The Twins, who start a seven-game West Coast swing in Seattle on Thursday night, will call up righthanded reliever Austin Adams from Class AAA Rochester to take Trevor Hildenberger's spot on the roster.
Hildenberger was sent to Rochester after the Twins' 8-7 victory over the Angels on Wednesday.
Adams has a 4.50 ERA in 11 games with the Red Wings. In 18 innings, he has walked six and struck out 28. The Twins purchased his contract last August from the Sugarland Skeeters of the Independent League.
The 32-year-old appeared in 53 games for the Indians from 2014-16. He is not to be confused with "the other" Austin Adams, who pitches for ... Seattle.
The Twins will need to take someone off the 40-man roster to add Adams.
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La Velle E. Neal III has covered baseball for the Star Tribune since 1998 (the post-Knoblauch era). Born and raised in Chicago, he grew up following the White Sox and hating the Cubs. He attended both the University of Illinois and Illinois-Chicago and began his baseball writing career at the Kansas City Star. He can be heard occasionally on KFAN radio, lending his great baseball mind to Paul Allen and other hosts.
Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
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