{"id":349852,"date":"2025-12-15T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:05:07","slug":"sources-slugger-josh-bell-agrees-to-1-year-deal-with-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349852\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Slugger Josh Bell agrees to 1-year deal with Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

First baseman Josh Bell<\/a> and the Minnesota Twins<\/a> are in agreement on a one-year, $7 million contract with a mutual option, sources told ESPN, filling a substantial need for Minnesota with the well-traveled switch hitter.<\/p>\n

Bell, a 33-year-old who will be playing for his seventh team, is a consistent veteran for a Twins team hoping to stabilize after a transformative trade deadline in which it dealt 10 big league players in a flurry of deals. While the Twins this winter have entertained moving some of the remaining veterans on their roster, including right-handers Joe Ryan<\/a> and Pablo Lopez<\/a>, they nonetheless found a fit with Bell to complement their young position-playing corps.<\/p>\n

Bell hit .237\/.325\/.417 with 22 home runs and 63 RBIs for the Washington Nationals<\/a> last year, remaining with the team after three consecutive seasons in which he was moved at the trade deadline. Minnesota rotated mostly between Ty France<\/a> and Kody Clemens<\/a> at first base this year, and its 15 home runs at first base was tied for the second fewest by any team.<\/p>\n

Between his solid walk rate and reasonable strikeout rate, Bell regularly takes solid at-bats — and has the ability to put a charge into the ball. Over 10 major league seasons, starting with Pittsburgh in 2016, he has hit .256\/.341\/.443 with 193 home runs and 676 RBIs.<\/p>\n

The Twins, coming off a 70-92 season and fourth-place finish in the AL Central, return star center fielder Byron Buxton<\/a> as well as up-and-coming second baseman Luke Keaschall<\/a> and could see the debuts of a number of high-end prospect bats this year, including outfielder Walker Jenkins<\/a> and shortstop Kaelen Culpepper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First baseman Josh Bell and the Minnesota Twins are in agreement on a one-year, $7 million contract with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-349852","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\/349852","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=349852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}