Minnesota Twins Oft-Injured 3rd Baseman Royce Lewis Is Down for the Count Again

March 17, 2025


If only the Minnesota Twins could keep their best players on the field, who knows how good they'd be? But once again, the team's oft-injured third baseman Royce Lewis has gone down to injury —for the umpteenth time— and will miss the start of the 2025 season. 

Lewis went down on Sunday with what the team is calling a "moderate left hamstring strain", one that Lewis called "not even close" to how serious his quad injury was last season that kept him out for 58 games. 

But that will do nothing to ease the fears in the Twin Cities that they're in for yet another injury-riddled season for the uber-talented but always injury-stricken infielder.

Lewis was ready to explode onto the scene as one of baseball's top prospects before suffering a torn ACL in 2021 that wiped out his entire season. In 2022, after batting .300 with an .867 OPS in 12 games, he suffered another ACL tear that destroyed that season and most of 2023. But again, in the 58 games he got into in '23, he pulverized the ball, hitting 15 HRs with 52 RBIs and a .921 OPS. 

Last season, he suffered injuries to his oblique, adductor, and quad. 

He's never played more than 82 games in a season, but in his 152 career MLB games (covering three seasons), he has a slash line of .268/.327/.497  with a 126 OPS+, along with 33 homers and 104 RBIs. 

Of course, the Twins are no strangers to super-talented players being out of the lineup for super long periods of time. Byron Buxton is their equally snakebit center fielder who has spent more time on the IL than on the field over the course of his 10-year career. 

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