Twins' injuries & roster moves
This page will be updated throughout the offseason with the latest injury and transaction news impacting the roster.
Kepler reflects on Twins tenure as hip injury ends regular season
MINNEAPOLIS -- If this is it for Max Kepler’s tenure in Minnesota, he says he’s at peace with it. There’s some chance that the longest-tenured player in the organization has played his final game in a Twins uniform, given Tuesday’s news that Kepler will likely not return before the end
Big day in Triple-A: Buxton rehabs as Twins promote No. 3 prospect
ST. PETERSBURG -- Monday marked a huge day in the outfield in Triple-A St. Paul, with implications not only for the remainder of this season, but for the Twins’ future. Not only did Byron Buxton start his long-awaited rehab assignment to put him on the fast track to rejoining the
Paddack (right forearm strain) eyes October return
MINNEAPOLIS -- It was a happy Chris Paddack who played catch from 60 feet on Wednesday at Target Field, trying to get back to the mound after MRIs cleared him from the right forearm strain that has sidelined him since mid-July. But he’s fairly sure he won’t be back for
Twins move Ryan to 60-day IL, ending his regular season
MINNEAPOLIS -- Buried furthest down in the Twins’ flurry of roster moves ahead of Tuesday’s game against the Braves was perhaps the most consequential news for the ultimate trajectory of the season: Joe Ryan will not pitch again this regular season. Ryan was moved to the 60-day injured list as
Stewart out for season, Ryan out indefinitely in blow to Twins
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins were slated to play not one, but two division race-defining games on Friday. And ahead of arguably their most important games of the regular season to this point, they took not one, but two potentially season-defining injury blows. Top-end starter Joe Ryan -- key to a
Twins hopeful Ryan's injury is not 'large-scale issue'
CHICAGO -- Joe Ryan has been a steady and reliable presence in the Twins’ starting rotation all season, and a key reason Minnesota is in the thick of the AL Central race. So, it was alarming when he signaled toward the Twins’ dugout in the third inning on Wednesday, moments
Lewis notches hit in return -- and vows to 'keep fighting' injury risk
DETROIT -- Royce Lewis will settle for just being part of a Twins victory again -- but it’s hard for him and the Twins to ignore his ever-growing track record of homering in his first game back from extended absences, too. That didn’t hold true on Friday, when Lewis was
Lewis set for rehab, eyes weekend return
MINNEAPOLIS -- Fortunately for the Twins and Royce Lewis, it turned out this likely won't be another of those prolonged absences to which they’ve grown all too accustomed over the years. That’s because Lewis is slated to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A St. Paul on Tuesday after successfully clearing
Twins without Correa, Paddack to begin second half
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
Foot injury takes Correa out of All-Star Game
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
Lewis feels 'loose,' optimistic latest injury won't be as severe
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
Lewis (right adductor strain) dealing with another muscle injury
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
'I'm ready to play tomorrow': Correa avoids serious injury on hit by pitch
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
Paddack hits IL set to rest and recover from arm fatigue
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
Kirilloff vows to 'do a better job of communicating' after IL hiccup
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
Lewis does what he does, homers in return to lineup
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
'Difference-maker' Lewis cleared to begin rehab assignment
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
Off the IL, Buxton remains focused on playing CF
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,
Topa hopes to pitch for Twins this season despite setback
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
Managing recurring knee issues a priority for Buxton
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
Buxton lands on 10-day IL with knee inflammation
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
Twins' 10th straight win comes with cost as Buxton hurts knee
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
Twins prospects working their way back from injuries
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
Correa's injury 'a gut punch' as Twins piece their puzzle together
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