{"id":652731,"date":"2026-05-19T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652731\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:08:10","slug":"twins-demote-royce-lewis-to-minor-leagues-amid-slump-at-plate-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652731\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins demote Royce Lewis to minor leagues amid slump at plate: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twins infielder Royce Lewis has been struggling at the plate since an injury in April. Jason Miller \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

May 19, 2026Updated 11:46 am EDT<\/p>\n

MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Royce Lewis is indeed headed for a minor-league reset.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Twins demoted their slumping slugger to the minor leagues on Tuesday morning, only five days after making a similar decision with Matt Wallner<\/a>, multiple league sources told The Athletic.<\/p>\n

Lewis was striking out a career-high 31.1 percent of the time and batting only .163\/.261\/.279 with three home runs and 13 RBIs after 119 plate appearances. His struggles have been pronounced since returning from an injured list stint on April 21, with 25 strikeouts in 74 plate appearances and a .380 OPS.<\/p>\n

After working to adjust his swing in the offseason, Lewis got off to a decent start, producing an .822 OPS through his first dozen games. Lewis was walking more than ever and hitting for some power, but he has been out of sorts since spraining his knee in early April.<\/p>\n

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May 19, 2026<\/p>\n

Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n

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Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twins infielder Royce Lewis has been struggling at the plate since an injury in April. Jason Miller \/…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2326,363,99],"class_list":["post-652731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}