{"id":716627,"date":"2026-06-03T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/716627\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:45:13","slug":"blue-jays-to-acquire-simeon-woods-richardson-from-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/716627\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays To Acquire Simeon Woods Richardson From Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/af10\" title=\"Posts by Anthony Franco\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Franco<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at June 3, 2026 6:42pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>6:42pm: The Twins will acquire cash considerations in return, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MitchBannon\/status\/2062318513893626201\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bannon reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>6:31pm: The Blue Jays are acquiring right-hander\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/woodssi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a> back from the Twins, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MitchBannon\/status\/2062315941787062435\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mitch Bannon of The Athletic<\/a>. Minnesota designated him for assignment over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second time the Toronto front office has acquired Woods Richardson. The first came as a prospect back in 2019, when the Jays acquired him from the Mets as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stromma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marcus Stroman<\/a> deal. Woods Richardson was one of the better pitching prospects in MLB and found himself in another notable deadline trade two years later. Toronto packaged him and then-top prospect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=martiau01,martin011aus&amp;search=Austin+Martin&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Martin<\/a> to Minnesota in \u201921 for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/berrijo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Anthony Franco | at June 3, 2026 6:42pm CDT 6:42pm: The Twins will acquire cash considerations in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,3478],"class_list":["post-716627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-simeon-woods-richardson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116688841878712937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716627","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=716627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}