{"id":110855,"date":"2025-10-22T04:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=110855"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:33:56","slug":"christian-vazquez-will-be-a-free-agent-are-the-twins-interested-in-re-signing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=110855","title":{"rendered":"Christian V\u00e1zquez will be a free agent; are the Twins interested in re-signing him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>Christian V\u00e1zquez was the only impending free agent the Twins didn\u2019t deal away at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>That decision surprised him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>There were, of course, some additional considerations. He wasn\u2019t hitting well at all. He was still owed $3.33 million over the final two months, a hefty salary for a team to pick up on a backup catcher. Contending teams rarely trade for catchers anyway, because of the difficulty learning a new pitching staff during a playoff race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>It still, surely, led to some awkwardness. The Twins traded 11 players at the trade deadline, including six who will be free agents after the World Series concludes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>\u201cIt was tough seeing everybody leave from here,\u201d V\u00e1zquez said. \u201cA lot of good friends left. I thought we had a great team to win the World Series here. It was a disaster on that day. But that\u2019s part of the game. That\u2019s part of the business. Nothing we can control, but it was hard to swallow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>V\u00e1zquez, 35, says he is looking forward to free agency. He won\u2019t command the same type of contract he did beforehand \u2014 the Twins signed him to a three-year, $30 million deal in 2022 \u2014 because of his poor offensive production over the past three seasons (.215 batting average, .577 OPS), but he maintains a good defensive reputation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>The Guardians re-signed Austin Hedges, an elite defender and one of the league\u2019s worst statistical hitters, to a $4 million contract last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-item\">\n<p>Are there any fears a catcher\u2019s defense will lose some value when Major League Baseball implements a strike zone challenge system next year?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran catcher known for his strong defense stayed with the team during the trade deadline because of his bulky salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christian V\u00e1zquez will be a free agent; are the Twins interested in re-signing him? 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