The 40-man roster churn for the Minnesota Twins continued on Thursday, as the team shipped catcher John Ryan Murphy to the Arizona Diamondbacks for left-handed reliever Gabriel Moya. Both teams confirmed the move via press releases.

Moya will head to Double-A Chattanooga to get his Twins career underway, the team announced. Moya will be very familiar with the league, as he was a Southern League All-Star this season.

Murphy was the odd man out behind the plate as the Twins had amassed five catchers on the 40-man roster with the Jaime Garcia trade earlier in the week, which brought Anthony Recker into the mix. Recker was initially assigned to Double-A Chattanooga, but it appears likely that will change with this move.

Murphy came over in a deal following the 2015 season from the Yankees, as outfielder Aaron Hicks was sent to New York in return. But while Hicks has blossomed into a stellar everyday player for the Yankees this season — current injury notwithstanding — Murphy struggled to find his footing with the Twins and was behind the 8-ball almost immediately. Murphy hit just .075/.119/.100 over his first 44 plate appearances last season before being sent to Triple-A Rochester.

Things did not improve much down on the farm, as Murphy inexplicably hit just .236/.286/.323 in 83 games with the Red Wings before returning for the stretch run to back up Kurt Suzuki in the major leagues last season. While the Twins were hoping to catch Murphy on the upswing after he’d hit .277/.327/.406 in 2015 with the Yankees, that simply was not the case.

Murphy had hit just .222/.298/.330 with the Red Wings this season as he and Mitch Garver — one of the Twins’ better hitting prospects who is actually older than Murphy — have shared time behind the plate this season.

While Murphy has struggled at the plate, he’s done fine work behind it. According to Baseball Prospectus, Murphy has been the top framing catcher in Triple-A this season, providing the Red Wings with 18.8 fielding runs above average. Only three catchers are above 10 runs this year in the minor leagues. The other two are Cardinals prospect Carson Kelly (10.2) and Eddy Rodriguez (15.3), who spent time this spring in Twins camp.

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