{"id":81828,"date":"2024-07-30T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81828"},"modified":"2024-07-30T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T22:54:47","slug":"twins-trevor-richards-blue-jays-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/twins-trevor-richards-blue-jays-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins Bolster Bullpen, Acquiring Blue Jays Reliever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minnesota Twins made their first move of the trade deadline, adding righty reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/richatr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Richards<\/a> to their bullpen. According to The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal, the Twins have made a trade for the Toronto Blue Jays reliever<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Minnesota has not confirmed the move.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twins acquiring right-handed reliever Trevor Richards from Blue Jays, sources tell me and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanHayesMLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DanHayesMLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1818382850619834823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Twins Acquire Reliever Trevor Richards in Trade with Blue Jays<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally a starter, Richards has been used mostly as a reliever since being acquired by the Blue Jays in 2021. The 31-year-old has appeared in 45 games this season, pitching to a 4.54 ERA with a 1.146 WHIP. Richards had a 2.44 ERA on July 3rd but has given up 15 runs in his last eight outings. Relying on a two-pitch arsenal, Richards has 49 strikeouts and a .189 batting average against in 52 \u2153 innings. In parts of four seasons in Toronto, he has a 4.75 ERA in 221 \u2154 innings with 273 strikeouts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acquired by the Jays along with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/francbo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bowden Francis<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a 2021 deadline deal sending <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tellero01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rowdy Tellez<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the Milwaukee Brewers, Richards has mostly been used as a middle reliever. He has also served as a long relief option, drawing the occasional start in a bullpen game while in Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trevor Richards is an impending free agent with roughly $710,000 remaining of his $2.1 million salary for the 2024 season. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/insider\/story\/_\/id\/40617439\/2024-mlb-trade-deadline-preview-passan-stars-teams-deal-garrett-crochet-luis-robert-yankees-dodgers-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had previously reported that the Twins did not have much money to work with for deadline upgrades. With concerns over broadcasting revenue, Minnesota had both a quiet offseason and a quiet deadline push before trading for Richards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In exchange for Trevor Richards, 22-year-old infield prospect <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=harris001jay&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jay Harris<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is heading to Toronto. Minnesota\u2019s sixth-round draft pick in 2023, he batted .339\/.434\/.468 in 30 minor league games last season. In 82 games with High-A Cedar Rapids this year, Harris is slashing .214\/.306\/.349 with eight homers and 39 RBI. Primarily an infielder, the 22-year-old has also made 12 appearances in the outfield. His versatility could help him climb the minor league ladder as a super-utility man. Richards is just the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/27\/blue-jays-trade-reliever-cubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">latest Blue Jays player<\/a> to be traded at the deadline and the third reliever, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garciyi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yimi Garc\u00eda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pearsna01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate Pearson<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins made their first move of the trade deadline, adding righty reliever Trevor Richards to their bullpen. According to The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal, the Twins have made a trade for the Toronto Blue Jays reliever. Minnesota has not confirmed the move. Twins acquiring right-handed reliever Trevor Richards from Blue Jays, sources tell me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":81856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1071,35,7],"tags":[28388,1385,203,49,1376,3494],"class_list":["post-81828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twins","category-mlb","category-news","category-bluejays","tag-bowden-francis","tag-nate-pearson","tag-rowdy-tellez","tag-trade-deadline","tag-trevor-rogers","tag-yimi-garcia"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}