{"id":845159,"date":"2026-08-04T00:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845159\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:16:29","slug":"jeff-hoffman-traded-to-the-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845159\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Hoffman Traded To The Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">At 6-foot-5, 225 pounds, Klein looks the part but didn\u2019t enter pro ball with the stuff to back up the optics. He was throwing around 90 mph out of the gate and now, thanks to added strength and work in the Twins\u2019 velocity camp, he was averaging 94 mph in 2025, topping out at 97 mph. Deception in his delivery helps the heater get more swings-and-misses. The addition of a curveball, and then adding some velocity to that, has turned it into his best secondary offering, an 80-mph breaker that is as close to an out pitch as he has, though he struggles to command it at times. He\u2019s worked hard on an 85-86 mph splitter as well as an upper-80s cutter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Considering Klein began with a below-average heater and no breaking stuff, this is a vast improvement. But the lack of a true put-away pitch could limit his ceiling. His long-term role is to be determined, but he\u2019s just about ready to contribute, with a future as a swingman\/spot starter\/multi-inning reliever the most likely outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 6-foot-5, 225 pounds, Klein looks the part but didn\u2019t enter pro ball with the stuff to back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302,40880],"class_list":["post-845159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845159","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=845159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}