MINNEAPOLIS — After lacking the primary 15 video games of the 2025 MLB season with a lumbar pressure, infielder Brooks Lee is displaying that he could make an affect for the Minnesota Twins.
Lee continued his scorching begin by going 2-for-4 with an RBI double on Saturday towards the Los Angeles Angels. He is 8-for-17 (.471) whereas placing collectively a five-game hitting streak. In three of these 5 video games, Lee has a number of hits, together with in back-to-back video games on April 23 and 24. That marked simply the second time he had posted hits in consecutive contests.
The eighth general choose within the 2022 MLB draft noticed motion in 50 video games final season, posting only a .221/.265/.320 slash line in 172 at-bats. Nonetheless, he has began the 2025 marketing campaign red-hot after getting back from back issues that precipitated him to take a seat out the ultimate stretch of spring coaching and the beginning of the season.
As soon as he was wholesome, Minnesota Twins supervisor Rocco Baldelli mentioned there was little hesitation in getting Lee again into the batting order.
“We had a necessity, I’d say, as a result of we had a number of issues happening. We had some well being issues happening, and we had at-bats and a spot on the sector to place him and let him go and play,” Baldelli mentioned. “I do suppose it is essential that Brooks as a younger participant, is enjoying. He must be on the market and enjoying and persevering with to develop and develop as a participant.”
Baldelli additionally mentioned he has seen progress from Lee after he obtained some MLB expertise final season.
“I believe he was prepared. I believe he is prepared to indicate everybody what he can do,” Baldelli mentioned. “I believe he actually is at that time the place he needs to have the ability to play and carry out and seize a spot on the crew and within the lineup and present that he not solely belongs right here, however that he is a rattling good participant. He needs to indicate it, so I believe that is what we’re getting from him proper now.
“He is a dependable younger participant on the sector. He is fairly basically sound, wherever you set him. He slows the sport down fairly good, and is beginning to have some good at-bats. He appears to be like good.”
Coming into Saturday with a 10-16 mark, the Twins are looking for any kind of spark to get again into the American League Central race. If Lee can proceed to develop in his second MLB season, a part of the increase that the dormant Twins are desperately looking for could possibly be inside the 24-year-old’s bat.
