Rocco Baldelli says he would 'bet on' Twins making another significant move
Could the Twins make a trade yet before spring training starts up?
Rocco Baldelli thinks so.
Asked by Dan Barreiro on KFXN-FM on Wednesday whether another trade could be coming for the Twins, Baldelli said he’d "bet on it."
“I would bet on it because we’ve always done something,” Baldelli said. “Almost every year between this point in the offseason and the first spring training game, we’ve made significant moves virtually every year, going back to Marwin Gonzalez. Signing Donovan Solano last year, who was a pretty important player for us. We signed him after workouts had already started.”
Minnesota Twins manager Rocco Baldelli answers questions at a press conference during the 2023 MLB Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 4, 2023.
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Baldelli said the slow offseason to this point hasn’t just been unusual for the Twins, but all of Major League Baseball. He said that more and more players are signing later, and that even at the winter meetings, he had friends from other teams saying: "Wow, there’s really not much going on right now."
Barreiro asked Baldelli if something as big as last season’s trade for Pablo Lopez could be on the horizon. Baldelli said that it would be “great” but that nothing was imminent. But he was also quick to point out that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
“I didn’t know we were going to be trading for (Lopez), truthfully, until the day before it happened,” Baldelli said. “The day it happened is when it got real. I don’t know when those times are coming. I go to bed every night checking my phone to see if I got another text from (Twins president of baseball operations) Derek (Falvey) to see what might be going on. … I would definitely anticipate us doing something.”
