Six important Twins storylines worth watching after their trade deadline fire sale
But there's still nearly a third of the season remaining. And while this may more closely resemble a Triple A roster after the deadline-day gutting, they will be wearing Twins uniforms and playing Major League Baseball games for the next two months, which can never truly be meaningless.
Here are six Twins storylines that will be worth watching down the stretch:
Royce Lewis, the No. 1 pick in the 2017 MLB Draft, and Brooks Lee, the No. 8 pick in the 2022 draft, are the new starting left side of the infield following Carlos Correa's exit, and the Twins desperately need the duo to step up as valuable all-around players worthy of building around.
Lee has hit just .235/.277/.349 for a 72 OPS+ in 144 games since debuting last summer, showing predictably poor power and surprisingly shaky plate discipline. His defense has also stood out less than expected, and there are still questions about his ability to handle being an everyday shortstop.
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Lewis has hit just .226/.284/.365 for a 79 OPS+ in 116 games since the 2024 All-Star break, a sudden and steep decline he's only recently showed signs of halting in a meaningful way. His defense at third base has improved this season, but the Twins need Lewis to be a middle-of-the-order force again.
Lee is only 24 and Lewis is still just 26, so the next two months will hardly represent lasting career judgments. But any notion of a Twins turnaround in 2026 is heavily dependent on the new left side of the infield being part of the solution on both sides of the ball and living up to the top prospect hype.
Great play by fill-in shortstop Brooks Lee, who gets a round of applause from Bailey Ober. pic.twitter.com/fyksZmmmLn
— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) June 7, 2025
Luke Keaschall returned Tuesday from a broken forearm sustained in late April and the 22-year-old consensus top-50 prospect presumably will play regularly down the stretch. He provided a huge spark for the Twins in just seven games before getting hurt, hitting .368 with five steals.
Keaschall has remarkably picked up right where he left off and he's viewed as part of the future lineup core, so a healthy, productive stretch run would make it a lot easier to count on him next Opening Day. Plus, after last year's elbow surgery and this year's broken arm, he just needs game reps.
Byron Buxton's imminent return from a July 26 rib-cage injury will give the struggling lineup another much-needed boost. Pablo López is likely several weeks from completing his recovery from a shoulder strain that's sidelined him since June 3, but he's expected to rejoin the rotation by September.
David Festa is still working to return from shoulder inflammation to pitch again this season. And while Bailey Ober technically isn't injured, returning from a hip impingement to rejoin the Twins' rotation Saturday, there are big looming questions to answer about his longer-term health status.
LUKE!!!!
First Major League home run! 🚀 pic.twitter.com/8UoI0G1FIi
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) August 5, 2025
Trading a team's top five relievers within 24 hours is unheard of, and the Twins' bullpen is in shambles after losing Jhoan Duran, Griffin Jax, Louis Varland, Brock Stewart and Danny Coulombe. Cole Sands, who'd recently been relegated to low-leverage or opener work, is now a closer by default.
Sands is 28, minimum salaried and team controlled through 2028, so there's a chance for him to end a disappointing season on a high note and perhaps reassert some of the upside he showed in a breakout 2024 season. Beyond that, the August and September bullpen will basically be an open tryout for 2026.
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Michael Tonkin (35 years old), Erasmo Ramirez (35), José Ureña (33) and various waiver claims are merely seat fillers, but there's at least some path for Travis Adams (25), Pierson Ohl (25), Kody Funderburk (28) and Justin Topa (34) to join Sands by convincing the Twins they warrant a 2026 role.
That's a pretty low-upside group, and it's very possible none of them will be in the 2026 plans, but the Twins could also give late-season bullpen looks to higher-upside starter prospects like Marco Raya or Connor Prielipp. This is going to require a full-scale bullpen rebuild, so opportunities are plentiful.
Alan Roden was the first trade deadline pickup to join the Twins' big-league roster, with the 25-year-old corner outfielder jumping right into the starting lineup after coming over from the Toronto Blue Jays in the Varland (and Ty France) trade. Roden is a career .320 hitter against Triple-A pitching.
James Outman was optioned to Triple-A St. Paul after being acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers for Stewart, but the 28-year-old outfielder has 230 games of MLB experience and will presumably be called up by the Twins at some point down the stretch.
Right-hander Taj Bradley logged 354 innings during three seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays, but the Twins optioned him to St. Paul after swapping Jax straight up for the 24-year-old former top prospect. They clearly think very highly of Bradley, so expect to see him back in the majors soon.
Right-hander Mick Abel was in the minors when the Philadelphia Phillies included him as part of the Duran deal, but he made six major-league starts earlier this season and the 23-year-old is arguably now the Twins' top-rated pitching prospect. He's likely to get a call up before the season ends.
(Note: I ranked the Twins' trade deadline acquisitions by overall value.)
Alan Roden's first @Twins home run extends the lead 🫡 pic.twitter.com/dSJff58dO1
— MLB (@MLB) August 6, 2025
The MLB Draft provides far less certain and far less immediate help than the NBA and NFL versions, but if the Twins are going to be bad anyway there can still be plenty of value in securing a top-five pick. Right now, they have MLB's eighth-worst record, but moving up seems inevitable.
For starters, two teams with worse records than the Twins — the Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals — aren't eligible for a top-10 pick due to how MLB's relatively new lottery system handles repeated losing seasons. That means the Twins currently sit No. 6 in the actual lottery positioning.
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With the Rockies and Nationals out of the lottery picture, the Twins are just 2 1/2 games back of the No. 5 position and 5 1/2 games from the No. 2 spot, which would come with 20.5 percent odds of winning the No. 1 pick. Losing isn't a good thing, but having a top-five pick in a strong 2026 draft would be.
MLB's inaugural draft lottery took place before the 2023 season and the Twins jumped from No. 13 to No. 5 in a stacked class, enabling them to pick North Carolina high school outfielder Walker Jenkins. He's since become their No. 1 prospect, as well as a league-wide consensus top-25 prospect, playing well at Double A.
Everything covered above is important, and worth watching over the final two months of the season, but in the big-picture, franchise-level view of the Twins there's only one thing that really matters: Will the Pohlads actually sell the team?
It's been nearly 10 months since executive chair Joe Pohlad announced the family was putting the Twins on the market. And it's been over five months since Illinois billionaire Justin Ishbia ended negotiations to buy the Twins because he was pivoting to buying the Chicago White Sox.
There have been some recent indications the Pohlads could be getting close to finding a buyer. Hopefully that's true, because the trade deadline fire sale and another round of payroll slashing have sent the already low fan morale plummeting toward rock bottom.
After four decades of Pohlad ownership, it's long past time for a change and it's increasingly apparent they want out almost as much as Twins fans want them out. This is a dark time for the Twins, but if a sale arrives soon there's at least the promise of a clean slate and the hope of better billionaires.
(Photo of Lewis: Matt Krohn / Getty Images)
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