With the minor league regular season winding down, the Twins are getting one last look at a few players who’ve forced their way onto the radar. That matters in a year when Minnesota already made a bit of history: the organization became the first in professional baseball history to hit 700 or more home runs across its full-season affiliates, including Triple-A, Double-A, High-A, and Low-A.
The latest Hot Sheet from Wichita centers on three Wind Surge players who have kept building cases for more attention as the offseason approaches: right-hander Adrian Bohorquez, outfielder Graham Brown and right-hander Ty Langenberg.
Bohorquez has gone from low-profile signing to one of the more intriguing pitching stories in the system. The right-hander originally signed for $10,000 as an 18-year-old international free agent, then followed a rough Dominican Summer League debut in 2023 with a much stronger first season in the United States in 2024.
He opened 2025 with modest expectations and shaky results, but things started turning in his favor as the calendar moved on. Beginning July 1, he posted a 2.47 ERA while holding opponents to a .185 batting average, which earned him a late bump to High-A Cedar Rapids.
He’s kept rolling since then. Against Frisco, Bohorquez attacked the top of the order right away, worked through the minimum in the first inning and struck out two hitters.
He finished with five scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out four. Since his promotion to Double-A, he has put up a 1.06 ERA and a 0.94 WHIP, with a 26.1% strikeout rate and 10.1% walk rate across four starts.
For a pitcher who entered pro ball with little fanfare, that’s a serious climb, and it has put him in the mix for the Twins’ Pitcher of the Year discussion.
Brown’s path looks different, but it has been just as notable. He spent three collegiate seasons at Coastal Carolina, hitting .310/.408/.571 with a .980 OPS, but went undrafted.
From there, he played in the independent leagues in 2025 and at the start of the 2026 season before the Twins signed him as a minor league free agent in May 2026. Minnesota has moved him fast, using him at all four levels from Low-A through Triple-A this season.
At Wichita, he’s looked right at home. In six games this week, Brown went 9-for-20 (.450) with two doubles, two home runs, seven RBI and three walks.
He also posted a .522 on-base percentage and a 1.372 OPS. That wasn’t a one-week spike, either.
In 28 games at Double-A, he’s produced an .855 OPS and a 119 wRC+. He has been older than the average competition at every stop this season except for his lone game in St.
Paul, but the Twins have kept challenging him and he’s kept producing. From independent ball to Triple-A in one year, Brown has already turned in a pretty eye-catching run.
Langenberg, meanwhile, keeps showing why the Twins value his flexibility. The Urbandale, Iowa, native was a 11th-round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft out of the University of Iowa, where he posted a 4.04 ERA and 1.43 WHIP across three college seasons.
After signing, he made five relief appearances late in 2023, then logged his first full pro season in 2024 with a 3.67 ERA, 25.4% strikeout rate and 6.6% walk rate between Low-A and High-A. He spent all of 2025 back in Cedar Rapids and posted a 4.87 ERA with a 21.1% strikeout rate and 10.1% walk rate, while the Twins continued to try him both as a starter and a reliever at the upper levels this year.
That role mix has carried into Wichita, where the 24-year-old started Thursday against Frisco and gave the Wind Surge six innings of one-run ball on six hits, with no walks and four strikeouts. Over 86 1/3 innings with Wichita this season, he owns a 3.65 ERA and 1.21 WHIP, along with a 21.2% strikeout rate and 7.6% walk rate. The strikeout total isn’t flashy, but the control gains are real, especially after he walked 10.1% of hitters at Cedar Rapids last season.
The regular season is almost over, but these final days still matter for players trying to shape their place in the organization’s plans. Bohorquez has been the biggest mover of the bunch, Brown has made a fast and unusual climb, and Langenberg keeps offering value through versatility and improved command. For a Twins system that still needs to keep building pitching depth, that’s exactly the kind of late-season progress worth tracking.
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