{"id":479801,"date":"2026-02-14T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:04:07","slug":"twins-sign-andrew-chafin-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479801\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Sign Andrew Chafin To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins signed left-hander Andrew Chafin<\/a> to a minor league deal, according to multiple team beat writers.\u00a0 Chafin\u2019s contract includes an invitation to attend Minnesota\u2019s big league Spring Training camp.<\/p>\n

As Chafin prepares for his 13th Major League season, the Twins will become the ninth team the southpaw has pitched for at the MLB level if Chafin can win a spot on the active roster.\u00a0 The 35-year-old added two more clubs to his list by appearing for the Nationals and Angels in 2025, posting a 2.41 ERA and a solid 25.2% strikeout rate over 33 2\/3 innings, but also with a 13.3% walk rate.<\/p>\n

Between the inflated walk rate and an 81.9% strand rate, Chafin\u2019s SIERA was 4.11 \u2014 far higher than his real-world ERA.\u00a0 Most of his other underlying metrics were quite good, though Chafin\u2019s biggest issue last season was staying healthy.\u00a0 He had a pair of stints on the injured list due to a right hamstring strain and then left triceps inflammation, resulting in a little over five weeks\u2019 worth of missed time.<\/p>\n

This is the second straight winter that Chafin has had to settle for a minor league deal, as he also inked a non-guaranteed contract with the Tigers last February.\u00a0 He opted out of that deal at the end of April and quickly landed a MLB contract with Washington, then pitched in 26 games for the Nats before the Angels acquired Chafin at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Chafin\u2019s lack of control continues to be a concern and his strikeout rate dropped from 28.5% in 2024, though his other numbers suggest he still has something left in the tank even at this later stage in his career.\u00a0 Chafin is the latest relief addition for a Twins team that has brought Taylor Rogers<\/a>, Anthony Banda<\/a>, and Eric Orze<\/a> into the fold, not to mention a long list of NRIs with experience on big league pitching staffs.\u00a0 Rogers, Banda, and Kody Funderburk<\/a> are all left-handers, so Chafin provides some more depth in that area as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins signed left-hander Andrew Chafin to a minor league deal, according to multiple team beat writers.\u00a0 Chafin\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[32134,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-479801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-chafin","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479801","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=479801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}