{"id":253267,"date":"2025-10-26T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253267\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:46:08","slug":"who-stays-and-who-goes-a-breakdown-of-the-twins-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253267\/","title":{"rendered":"Who stays and who goes? A breakdown of the Twins roster."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">A frustrating season for the staff ace of the Twins. He pitched well, owning a 2.74 ERA, but he didn\u2019t pitch enough. He made only 14 starts, his lowest total in five years, because of three stints on the injured list. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Contract: Owed $21.5 million in each of the next two seasons <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">2026 outlook: If the Twins don\u2019t trade him during the offseason, he\u2019ll make his fourth straight Opening Day start. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" data-testid=\"InLineImage\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"object-cover h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NFOIQAZLGRBNNB3RFCM6VGB37Y.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zebby Matthews (Carlos Gonzalez\/The Minnesota Star Tribune)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The quality of his stuff improved, hitting 98 mph with his fastball, but his stats didn\u2019t follow. He had a 5.56 ERA in 16 starts, especially struggling in the first inning of his outings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Contract: Pre-arbitration <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">2026 outlook: He\u2019ll receive a mulligan, and the Twins hope a breakout is on the way. Teammates believe all the traits for a frontline starter are there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A frustrating season for the staff ace of the Twins. He pitched well, owning a 2.74 ERA, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-253267","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\/253267","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=253267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}