{"id":310468,"date":"2026-07-31T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310468\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:02:07","slug":"minnesota-twins-acquire-reliever-a-j-minter-in-trade-with-new-york-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310468\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins Acquire Reliever A.J. Minter In Trade With New York Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">The Minnesota Twins acquired left-handed reliever A.J. Minter from the New York Mets on Thursday ahead of Major League Baseball trade deadline on Aug. 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2083036855407132790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per ESPN.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">In exchange, the Mets received two Twins prospects: third baseman Billy Amick, ranked 21st in Minnesota&#8217;s system, and infielder Bruin Agbayani, ranked 29th, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillSammon\/status\/2083038358968680717?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">Minter, 32, has posted a 1-1 record with a 2.35 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 20 strikeouts, and one hold across 23 appearances this season. He provides Minnesota with left-handed depth in high-leverage situations, addressing a roster need following Anthony Banda&#8217;s season-ending left lat strain in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">The trade signals the start of an expected sale at the deadline for the 47-63 Mets. Meanwhile, the 55\u201355 Twins remain three games behind the Chicago White Sox in the American League Central and are positioning themselves for a postseason run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins acquired left-handed reliever A.J. Minter from the New York Mets on Thursday ahead of Major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53812,996,16861,9,11,320,10],"class_list":["post-310468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-a-j-minter","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}