Minnesota Twins select the contract of former Toronto Blue Jays right-handed pitcher
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The Minnesota Twins announced Friday that they've selected the contract former Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Urena.
After the Blue Jays acquired reliever Louis Varland and first baseman Ty France from the Twins, Minnesota added eight new minor leaguers to the roster.
The Twins had a massive fire sale at this years trade deadline. Trading the likes of Harrison Bader, Chris Paddack, Willi Castro, Danny Coulombe, Ty France, pitchers Jhoan Duran, Griffin Jax, Louis Varland, Brock Stewart and most shockingly of , all-star shortstop Carlos Correa.
The Twins gutted their team and are now in a complete rebuild mode due to the Pohlad family intent to sell the franchise.
Jose Urena is a veteran swingman who will eat up innings on a thin pitching staff decimated by this week's barrage of trades
Urena, 33, is a veteran of 11 major league seasons. The Twins will be his fourth team of the 2025 season alone and his tenth overall.
He's pitched 18 1/3 MLB frames this year and yielded a 5.40 earned run average. Urena tossed 13 1/3 innings with the Twins' top affiliate prior to his promotion and allowed six runs (4.05 ERA) on 13 hits and 10 walks with 13 strikeouts.
Early in his career, Urena was a solid mid-rotation arm for the Marlins. From 2017-18, he started 59 games (plus six relief outings) and totaled 343 2/3 frames with a 3.90 ERA.
Though Urena throws hard, he's never been a big strikeout arm, but he typically posts above-average ground-ball rates and has a league-average walk rate in his career.
Since that solid run with Miami, Urena has become a swingman who's bounced all over the league.
He's posted an ERA north of 5.00 in six of his past seven major league seasons, though the lanky right-hander did turn in a sharp 3.80 ERA in 109 innings with the Rangers last year.
He'll add some length to the bullpen and give the Twins a rotation option, too, depending on how they want to shape a pitching staff that was decimated by this week's barrage of trades.
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AOUT 1 | 132 ANSWERS Minnesota Twins select the contract of former Toronto Blue Jays right-handed pitcher Will Jose Urena be able to stick it out on a Minnesota Twins pitching staff that has been decimated by trades? | ||
| Yes | 46 | 34.8 % |
| No | 35 | 26.5 % |
| Too early to tell | 51 | 38.6 % |
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