{"id":293928,"date":"2025-11-19T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293928\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:58:10","slug":"twins-acquire-reliever-eric-orze-in-trade-with-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293928\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins acquire reliever Eric Orze in trade with Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins<\/a> took a small step toward rebuilding their bullpen Tuesday by acquiring reliever Eric Orze<\/a> in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> for minor league pitcher Jacob Kisting.<\/p>\n

Orze had a 3.02 ERA and three saves in 33 relief appearances last season for the Rays, with 19 walks, 40 strikeouts and a .244 opponents’ batting average in 41\u2154 innings. The 28-year-old right-hander also made 24 appearances at Triple-A Durham, posting a 2.20 ERA with 37 strikeouts in 28\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n

A cancer survivor, Orze was a fifth-round draft pick in 2020 by the New York Mets<\/a> and made his major league debut for them on July 8, 2024.<\/p>\n

During the week leading up to the MLB trade deadline on July 31, the Twins dealt away their top four relievers: Jhoan Duran<\/a>, Griffin Jax<\/a>, Louis Varland<\/a> and Brock Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kisting, 22, was a 14th-round draft pick by the Twins in 2024. The right-hander had a 3.79 ERA with 23 walks and 77 strikeouts in 73 2\/3 innings over 30 appearances this year between Low-A Fort Myers and High-A Cedar Rapids.<\/p>\n

In other roster moves, outfielders Jake Fraley<\/a> and Christopher Morel<\/a> were designated for assignment by the Rays, who traded infielder Tanner Murray<\/a> and outfielder Everson Pereira<\/a> to the Chicago White Sox<\/a> for right-handers Yoendrys G\u00f3mez<\/a> and Steven Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay also released right-hander Forrest Whitley<\/a> and traded infielder Tristan Gray to the Boston Red Sox<\/a> for minor league right-hander Luis Guerrero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins took a small step toward rebuilding their bullpen Tuesday by acquiring reliever Eric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}