{"id":701628,"date":"2026-05-17T20:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701628\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:48:25","slug":"twins-matt-bowman-exercises-opt-out-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701628\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins’ Matt Bowman Exercises Opt-Out Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right-hander Matt Bowman<\/a> has triggered an opt-out clause in his minor league contract with the Twins, Jon Heyman of the New York Post<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Bowman can become a free agent if Minnesota doesn\u2019t add him to the 26-man roster by Wednesday.\u00a0 Earlier this week, Darren Wolfson of KSTP and SKOR North reported<\/a> on the opt-out clauses held by both Bowman and John Brebbia<\/a>, and there isn\u2019t yet any word on Brebbia\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

This is the second time in two months that Bowman has used an opt-out clause, as he also opted out of his previous minors contract with Minnesota at the end of Spring Training.\u00a0 The Twins granted Bowman his release rather than a spot on the Opening Day roster, but Bowman returned to the organization on a new minor league deal shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

It is possible this scenario may repeat itself if the Twins again decide against selecting Bowman\u2019s contract.\u00a0 Minnesota has a full 40-man roster, so the team would likely have to make multiple moves to accommodate Bowman on both the 26-man and 40-man rosters.<\/p>\n

Working in Bowman\u2019s favor this time around are a set of impressive Triple-A numbers \u2014 a 1.69 ERA, 28.1% strikeout rate, and 6.7% walk rate over 21 1\/3 innings in St. Paul.\u00a0 The 34-year-old is obviously pitching against much younger and less experienced batters in the minors, and Bowman has a 5.46 ERA in 59 1\/3 innings in the majors over the 2023-25 seasons.\u00a0 That said, an argument can be made that the Twins might as well give Bowman a look considering that Minnesota\u2019s bullpen has been one of the least-effective units in baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Matt Bowman has triggered an opt-out clause in his minor league contract with the Twins, Jon Heyman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,1790,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":["post-701628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-baseball","tag-matt-bowman","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116591886635396091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701628","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=701628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}