{"id":426235,"date":"2026-01-24T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:57:08","slug":"twins-dfa-pierson-ohl-jhonny-pereda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426235\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins DFA Pierson Ohl, Jhonny Pereda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins designated right-hander Pierson Ohl<\/a> and catcher\u00a0Jhonny Pereda<\/a> for assignment, according to a club announcement. Those are the corresponding 40-man roster moves for the additions of Victor Caratini<\/a> and\u00a0Taylor Rogers<\/a>. Minnesota finalized the signing of both free agent pickups this evening.<\/p>\n

With a new reliever and catcher coming aboard, the Twins drop a depth player from both positions. Ohl is a 26-year-old who debuted with 14 appearances last season. He turned in a 5.10 ERA across 30 innings. Ohl did a nice job getting hitters to chase pitches outside the strike zone but doesn\u2019t have huge raw stuff. His fastball clocks in around 92 MPH, while he uses a changeup and cutter as his most frequent secondary offerings.<\/p>\n

A 14th-round pick out of Grand Canyon University in 2021, Ohl has a strong minor league track record. He has a 3.61 ERA in nearly 400 innings below the big league level. Ohl worked mostly as a starter for his first few seasons but switched primarily to long relief work last year. He went 3-4 innings at a time and put up a 2.40 ERA with a 30.3% strikeout percentage against a sub-4% walk rate across 71 1\/3 frames. He has all three minor league option years remaining. There\u2019s a pretty good chance he\u2019ll land elsewhere within the next week, and it\u2019s not out of the question another team trades the Twins cash or a low-level minor leaguer to jump the waiver order.<\/p>\n

Pereda, 29, is a journeyman depth catcher. He made 30 appearances and tallied 78 plate appearances between the A\u2019s and Twins last year. He\u2019d also gotten into 20 games as a rookie with the Marlins in 2024. The righty hitter carries a .241\/.299\/.296 line without a home run in 118 trips to the plate. Pereda has a robust .296\/.392\/.419 slash over five seasons in Triple-A.<\/p>\n

Caratini\u2019s signing dropped Pereda to fourth on the catching depth chart. Minnesota isn\u2019t guaranteed to keep third catcher Alex Jackson<\/a>, who is out of options and would need to get through waivers before they could send him to Triple-A St. Paul. If they succeed in getting Pereda through waivers, he\u2019d stick in the organization and get a non-roster invite to Spring Training. If another team claims him, they\u2019ll probably look to add someone with MLB experience on a minor league deal. Minnesota has five days to trade Ohl and Pereda or to begin the waiver process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins designated right-hander Pierson Ohl and catcher\u00a0Jhonny Pereda for assignment, according to a club announcement. Those are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[202803,363,202804,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-426235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-jhonny-pereda","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pierson-ohl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426235","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=426235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}