600 over 168 plate appearances for Triple-A Salt Lake City this season. Perhaps the Twins will be the team that gives him another shot after acquiring him from the Los Angeles Angels in a minor-league deal on Tuesday.Ĭarter, 31, was acquired for cash considerations after slugging. Since leading the National League with 41 homers 2016, first baseman Chris Carter has struggled to get big-league opportunities.
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Mauer won’t be eligible to rejoin the team until May 29, the middle game of a three-game series in Kansas City. “The neck has shown a little bit of response to treatment as far as the tenderness,” Twins manager Paul Molitor said, “and some of the other (concussion-like) things that are concerning seem to be lessening to some degree, so that’s encouraging,” He’s locked in.”įirst baseman Joe Mauer was at Target Field for a second straight day for treatment on his strained neck. He’s been putting together big-league at-bats, spitting on good pitches, seeing it out of the hand. “That dude’s on fire right now,” said a rival scout who saw Gordon recently. One note of concern: Gordon’s walk rate had dropped to 6.1 percent, down from 9.2 percent at the same level for the Chattanooga Lookouts last year. Gordon had cut his strikeout rate to a career-best 14.9 percent while increasing his flyball rate to 31.7 percent, but his batting average on balls in play was a whopping. Gordon, 22, was fourth in the league in hitting (.333) and had park-adjusted production that ranked eighth, 51 percent above league average. Shortstop prospect Nick Gordon, the fifth overall pick in the 2014 draft, was promoted to Triple-A Rochester after repeating the Southern League to start the year. The Twins also recouped an unspecified portion of their outlay to Hughes in 20 through an insurance policy, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Using the $8 million per WAR multiplier, that means Hughes provided somewhere between $43.2 million and $56.8 million of value to the Twins during his tenure. Over parts of five seasons, including the past two shortened by injury, Hughes has produced 7.1 WAR via Fangraphs and 5.4 WAR via Baseball-Reference. It was no accident that Hughes’ extension clocked in with an AAV of $14 million - still a club record for a pitcher. That deal came days after the Twins signed Ervin Santana to a four-year, $55 million deal that carried a $13.75 million average annual value. The trouble came when the Twins reworked his original deal and signed him to a three-year, $42 million extension in December 2014. Acccording to, Hughes produced 5.9 Wins Above Replacement that year had him at 5.4. Hughes outpitched his original three-year, $24 million deal with ease, even bypassing a chance at a $500,000 bonus when he fell one out shy of 210 innings in 2014. I commend him for working really hard to get back.” Hughes was always a “guy I leaned on a lot,” Gibson said, “whether it was pitching in September, bullpens in between or anything else up here. Twins right-hander Kyle Gibson said he texted Hughes on Monday night and “thanked him for everything.” That last hashtag was a reference to Hughes’ beloved Tampa Bay Lightning, which lost 3-0 in Washington on his final night with the Twins to force a deciding Game 7 in the Eastern Conference finals of the NHL playoffs. “Through good times and challenging times - Phil has ALWAYS been the consummate pro, a great teammate and committed to this community. “Grateful that (Hughes) has been part of the Twins family,” St.