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Twins Re-Sign Daniel Duarte To Minor League Deal; Three Others Elect Free Agency

By Steve Adams | November 13, 2024 at 9:45am CDT

The Twins quickly re-signed right-hander Daniel Duarte to a minor league contract after passing him through outright waivers, per the team’s transaction log at MLB.com. Three other players who were outrighted elected free agency, including right-hander Scott Blewett and former top prospects Josh Winder and Yunior Severino.

Duarte, 28 next month, bounced from the Rangers to the Reds to the Twins via the DFA circuit last winter but wound up sticking in Minnesota and getting an early-season look after a nice showing in 12 1/3 spring training innings (2.92 ERA, 12 strikeouts, no walks). He made two appearances in the season’s first week, tossing a total of four innings and allowing one run with three strikeouts and a walk, but Duarte hit the injured list with an elbow issue shortly thereafter. A month later, it was announced that he’d require season-ending elbow surgery.

Duarte has pitched 38 1/3 innings in the majors and turned in a 3.99 ERA, albeit with a sub-par 17% strikeout rate and a bleak 14.5% walk rate. Duarte showed considerably better command in his brief look with the Twins, however, walking just one of the 61 batters he faced between spring training and the regular season. He also flashed a heater that averaged 96.1 mph. It’s a small sample, obviously, but if any of the gains in command prove sustainable, Duarte is fairly intriguing as a mid-20s reliever with a strong fastball and a career 47.3% grounder rate. On a minor league flier, he’s a sensible depth add.

Blewett came to the Twins on a minor league deal last offseason and wound up pitching well both in Triple-A and the majors. The former Royal logged a 3.79 ERA, 22.7% strikeout rate and 7.1% walk rate in 54 2/3 innings with the Twins’ Triple-A club in St. Paul and added another 20 1/3 MLB frames with a 1.77 ERA. His strikeout and walk rates were both worse than average, however, and he benefited from a 90.5% strand rate that isn’t sustainable over a longer sample. Even with some expected regression, fielding-independent metrics felt he was a solid arm (4.00 FIP, 4.05 SIERA).

Winder, 28, once ranked comfortably within the Twins’ top 10 prospects and even drew some top-100 fanfare back in 2022, placing 78th on FanGraphs’ rankings. The 2018 seventh-rounder raced through the minors with standout showings in 2019 and 2021. However, a series of shoulder injuries has regularly set the 6’5″ hurler back. He’s posted a respectable 4.39 ERA in 110 2/3 MLB frames, fanning a below-average 18% of opponents against a sharp 7% walk rate. He’s also been on the injured list four times since 2022, owing to a shoulder impingement, shoulder strain (twice) and a stress fracture in his shoulder.

Severino, 25, once ranked as highly as tenth among Twins farmhands at Baseball America. He belted 35 homers between Double-A and Triple-A as recently as 2023 but did so with an alarming 32.8% strikeout rate. He cut back a bit in 2024, fanning in 27.6% of his plate appearances, but also saw a downturn in power, with 21 round-trippers on the season. Severino is a .249/.337/.450 hitter in two Triple-A seasons. He clearly has plus raw power but is a below-average defender and runner whose longstanding strikeout issues still remain problematic.

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Minnesota Twins Transactions Daniel Duarte Josh Winder Scott Blewett Yunior Severino

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7 Comments

  1. sad tormented neglected mariners fan

    8 months ago

    Giving up on severino already is kind of a surprise but they do got a full infield

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  2. Dorkus Malorkus (3768902)

    8 months ago

    Twins severing severino means he’ll be the next bambino.

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  3. This one belongs to the Reds

    8 months ago

    Duarte – walks and gopher balls always do him in.

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  4. WestVillageTiger

    8 months ago

    I just had a premonition that someone will try making Severino a corner outfielder this as spring…

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  5. HALfromVA

    8 months ago

    Please, somebody give Scott Blewett a shot at closing. Please. Just so , at some point, we can say Blewett blew it.

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  6. Jelvisdela

    8 months ago

    Letting Severino walk is going to come back to bite them. Somewhere between Arozarena and Ortiz in the impact scale down the road. In the right situation, he will flourish.

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  7. MLBTR needs to hire editors

    8 months ago

    Steve Adams’ writing is brutal. This sentence is terribly constructed and a mouthful:

    “It’s a small sample, obviously, but if any of the gains in command prove sustainable, Duarte is fairly intriguing as a mid-20s reliever with a strong fastball and a career 47.3% grounder rate.”

    So many non-content words and poor comma usage. Let’s fix this hack’s butchery:

    “It’s obviously a small sample, but if his improved command is sustainable, Duarte is fairly intriguing mid-20s reliever with a strong fastball and career 47.3% grounder rate.”

    This guy is extremely wordy.

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