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Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Minnesota Twins. Scouting reports were compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as our own observations. This is the sixth year we’re delineating between two anticipated relief roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see in the “position” column below: MIRP for multi-inning relief pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning relief pitchers. The ETAs listed generally correspond to the year a player has to be added to the 40-man roster to avoid being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Manual adjustments are made where they seem appropriate, but we use that as a rule of thumb.

A quick overview of what FV (Future Value) means can be found here. A much deeper overview can be found here.

All of the ranked prospects below also appear on The Board, a resource the site offers featuring sortable scouting information for every organization. It has more details (and updated TrackMan data from various sources) than this article and integrates every team’s list so readers can compare prospects across farm systems. It can be found here.

Other Prospects of Note

Grouped by type and listed in order of preference within each category.

Too Many Strikeouts
Daiber De Los Santos, SS
Quentin Young, SS
Billy Amick, 1B
Aaron Sabato, 1B
Teilon Serrano, OF
Jaime Ferrer, 1B/OF

De Los Santos signed for just shy of $2 million a couple years ago and has struggled with strikeouts to a degree (50% clip since his promotion to the Florida complex) that disqualifies him from the main section of the list, but boy, is it fun to watch him swing as hard as he does. Young, of the baseball-playing Young family that includes Delmon and Dmitri, is a 6-foot-6 power-hitting prospect who graded as a 40+ FV before last year’s draft. He has added maybe 30 pounds already since then, and is striking out more than 40% of the time in A-ball. He’s missing at a rate that is well below any kind of viable big league threshold. Amick has plus raw power such that he can really let it loose on pitches where he can extend his arms, and will probably surpass the 23 home runs he compiled in his junior year at Tennessee. But his in-zone whiff issues are driving a low-60s contact rate, and he lacks the range and glovework to stave off a permanent move to first base. A former first round pick, Sabato might have enough juice for a 30-homer season in St. Paul. His contact skills and breaking ball recognition won’t play in the majors, but he might have some fun years along the Pacific Rim ahead of him. Serrano is a 5-foot-11 teenage outfielder who uses the ground to generate impressive power for his size. He’s posted above-average rookie level statlines despite the excessive strikeouts that are keeping him in the HMs. Ferrer is a physical 23-year-old 1B/OF with an aggressive, low load who was hitting for power at Cedar Rapids dating back to last year before he was promoted to Wichita in mid-May. His contact rate is down around 60%.

DSL Follows
Anibal Beltre, SS
Jendy Martinez, 2B/CF
Jhon Gonzalez, OF
Juan Holmann, 3B
Abel Sosa, OF

The Twins’ DSL group skews young and hitterish more than projectable, with a few exceptions. One of them is Beltre, 17, who has exciting bat speed and a long, frequently tardy swing. Martinez is a stout, 5-foot-9 switch-hitting second baseman (he also has one center field start so far this season) with very strong hands for a teenage hitter. Gonzalez is a medium-framed lefty-hitting outfielder whose swing has aggressive natural uppercut, but is a bit long right now. He’s off to a hot start. Holmann, who signed for $500,000, is a more mature athlete with a swing that stays in the meaty part of the strike zone for a long time, similar to Nick Gonzales. Sosa is a dangerous pull-side hitter adept at covering the top of the strike zone. He’s young and has typical big league size at 6-foot-3, but is a stiffer, below-average athlete.

Throwing Hard
Yoel Roque, RHP
Juan Collado, RHP
Adam Falinski, RHP
Yordi Jose, LHP
Yosangel Braffit, RHP

Roque is a projectable teenage righty whose fastball will creep into the upper 90s (he’s maxed out at 97 this year), but he is walking a very high rate of hitters for the third consecutive year. Collado is a hard-throwing 19-year-old who’ll sit in the 92-95 mph range, at times with nasty sink and tail, and bend in some good gyro sliders. His delivery out of a 6-foot-4 frame is very violent right now. Falinski is an undrafted free agent from Troy who is sitting 95 and was quickly promoted to Cedar Rapids after cruising against FSL hitters. Jose, 19, is a 6-foot-2 southpaw who is sitting 93-94 and touching 97 on the Florida complex, but has no feel for location. Braffit, 18, is a DSL righty whose fastball is scraping 97 as he struggles to find the strike zone.

Great Breaking Balls
Miguelangel Boadas, RHP
Kolten Smith, RHP
Aldwin Morillo, RHP
Cole Peschl, RHP
Omar Montano, RHP
Geremy Villoria, RHP

Boadas has been hurt and/or had issues throwing strikes since 2023, but at times he has been up to 97 with a good slider. Lately his fastball has been more 90-93. Smith, who also has a great slider, was a swingman and long reliever at Georgia and is operating in a similar capacity at Fort Myers. The 18-year-old Morillo, who signed a month ago, has a lively, riding 90-91 mph fastball, a really snappy breaking ball, and a nascent changeup. His delivery has big effort, so let’s call him a relief prospect for now. Peschl dominated the Florida State League last season, but his ability to miss bats evaporated after he was promoted to Cedar Rapids. That might be why he was moved to the bullpen this year. His slider has great vertical depth, while the rest of his stuff is below average. Montano is a 20-year-old righty on the complex with above-average velo and a good sweeper, but poor command makes the whole operation play down. Part of the Harrison Bader return from Philly last year, Villoria has a great breaking ball and threw strikes in 2025. His heater is hittable and slow. You might be inclined to project on it based on his age (Villoria is still 17), but not as much on his delivery and athleticism.

Miscellaneous Misfits
Merphy Hernandez, CF
Jacob McCombs, OF
JP Smith II, 1B
Cory Lewis, SP
Brad Rudis, RHP
Luis Fragoza, UTIL
Nick McAuliffe, RHP
Jose Salas, INF
Byron Chourio, CF

Hernandez, 19, is a dandy center field defender with excellent range and ball skills, but a 30-grade hit/power combo. McCombs comes out of UC Irvine and has progressed very quickly through A-ball, as the 6-foot-2 lefty’s big, elaborate swing has a wRC+ approaching 110 as of publication. He has some looming plate coverage issues on the inner half, but has performed well enough to pop onto the radar. Smith, 21, is a powerful first baseman out of Sacramento State who is a dangerous hitter in the inner half of the zone. He has an entertaining (if sometimes distracting) “main character energy” on the field. Lewis’ most used secondary is a mid-80s, real-life knuckleball. It mostly plays like a weird splitter. He’s a depth starter who has to dance around a super vulnerable heater. Rudis is a 23-year-old submarining righty senior sign out of Texas A&M who is currently carving on the complex. Fragoza, an A-ball utilityman who has played both corner infield spots and all three outfield positions this year, has enough pull pop to put himself in the long-term depth conversation. McAuliffe pitched at four different schools in college, mostly concentrated around the PA/NJ border area where he’s from — Kutztown, Mercer County CC (remember Heath Fillmyer?), New Orleans, East Stroudsburg — and then in Indy ball before the Twins signed him. He has an arm slot similar to Oliver Drake’s, so high that at times he’s on the left-hander’s side of the clock face. He’s dominating complex ball at age 25. Salas and Chourio were part of the Pablo López/Luis Arraez trade and at one point were both exciting prospects. Chourio is on his third season at Fort Myers and striking out too much for comfort, while Salas is below the Mendoza Line in Wichita.

Fun, Projectable Pitching
Frederick Hiciano, RHP
Sebastian Echavarria, RHP
Rainer Marin, RHP
Adrian Martinez, RHP
Santiago Castellanos, RHP
Hendry Chivilli, RHP

Hiciano, 18, signed in January but was assigned to the domestic complex rather than the DSL. He touched 96 in his first start and was generating seven feet of extension, but it requires a ton of moving parts and effort to do both. Let’s see if he throws strikes. Echavarria, who turns 17 in August, is built like LaTroy Hawkins at a rangy 6-foot-2, and has such long levers that he’s generating 6-feet, 9-inches of extension. He’s a fun deep projection sleeper whose repertoire (tailing low-90s fastball/changeup combo, third-pitch cutter) and delivery consistency are both below average right now. Marin, 20, is an athletic Venezuelan righty with a gorgeous low-to-the-ground delivery. He could be a riding fastball/changeup reliever down the line, but he’s too crude of a pitch executor right now. Martinez is a 16-year-old DSL righty who has a great mechanical foundation (bendy, loose, and mobile with vertical hand position on release), with a great chance to get stronger and add to his low-90s velo. Castellanos was arguably the best pitching prospect on last year’s Twins’ DSL roster, flashing three viable pitches and enough athleticism to develop as a starter even though he’s small. This year, he didn’t pitch for the first few weeks of the Florida Complex season, and when he finally returned, his velo was down a couple ticks compared to last year. He’s a bounce back candidate. After two years of excessive strikeouts, the Twins moved Chivilli (who originally signed for just over $2 million) to the mound, where he’s been in the 93-97 mph range in his second season in Fort Myers.

System Overview

Minnesota’s system is deep with volatile players who are risky either for a skill-based reason (like excessive strikeouts) or due to injury, something that has plagued the Twins org for years. Their approach to player acquisition is pretty balanced. They’re as likely to take a risk on a high school prospect, like Quentin Young, Dasan Hill, Brandon Winokur or Charlee Soto, as they are to take a player with a more analytically-friendly profile, like Marek Houston. The same is true internationally, where the Twins have had years where they’ve spent big money on guys like Hendry Chivilli and Daiber De Los Santos, and also years where they give upper-six-figure bonuses to several contact-oriented players, with Jhomnardo Reyes emerging from last year’s crop as a potential everyday player. There are definitely more risky, high-variance players toward the top of this system right now, but to say that the Twins go out of their way to target that type of player probably isn’t correct.

Several of the 50-FV players above are set to be part of the big league roster very soon (or already are, in Connor Prielipp’s case). Our site’s projection systems had the Twins forecast as a 79-win team at the start of the season, just a couple months after the awkwardly-timed departure of Derek Falvey. They aren’t a bad team when healthy (which they have not been), and over the next 12 months will add several good young players to that group, and even more when you consider that Mick Abel and Alan Roden (who aren’t rookies anymore, but are players we like) are also getting healthy and will be given an opportunity to play soon, especially if the Twins are deadline sellers. We are a bit lower on Walker Jenkins than the general consensus (although the three of us working on prospect stuff at FanGraphs are all in agreement) because we don’t see him having the kind of power output of a Roman Anthony or a Samuel Basallo. He’s a darn good player and a future lineup mainstay, but he isn’t a Face of the Franchise type of talent, something this system lacks for now. Can the third pick in the upcoming draft be that dude? It isn’t likely, but he and the other three prospects who the Twins will draft with top-80 picks will help keep this system afloat in the top third of orgs even though several of the guys above are set to graduate before the end of the season.