{"id":679569,"date":"2026-04-20T02:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:58:42","slug":"twins-to-promote-kendry-rojas-connor-prielipp-added-to-taxi-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679569\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins To Promote Kendry Rojas, Connor Prielipp Added To Taxi Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins will promote left-hander Kendry Rojas<\/a> from Triple-A to the active roster prior to Tuesday\u2019s game with the Mets, according to Declan Goff and Darren Wolfson of SKOR North<\/a>.\u00a0 Rojas was already added to the 40-man roster last November in advance of the Rule 5 Draft, and Bobby Nightengale of the Minnesota Star Tribune<\/a> writes that the corresponding 26-man roster move is Kody Funderburk<\/a>\u2018s placement on the paternity list.<\/p>\n

In addition, left-hander Connor Prielipp<\/a> will also be joining the Twins for the start of their series with the Mets, as per The Athletic\u2019s Dan Hayes<\/a>.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t an official call-up yet, as Prielipp is only part of the taxi squad.\u00a0 Prielipp joined Rojas as two of the six 40-man additions Minnesota made back in November, so the Twins would just have to make another 26-man roster move if Prielipp is officially promoted.<\/p>\n

Both Rojas and Prielipp will be making their Major League debuts whenever they appear in a game.\u00a0 In Rojas\u2019 case, this might just be a cup of coffee\u00a0while Funderburk is absent, though the Twins\u2019 relief corps has struggled enough that adding a raw but talented young arm could help spark the pen.\u00a0 Funderburk, Taylor Rogers<\/a>, and Anthony Banda<\/a> are the bullpen\u2019s current trio of left-handers, and Banda in particular has gotten off to a rough start in 2026.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s game in New York begins a stretch of 13 games in 13 days for the Twins, so it is possible Rojas or Prielipp might receive a spot start in order to help preserve the rotation.\u00a0 The club could look to use either southpaw as a traditional starter or as a long reliever, or perhaps Minnesota could deploy a piggyback with Rojas and Prielipp paired with another starter.<\/p>\n

Rojas missed time due to a hamstring injury this year and has only pitched 7 1\/3 total innings, though the 23-year-old has yet to allow a run in that small sample size.\u00a0 (Six innings were with Triple-A St. Paul, and 1 1\/3 IP were with A-ball Fort Myers on a rehab assignment.)\u00a0 In those 7 1\/3 frames, Rojas has posted seven strikeouts, but also four walks.\u00a0 Over 38 1\/3 career innings at the Triple-A level, Rojas has a 14.06% walk rate, along with a 20.31% strikeout rate and a 6.10 ERA.<\/p>\n

How well Rojas can harness his control appears to the chief question facing the lefty\u2019s future as a viable big league arm.\u00a0 Baseball America ranks Rojas as the eighth-best prospect in the Twins\u2019 farm system and MLB Pipeline has him tenth, with both outlets noting that he projects as a back-end rotation arm if he remains a starting pitcher.\u00a0 As per BA, Rojas \u201chas a balanced arsenal with all his pitches projecting as at least average,\u201d though he doesn\u2019t have a true plus pitch.\u00a0 His fastball might be his top offering, as the pitch usually sits around 95mph and Nightengale writes that Rojas hit the 99mph threshold during his time in St. Paul.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays landed Rojas as an international signing in 2020, and his time in Toronto\u2019s farm system was hampered by lat, shoulder, and abdominal injuries.\u00a0 Prior to last summer\u2019s trade deadline, the Jays shipped<\/a> Rojas and outfielder Alan Roden<\/a> to the Twins in perhaps the most surprising move of Minnesota\u2019s deadline fire sale, as controllable reliever Louis Varland<\/a> and Ty France<\/a> went the other way.\u00a0 Varland immediately became a critical piece of Toronto\u2019s pen, but Rojas and Roden fit the Twins\u2019 trade model of obtaining players that were at or close to big league readiness.<\/p>\n

Prielipp is a homegrown product, selected by the Twins in the second round of the 2022 draft.\u00a0 BA ranked him as the 96th-best prospect in baseball prior to the 2026 season and slotted him fourth on their list of Twins prospects, while Pipeline put Prielipp fifth.\u00a0 Both outlets give 60-grades to the southpaw\u2019s changeup and slider, and Prielipp generates a ton of spin on the latter pitch.\u00a0 Prielipp also has a mid-90\u2019s fastball that can hit 98mph.<\/p>\n

After reaching Triple-A ball for the first time last season, Prielipp had some struggles but has now looked sharper over 15 2\/3 innings for St. Paul in 2026.\u00a0 Over 36 2\/3 innings of Triple-A ball, Prielipp has a 3.93 ERA, a 30.13% strikeout rate, and a 13.46% walk rate, so control is also a concern on his end.\u00a0 Staying healthy has been Prielipp\u2019s largest issue, as he underwent a Tommy John surgery in college at Alabama and then an internal brace surgery that sidelined him for big chunks of the 2023-24 seasons.\u00a0 Prielipp has thrown only 128 1\/3 total innings of minor league ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins will promote left-hander Kendry Rojas from Triple-A to the active roster prior to Tuesday\u2019s game with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,6969,26513,7666],"class_list":{"0":"post-679569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-connor-prielipp","10":"tag-kendry-rojas","11":"tag-kody-funderburk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116434799793191755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}