Twins trigger Royce Lewis for season debut, and likewise bring

MINNEAPOLIS– The Minnesota Twins have actually returned third baseman Royce Lewis from his rehab task, clearing the method for his season launching after he strained his left hamstring in spring training.The Twins restored both Lewis and multi-position player Willi Castro from the injured list, putting both regulars in play for the start of their three-game series against Baltimore. Castro missed 16 games with a stretched right oblique muscle.Infielders Mickey Gasper and Edouard Julien were sent out to Triple-A St. Paul to make space on the lineup with the Twins, who are still missing best fielder Matt Wallner (stretched left hamstring)and 2nd baseman Luke Keaschall (broken right lower arm )with long-term injuries.Lewis went 4 for 23 with one double in 6 games with St. Paul, finishing yet another rehab that has specified his young career. The first general pick in the 2017 draft, Lewis suffered his newest injury on March 16 while running out a ground ball in an exhibit game.Lewis missed the 2021 season after he tore his best ACL when he slipped on ice at his Texas home throughout a freak winter storm.

He needed reconstructive ACL surgery on the same knee in 2022, after a crash with the wall while making a catch throughout a short audition in center field barely two weeks after his big league debut.He opened the 2023 season on the injured list while still in healing and debuted that year in late May. Lewis also had IL stints that season with a strained

left oblique and a left hamstring pressure. In 2024, he played in a career-high 82 games, sustaining IL stints for a stretched right quadriceps and an ideal adductor pressure.