Pablo López is completely recovered from the muscle distension that suffered in the tendon of the Corva that forced him to miss 14 commitments while he was in the 15 -day injured list The Minnesota twins.
The Venezuelan opener will finally be activated and open the game this Friday, April 25 in which Minnesota Twins Three meetings will begin a series of Los Angeles Angels At home, the Target Field of Minneapolis as part of the regular season of Major League Baseball.
Pablo López He needed a rehabilitation exit in minor leagues to be ready to return to Big Show. It was last Saturday, April 19 with the Triple A branch and wore 100% of its skills, completing four innings and two thirds of work, in which it gave four strikeouts and allowed only a clean race.
Subsequently, on Tuesday 22 he made the last Bullpen session to refine the last details and clear doubts for his long-awaited return, just in a section that the team is needing it to find the winning course that has been lost at this beginning of the season in which they have a 9-16 record.
The right pitcher David Festa was sent to triple to After his last opening to open the position in the active roster to López.
-There is no doubt that López is the pillar of manager’s rotation Rocco Baldelli And this was demonstrated in its first three outputs of the year, in which it allowed a total of three clean races in 16 innings and two thirds for an effectiveness of 1.62, in addition to 14 propinated strikeouts and only two bases by balls granted.
Pablo López It has been one of the most consistent and more durability arms in major leagues in recent years, something that is worth a lot today, especially now that its name is being mentioned in rumors of change.
Winds of change in Minnesota
It seems that the current project of Minnesota Twins He did not have the success expected by Management and various reports indicate that they could enter a reconstruction stage, so they would have to negotiate their main figures in exchange for prospects with which they can build a better future, and among those negotiable is López, as well as Carlos Correa, Willy Castroamong others.
Another of the reasons why the Venezuelan is an attractive piece of change is because it still has two more years of contractual control, since it signed an extension of four years and 73 million dollars with Minnesota, which began to run in 2024 and will keep it away from free agency until the 2028 season.
At the rate of almost 22 million dollars per season, a contender team could consider adding an arm that has flirted with elite levels in several streaks of his career, to the point that in 2023 he attended his first game of the stars and finished seventh in the vote to the Cy Young of that season.