{"id":596425,"date":"2026-04-11T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:09:07","slug":"twins-to-place-royce-lewis-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596425\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins To Place Royce Lewis On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins will make a couple roster moves before tomorrow\u2019s game at Rogers Centre. Manager Derek Shelton said tonight (relayed by Twins TV\u2019s Audra Martin<\/a>) that third baseman Royce Lewis<\/a> and reliever\u00a0Cody Laweryson<\/a> are each headed to the injured list. Lewis has a left knee sprain, while Laweryson suffered a right forearm strain. Shelton didn\u2019t specify return timelines for either player.<\/p>\n

Lewis suffered his injury during Thursday\u2019s win over Detroit. He came up limping after a swinging strike in his final at-bat of that game. Lewis was able to gut out the plate appearance and hit an infield single. He finished the contest but felt more discomfort today. Bobby Nightengale of The Minnesota Star-Tribune<\/a> writes that Lewis went for imaging this evening that revealed the sprain.<\/p>\n

This will be the ninth injured list stint of Lewis\u2019 four-year MLB career. He has twice torn the ACL in his right knee, once before his big league debut, and battled various left leg injuries. That included a pair of hamstring strains last year. Lewis narrowly topped 100 games for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n

The former first overall pick had been out to a nice start. Although he\u2019s only hitting .222, he has taken eight walks and collected four extra-base hits (two doubles and homers apiece). Lewis was at the hot corner for 12 of Minnesota\u2019s first 14 games. Utilityman Tristan Gray<\/a> has gotten the other two starts and projects as the regular there for the time being. Gray has a homer and a double in the early going but is a .220\/.279\/.394 hitter over 53 career contests.<\/p>\n

Laweryson made his first Opening Day roster this year. The 27-year-old righty made five appearances last season as a September call-up. He has worked 6 1\/3 frames of four-run ball (three earned) with eight strikeouts in five outings this year. Laweryson has a save and a hold as part of a wide open Minnesota bullpen.<\/p>\n

Minnesota will announce their corresponding call-ups tomorrow.\u00a0Ryan Kreidler<\/a> and\u00a0Eric Wagaman<\/a> are on the 40-man roster as depth infielders. Kreidler offers more defensive value and is hitting better in Triple-A to begin the season.\u00a0Zak Kent<\/a>, who was optioned earlier in the week, seems likeliest to take the bullpen spot if the Twins don\u2019t want to designate anyone for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins will make a couple roster moves before tomorrow\u2019s game at Rogers Centre. Manager Derek Shelton said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,188024,15091,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-596425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cody-laweryson","11":"tag-royce-lewis","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596425","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=596425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}