{"id":428710,"date":"2026-01-21T23:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428710\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:17:09","slug":"twins-acquire-infielder-tristan-gray-in-trade-with-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428710\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins acquire infielder Tristan Gray in trade with Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a6e97b3f-4244-98be-79a2-f4b33f3365e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> acquired infielder <a data-player-guid=\"77a248a7-77c8-ed56-c883-b3b5d6a365b5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39918\/tristan-gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Gray<\/a> in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> on Wednesday for minor league catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5270559\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Baez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Gray hit .231 in 30 games for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f8a579c6-08b9-7584-141d-317d0645763b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> last season and was dealt to the Red Sox in November.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Gray has appeared in 47 major league games, with at least 10 starts at each infield position. The Twins are his seventh organization in less than two years. His departure cleared a 40-man roster spot with the Red Sox for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47682067\/red-sox-finalize-five-year-130m-deal-lhp-ranger-suarez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly signed starting pitcher<\/a> <a data-player-guid=\"a2a28cf0-f1f0-f347-a089-692e3da7b293\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39817\/ranger-suarez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ranger Suarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Gray on the 40-man roster, the Twins designated infielder <a data-player-guid=\"17b5930c-4eca-61bb-704d-ae6e7b76a0d6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40462\/vidal-brujan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vidal Brujan<\/a> for assignment after claiming him off waivers from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"122673a3-bf06-4432-6950-b8a32e52ac2e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> last week. Gray will be in a mix of candidates for utility backup infield spots with returning players <a data-player-guid=\"12ecadb1-0db3-56a8-8096-47800ee10b40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41311\/kody-clemens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kody Clemens<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"cf9f8750-69a9-30d0-b2f1-b6c2662ef110\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/3985190\/edouard-julien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edouard Julien<\/a> and recent additions <a data-player-guid=\"22e029dc-f727-27ca-1729-e6ac0bb00ac2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32530\/orlando-arcia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Arcia<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"baa949e5-4c27-34a0-a96f-398d60a4aef8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4987650\/eric-wagaman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Wagaman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baez, 24, was a 12th-round pick by the Twins in the 2022 amateur draft out of Arizona State. He finished last season with Double-A Wichita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; The Minnesota Twins acquired infielder Tristan Gray in a trade with the Boston Red Sox on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-428710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428710","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=428710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}