{"id":596384,"date":"2026-04-11T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596384\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:38:09","slug":"twins-lewis-knee-laweryson-forearm-headed-to-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596384\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins&#8217; Lewis (knee), Laweryson (forearm) headed to IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 10, 2026, 10:54 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40635\/royce-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royce Lewis<\/a> is headed to the 10-day injured list because of a sprained left knee, manager Derek Shelton said after Friday night&#8217;s 10-4 loss at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5012036\/cody-laweryson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Laweryson<\/a> will go on the 15-day IL because of a right forearm strain, Shelton said. The Twins will make corresponding roster moves before Saturday&#8217;s game against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, who is batting .222 with two homers and eight RBI, injured his knee on a swing in Thursday&#8217;s home win over Detroit. He stayed in that game but did not play Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The first overall pick in the 2017 draft, Lewis has been plagued by injuries in his career, including tearing the ACL in his right knee in both 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Laweryson has a 4.26 ERA and one save in five appearances. He has struck out eight and walked two over 6 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 10, 2026, 10:54 PM ET TORONTO &#8212; Minnesota Twins infielder Royce Lewis is headed to the 10-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-596384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}