The Minnesota Twins’ future just got brighter – yet the present still leaves fans craving real-time results. According to both Sports Illustrated and MLB Pipeline’s midseason update, the Twins’ farm system ranks as second-best in all of baseball, trailing only the powerhouse Los Angeles Dodgers.

With five prospects now inside MLB’s Top 100 – Walker Jenkins (No. 14), newly acquired Eduardo Tait (No. 54), Luke Keaschall (No. 64), Emmanuel Rodriguez (No. 72), and Kaelen Culpepper (No. 77) – the organization boasts both star power and much-needed depth. Jenkins has returned from injury and played like a top-five talent, Culpepper is on pace for a breakout season, and Keaschall is already showing that he belongs at the Big Show.

Still, this rush of youthful promise is tempered by reality: the Twins are stuck in rebuild mode for 2025, and fans are again being told to “wait until next year.”

For any Twins fan from the Pohlad ownership era, this mantra seems to rear its ugly head far too often. That being said, here are three things Twins fans can expect for the rest of the 2025 campaign:

1.Growing pains.

Perhaps this is a bit of a “gimme,” but it still bears mentioning.

So far, Keaschall has proven he belongs at the major league level. Fans may soon get a look at No. 14 prospect Walker Jenkins as well – the player many hail as the coming cornerstone for the organization – and with that will come high expectations.

As with any young talent in any professional sport, it is not always smooth sailing. While we will see flashes of brilliance from the post-trade deadline call-ups, we should also expect a healthy dose of growing pains, too. Keaschall seems to be an exception at the moment.

Still, we have seen inconsistent production at the plate from Brooks Lee and Royce Lewis, Edouard Julien has bounced back and forth from the Twins to the St. Paul Saints this year, and outfielders Matt Wallner and Trevor Larnach are both struggling to find consistency against left-handed pitching.

This is to be expected from young players who are now the front line of the Twins’ lineup. Does it help fans feel any better? No, of course not, but we should expect inconsistent play as these younger guys get their feet wet at the MLB level.

2.Fan Discontent.

It has now been widely covered that at the first home game since the Pohlad family announced they would retain ownership, Twins fans let their voices be heard during the postgame show on August 14.

This, coupled with scathing online posts and Tweets after the now-famous trade deadline sell-off, is a recipe for continued discontent in Twins territory.

Many fans this season have been speaking with their wallets and not attending games as they have in the past. Average attendance is down this year and has been declining since the owners announced they would reduce their payroll after the 2023 playoff run. Ticket sales are on pace to fall well short of the 2024 season as well.

Minnesota fans, typically a laidback group of spectators, have become much less willing to hide their displeasure. For the duration of the 2025 season, this discontent will likely become more and more vocal in light of the Pohlads’ handling of the trade deadline and their supposed attempt to sell the team – something many fans were truly hoping would reignite this franchise.

3.Hope Going Forward.

Finally, some good news we can expect for the rest of the season – hope going forward for this ballclub.

While it is essential to acknowledge the growing pains that accompany young talent (see above), Twins fans can be assured that these highly touted prospects can provide a very bright future for this franchise – if they can stay healthy and with the team, of course. Regardless of the pain caused by the deadline in July, it can’t be denied that the Twins did well in filling out their prospect supply through trades and the draft by adding 15 new prospects in the Top 30 for the organization.

Key prospects like Keaschall, Tait, Rodriguez, and Jenkins may get the headlines, but the Twins’ farm system has many other prospects trending upward, like Culpepper and Gabriel Gonzalez, who is currently thriving with the Saints and who appears ready to contribute at the major league level as soon as next year. Long story short, the Twins’ farm system is loaded for the long haul, but, as mentioned above, Twins fans must once again wait out a rebuild.

The 2025 season for the Minnesota Twins has been a difficult one to watch at times. We can’t deny that things haven’t panned out as initially planned or hoped.

As a fan, it is excruciating to sit through the same rebuild year in and year out, but the Twins have a crop of young talent that looks to give this ballclub a solid foundation for many seasons to come. All that can be done now is to “wait until next year.”