DETROIT -- Another arm joined the Twins' bullpen on Saturday, but it came at the expense of a reliable bench player.

The Twins optioned catcher/corner infielder Willians Astudillo to Triple-A Rochester and selected the contract of right-hander Ryan Eades from Rochester. Eades will provide depth as the team is nearing the completion of a 12-day, 10-game road swing.

“We got to see Eades in Spring Training and get a feel for him,” manager Rocco Baldelli said of Eades. “Our guys have liked the stuff. Our guys have liked the way he’s been throwing the ball. Like I said, he has some arm strength, and he can spin a ball pretty well. Those are his strengths, and those play here. You know, if he comes up and makes good pitches, he has the chance to get Major League hitters out."

In 16 games with the Red Wings, Eades went 2-2 with a 5.68 ERA, 12 walks and 39 strikeouts. The right-hander’s ERA was partially inflated from an April 26 outing during which he was tagged for seven runs in 1 1/3 innings. Since that outing, Eades has a 3.57 ERA with seven runs allowed in 17 2/3 innings.

Eades, however, did post a 1-1 record and a 1.29 ERA in seven innings with the Twins during Spring Training.

Options for arms were limited since the Red Wings played a doubleheader on Friday and used most of their pitching. Baldelli said the hope was that Eades would arrive by first pitch and be available on Saturday.

“It was a little unlucky,” Baldelli said. “[But] that’s kind of where it fell. Either way, we had to look to someone on our 25-man roster up here to get that spot to bring someone in.”

To accommodate Eades on the 40-man roster, Baldelli said infielder Ronald Torreyes was put on the restricted list due to a personal situation.

Astudillo started at third base in Friday’s 6-3 series-opening win against the Tigers, but he finished the game 0-for-4. He was taken out in the bottom of the eighth for a defensive replacement.

In 33 games this season, Astudillo batted .250/.273/.357 with two home runs and eight extra-base hits in 112 at-bats. Astudillo quickly became a fan favorite last season, when he slashed .355/.371/.516 through 93 at-bats in 29 games.

Baldelli said it was a luxury to have Astudillo serve as a fourth position player to come off the bench. But when pitching begins to wear thin someone has to go down to make room for an extra arm.

“[Astudillo] is basically is in a spot where he’s done, like I said, everything we’ve asked him to do, he’s done it well,” Baldelli said. “He bounces around the field. He doesn’t play for a few days, and then we send him out there. He’s a selfless guy. He’s in a spot now where, when we have to look around and add an arm to our bullpen because we’ve been lucky to be able to carry four position players at different points in the season, not every team is able to do that. 

The 27-year-old began his professional career in December 2008, when he signed with the Phillies as an amateur free agent. After stops with the Braves and D-backs, he signed with the Twins in November 2017.

“I wouldn’t anticipate him drastically changing anything that he’s doing, because he has that strength of basically it doesn’t matter who he is facing,” Baldelli said. “We’ve seen him do it against the best pitchers in baseball. He finds a way to hit the ball and generally hit it fairly hard.”