slump grew increasingly worse<\/a> over the past two weeks.<\/p>\nDuring a two-day break from the lineup to work on his swing, Lewis indicated he was worried about job security, believing the front office wanted him to fail to write him off. Since returning, Lewis struck out 10 times in 30 plate appearances. He also made an uncharacteristic and costly error in Saturday\u2019s one-run loss, whiffing on a potential inning-ending double-play ball that led to a run scoring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is as we work through it and try to think through what\u2019s best for Royce and for the organization, giving him that reset in Triple A to hopefully get him going and get that confidence back is what\u2019s best,\u201d Zoll said. \u201c(There\u2019s) a lot of season left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Originally in a battle for the final roster spot at the end of spring, Arcia has been outstanding all season at St. Paul. The Twins elected to promote Arcia over prospect Kaelen Culpepper.<\/p>\n
One reason the Twins opted for Arcia is his experience and versatility; the other is that they want Culpepper to further develop before bringing him to the big leagues.<\/p>\n
Selected with the 21st pick of the 2024 MLB Draft, Culpepper is heating up with a .985 OPS and four homers in 67 plate appearances in May. Team officials like what they\u2019ve seen from Culpepper but want to give him more time to work on his defense at shortstop and improve his offensive consistency at the plate.<\/p>\n
In selecting Arcia over Culpepper, the Twins essentially left the door open for Lewis to make a triumphant return. All Lewis needs now is to get himself right. The Twins think facing Triple-A pitching could be the key.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to see the player, the confidence, the performance that we know he\u2019s capable of,\u201d Zoll said. \u201cIf he\u2019s performing down there and the underlying metrics support the performance, then we\u2019ll be ready to bring him back and have him help us. \u2026 Sometimes it\u2019s as simple as just having some good results to build up confidence, take some pressure off yourself, allow those mechanical adjustments to set in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Royce Lewis is indeed headed for a minor-league reset. With the idea that they can help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,3965,462,82],"class_list":["post-681564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681564","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=681564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}