{"id":631202,"date":"2026-03-19T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/631202\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:55:19","slug":"twins-shopping-alex-jackson-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/631202\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Shopping Alex Jackson – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins are trying to move third catcher Alex Jackson<\/a>, a National League evaluator tells Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic<\/a>. If they don\u2019t line up a trade before Opening Day, there\u2019s a decent chance the 30-year-old will land on waivers.<\/p>\n

Jackson is out of minor league options. The Twins can\u2019t send him down without getting him through waivers. They acquired him from the Orioles in November, sending minor league utility player Payton Eeles<\/a> in return. Eeles is a 26-year-old coming off a .253\/.379\/.321 season in Triple-A. He\u2019s certainly not a top prospect, but the Twins wouldn\u2019t have parted with an upper minors depth infielder if they didn\u2019t feel Jackson had a chance to break camp at the time.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s more difficult to envision a few months later. The Twins not only rebuffed trade interest in starting catcher Ryan Jeffers<\/a>, they added\u00a0Victor Caratini<\/a> on a two-free agent deal in the middle of January. There\u2019s no scenario in which Jackson jumps either player on the depth chart. He\u2019d only remain on the roster if the Twins break camp with three catchers or one of Jeffers\/Caratini suffers an injury during the final six games of Spring Training.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not out of the question that Jackson simply clears waivers and sticks in the organization on a non-roster capacity. He and the team agreed to a $1.35MM salary to cover his first year of arbitration. Any team that traded for him or claimed him off waivers would assume that above minimum salary and face the same roster restrictions the Twins do. Jackson\u2019s three years of service time give him the right to elect free agency if he clears waivers, yet he\u2019d walk away from the guaranteed money to do so. He\u2019d almost certainly accept an assignment to Triple-A St. Paul.<\/p>\n

Jackson played in 37 games for the Orioles last year. He connected on five home runs and eight doubles over 100 plate appearances. It was easily his best power production at the MLB level, but it came with 37 strikeouts and only five walks. Jackson has fanned at a 40.7% clip to hit .153\/.239\/.288 over parts of six seasons in the majors. If the Twins trade him or lose him on waivers, they\u2019d be very light on experienced upper minors catching depth. David Ba\u00f1uelos<\/a>, who has appeared in exactly one big league game in each of the last two seasons, is their only non-roster catcher with any MLB service time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins are trying to move third catcher Alex Jackson, a National League evaluator tells Jen McCaffrey of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[15758,5],"class_list":["post-631202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-alex-jackson","tag-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116253827455736097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631202","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=631202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}