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Twins Select Ryan Eades, Option Willians Astudillo

By Ty Bradley | June 8, 2019 at 3:34pm CDT

The Twins have selected the contract of righty Ryan Eades and optioned C/INF/OF Willians Astudillo to AAA-Rochester, the team reported.

Eades, 27, had appeared in 17 games as a swingman for Rochester, notching a 5.88 ERA despite excellent peripheral markers.  The former second-rounder struck out 42 men over those 33 2/3 innings while walking just 12. After his second-round selection in the 2013 draft, Eades has never cracked the top 30 in Baseball America’s assessment of the Twins system, though pre-draft reports lauded his “power curve” and “athletic frame.”  He’s been generally stellar since transitioning to a mostly-relief role following the 2016 season, and he’ll look to make his mark as a likely longman in an unsung Twins pen.

Astudillo, also 27, rose to prominence with one of baseball’s most bizarre offensive profiles. The squatty backstop swings at nearly everything – his 63% swing rate was far and away tops in the majors this season – and makes contact nearly every time (his 4.1% strikeout rate was easily MLB’s lowest). The approach hasn’t worked for him so far this year, though, as the Venezuelan slashed just .250/.273/.357 (62 wRC+) in 120 plate appearances for the club. He’ll look to regain the magic-wand touch he brought to the majors last season in what hopes to be a brief stint with the Red Wings.

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10 Comments

  1. saintchristafa

    6 years ago

    Until we meet again La Tortuga

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    • diller1340

      6 years ago

      Best nickname in baseball

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  2. Phillies2017

    6 years ago

    .239 BABIP. He’ll be back, he was just unlucky this year

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    • darwin 22

      6 years ago

      Agreed…8 for 12 over his first 3 games in Rochester.

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  3. jonnyzuck

    6 years ago

    I’m rooting for you Willians

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  4. gneedoba

    6 years ago

    Baseball is a better game with Willians Astudillo in it. Hope to see him back soon!

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  5. Erik

    6 years ago

    Astudillo wasn’t doing bad why would the first place Twinkies send him down??

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    • diller1340

      6 years ago

      Because he was their 3rd catcher and they wanted another arm in the bullpen

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      • Paul Griggs

        6 years ago

        He needed to get more regular at bats too. He’s doing well at Rochester.

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        • jeb39999

          6 years ago

          I wonder what his trade value would be?

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