{"id":655016,"date":"2026-05-20T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655016\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:45:09","slug":"twins-grant-releases-to-matt-bowman-john-brebbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655016\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Grant Releases To Matt Bowman, John Brebbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins granted right-handers Matt Bowman<\/a> and John Brebbia<\/a> their releases Wednesday, per Dan Hayes of The Athletic<\/a> and Jon Heyman of the New York Post<\/a>. Both veteran relievers were pitching with the team\u2019s Triple-A affiliate in St. Paul, and both triggered opt-out clauses in their contracts on Sunday. The Twins had until this afternoon to add one or both to the 40-man roster or allow them to become free agents. They\u2019ve gone with the latter option in both cases.<\/p>\n

Bowman, 34, has pitched in parts of seven big league seasons. That includes a 2024 run with Minnesota, during which he tossed 7 2\/3 decent innings. He carries a 4.38 ERA in 240 2\/3 major league innings split among seven clubs. Bowman has a below-average 18.7% strikeout rate but a solid 8% walk rate and a very strong 52.3% ground-ball rate. He\u2019s been excellent in Triple-A thus far, totaling 21 1\/3 innings with a 1.69 ERA, a 28.1% strikeout rate and a 6.7% walk rate.<\/p>\n

Bowman doesn\u2019t throw particularly hard, by today\u2019s standards. He\u2019s sitting 91.8 mph on his sinker this year, which is below average but a slight bit north of his career 91.3 mph mark. Bowman complements the pitch with a 90 mph cutter and a splitter and slider that both reside in the low 80s. He doesn\u2019t overwhelm opponents but also has neutral platoon splits in his career; lefties have hit .249\/.322\/.402 against him, while righties are at .245\/.307\/.383.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Brebbia has the lengthier MLB track record but hasn\u2019t pitched as well in 2026 (or in general, over the past few seasons). He has eight years of major league service to Bowman\u2019s five, and Brebbia has worked to a 4.04 ERA in 378 1\/3 big league frames. Broadly speaking, he\u2019s missed bats and limited walks at better-than-average levels (25.6% and 7.5%, respectively), but the past few years haven\u2019t been kind to the well-traveled righty. He\u2019s pitched 78 2\/3 innings between three teams \u2014 White Sox, Braves, Tigers \u2014 and been rocked for a 6.41 earned run average. Home runs have been his Achilles heel during that time. He\u2019s averaged 1.83 dingers per nine innings pitched.<\/p>\n

Brebbia has tossed 20 1\/3 innings with the Saints this year but stumbled to a 6.20 ERA that closely mirrors his major league work from 2024-25. He\u2019s punched out more than 28% of his opponents but has also issued walks at a 10.9% clip and served up four homers (1.77 HR\/9). He started the season brilliantly, allowing just one run with a 17-to-3 K\/BB ratio in his first 10 2\/3 frames, but Brebbia has since been tagged for 13 runs in 9 2\/3 innings. All four of his homers allowed have come in that span, and he\u2019s walked nearly as many batters (seven) as he\u2019s set down on strikes (nine).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still possible both players will return to the Twins. That\u2019s relatively common for journeyman veterans who trigger midseason opt-out clauses. Heyman suggests that Bowman could have a major league offer waiting somewhere else, however, which wouldn\u2019t be all that surprising with how well he\u2019s pitched. If anything, it\u2019s at least a mild surprise that the Twins themselves wouldn\u2019t find a way to take a look at Bowman in the majors. Minnesota relievers have the third-worst ERA in baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins granted right-handers Matt Bowman and John Brebbia their releases Wednesday, per Dan Hayes of The Athletic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[282428,209683,99],"class_list":["post-655016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-john-brebbia","tag-matt-bowman","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655016","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=655016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}