MINNEAPOLIS -- Though there was some hope that the extended All-Star break would do the banged-up Twins some good, their second half started with two more injury setbacks, with both Carlos Correa (right plantar fasciitis) and Chris Paddack (right forearm strain) heading to the injured list ahead of Saturday’s 8-4

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Even though Carlos Correa will miss Tuesday’s All-Star Game in Texas with a foot injury, he and the family are going and 2 1/2-year-old Kylo is ready to meet his favorite player. “Kylo sees Aaron Judge on TV and he goes crazy,” Correa said Sunday before the

MINNEAPOLIS -- Royce Lewis didn’t speak with the media on Wednesday after he was placed on the 10-day IL with a right adductor strain. It’s not that he was too upset to talk. He had a better reason. He was looking out for his newest teammate, Brooks Lee, who was

MINNEAPOLIS -- No one wants to see Royce Lewis suffer another injury. Especially Royce Lewis. But you can’t always get what you want. The Twins placed Lewis on the 10-day injured list on Wednesday, a day after their slugging third baseman suffered a Grade 2 strain of his right adductor

PHOENIX -- All the good feelings of a blowout getaway victory, a vintage eye-popping Byron Buxton power-speed game and the debut of the organization’s top pitching prospect gone -- just like that. The excitement vanished in an instant when Carlos Correa took a 94 mph fastball to his right arm

PHOENIX -- Chris Paddack knew this would happen at some point -- which made it easier for him to take a step back and think of this as the right move at the right time. Paddack has faced inconsistent velocity and feel in his pitching arm in his first full

MINNEAPOLIS -- The primary reason behind the Twins’ confusion regarding Alex Kirilloff’s deep underperformance this season had been that they’d never seen him hit this poorly, at any level, unless he was injured -- and they’d maintained all along that they thought he was finally healthy. It turns out that

NEW YORK -- Of course Royce Lewis did it again. Of course he did. As frustrating as all these early career injuries have been for Lewis, he has at least taken those opportunities to establish a reputation for dramatic entrances -- to the point where even manager Rocco Baldelli was

MINNEAPOLIS -- Amid the emotional highs and lows of the last several weeks for this extraordinarily streaky Twins squad, perhaps the biggest constant in the clubhouse was that, whenever the team would return home from a road trip, an increasingly agitated Royce Lewis always awaited them at Target Field, simply

CLEVELAND -- Byron Buxton was reinstated off the injured list ahead of Saturday’s game against the Guardians -- and much to his relief, there’s also an expectation that the Twins won’t be using him any differently after the flare-up of inflammation in his right knee. “That’s what I’m hopeful for,

MINNEAPOLIS -- The toughest part of all this for Justin Topa is that he’d been one step away from getting onto the active roster when his troublesome left knee flared up again four outings into his rehab stint with Triple-A St. Paul. After getting so close, a healthy return couldn’t

MINNEAPOLIS -- Up to this point in his career, Byron Buxton would push through anything, play through anything, spend however long he’d need to in the trainer’s room and just do whatever he needed to do to be on the field for his teammates, no matter how he felt. “His

MINNEAPOLIS -- There was something telling that Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said on Friday that perhaps draws back some of the curtains on the lens through which Byron Buxton’s knee situation is more realistically viewed now. “I think he’s been in a good spot physically,” Baldelli said. “I don’t think

CHICAGO -- There had certainly been optimism surrounding Byron Buxton’s spring and start to the regular season, particularly as his offense picked up and the Twins started winning in bunches -- but that faded again in an all-too-familiar way on Wednesday in Chicago. Buxton exited during the second inning of

MINNEAPOLIS -- Needless to say, the injury situation up in Minneapolis has had a significant impact on the Twins thus far, with early issues for Royce Lewis, Carlos Correa, Jhoan Duran, Caleb Thielbar and Justin Topa playing some role in the Twins’ scuffling start to the season. It’s been equally

DETROIT -- Eleven games into the season, the Twins’ lineup is already down two of its cornerstone stars. This time, it was Carlos Correa, who was diagnosed on Saturday with a mild right intercostal strain after he struck out on a check swing in the third inning of Friday’s series-opening

KANSAS CITY -- As the Twins brace for life without Royce Lewis for an undetermined but extended period of time, they’ll also have to reckon with the loss of the starting pitching depth they found in the offseason. That’s because Anthony DeSclafani underwent season-ending surgery to repair the flexor tendon

KANSAS CITY -- It looks like Royce Lewis will miss meaningful time for a fifth consecutive season. Lewis was placed on the IL on Saturday with what president of baseball operations Derek Falvey described as a “severe” right quad strain he sustained on Opening Day. In a corresponding move, the

KANSAS CITY -- All the optimism of a healthy spring for the Twins’ trio of stars, and all the excitement to see what that group could be capable of when healthy together at last, didn’t even make it three full innings into the regular season. The cheer of Opening Day

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Twins’ quickly thinning bullpen depth took another hit on Sunday, when president of baseball operations Derek Falvey announced that reliever Justin Topa will begin the season on the IL with left knee tendinitis. That makes three members of the projected leverage core at the back

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- After a fairly healthy camp, Monday brought a barrage of bad news on the injury front for the Twins. Anthony DeSclafani (forearm strain), Jhoan Duran (right oblique strain) and Caleb Thielbar (hamstring strain) will start the 2024 season on the injured list, president of baseball operations

MINNEAPOLIS -- Ultimately, Byron Buxton never did make it back to center field in 2023 -- but the goal remains to get him there. The hope is that a second knee surgery will help. Buxton underwent an arthroscopic procedure to excise the plica (a membrane flap) in his right knee

MINNEAPOLIS -- It was clear that Byron Buxton was still limited in what he could do for Minnesota, but with the Twins’ backs against the wall, they hoped for a Kirk Gibson moment from their ailing star on Wednesday night. Buxton willed his body back for one final plate appearance

MINNEAPOLIS -- All Byron Buxton has ever wanted to hear is, “Yes.” That’s the answer he’s always sought, regardless of how banged up he is, regardless of how much toll the season has taken on his body: Yes, he can play. Yes, he can be on the field with his