{"id":310604,"date":"2026-07-31T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:43:20","slug":"espn-minnesota-twins-make-trade-with-new-york-mets-ahead-of-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310604\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN: Minnesota Twins make trade with New York Mets ahead of deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(KTTC) \u2013 The New York Mets and the Minnesota Twins have come away with a major trade ahead of Monday\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49493680\/sources-mets-deal-aj-minter-twins-ahead-trade-deadline\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49493680\/sources-mets-deal-aj-minter-twins-ahead-trade-deadline\">Sources with knowledge of the trade tells ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan<\/a>, the Mets have agreed to send left-handed reliever A.J. Minter to the Twins for two minor league players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Mets get in-fielders Bruin Agbayani and Billy Amick in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Minter is slated to hit free agency this off-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">By getting Minter, the Twins bolster a relief corps that has ranked among the worst in the majors this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to reporting by ESPN, Minter is coming off of being sidelined during the 2025 season due to a muscle tear injury that required surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This roster reshuffling is happening just as the Twins are hoping to make a post-season push.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Twins are in third place in the American League Central, only three games back of the division leader, the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But the Twins are not that far behind the Cleveland Guardians who are only two games back of the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Twins begin a 3-game series with the Seattle Mariners Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">First pitch at T-Mobile Park is set for 9:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KTTC) \u2013 The New York Mets and the Minnesota Twins have come away with a major trade ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-310604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310604","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=310604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}