{"id":643720,"date":"2026-03-26T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:51:15","slug":"twins-outright-alex-jackson-re-sign-matt-bowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643720\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Outright Alex Jackson, Re-Sign Matt Bowman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins outrighted catcher\u00a0Alex Jackson<\/a> to Triple-A St. Paul, reports Dan Hayes of The Athletic<\/a>. Although Minnesota had announced<\/a> this morning that he\u2019d been designated for assignment, it seems they began the waiver process earlier in the week. Hayes also reports that righty reliever\u00a0Matt Bowman<\/a> is back with the club on a new minor league deal.<\/p>\n

Jackson is expected to accept the assignment and start the season in the minors. He has the three years of service to elect free agency but hasn\u2019t crossed the five-year threshold at which he\u2019d keep his salary if he does so. Jackson avoided arbitration on a $1.35MM salary that he\u2019d almost certainly not match if he tested the market and signed a minor league deal elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Minnesota acquired Jackson from the Orioles in November. He had a path to the backup catching job behind Ryan Jeffers<\/a> at the time. The Twins subsequently added\u00a0Victor Caratini<\/a> on a two-year deal, pushing the out-of-options Jackson off the roster. He has easily the most experience of any of their non-roster catchers, so he\u2019d probably be first back up if Jeffers or Caratini suffer an injury.<\/p>\n

Bowman is an organizational favorite who has had multiple stints with the club as a middle reliever. He was back in camp this year as a non-roster invitee. Bowman tossed 7 1\/3 innings without allowing an earned run, striking out seven against two walks. Despite the strong showing, he lost out on a middle relief spot to\u00a0Cody Laweryson<\/a> and triggered an opt-out at the end of Spring Training. Bowman evidently did not find an immediate MLB roster spot elsewhere, so he\u2019ll head to St. Paul and try to pitch his way into the big league bullpen during the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins outrighted catcher\u00a0Alex Jackson to Triple-A St. Paul, reports Dan Hayes of The Athletic. Although Minnesota had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[15758,5,1790],"class_list":["post-643720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-alex-jackson","tag-baseball","tag-matt-bowman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116292976785446460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643720","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=643720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}