{"id":11120,"date":"2025-07-15T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11120\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:50:05","slug":"players-chosen-by-the-minnesota-twins-in-the-2025-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11120\/","title":{"rendered":"Players chosen by the Minnesota Twins in the 2025 MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Competitive balance round, 36th overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Riley Quick, 21, righthanded pitcher, Alabama<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Quick, a 6-foot-6, 245-pound righthander, was the hardest-throwing starting pitcher available in the draft, according to ESPN\u2019s draft analysts, with a 97-mph average on his fastball this season for the Crimson Tide. He recovered from 2024 elbow surgery to pitch his way to the All-SEC second team, going 8-3 with 70 strikeouts in 62 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Second round, 54th overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Quentin Young, 18, shortstop, Oaks Christian Academy (Los Angeles)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Young, a nephew of former Twins outfielder Delmon Young and his brother Dmitri, has committed to Louisiana State but could choose to sign a professional contract instead. He\u2019s 6-6 and 225 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Competitive balance round, 36th overall Riley Quick, 21, righthanded pitcher, Alabama Quick, a 6-foot-6, 245-pound righthander, was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-11120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}