{"id":407697,"date":"2026-01-15T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407697\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:37:07","slug":"twins-claim-utility-player-vidal-brujan-off-waivers-from-braves-104-1-wiky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407697\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins claim utility player Vidal Brujan off waivers from Braves | 104.1 WIKY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins claimed utility player Vidal Brujan off waivers from the Atlanta Braves \u200don Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the Twins designated catcher\/infielder Mickey Gasper for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Brujan, who turns 28 on Feb. 9, has played every \u200cposition except catcher in \u200chis major league career.<\/p>\n<p>The native of the Dominican Republic batted .253 (22-for-87) for three teams last season with eight RBIs \u200band a .305 on-base percentage. He played in 36 games for \u200dthe Chicago Cubs, \u200bone for the Baltimore \u200bOrioles and 23 for the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>A \u200dformer top-50 prospect in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, Brujan is a career .199 hitter with five home runs and 48 \u200dRBIs in 261 games for the Rays (2021-23), Miami Marlins (2024), Cubs, Orioles and Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Gasper, \u200d30, \u200dhas played catcher, second \u200bbase, first base and \u200bleft \u2060field as well as \u200cdesignated hitter. He hit .158 (15-for-95) with two homers and 11 RBIs in 45 games last season and is a career .133 hitter in 58 games (2024-25).<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u2060Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins claimed utility player Vidal Brujan off waivers from the Atlanta Braves \u200don Wednesday. In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-407697","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\/407697","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=407697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}