MINNEAPOLIS — After lacking the primary 15 video games of the 2025 MLB season with a lumbar pressure, infielder Brooks Lee is exhibiting 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 in opposition to 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 total decide 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. Nevertheless, he has began the 2025 marketing campaign red-hot after coming back from back issues that prompted 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 might say, as a result of we had a couple of issues occurring. We had some well being issues occurring, and we had at-bats and a spot on the sphere to place him and let him go and play,” Baldelli mentioned. “I do suppose it is essential that Brooks as a younger participant, is taking part in. He must be on the market and taking part in and persevering with to develop and develop as a participant.”
Baldelli additionally mentioned he has seen development 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 staff 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 sphere. He is fairly basically sound, wherever you place him. He slows the sport down fairly good, and is beginning to have some good at-bats. He appears to be like good.”
Getting 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 searching for could possibly be throughout the 24-year-old’s bat.
