Twins sign York Revolution reliever Hunter Gregory for Double-A depth

The Minnesota Twins added another arm to Double-A Wichita by purchasing Hunter Gregory’s contract from the York Revolution on June 2 and assigning the 27-year-old right-hander to the Wichita Wind Surge. Gregory’s move keeps the Atlantic League in the middle of the affiliated-ball pipeline, with York again serving as a stop that major-league clubs are using to find late-inning help.

Gregory left York with a 2-0 record and a 2.63 ERA in 13 appearances, numbers built on a run of 11 straight outings without allowing an earned run. He covered 11.2 scoreless innings in that stretch and finished his Revolution stint with 20 strikeouts and only five walks in 13.2 innings. York manager Rick Forney described him in direct terms: “He’s a power arm that can pitch high leverage innings in the back of the ballgame.”

The signing gives Minnesota a pitcher with a track record beyond the Atlantic League as well. Gregory spent the previous five seasons in the Toronto Blue Jays system after being drafted in the eighth round in 2021 out of Old Dominion University. In 2025, he logged a 2.84 ERA with four saves in 33 games for Double-A New Hampshire and also made 11 appearances for Triple-A Buffalo, enough resume depth to make York’s midseason production look like another step forward rather than a surprise spike.

Gregory’s jump also sharpened the spotlight on York’s development value. He became the 60th player in Revolution history to have his contract purchased by a major-league club in-season, and his transfer to Minnesota came in the same week as Nick Mikolajchak’s, making it the second straight York pickup for the Twins. York said 2026 was the earliest in franchise history that it had reached four MLB contract purchases in one season, a marker that underlines how quickly talent has moved from York, Pennsylvania, to affiliated baseball this summer.

There is also a specific bit of franchise history wrapped into Gregory’s departure. York noted that the Gregory and Mikolajchak moves marked only the second time two players had gone consecutively to the same MLB organization in the same season, matching the 2010 sequence when Jesús Sánchez and Val Majewski both went to the Oakland Athletics on May 27. For the Revolution, Gregory’s exit is another proof point that a strong Atlantic League run can still turn into a direct route back into affiliated baseball.