{"id":652423,"date":"2026-05-06T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652423\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:12:09","slug":"twins-designate-christian-roa-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652423\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Designate Christian Roa For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twins have designated righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/roach02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Roa<\/a> for assignment, per a club announcement. His spot on the 40-man roster goes to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/05\/twins-to-acquire-yoendrys-gomez.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">newly acquired<\/a> right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gomezyo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yoendrys G\u00f3mez<\/a>, whose acquisition has now been formally announced by Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Roa was only claimed off waivers from the Astros a couple weeks back. He hasn\u2019t appeared in a game for the big league club. The 27-year-old tossed 2 1\/3 innings with Triple-A St. Paul and allowed a pair of runs on two hits and two walks with three strikeouts. He\u2019s pitched a total of 11 2\/3 major league innings between the Marlins and Astros, allowing five runs (3.86 ERA) with more walks than strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20194\u2033, former Texas A&amp;M standout was the No. 48 overall pick by the Reds back in 2020. He\u2019s drawn praise for a plus slider and average or better fastball and changeup over the years, but he\u2019s regularly received 30 and 40 grades (on the 20-80 scale) for his command along the way. Roa has pitched to a 4.56 ERA in parts of four Triple-A seasons, fanning 25.5% of his opponents there but also issuing walks at a dismal 14% clip.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins will have five days to trade Roa, place him on outright waivers or release him. Waivers would be a 48-hour process, so his DFA will be resolved within a maximum of one week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins have designated righty Christian Roa for assignment, per a club announcement. His spot on the 40-man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,69309,462,82],"class_list":["post-652423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-christian-roa","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652423","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=652423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}