that the Twins became deadline sellers, as the club\u2019s downturn in June and July pretty much closed the door on Minnesota\u2019s chances of contending.\u00a0 However, the sheer scope of the Twins\u2019 selloff was eye-opening, as the club swung nine different trades within four days of the July 31 deadline and sent 11 different players to eight separate clubs.\u00a0 Several<\/a> behind-the-scenes<\/a> details<\/a> about the trades the Twins both did and didn\u2019t make have filtered out since July 31, and Bobby Nightengale Jr. of the Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/a> adds a few more notes about the front office approached this pivotal four-day period.<\/p>\n

Jhoan Duran<\/a> and Griffin Jax<\/a> were both pursued by several teams, though \u201cthe Dodgers didn\u2019t show much interest in\u201d either reliever, Nightengale writes.\u00a0 This runs somewhat contrary to a pre-deadline report<\/a> that linked Los Angeles to the duo, though it could be that the Dodgers simply weren\u2019t interested in paying what ended up being a high price tag for either pitcher.\u00a0 Though the Dodgers were known to be considering pretty much every reliever on the market, the reigning World Series champs\u2019 biggest bullpen splash ended up being another Twin in Brock Stewart<\/a>.\u00a0 Though Stewart is arbitration-eligible through 2027, his \u201ctrade value was more commensurate with a rental reliever because of his injury history,\u201d according to Nightengale, which is why Minnesota obtained outfielder James Outman<\/a> (something of a spare part in L.A.) rather than prospects.<\/p>\n

The Twins wanted two top-100 prospects for Duran, an asking price commensurate with the closer\u2019s quality and the fact that he is arb-controlled through 2027.\u00a0 It was a big enough ask to dissuade the Mariners, who \u201cwere deep into talks with the Twins\u201d and may have been the runners-up in the Duran talks.\u00a0 The Phillies refused to give up Andrew Painter<\/a> for Duran or anyone, and ended up landing Duran for catching prospect Eduardo Tait<\/a> and young starter Mick Abel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Technically, this trade package didn\u2019t meet Minnesota\u2019s ask, since Abel was no longer part of top-100 rankings heading into the 2025 season.\u00a0 Still, Abel has been a regular on such rankings for the previous four years, was selected 15th overall by the Phils in the 2020 draft, and is a big league-ready starter after making his MLB debut this season.<\/p>\n

Tait and Leo De Vries<\/a> (acquired by the A\u2019s from the Padres in the Mason Miller<\/a> blockbuster) were the only consensus top-100 prospects who changed teams at this year\u2019s deadline, speaking to the high value that clubs place on these top prospects.\u00a0 Nightengale writes that Minnesota felt Tait \u201chad the highest upside\u201d of any of the players that the Mariners offered for Duran, and preferred Tait to another top Phillies prospect in shortstop Aidan Miller<\/a>.\u00a0 This would seem to imply that Philadelphia was also willing to include Miller as the top prospect in the package, which tracks with past reports indicating that Painter and perhaps Justin Crawford<\/a> were the only real untouchables within the Phils\u2019 minor league system.<\/p>\n

Duran was dealt on July 30 and the Twins then swung another trade with the Phillies the next day, moving Harrison Bader<\/a> for two lower-level prospects (outfielder Hendry Mendez<\/a> and right-hander Geremy Villoria<\/a>).\u00a0 The Twins and Phillies had previously talked about combining Duran and Bader into a single deal, but Nightengale writes that Minnesota wanted to move Duran separately.<\/p>\n

This left Bader as one of the seven trades Minnesota swung on the July 31 deadline day itself, including the deal that sent Jax to the Rays for Taj Bradley<\/a>.\u00a0 Since Jax is also arb-controlled through 2027, the Twins initially wanted a prospect package \u201csimilar to the one they received in the Duran deal.\u201d\u00a0 This could explain why \u201cJax\u2019s market didn\u2019t pick up until the last day,\u201d Nightengale notes, and perhaps why teams like the Dodgers were balking.\u00a0 Rather than getting a prospect back for Jax, the Twins instead got an experienced MLB starter who is controlled through 2029, and as the club is betting that Bradley has a higher ceiling of performance.<\/p>\n

Minnesota\u2019s trading flurry began when Chris Paddack<\/a> and Randy Dobnak<\/a> were sent to the Tigers on July 28 in exchange for catching prospect Enrique Jimenez<\/a>.\u00a0 Paddack was known to be receiving interest from the Rays and Yankees, and Nightengale adds that the Reds were another club at least exploring the right-hander\u2019s market.\u00a0 With Paddack off the board, Cincinnati pivoted to land another rental starter in Zack Littell<\/a> as part of a three-team trade<\/a> involving the Rays and Dodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t really a shock that the Twins became deadline sellers, as the club\u2019s downturn in June and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[40649,28244,49,48,13990,40650,14574,12416,21086,462,82],"class_list":["post-62989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aidan-miller","tag-brock-stewart","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-paddack","tag-eduardo-tait","tag-griffin-jax","tag-jhoan-duran","tag-mick-abel","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62989","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=62989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}