The Miami Marlins send utility player Eric Wagaman to Minnesota for promising minor league reliever Kade Bragg.
The Miami Marlins have traded one of their everyday players from the 2025 season to the Minnesota Twins.
On Friday, Miami traded Eric Wagaman, a utility player who appeared in 140 games last season, to the Twins in exchange for a minor-league reliever.
Wagaman, 28, ended last season with a .250/.296/.378 stat line, hitting nine homers and driving in 53 runs. Advanced metrics weren’t kind to Wagaman, who finished with a -0.4 Wins Above Replacement.
It was Wagaman’s first full season in the majors.
He played 18 games with the Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim in 2024.
In return, the Marlins are getting Kade Bragg, a minor league reliever. The 24-year-old Bragg went to the Twins in the 17th round of the 2023 Draft.
Bragg pitched across three levels of the minors last season, striking out 82 batters in 67 1/3 innings. He spent the most time in High-A Cedar Rapids, going 4-1 with a 2.73 ERA in 18 appearances.
Wagaman played his best baseball for the Marlins last season down the stretch.
Over the last two months, he put up a .291/.341/.472 slash line with 13 extra-base hits in 138 at bats. Overall, Wagaman was at his best against left-handed pitching, ending 2025 with a slashed .283/.321/.462/.783 line, hitting five of his home runs and driving in 26 of his runs against lefties. He’s expected to platoon with Josh Bell.
Marlins manager Clayton McCullough spoke highly of Wagaman.
“He controls the strike zone well, there's impact there,” McCullough said in May. “You're going to have these periods of a little bit of ups and downs, especially as you're adjusting now as he's been playing every day. I think we really are a buyer of the at-bat quality overall, and then his ability to impact and use the entire field.”
“He's shown that, and it'll just be, for him, continuing to adjust to how people are attacking him. He's got a really good brain and good heartbeat, so I think those are a lot of good qualities with Eric, not only the physical, but also from the neck up,” McCullough said.