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Twins Promote Simeon Woods Richardson

By Anthony Franco | October 2, 2022 at 9:10am CDT

Oct. 2: The Twins have officially selected the contract of Woods Richardson, per Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com. Right-hander Ronny Henriquez was optioned to open a spot on the active roster, while catcher Sandy Leon was transferred to the 60-day injured list to create room on the 40-man. Leon’s transfer is a mere formality, as it was previously announced that his season had been ended by knee surgery.

Sep. 30: The Twins are planning to promote pitching prospect Simeon Woods Richardson to the majors before the end of the season, manager Rocco Baldelli told reporters (including Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com). Minnesota added Woods Richardson to their taxi squad this afternoon. It’s unclear specifically when he’ll be activated, but Park points out the club has yet to name a starting pitcher for Sunday afternoon’s matchup with the Tigers.

Assuming he’s indeed added to the major league roster, the right-hander will get an opportunity to make his big league debut in the coming days. A second-round pick of the Mets out of a Texas high school in 2018, Woods Richardson has been a well-regarded young arm since entering the professional ranks. He spent around a year in the New York system before he was dealt to the Blue Jays alongside Anthony Kay in the 2019 trade that sent Marcus Stroman to Queens.

Woods Richardson finished that season with the Jays’ High-A affiliate, and he cracked the back half of Baseball America’s top 100 prospects list the ensuing winter. After not logging any game action in 2020 due to the cancelation of the minor leagues, he was assigned to Double-A to begin the ’21 campaign. Still seen by many evaluators as one of the better minor league arms in the game, Woods Richardson soon found himself involved in a huge trade for the second time in his career. At last year’s deadline, Toronto shipped him alongside infield prospect Austin Martin to Minnesota in exchange for José Berríos.

Amidst the pair of high-profile trades, Woods Richardson’s prospect stock has dipped a bit in recent years. He fell off BA’s top 100 entering the 2022 season, but he nevertheless entered the year ranked eighth in a solid Minnesota system. He checks in sixth in the organization on the outlet’s most recent update, with praise for a four-pitch arsenal headlined by a low-mid 90s fastball and a potential plus changeup.

Woods Richardson has generally had an impressive 2022 campaign. He began the year with Double-A Wichita, making 16 appearances before getting a bump to Triple-A St. Paul in mid-August. He started another seven games for the Saints and performed well at both stops. Between the top two affiliates, the 22-year-old pitched to a 2.77 ERA across 107 1/3 innings. He’s struck out an impressive 27% of opponents while limiting walks to a manageable 8.5% rate.

That solid showing against upper level hitters earns Woods Richardson a brief major league cameo. He’d have needed to be added to the 40-man roster at the end of the season regardless to keep him from being taken in the Rule 5 draft, and the Twins have a number of players who can simply move to the 60-day injured list to clear a 40-man spot for the season’s final week.

Woods Richardson will be in the mix for a rotation spot next season. Minnesota is set to open the year with Tyler Mahle, Joe Ryan, Sonny Gray, a hopefully healthy Kenta Maeda and Bailey Ober in the starting five. With Chris Archer and Dylan Bundy each likely to depart in free agency, Woods Richardson should join Josh Winder, Louie Varland and any external additions in battling for additional looks.

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  1. AHH-Rox

    3 years ago

    His name sounds like a law firm.
    Good luck on the debut.

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    • layventsky

      3 years ago

      Whoever it is that puts names on the jerseys is gonna have lots of fun with this one. He’s got Saltalamacchia beat.

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      • ohyeadam

        3 years ago

        The league should let him use SWR. Think of the money saved on letters, stitching and time. Then maybe they could pay their pitching coaches

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      • AZPat

        3 years ago

        He’s got the longest name until Christian Encarnacion-Strand makes the bigs in the next year or so.

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      • AZPat

        3 years ago

        He’s got the longest name until Christian Encarnacion-Strand makes the bigs.

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        • ohyeadam

          3 years ago

          In an interview SWR said his name goes from love handle to love handle lmao

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      • AZPat

        3 years ago

        The twins had Christian Encarnacion-Strand. Imagine both of them on the same team.

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      • .

        3 years ago

        Forgot about Salty. Thought Spooneybarger was still tops.

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        • Lucky Strike

          3 years ago

          Makes you wonder how immigration turns Sing Ting into Hrbek.

          Reply
  2. clrrogers

    3 years ago

    After Berrios’ performance this year, the Blue Jays may be regretting that trade.

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    • YourShadow

      3 years ago

      Twins should flip Martin for Berrios straight up… Something tells me all sides would take that haha

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      • junior25

        3 years ago

        If I was running the Jays I would!

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    • Jaysfan1981

      3 years ago

      Guys, it’s been a little over a year.

      Not every player has stellar seasons from a rookie till they retire. Barrios has been Great some nights and shockingly bad others. Gausman Manoah and Stripling are getting the Ball all post season. Barrios comes in to mop up any blowouts. Let’s not worry too much about him unless one of those 3 goes down to injury this post season

      In 3 years he’ll only need to be a #3 at best, probably an expensive 4. Manoah will be making almost in double his salary (if the Jays lock him up at that time) and I’d be shocked if the Jays don’t parlay Kirk or Moreno into a #1/2 SP to pair with Manoah and Gausman

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      • BlueJ’sAllDay

        3 years ago

        That’s great in theory but teams don’t pay number 4 starters 18 million a season. That’s why young, elite controllable pitching is so valuable.

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        • neo

          3 years ago

          Team has won 22 of his 31 starts. In twenty of those wins where he pitched past the fifth inning, he has a 2.66 ERA so it’s not just run support delivering success. He’s had plenty of very good days to earn his keep. He’s just not reliable or consistent. Fine for regular season, extremely iffy for the postseason.

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  3. BlueJ’sAllDay

    3 years ago

    Definitely not a trade that’s making Ross Atkins look good. Simeon could be the same kind of young workhorse Manoah turned out to be. Very similar pitchers. What was sent for Berrios should have been tweaked for a trade involving Luis Castillo

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    • Dorothy_Mantooth

      3 years ago

      The biggest difference between Manoah @ SWR is the fastball velocity. SWRs fastball is very hittable; Manoah’s is a weapon.

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  4. Skell 2

    3 years ago

    It appears the Blue jays don’t know how to draft. Top prospect after top prospect losing value and traded.

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  5. ohyeadam

    3 years ago

    Bundy is starting today. Is his going to be the open 28 man spot available Sunday?

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  6. extreme113

    3 years ago

    Another Mets draftee traded away.

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    • kahnkobra

      3 years ago

      no big loss, same with Kay

      Reply
  7. Lucky Strike

    3 years ago

    Meanwhile, Bundy has thrown his last pitch for the Twins.

    Reply
  8. SliderWithCheese

    3 years ago

    As long as Jacob Frey is the mayor, the Twins will never win anything. That man has single-handedly ruined professional sports in that city.

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    • Lucky Strike

      3 years ago

      As long as Jacob Frey is mayor sounds like a great game to play.

      Summer of “Murderapolis,” I worked on N 7th about five blocks south of Broadway. Inasmuch as that was 25 years ago, Frey et al have done nothing to fix anything except providing more room for Greyhounds to carry miscreants from Gary, Ind.,

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