Minnesota Twins Sign Former Cy Young Winner to Minor League Deal

The Minnesota Twins, currently in first place in the American League Central despite a losing record, have signed former Cy Young winner Dallas Keuchel to a minor league deal.

Twins, Dallas Keuchel Agree To Minor League Deal https://t.co/IVx2yOk4cZ pic.twitter.com/Tb5WHTgU22
— MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) June 22, 2023

While the idea of signing a former Cy Young winner is certainly appealing, Keuchel is far removed from being that pitcher.

He carries an impressive career mark of 101-91 and a 3.98 ERA, has made the All-Star team twice, won five Gold Gloves and helped the Astros win the World Series in 2017, but hasn't been of much use to a major league team since the 2021 White Sox.

Keuchel won the Cy Young award in 2015 when he went 20-8 for the Astros. He spent 2012-2018 in Houston, spent 2019 in Atlanta (8-8 in 19 starts) and then signed with the White Sox before the 2020 season.

He helped lead the White Sox to the playoffs in the COVID 2020 season, going 6-2 but then saw his stats plummet from there. He went 9-9 in 2021 but pitched to a 5.28 ERA then was DFA'd after going 2-5 with an ERA of 7.88 for the Sox in 2022. He landed with the Diamondbacks after that and went 0-2 with a 9.64 ERA and then went 0-2 with the Rangers with an ERA of nearly 13.

This seems like nothing more than a depth move for the Twins, but we'll see if they can extract some extra value out of the 35-year-old.

The Twins play the Red Sox on Thursday at 1:10 p.m. ET.

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