{"id":75626,"date":"2025-08-17T04:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75626\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T04:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:50:03","slug":"called-up-to-the-twins-from-class-aaa-former-dodgers-player-james-outman-is-ready-for-a-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75626\/","title":{"rendered":"Called up to the Twins from Class AAA, former Dodgers player James Outman is ready for a fresh start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Outman is also known as a strong defender, as the Twins witnessed firsthand last month in Los Angeles, when Outman stole a Carlos Correa home run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cHe\u2019s got speed, he\u2019s got strength,\u201d Baldelli said. \u201cThere\u2019s real upside\u201d to his defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Outman will get playing time at all three outfield positions at some point, Baldelli said, in a five-player rotation with Byron Buxton, Matt Wallner, Austin Martin and Trevor Larnach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cIt\u2019ll be a nice, easy rotation,\u201d Baldelli said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">One that Outman welcomes, especially after being limited mostly to a defensive replacement role in his final three weeks with the Dodgers. Outman appeared in 13 games but batted only 17 times, going hitless in his final 14 at-bats as a Dodger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cGetting some more at-bats underneath my belt, I would say, and getting back into the swing of things, no pun intended\u201d is his goal, Outman said. \u201cI didn\u2019t really have too many at-bats throughout July, so that was a big part of it, So I\u2019m just kind of, like, shaking off some of the rust.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outman is also known as a strong defender, as the Twins witnessed firsthand last month in Los Angeles,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-75626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75626","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=75626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}