A Full Breakdown of the Minnesota Twins prospects headed to the Arizona Fall League

The Arizona Fall League rosters have been released this week with a lot of intriguing prospects on each team. There are six teams full of prospects from Major League teams that will play starting October 6th. I’ll be writing an article and making Twitter posts about each team’s roster. This will cover the prospects from the Minnesota Twins who will be on the Peoria Javelinas this fall. The team will consist of players from the Seattle Mariners, Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres, and the Cincinnati Reds as well.

Minnesota Twins:

Miguelangel Boadas RHP: Signed in the 2019 international class out of Venezuela Boadas has been unimpressive ERA wise at every level. Making his Twins organization debut in the Dominican Summer league at 18 years old he put up a 3.63 ERA in 34.2 innings. He moved to the Complex League the next year and rose a level the next two seasons. In High-A during the 2024 season Boadas pitched 30.1 innings before being shut down in early June and having Tommy John surgery. Before the injury he pitched to a 6.23 ERA and 3.90 FIP while showing his strike out ability with a 26.7% strikeout rate. He has yet to pitch since his June 8th start as he rehabs from surgery. Still only 22 years old Boadas has shown he has decent stuff with a full five pitch mix. He throws a low 90s fastball and a cutter that sits around 84 mph and got a 46.2% whiff rate in 2023. He has a changeup, slider, and curveball that have gotten some good whiffs. Definitely a pitcher who can develop as a starter with some more velocity.

Jakob Hall RHP: Being drafted in the 8th round of last year’s draft out of Oral Roberts, Hall had a shaky first professional season in Low-A this year. Starting the year as a multiple inning guy out of the bullpen with a few starts mixed in, Hall became a two inning max guy out of the bullpen for the last two months of the season. In total he pitched 54 innings to a 6.83 ERA and 4.59 FIP. Throughout college Hall was known as a pitcher with great command but didn’t show that in Low-A walking 8.9% of hitters and only having a 24.9% CSW%. He doesn’t have the best stuff striking out 18.2%. He has a whole six pitch mix with a 4-seamer, sinker, cutter, slider, changeup, and curveball which keeps hitters guessing. Both his changeup and curveball got very little chase but gave the weakest contact out of any pitch. His slider did not perform well this year, getting hit very hard when in the zone. 

Hunter Hoopes RHP: After a long college career between UNC Asheville and Alabama Hoopes was not drafted in the 2023 draft. After his college season in 2023 he made 8 starts in the Frontier League to end the season. At one point he was even a Tread Performance Coach at Driveline. He was signed by the Twins in last year’s summer but didn’t make an appearance in the Twins organization until the start of this season. He spent the 2025 season pitching out of the bullpen and climbing the ranks going from Low-A to AA by the end of the season. He dominated the lower ranked first throwing 21 innings in Low-A to a 2.14 ERA and striking out 37.6% of batters. He then was promoted to High-A and pitched 17.1 innings to a 1.56 ERA and striking out 30.8%. Once getting promoted to AA it was a different story. He pitched 14 innings to a 7.07 ERA and his strikeout rate dropped to 19.7%. He has a very good fastball even with only throwing in the mid to low 90s. His fastball has 19.7 inches of induced vertical break but struggled to find the zone at times. He has a slider with pretty solid movement and it has good swing and miss and chase in Low-A. He also throws a changeup that’s in the low 90s and got a 52.2% whiff rate in Low-A. A great story who put together a great year and will look to face better competition this fall. 

Dylan Questad RHP: The 20 year old was drafted out of high school in the 5th round of the 2023 draft. He spent his first professional season getting his feet wet in the Complex League in 2024 where he pitched 28.1 innings to a 10.48 ERA. This year he spent the season in Low-A Fort Myers where he again struggled pitching in 74.2 innings to a 6.87 ERA. Both years he showed the ability to get strikeouts but struggled with walks. Questad walked 19.2% of batters in the Complex and 17.7% in Low-A. His pitch mix has potential starting with a fastball with 17.1 inches of induced vertical break but it only sits around 93 mph and doesn’t have the best spin yet. He also throws a cutter that sits in the mid 80s but had a 33.6% chase rate this season. His secondaries are a curveball with below average movement and a splitter he developed in the middle of the season which worked well with a 43.5% whiff rate. His problem is he wasn’t able to throw any of these for a strike even his fastball and cutter only were thrown in the zone 43% of the time. 

Zander Sechrist LHP: Going undrafted in the 2024 draft after four years at Tennessee the Twins quickly picked up Sechrist. He didn’t pitch last season and made his Twins organization debut in Low-A this season. Sechrist pitched 69 innings out of the bullpen to a 3.00 ERA and 3.29 FIP. He struck out 19.9% and kept his walks to 6.9%. He doesn’t have overpowering stuff but all of his pitches are able to get weak contact when they’re commanded well. He has very little velocity but a funky delivery and good pitch mix keeps him useful. His sinker which he throws 46% of the time only sits around 86 mph but got a xwOBA of 0.282 this season. He throws a slider that sits around 70 mph but he’s able to throw it in the zone and get 35% chase on it when it’s outside. His cutter only sits around 78 mph but gets the same amount of weak contact as the sinker. His changeup only sits in the high 79s but he throws for strike really well. A very interesting pitcher who’s able to get outs without big stuff.

Billy Amick 1B/3B: After a breakout season at Tennessee where he hit 23 homers Amick was taken in the 2nd round of the 2024 draft. His first professional season has been derailed by an oblique injury which caused him to go on the injured list twice and only play 54 games in High-A. In those 54 games Amick slashed .310/.419/.455 for a 152 wRC+. He showed off his plus raw power at times hitting 20 extra base hits including 4 homers. His biggest problem has been a lack of contact only hitting the ball on 70.5% of swings. What's really concerning is his contact in the zone whiff 25% of the time especially on fastballs. He has the size to grow into a big power threat from the right side. He also is likely to be moved off third base where he mainly played in college. He already has played more games this season at first than third and that trend will likely continue.

Brandon Winokur UTL: The 6’6” 210 lbs high schooler was taken in the 3rd round of the 2023 draft. He’s climbed the ranks the last two years going from Low-A in 2024 to High-A in 2025. He has some of the best tools in the minor leagues and showed that off in 2024 hitting .249/.327/.434 for a 118 wRC+ with 14 homers and 23 stolen bases. He struggled in High-A this season hitting .226/.304/.388 for a 97 wRC+ in 122 games. He also hit 17 homers and stole 26 bases. He makes very below average contact only making it on 67.8% of swings this season and striking out 24.7% of the time. He’s shown off his elite raw power having exit velocities above 111 mph. If the contact even in the zone can grow he’ll be an elite prospect. The Twins have tried him all over the field using his speed to play center field and shortstop mostly. He’s still not great anywhere but has been better at every position.

Hendry Mendez LF: Originally signed out of the Dominican Republic by the Brewers. Mendez was traded to the Phillies in the 2023 offseason to the Phillies for Oliver Moore. Mendez was then traded to the Twins at this year’s deadline for Harrison Bader. The last two seasons moving into the Phillies organization he’s excelled at the plate hitting .284/.386/.434 for a 131 wRC+ for the High-A Phillies team in 2024. This season he spent the first half in the Phillies AA where he hit .290/.374/.434 for a 130 wRC+ and after being traded he somehow hit even better in the Twins AA slashing .243/.461/.450 for a 160 wRC+. Mendez has great bat to ball skills making contact 86% of the time this season. He has decent raw power and slugged over .400 for the first time since 2021 this year but his swing makes it hard to imagine turning that raw power into real game power as he hits the ball on the ground a ton. Most seasons he’s been around 60% ground ball rate. This season he’s down to 54% but in his time with the Twins he was back up to 57.8%. He still could be a great backup outfielder in the Majors especially if he can play better in left field where he’s been downright bad. 

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