{"id":424202,"date":"2026-01-23T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:24:07","slug":"twins-trade-vidal-brujan-to-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424202\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Trade Vidal Bruj\u00e1n To Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins announced they\u2019ve traded infielder\u00a0Vidal Bruj\u00e1n<\/a> to the Mets for cash. Minnesota designated him for assignment yesterday when they acquired a different utility player,\u00a0Tristan Gray<\/a>, in a trade with Boston. The Mets have not announced the move and will need to designate someone themselves to clear a spot on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Bruj\u00e1n is on the move for the second time this offseason. He finished the season with Atlanta but was designated for assignment a couple weeks ago. The Twins snagged him off waivers. They\u2019ll pick up a bit of cash out of the sequence but not much more, as they apparently prefer Gray as a depth infielder. That could be as much about roster flexibility as anything else. Bruj\u00e1n is out of minor league options, while Gray can be sent to Triple-A without going on waivers.<\/p>\n

The switch-hitting Bruj\u00e1n was a top prospect during his time in the Tampa Bay system. His bat has stalled at the upper levels, and he\u2019s a .199\/.267\/.276 hitter over parts of five seasons in the big leagues. Bruj\u00e1n has decent plate discipline and contact skills but rarely hits the ball hard. He has five home runs in 645 career plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Bruj\u00e1n has shortstop experience but is stretched there defensively. He\u2019s better suited at second base or bouncing around the outfield. While he was a plus runner as a prospect, Statcast graded his sprint speed as slightly below-average last year. The Mets subtracted infield depth when they swapped\u00a0Luisangel Acu\u00f1a<\/a> to the White Sox for\u00a0Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> this week. Bruj\u00e1n backfills that to an extent even if he\u2019s hardly guaranteed to stick on the roster.<\/p>\n

Eligible for arbitration for the first time in his career, Bruj\u00e1n agreed to a split deal with Atlanta in November. He\u2019d make $850K if he\u2019s in the big leagues and be paid at a $500K rate in the minors. He can\u2019t be sent to the minors without getting through waivers. Players who have less than five years of MLB service time would need to forfeit their salary if they reject an outright assignment. Bruj\u00e1n is unlikely to walk away from that higher than average Triple-A salary, so the Mets will probably try to get him through waivers before Opening Day and hope he sticks around in a non-roster capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins announced they\u2019ve traded infielder\u00a0Vidal Bruj\u00e1n to the Mets for cash. Minnesota designated him for assignment yesterday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99,101897],"class_list":{"0":"post-424202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-vidal-brujan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424202","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=424202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}