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Twins Recall Travis Adams For MLB Debut

By Steve Adams | June 6, 2025 at 11:10am CDT

11:10am: The Twins announced that Adams has been recalled from Triple-A St. Paul. Southpaw Kody Funderburk was optioned to St. Paul in his place.

9:07am: The Twins are calling up right-hander Travis Adams for what will be his major league debut, as first announced by Adams’ agent, Lonnie Murray of Sports Management Partners, on Instagram. He’ll likely slot into the bullpen to provide some length after the A’s snapped a nine-game losing streak by putting 14 runs on the board against Minnesota yesterday. Adams is already on the 40-man roster and was optioned to Triple-A in spring training (hence it being a “recall” despite never having pitched in the majors). As such, the Twins will only need a corresponding 26-man move to bring him up.

Adams, 25, was the Twins’ sixth-round pick back in 2021. Minnesota already added him to the 40-man roster in November in order to protect him from being selected in the 2024 Rule 5 Draft. Given that Adams was coming off a season in which he posted 127 innings with a 3.90 ERA, 22.6% strikeout rate, 6.7% walk rate and 43.8% ground-ball rate between Double-A and Triple-A, it stands to reason that a few clubs might have indeed had interest in plucking him from the upper levels of the Twins’ farm were he left unprotected.

So far in 2025, Adams has pitched well. He’s made two abbreviated starts and 11 long relief appearances, totaling 42 innings with a 3.43 ERA, 21.3% strikeout rate, 5.7% walk rate and 43.4% ground-ball rate. He hasn’t pitched more than 4 1/3 innings in any game this season, but he’s averaged 58 pitches per outing in his past five turns — including 66 pitches in his most recent appearance — so he ought to be stretched out for whatever role the Twins envision.

Baseball America ranks Adams 22nd among Twins farmhands, while MLB.com lists him 21st. He doesn’t have one standout plus pitch but offers a wide array of average pitches and solid command. Each of BA, MLB.com and FanGraphs give Adams credit solid-average 50 grades on his fastball and a 55 (above-average) grade either on one other pitch or his command (his cutter at BA, his slider at FG, his command at MLB.com). Generally speaking, the 6’1″ righty is considered a back-of-the-rotation arm or potential multi-inning reliever.

It’s possible the Twins will consider Adams for some starts down the road. Fellow prospect David Festa was touted among the sport’s top 100 minor leaguers prior to exhausting his rookie status and was solid through three turns earlier this season, but he’s been slowed by some biceps/shoulder inflammation recently and was torched for eight runs in 3 2/3 innings in that blowout against the A’s yesterday. Festa got the first look in the rotation in place of the injured Pablo López — who’ll be out several months due to a teres major strain — but it’s not clear after yesterday’s rough outing whether he’ll get another look.

For now, the Twins have four starters locked in. Veterans Joe Ryan (2.91 ERA), Bailey Ober (3.48 ERA) and Chris Paddack (3.58 ERA) have all pitched well this season. Rookie right-hander Zebby Matthews, another top-100 arm, had a rocky first outing in the majors this season but has turned in a 3.94 ERA with a 20-to-5 K/BB ratio in 16 innings over his past three turns. That quartet seems set for the time being, with Festa, Adams and righty Simeon Woods Richardson (who was optioned last month but has looked better in Triple-A) among the options for the fifth spot on the staff.

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  1. mnsports

    4 months ago

    Wonder if it’s the end of the rope for Alcala

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    • martras

      4 months ago

      It should be the end for Alcala and Funderburk.

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      • ForDoingNothing

        4 months ago

        Alcala’s stuff is elite, he’d be claimed by 3-4 teams

        If twins dump him it’ll come back to bite them

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        • wjf010

          4 months ago

          Alcala’s stuff is elite – but if they can’t fix what is between his ears, some other team will have to try. he’s brutal

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        • martras

          4 months ago

          Alcala’s stuff isn’t the problem, though I’d argue against the term “elite.” His ability to steer his stuff into the general vicinity of the spot he’s aiming for or even the strike zone at all is the issue. I find it awfully hard to believe he’ll ever succeed in Minnesota’s system.

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  2. hoof hearted

    4 months ago

    “Recall”? Wouldn’t that infer that he had been up to the mlb before?

    Call up=1st time.
    Recall=any other call ups.

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    • martras

      4 months ago

      He was added to the 40 man and then optioned. I suppose it depends on how you look at it.

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    • letitbelowenstein

      4 months ago

      Maybe he didn’t answer the first time. He let it go to voicemail.

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    • Steve Adams

      4 months ago

      He was optioned in spring training. The term for bringing a player who has been previously optioned (and is still on the 40-man roster) to the majors is “recall.”

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    • Dorothy_Mantooth

      4 months ago

      The term “recall” is commonly used for players who are making their major league debut, even if they haven’t been previously optioned. This is because the player is being officially added to the MLB roster from their minor league assignment.
      Essentially, the term “recall” is used to indicate that the player is being brought back to the majors after being on the 40-man roster but not initially on the 26-man active roster.

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  3. martras

    4 months ago

    Have to see Adams’ stuff at the MLB level to really grade it out. Adams results include a lot of loud contact suggesting his stuff might not really be up to par for an MLB rotation option. Since the Twins have largely used him as a bullpen arm this year, it seems the front office might feel the same way. Just have to see how the Twins deploy him.

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  4. WrongM

    4 months ago

    Little surprised it’s Funderburk and not Alcalá who’s going down. Handedness is less important than who can pitch well, but this means zero LHP on the staff. Maybe this indicates confidence in Coulombe coming back soon.

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    • Jacksson13

      4 months ago

      Isn’t Alcala out of options?

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      • martras

        4 months ago

        Alcala has an option left, but enough service time to refuse the assignment to AAA.

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    • ForDoingNothing

      4 months ago

      Take a look at the advanced metrics of each pitcher on savant and it’s not hard to understand why Funderburk was sent down and Alcala was not DFAd

      There’s still an elite reliever in Alcala but he needs work. It would be a mistake to just dump him for nothing

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      • martras

        4 months ago

        Alcala is almost 30 and he has never shown this “elite” reliever you’re talking about. He was very good 5 years ago, which is a lifetime ago by relief pitcher standards.

        I view Alcala very similar to Jorge Lopez.

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  5. CWeb555

    4 months ago

    Too Bad we couldn’t recall Pohlads for Bill Murry?

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