{"id":446078,"date":"2026-02-03T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446078\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:48:07","slug":"twins-matt-bowman-agree-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446078\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins, Matt Bowman Agree To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twins brought reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bowmama01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Bowman<\/a> back to the organization on a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/matt-bowman-621199\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction log<\/a>. The ZS Sports client will presumably be in camp as a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Bowman\u2019s third stint with Minnesota. He signed a minor league deal over the 2023-24 offseason and made the team by the middle of April. He made five appearances before being designated for assignment and traded to the Diamondbacks. Bowman bounced around throughout the \u201924 season and circled back to Minnesota on another minor league contract in July. He triggered an opt-out six weeks later and spent the following year with the Orioles and Astros.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old righty made 20 big league appearances for the Orioles last season. He struggled to a 6.20 ERA with a 15.8% strikeout rate over 24 2\/3 innings. Although Bowman has never missed many bats, he has traditionally gotten a lot of ground-balls. That wasn\u2019t the case last season, as he had a career-low 35% grounder rate.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman had a better season in Triple-A, where he combined for a 3.93 ERA in 31 appearances. The grounders were still down but he punched out a league average 22.7% of batters faced. Bowman has pitched parts of seven seasons at the top minor league level, turning in a 4.14 ERA in nearly 400 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins sold off essentially all their high-leverage arms at last year\u2019s deadline. They signed old friend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rogerta01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taylor Rogers<\/a> to a $2MM free agent deal and traded for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/orzeer01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eric Orze<\/a> in a minor swap with the Rays. Rogers might step back into a closer role for which he\u2019s probably miscast at this point of his career.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sandsco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cole Sands<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/topaju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Topa<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fundeko01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kody Funderburk<\/a> are ticketed for leverage work. On paper, it\u2019s one of the weakest bullpens in MLB. That affords a good opportunity for non-roster invitees trying to earn a middle relief job.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/altavda01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dan Altavilla<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hartwgr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grant Hartwig<\/a> have also signed minor league deals this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins brought reliever\u00a0Matt Bowman back to the organization on a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[209683,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-446078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-matt-bowman","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446078","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=446078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}