{"id":389901,"date":"2026-01-03T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389901\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:24:07","slug":"twins-sign-orlando-arcia-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389901\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Sign Orlando Arcia To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins have signed infielder Orlando Arcia<\/a> to a minors contract, MassLive.com\u2019s Chris Cotillo<\/a> reports.\u00a0 The deal presumably includes an invitation for Arcia to attend Minnesota\u2019s Major League spring camp.<\/p>\n

Arcia is now a veteran of 10 Major League seasons, after amassing 214 plate appearances over 76 games with the Braves and Rockies in 2025.\u00a0 The majority (62 games) of that work came in Colorado, after Atlanta released Arcia in May and the Rockies quickly moved in to bring Arcia aboard on a big league contract.\u00a0 While Arcia has never been known for his bat, he hit only .202\/.238\/.291 over those 214 PA.\u00a0 His 33 wRC+ was both a career low and the second-lowest of any player who took at least 200 trips to the plate in 2025.<\/p>\n

Once an excellent defensive shortstop back in his time with the Brewers, Arcia\u2019s glovework has declined to just passable levels, and he played at all four infield positions in Colorado (including his first bit of MLB work at first base).\u00a0 Becoming a full-fledged utilityman is probably Arcia\u2019s best ticket to sticking in the majors as a versatile backup off the Twins\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n

For the shortstop job in particular, Arcia provides some cover if presumptive starter Brooks Lee struggles, but Minnesota is naturally going to give a former top prospect like Lee plenty of rope.\u00a0 If Arcia doesn\u2019t break camp with the Twins and sticks around in the minors, he\u2019ll be far and away the most veteran member of a farm system that is lacking in big league experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins have signed infielder Orlando Arcia to a minors contract, MassLive.com\u2019s Chris Cotillo reports.\u00a0 The deal presumably…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,63342,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-389901","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-orlando-arcia","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389901","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=389901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}