Twins will boost prospects Luke Keaschallaccording to Aaron Gleeman of Track and Field. He hasn't made it to the 40-man squad, so the club needs to open a position for him. The club is closed today, so it may not be reported until tomorrow.
Keaschall, 22, was selected by the twins in the second round of the 2023 draft. He has since been parading among minors, showing solid plate discipline. Since the selection, he has made 662 sets for several minor league clubs in 147 games. At that time, his walking rate was 13.6%, almost as high as his strikeout rate of 17.5%. This helped him produce a total .297/.415/.470 hit line and 151 WRC+.
He also shows other attributes. He had 38 of his 45 attempts to stolen bases. Defensively, he played three non-shortened infield positions and midfield. He needs Tommy John's surgery in August, but has returned to the field because the post players can return much faster than the pitcher.
This performance makes him a top 100 prospect in consensus. Baseball USA Champions at #43, Fangraphs at #56, MLB Pipeline, #57, ESPN at #43 and Athletic Keith Law, No. 62. Scouting his reports usually praise his ability on the plate, raising even bigger questions about his defense. He doesn't think he is particularly powerful anywhere in the field. If he can stick with second place, the pressure he will be to hit is less, and eventually hitting a first base or outfield corner will give him a higher bar to clear offensively.
Despite his obvious skills, it was an aggressive promotion that might be faster than the twins originally planned. As mentioned earlier, he underwent surgery by Tommy John not long ago. He returned to the field, playing the second base and serving as a designated hitter, but has not played other possible positions in his yet.
In an ideal world, the twins might give him more time to build his post-operative repertoire, but the injured bugs shocked them, especially in the infield. Reus Lewis On the Major League Injury List Austin Martin and José Miranda Everyone is in the minor league in Illinois. Carlos Correa and Willi Castro Everyone is still in the active roster, but they are all hit. Correa didn't start with a sore wrist and Castro gets a nod at shortstop. However, Castro was removed by the tilted tightness, forcing Correa to take it off on defense. Apart from all these infield injuries, outfielders Matt Warner It also landed in Illinois today.
Those injuries have left the twins a little scrambled. They won the infielder Jonah's Bridedesignated by Marlin as a distributed cash transaction. He has experience in all non-shortened infield positions. Twins have France and Edouard Julien They played regular playing time at the second base respectively. Brooks Lee Should be able to cover shortstop or third one. If Correa or Castro gets better soon, then they obviously will get mixed up.
There are also designated batsmen, most of which are Trevor Larnach This year. However, Walner's injury may push him to the outfield more regularly Byron Buxton and Harrison Budand Dashawn Keirsey Jr. So are around.
Time will tell exactly how the twins are going to arrange their defensive alignment, but with so many key contributors or impacts on the shelves, they can use all the help they can get. Maybe Keaschall and Julien will be second, because Keaschall is right, Julien is left-handed, although the twins probably prefer key prospects like Keaschall over roles in the short side.
At this point, it was too late for Keaschall to earn a full year of service in at least a traditional way. This means the twins will not qualify for additional draft picks through Prospect promotion incentives. If Keaschall is in the top two in the Rookie of the Year vote, though like the guys like Christian Campbell and Jacob Wilson He already has a temporary nature. The twins once again made some people healthy again in the next few weeks and returned Keaschall to minors. Although he might make a tough appeal for them if he continues to reach his own way on the farm.
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