Luke Keaschall's very impressive 2025 rookie season was limited to 49 games by injuries. So when he got hyped up all offseason as a big piece of the Twins' future and then struggled this April, some fans naturally saw that as something of a rug-pull situation. Was he yet another young Twins hitter unable to sustain success?
Turns out, it was just an unfortunately timed poor month. Similar early struggles led to the Twins demoting Royce Lewis and Matt Wallner to Triple-A in May, but they stuck with Keaschall — keeping him as a lineup regular while moving him all over defensively — and he turned his sophomore season around in a huge way.