Young Minnesota Twins Prospect Climbs into Baseball America Top 100

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The now 19-20 Minnesota Twins have been ripping off wins of late. We’ll see if they can continue their climb up the AL Central rankings during the final two games of their home series vs the San Francisco Giants.

In the meantime, there’s some news down on the farm. Minnesota’s prospect pool had a solid showing on Baseball America’s top 100 list earlier this year, when the preseason 2025 rankings were first released.

Top Twins prospects like Walker Jenkins and Emmanuel Rodriguez have become mainstays on all accredited prospect lists. Both Luke Keaschall and Zebby Matthews can usually be found on most of them, as well.

Dasan Hill becomes next MN Twins top prospect

But as of this week, left-handed starting pitcher Dasan Hill joined the group of elite prospects in the Minnesota Twins organization when he made his debut at No. 85 on the Baseball America Top 100 list.

The Twins selected Hill in the second round of the 2024 MLB Draft. The high school lefty out of Texas is just 19 years old and, playing his first full season of pro ball this year, down at Low-A Fort Myers.

Through his first four professional starts Hill owns a 1.50 ERA. It’s just a 12 inning sample size, but Hill has started off his Twins minor league career with an incredibly impressive 21/5 K/BB ratio.

Hill isn’t some soft-tossing southpaw either. The flame-throwing teenager totes a mid-90’s fastball that has a realistic chance to reach triple digits, as he grows into his body.

His draft profile at Baseball America spoke glowingly of his high-end abilities, despite being young and relatively raw.

“He’s the Lone Star State’s best prep southpaw prospect since Kyle Muller, who signed for $2.5 million as a Braves second-rounder in 2016. After parking around 89-90 mph and topping out at 93 with his fastball last summer, Hill has grown 3 inches, added 15 pounds and started dealing in the low 90s while reaching 96. His best pitch is a high-spin slider in the low 80s that he backfoots well against right-handers. He also has a solid upper-70s curveball with more depth and a low-80s changeup with sink and similar promise. Hill not only possesses four viable offerings but he also has the ability to throw them all for strikes. He still has room to add plenty of muscle to his lanky frame, so his repertoire could continue to get stronger.”

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Given his age, it’s fair to assume Hill is at least two years away from the big leagues. That timeline is probably aggressive in and of itself. It is worthwhile to compare him to 2023 first round pick, and fellow 19-year-old, Charlee Soto though.

Soto made his professional debut last year and turned in a 5.23 ERA in 74 innings. His 87 strikeouts were impressive though, and like Hill, the Florida native has triple-digit heat. Soto has struggled with was command issues (33 walks), early in his pro career, which isn’t uncommon.

Soto is at High-A Cedar Rapids this season and turned in three solid outings, before going on the injured list. His 1.38 ERA across 13 innings is good to see. The 15/4 K/BB isn’t quite where Hill has been at though.

The Minnesota Twins, and many teams, don’t typically push young arms. That said, if Hill keeps this up, it wouldn’t be shocking to see him get time with Cedar Rapids by the end of the year.

Twins pitching pipeline paying dividends

Since he was hired the hope was that Derek Falvey could recreate the pitching pipeline that Cleveland became synonymous for. Minnesota Twins fans have waited patiently for that to come to fruition and it seems as though we’ve reached that point.

Despite David Festa, Zebby Matthews, and Andrew Morries all looking ready at Triple-A, the Minnesota rotation simply doesn’t have room. Pablo Lopez looks like a Cy Young candidate and Joe Ryan isn’t far behind. Bailey Ober has a 1.98 ERA across 41 innings since making a start while sick to begin the season.

The soft spot of the rotation was supposed to be both Simeon Woods Richardson and Chris Paddack. The former has a 4.01 ERA and has treaded water. The latter took a perfect game into the sixth inning during his last start and owns a 2.51 ERA across his last 32 1/3 innings.

Minnesota’s rotation has the fifth-highest fWAR in baseball. Their 3.34 ERA is also fifth-best. More talent coming through the pipeline will help to sustain that excellence for years to come.

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