{"id":659993,"date":"2026-04-03T01:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659993\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:59:22","slug":"marlins-deal-rhp-garrett-acton-to-twins-wtvb-1590-am-%c2%b7-95-5-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659993\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins deal RHP Garrett Acton to Twins | WTVB | 1590 AM \u00b7 95.5 FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins acquired right-handed pitcher Garrett Acton from the Miami Marlins \u200bon Thursday in \u200cexchange for minor league right-hander Logan Whitaker.<\/p>\n<p>Acton, 27, was recently designated for assignment by Miami to \u200cmake \u200broom on \u2060the roster for \u2060shortstop Leo Jimenez, acquired from Toronto in a trade earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Acton played in \u200btwo games for Triple-A Jacksonville before being \u2060DFA\u2019d, racking up \u20602 1\/3 scoreless innings \u200bwith three strikeouts and one \u200bwalk.<\/p>\n<p>He has made seven major \u200cleague appearances: six for the Oakland Athletics (2023) and one last year for the \u2060Tampa Bay Rays. He\u2019s given up eight runs with five strikeouts \u2060and \u200cseven walks in \u20606 2\/3 innings at \u200bthe \u200cMLB level.<\/p>\n<p>Whitaker, 25, split \u200b2025 \u2060between High-A Cedar Rapids and Double-A Wichita, posting a combined 4-0 record and 2.11 ERA across 25 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins acquired right-handed pitcher Garrett Acton from the Miami Marlins \u200bon Thursday in \u200cexchange for minor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-659993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116338305627201835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659993","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=659993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}