{"id":359210,"date":"2025-12-20T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:51:09","slug":"veteran-slugger-josh-bell-inks-one-year-deal-with-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359210\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran slugger Josh Bell inks one-year deal with Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran first baseman Josh Bell inked a one-year deal with the Minnesota Twins on Friday, joining his seventh different franchise as he enters his 11th season in the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The contract includes a mutual option for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Bell, 33, played for the Washington Nationals for the second time in 2025, hitting 22 home runs and driving in 63 runs, but slumped to a .237 batting average in 140 games.<\/p>\n<p>Bell is currently fourth among active switch-hitters with 676 RBIs and fifth in home runs (193), hits (1,153) and extra-base hits (438).<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Bell in the second round of the 2011 MLB First-Year Player draft. He debuted for the Pirates in 2016 and blasted 26 home runs and drove in 90 runs in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Bell earned All-Star honors as a Pirate in 2019, when he amassed career highs in home runs (37) and RBIs (116).<\/p>\n<p>He captured a Silver Slugger Award in 2022 while splitting time between Washington and San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Bell has played for Pittsburgh (2016-20), Washington (2021-22, 2025), San Diego (2022), Cleveland (2023), Miami (2024) and Arizona (2024).<\/p>\n<p>He is a career .256 hitter with a .444 slugging percentage and .786 OPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran first baseman Josh Bell inked a one-year deal with the Minnesota Twins on Friday, joining his seventh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-359210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359210","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=359210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}