{"id":946663,"date":"2026-10-30T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946663\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:14:11","slug":"josh-bells-mutual-option-declined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946663\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Bell&#8217;s Mutual Option Declined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/darragh\" title=\"Posts by Darragh McDonald\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darragh McDonald<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at October 30, 2026 1:00pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>Twins designated hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=belljo02,belljo01,bell--011jos,bell--012jos&amp;search=Josh+Bell&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Bell<\/a> is officially a free agent, the MLBPA <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBPA_News\/status\/2116216896509137067\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> today. His contract had a $10MM mutual option with a $1.25MM buyout. The team declined their end of the option, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronGleeman\/status\/2116224103040651629\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aaron Gleeman of AaronGleeman.com<\/a>. Gleeman <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronGleeman\/status\/2116225372564189509\" rel=\"nofollow\">adds<\/a> that the Twins declined their end of a 2027 mutual option for right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ryanjo04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Ryan<\/a>, but Ryan remains under club control for next year via arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Darragh McDonald | at October 30, 2026 1:00pm CDT Twins designated hitter Josh Bell is officially a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,12742,192696,591,85],"class_list":["post-946663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-joe-ryan","tag-josh-bell","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946663","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=946663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}