{"id":82780,"date":"2024-08-12T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=82780"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:45:07","slug":"twins-promote-zebby-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/12\/twins-promote-zebby-matthews\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Add Fresh Face to Lineup from Farm System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins injury-plagued rotation took a hit over the weekend as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ryanjo04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Ryan<\/a> is out indefinitely with a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/09\/twins-joe-ryan-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">shoulder strain<\/a>. The roation has taken a hit for the stretch run after Ryan&#8217;s injury, but reinforcements are on the way. Minnesota is calling up top pitching prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=matthe000zeb&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zebby Matthews<\/a>, per Jeff Passan of ESPN. Matthews, 24, will fill in for the injured Ryan, who will likely make his MLB debut this week. The right-hander has been one of the fastest-rising prospects in baseball who boasts a 2.60 ERA and 114:7 K:BB over 97 innings covering three stops in the minors in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Minnesota Twins are calling up right-hander Zebby Matthews, one of the fastest-rising prospects in baseball this year, sources tell ESPN. Matthews, an eighth-round pick out of Western Carolina in 2022, has 114 strikeouts and seven walks in 97 IP. Elite command, good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1822999481601728815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Zebby Matthews Receives Promotion to Twins Roster<\/h2>\n<p>With Ryan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/paddach01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Paddack<\/a> (forearm) both expected to miss several weeks of action, this gives Matthews the chance to pitch his way into additional starts with the Twins. Matthews began the season at Class-A Advanced Cedar Rapids, he&#8217;ll receive his fourth promotion of the season. The Twins didn&#8217;t confirm the promotion, but they haven&#8217;t named a starter for Tuesday. Derek Falvey, the Twins&#8217; president of baseball operations, hinted at Matthews joining the club last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews posted a 5.68 ERA in four starts at Triple-A St. Paul, surrendering four home runs. However, he&#8217;s continued to display excellent control that generates plenty of swings and misses. At St. Paul, Matthews put up 23 strikeouts and one walk in 19 innings. Matthews has a five-pitch arsenal including a fastball sits in the mid-90s and tops out around 97 mph. His heater complements his cutter, slider, curveball and changeup as each play up because of his precision.<\/p>\n<p>Minnestoa will lean on Matthews down the stretch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lopezpa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pablo Lopez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/oberba01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bailey Ober<\/a> give the Twins healthy veterans for the rotation. It will be up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/woodssi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/festada01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Festa<\/a> and Matthews to step up. Paddack is expected to rejoin the rotation at some point, but he remains out.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews won&#8217;t be able to pick up enough innings to get a full year of service time in 2024. He will be under club control for six more seasons. He&#8217;s on track to be eligible for arbitration in the 2027-28 offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins injury-plagued rotation took a hit over the weekend as Joe Ryan is out indefinitely with a shoulder strain. The roation has taken a hit for the stretch run after Ryan&#8217;s injury, but reinforcements are on the way. Minnesota is calling up top pitching prospect Zebby Matthews, per Jeff Passan of ESPN. Matthews, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":82781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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],"tags":[28699,3965,28700,5630,1555,3401,28698],"class_list":["post-82780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twins","category-mlb","tag-bailey-ober","tag-chris-paddack","tag-david-festa","tag-joe-ryan","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-simeon-woods-richardson","tag-zebby-matthews"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82780","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}