{"id":506740,"date":"2026-01-05T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/506740\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:50:12","slug":"what-to-make-of-orlando-arcia-and-the-eric-wagaman-moves-miscellaneous-twins-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/506740\/","title":{"rendered":"What to make of Orlando Arcia and the Eric Wagaman moves. &#8211; Miscellaneous Twins News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\u00a0 \u00a0 On Friday the Twins went out and struck a deal with the Miami Marlins trading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/kade-bragg-688540?stats=career-r-pitching-minors&amp;year=2025\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LHP Kade Bragg<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/eric-wagaman-676572\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1B Eric Wagaman<\/a>. Wagaman who just completed his rookie season at age 28 is a solid backup for the Twins for 2026, Wagaman doesn&#8217;t hit for power, or average really. But having him on the bench is better than not having a backup. Kade Bragg, the return for Miami was drafted by the Twins in the 17th round of the 2023 Draft out of Angelo State University. Bragg had a very solid season out of the pen for Double-A Wichita, posting a 3.22 era in 22 1\/3 innings with a WHIP around 1.00. He could be a potential reliver for the Marlins pen in the future being only 24.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Day after the Twins went out and signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/orlando-arcia-606115\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SS Orlando Arcia<\/a> to a Minor League deal. Arcia who played with the Braves and Rockies in 2025 was a worse hitter than usual posting a 33 wRC+ compared to his career average of around 80. Arcia was an All-Star in 2023 having a 1.7 WAR that year. What does this mean for the Twins though? Well if the current starting SS Brooks Lee struggles we may see Arcia is more than a few games in 2026 for the Twins.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 On Friday the Twins went out and struck a deal with the Miami Marlins trading\u00a0LHP Kade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,1392,822,60,3190,4,1131,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-506740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-eric-wagaman","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-twins","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orlando-arcia","15":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115844233672655808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}