The Twins have been busy, and it's only Thanksgiving

The Twins spent the week before Thanksgiving showing off some new looks. They got some new uniforms, and also swapped out some infielders and minor league pitchers. There has been a lot of ink spilled on the Twins new looks, but not as much on the swap of Gio Urshela to the Angels and the trade for Kyle Farmer from the Reds. 

Since everyone has wanted to talk about the uniform, sure, I'll share two quick thoughts about them. A lot of the complaints have been "This uniform looks too much like another team." I've heard that about a lot of the looks, the new M logo in particular, but in reference to a bunch of different teams. There are only so many ways to put together a uniform, and you are bound to have some overlap between uniform stylization, fonts or color combinations. I'm not a big fan of uniform changes, but these are all fine for me. 

I like that the pinstripes returned for the road grays. I like that there is no piping on any of the uniform lettering, which looked busy, and was always in gold, which didn't go with the other colors. I like that the blue is a deeper navy. It's more unique, and looks better with the white. I especially like the thumbing of the nose at outstate Minnesota with the Twin Cities alternate. I also believe that the baby blue will return as part of the "City Connect" uniforms, coming soon.

First, on the day the Major League Baseball had set as the arbitration deadline, the Twins sent Urshela to Los Angeles for minor league prospect, pitcher Alejandro Hidalgo. Urshela was a valuable piece of the Twins last season, but was also a duplicate piece to Jose Miranda at third, and whomever is going to play first base in 2023. It's hard to see good guys go, but on the baseball operations side, selling him for the highest offer was the right move. 

The Twins then turned around and sent the Reds pitching prospect Casey Legumina in order to acquire Farmer. Farmer isn't the offensive player that Urshela is, but he does offer defensive depth at places Urshela doesn't. Farmer started as a catcher, but he has gained defensive versatility through the years, and is now a capable middle infielder, and offers a stopgap both behind the plate and at short, the two places the Twins need to add. Heck, Farmer is also good against lefties at the plate, another area the Twins needed to make up ground.

This offseason is still in it's infancy, and fans and followers of the team still await the splashier moves from the Twins, but the reshuffling of infielders and the changeover of prospects (Hidalgo is actually rated higher than Legumina according to MLB Pipeline, for whatever that is worth) is a sign that the Twins have a plan, and are in no rush to upset it. 

You know, seeing "Farmer" on the back of the "Twin Cities" jersey will be pretty funny.