{"id":439861,"date":"2026-01-27T03:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439861\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:28:07","slug":"twins-rhp-joe-ryan-agree-to-6-2m-deal-to-avoid-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439861\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins, RHP Joe Ryan agree to $6.2M deal to avoid arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Pitcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42450\/joe-ryan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Ryan<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> avoided salary arbitration, agreeing Monday to a one-year contract that guarantees $6.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan gets $6.1 million this year &#8212; the midpoint of the $6.35 million he had asked for and the $5.85 million the Twins had offered when the sides exchanged arbitration salaries on Jan. 8. The deal includes a $13 million mutual option for 2027 with a $100,000 buyout.<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old right-hander, Ryan was 13-10 with a career-best 3.42 ERA in 30 starts and one relief appearance last year, when he had a $3 million salary. He is on track to be eligible for free agency after the 2027 World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen players remain scheduled for hearings before three-person panels, which run through Feb. 13 in Scottsdale, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>In the most prominent case, two-time AL Cy Young Award winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42409\/tarik-skubal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarik Skubal<\/a> asked for a record $32 million, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> offered the left-hander $19 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Pitcher Joe Ryan and the Minnesota Twins avoided salary arbitration, agreeing Monday to a one-year contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-439861","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\/439861","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=439861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}