{"id":387720,"date":"2026-01-02T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387720\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:31:10","slug":"twins-acquire-first-baseman-eric-wagaman-in-trade-with-marlins-for-minor-league-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387720\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins acquire first baseman Eric Wagaman in trade with Marlins for minor league pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> acquired first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/eric-wagaman-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Wagaman<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/miami-marlins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> on Friday for minor league pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kade-bragg-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kade Bragg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Wagaman batted .250 with 28 doubles, nine home runs and 53 RBIs in 140 games as a rookie last season for the Marlins, finishing strong with a team-leading .328 average over 61 at-bats during the month of September. The 28-year-old Wagaman started 94 games at first base and 13 games in left field in 2025, after appearing in 18 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> in his debut in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Drafted in the 13th round in 2017 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a>, Wagaman was designated for assignment earlier this week by the Marlins. He&#8217;ll provide the Twins more potential depth at first base along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kody-clemens-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kody Clemens<\/a> behind veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/josh-bell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Bell<\/a>, who signed a one-year, $7 million contract last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Twins also designated infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ryan-fitzgerald-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Fitzgerald<\/a> for assignment to make room on their 40-man roster for Wagaman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The 24-year-old Bragg was a 17th-round draft pick by the Twins in 2023. He finished last season with Double-A Wichita.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins acquired first baseman Eric Wagaman from the Miami Marlins on Friday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-387720","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\/387720","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=387720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}