{"id":125001,"date":"2025-11-26T00:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=125001"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:47:50","slug":"update-former-twins-pitcher-receiving-lots-of-interest-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=125001","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Former Twins Pitcher Receiving Lots of Interest in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This offseason the Minnesota Twins have plenty of heavy lifting to do. Derek Falvey wants fans to believe that the team will\u00a0build around the group that remains. We will have to wait and see if that\u00a0includes Joe Ryan\u00a0and Pablo Lopez staying put.<\/p>\n

One thing is for certain, their\u00a0bullpen needs to be completely overhauled. The\u00a0massive exodus at the trade deadline\u00a0wiped out virtually every relief arm.<\/p>\n

Thankfully Falvey has proven relatively adept at building good bullpen groups. Emilio Pagan is a former success story for him, but don\u2019t expect a reunion in the year ahead.<\/p>\n

Emilio Pagan is a hot free agent commodity<\/h2>\n

Just before Opening Day of the 2022 season the Minnesota Twins\u00a0flipped closer Taylor Rogers to the San Diego Padres\u00a0for Emilio Pagan and Chris Paddack. The former was an immediately play while the latter was a long-term piece. Pagan wound up working out better than Paddack, and he\u2019s put together some nice years since.<\/p>\n

Now\u00a034 years old, the veteran reliever is drawing significant interest on the open market. Cincinnati Reds beat writer\u00a0Gordon Wittenmyer\u00a0suggests the market is robust early for Pagan.<\/p>\n

Insiders say he has at least 10 teams already showing interest in signing him as a free agent, a healthy enough market that the right-hander who made $8 million each of the last two seasons should command far north of that by the time guys like Edwin Diaz and Robert Suarez help establish the closer market.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pagan spent the past two seasons pitching for the Reds, and it was his 2025 that really jumped off the page. Across 68 2\/3 innings this past season, he posted a 2.88 ERA (3.72 FIP) with a 10.6 K\/9.<\/p>\n

Home runs have routinely been a problem for Pagan (1.5 HR\/9 career) and replicating the 0.6 HR\/9 from 2023 with the Twins didn\u2019t seem likely in Cincinnati. Great American Ballpark favors hitters, and while Pagan allowed 1.4 HR\/9 in his two seasons there, the overall results were still positive.<\/p>\n