{"id":410146,"date":"2026-01-15T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:27:07","slug":"minnesota-twins-claim-versatile-inf-vidal-brujan-off-waivers-from-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410146\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins claim versatile INF Vidal Brujan off waivers from Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> claimed infielder Vidal Bruj\u00e1n off waivers Wednesday from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>, adding a switch hitter with multi-position major league experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old Bruj\u00e1n has played for five times in five seasons since debuting in 2021 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>. He hit .253 with 14 runs and eight RBIs over 61 games in 2025 between the Braves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>. Bruj\u00e1n spent 2024 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">From the Dominican Republic, he\u2019s a career .199 hitter with a .267 on-base percentage, 76 runs and 16 steals over 262 major league games. Bruj\u00e1n has played primarily at second base and shortstop, but he has taken regular turns at third base and every outfield spot as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To make room on the 40-man roster for Bruj\u00e1n, the Twins designated catcher\/infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/mickey-gasper\/1052880\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/mickey-gasper\/1052880\" target=\"_blank\">Mickey Gasper<\/a> for release or assignment. Gasper played in 45 games for the Twins last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP baseball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins claimed infielder Vidal Bruj\u00e1n off waivers Wednesday from the Atlanta Braves, adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-410146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}