The Twins re-signed Matt Canterino to a two-year minor league contract, they knowledgeable reporters (together with Betsy Helfand of The St. Paul Pioneer-Press). Minnesota had launched Canterino, who will miss this season after present process shoulder surgical procedure throughout Spring Coaching, final week.
That sequence got here in response to the righty’s newest in what has been a brutal collection of accidents. Minnesota not wished to hold Canterino on the 40-man roster. Injured gamers can’t go on outright waivers, in order that they both wanted so as to add him to the key league injured listing or launch him. Inserting him on the key league IL would have required paying him the $760K minimal wage, and there’s a good likelihood they might have taken him off the 40-man when the injured listing goes away in the course of the offseason anyhow.
Canterino was as soon as certainly one of Minnesota’s most promising younger arms. The Rice product ranked within the prime half of Baseball America’s rating of the group’s prime 30 prospects each season between 2020-24. A mid-90s fastball and plus slider gave him an opportunity at a mid-rotation function or potential leverage work out of the bullpen.
He simply hasn’t been capable of keep wholesome for nearly his whole skilled profession. Canterino battled elbow points early in his minor league tenure. That was a precursor for 2022 Tommy John surgical procedure. He missed two seasons recovering from that process. Minnesota added him to the 40-man roster in the course of the 2022-23 offseason in order to not lose him within the Rule 5 draft, however he hasn’t thrown a daily season pitch since then. They have been hopeful that he’d return from the elbow downside this 12 months. The shoulder concern arose throughout Spring Coaching and can price him yet one more season.
Canterino has been very efficient in his intermittent stints. He has a 1.48 ERA with a 39.1% strikeout fee over 85 profession minor league frames. The Twins will be capable of see how his stuff seems subsequent 12 months, most likely in a aid function, with out carrying him on the 40-man. He’ll be getting into his age-28 season.
