Minnesota Twins Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival 

1. OF Walker Jenkins | 21 | AAA | 2026

The sixth overall pick in the stacked 2023 class, Jenkins is a left-handed hitter with power and plate skills listed at 6’3” 210 pounds, but as I say all the time around here, those measurements look a little out of date. He’s dealt with some injuries that have cost him reps but steadily climbed the organization ladder nonetheless, closing out 2025 with 23 games in Triple-A. In 84 games across four levels, he slashed .286/.399/.451 with ten home runs and 17 stolen bases. It’s tough to predict how the team will handle his timeline. They seem to go back and forth on trading Joe Ryan every other day. If they keep him, Jenkins could be up early. If they move him this winter, I’d bet they’ll slow-play their season in general. 

Here’s a link to Grey’s 2026 Fantasy Outlook for Walker Jenkins.

2. SS Kaelen Culpepper | 23 | AA | 2026

Here’s what I wrote about Culpepper last year in this space:

“A three-year standout as the starting shortstop at Kansas State, Culpepper went 21st overall to the Twins and cruised through Low-A in 17 games, slashing .294/.366/.541 with just two strikeouts in nine games to force the quick promotion to High-A Cedar Rapids for 17 games to close out the season. He’ll probably open the 2025 season there (here) in Iowa, where it can be colder in spring than winter these days, but this team knows how to develop a talented hitter, so the smart money suggests he’ll power through the frosty months and wind up on the doorstep of the big leagues heading into 2026.”

Well, in 113 games split almost equally between High-A and Double-A, Culpepper slashed .289/.375/.469 with 20 home runs and 25 stolen bases along with 90 strikeouts (17.%) against 50 walks (9.7%). He looks like another draft coup for a club and could quickly pair with Luke Keaschall to form a dynamic middle infield. 

3. OF Emmanuel Rodriguez | 23 | AAA | 2026

Dynasty players have held a candle for Rodriguez since he signed for $2.5 million in July 2019, but he’s struggled to stay healthy throughout his professional career. 99 is the most games he’s played in a season. That was in 2023. He played 47 games in 2024 and 65 games in 2025. The games he missed due to covid shouldn’t really be counted against him, the result is that he’s been a professional baseball player for almost seven years and has played a total of 295 games. When he’s on the field, he features extreme patience from a left-handed power bat. He slashed .269/.431/.409 in his 65 games this year. He also struck out 31.8 percent of the time, and that’s been the main bugaboo for Rodriguez. Hopefully he gets a little more aggressive early in counts as he gets more reps against high-end arms. 

4. OF Gabriel Gonzalez | 22 | AAA | 2026

Gonzalez has always hit but took his game to another level in 2025, slashing .329/.395/.513 with 15 home runs and eight stolen bases in 123 games across Double and Triple-A. He also struck out just 14.5 percent of the time against an 8.7 percent walk rate. The power and speed blend is not all that enticing, but Gonzalez finds the barrel with apparent ease against  pitches of all shapes and sizes. I’d give him a shot to break camp with the big club if I ran that organization, but they’ve got a lot of outfielders to sort, so Gonzalez might have to wait a while. 

5. C Eduardo Tait | 19 | A+ | 2029

A left-handed hitter listed at 6’0” 175 pounds, Tait tore through Philadelphia’s lower minors with the quickness and got himself dealt to Minnesota in the Jhoan Duran trade. In 112 games across Low and High-A this year, he slashed .253/.311/.427 with 14 home runs against mostly older players. I like Tait just fine, but I would’ve hoped for some pieces that were closer to contributing if moving a premium arm like Duran, though you could argue that’s what they got in OF Hendry Mendez. 

6. OF Hendry Mendez | 22 | AA | 2027

Listed at a spindly 6’3” 175 pounds, Mendez has finally filled out a little and found some man-strength within extra weight. He was having a nice season for Philadelphia with Double-A Reading and turned it up another notch after being traded to Minnesota in the Jhoan Duran deal, slashing .324/.461/.450 with three home runs and four stolen bases in 33 games. He also drew 27 walks against just 21 strikeouts, bringing his season-long strikeout rate to 13.2 percent against a 13.6 percent walk rate. He’s a little like a taller, left-handed variation on Gabriel Gonzalez in that the power and speed might not clear a path for him to play, but the hit tool is ready for a new challenge right now. 

7. SS Marek Houston | 21 | A+ | 2027

Minnesota selected Houston 16th overall in the 2025 draft on the strength of plus defense at shortstop and late-developing pop with the bat. At 6’3” 205 pounds, he’s just started to leverage his solid contact skills to launch and pull pitches he can damage. He hit well in Low-A for 12 games (.370/.424/.444) but came up empty for 12 games in High-A (.152/.220/.239). Pretty irrelevant sample sizes. He’ll open 2026 back in High-A and could boost his prospect stock with a hot start. For now, he’s a defense-first prospect with a little bit of speed and just enough power. Probably not someone to rush your draft boards.

8. RHP Charlee Soto | 20 | A+ | 2027

A right triceps strain in April led to elbow surgery for a detached bone spur and filled up Soto’s 2025 season with rest and rehab. He did manage three dominant starts before the injury, recording a 1.38 ERA and 15 strikeouts in 13 innings pitched. A power pitcher at 6’3” 210 pounds with a high-90’s fastball, high-80’s slider and deceptive changeup, a healthy Soto would wield the best stuff in this system. 

9. RHP Andrew Morris | 24 | AAA | 2026

Morris gets more velocity than a lot of high-angle arms, a testament to the athleticism in his 6’0” 195 lb frame. One sneaky aspect of his game is that he’s thrown a lot of innings (577) between college and the pros, which provides a little insight as to how he repeats a unique delivery with such consistency. From the Nolan Ryan school of pitching: how do you learn to throw a lot of innings? You throw a lot of innings. In 94.2 Triple-A innings in 2025, Morris recorded a 4.09 ERA and 1.33 WHIP on the strength of a plus fastball with ride and a solid slider he can spot where he wants in any count. Doesn’t look great, but I think his numbers can get a little better outside the Triple-A environment. 

10. LHP Kendry Rojas | 23 | AAA | 2026

Listed at 6’2” 190 pounds, Rojas signed with Toronto in 2020 out of Cuba and has been impressing across the levels ever since, working his way to Triple-A this season after coming over at the deadline in the buzzer-beating Louis Varland trade. He works with a pretty standard lefty pitch mix: fastball, slider, changeup. If the change makes a jump, he’ll have a good chance to remain a starter. 

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