{"id":137055,"date":"2025-09-06T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137055\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:33:08","slug":"twins-recall-catcher-jhonny-pereda-option-dashawn-keirsey-jr-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137055\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins recall catcher Jhonny Pereda, option DaShawn Keirsey Jr. to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_m105l8x4k\">The Twins have recalled catcher Jhonny Pereda from Triple-A St. Paul. DaShawn Keirsey Jr. was optioned to St. Paul to make room for Pereda on the 28-man roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_7uf4cqubp\">Pereda has a .294 batting average in 68 at-bats with two homers and 10 RBI since the Twins claimed him off waivers from the Athletics at the end of July. This will mark Pereda&#8217;s second stint with the Twins, though he didn&#8217;t make an appearance during the first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_21lx4j2dp\">Before joining the Twins, Pereda appeared in 17 major league games for the Athletics this season, going 7-for-40 from the plate.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tagStyle_12j16kw-o_O-style_bl7q4n\" href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/bringmethenews\/newsletter-subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe: Sign up for the free Twins On SI newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1s9vhu6ml\">Keirsey is moving back to St. Paul after he was recalled from the Saints on Monday. He appeared in three games, all as either a pinch runner or defensive replacement. The 28-year-old outfielder is 11-for-82 at the plate this season for the Twins. In 128 games for Triple-A St. Paul this season Keirsey is slashing .257\/.336\/.460 with 3 home runs and 20 RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_v9lclcvcp\">Minnesota began a three-game weekend series with the Royals with a 2-1 loss Friday night in Kansas City. Pablo Lopez was solid on his return though, giving up two runs across six innings with four strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins have recalled catcher Jhonny Pereda from Triple-A St. Paul. DaShawn Keirsey Jr. was optioned to St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-137055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}