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Latest MN Twins Injury Updates on Carlos Correa and Matt Wallner
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The 2025 Minnesota Twins regular season is not off to a very good start, though they did win their second game in the three nights on Tuesday vs the New York Mets , a victory that improved their record to 6-12. Unfortunately, last night's win came at a cost.
During last night's contest, the Twins didn't just lose one of their best players to injury, something they've become dangerously too accustomed too. First, Rocco Baldelli made a trip to check on Matt Wallner (hamstring), before he was pulled. A while later, the same happened to Carlos Correa (wrist).
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Minnesota Twins Matt Wallner hurt his hamstring
With their season already on the verge of spiraling out of control, the Minnesota Twins cannot afford to lose either of Matt Wallner or Carlos Correa… and now they could lose both. Correa is this team's superstar. That's why he makes $35 million per season.
But through 18 games this season, Wallner has been even better. His two triples lead the league, but on Tuesday night, it was an infield single that caused something to pull in his hamstring .
#MNTwins Matt Wallner left tonight's game with a leg injury. He hurt himself legging out a single in the first inning pic.twitter.com/6T2leEm0IT
— Mike Kurland (@Mike_Kurland) April 15, 2025
Prior to his injury, Wallner was batting .263/.373/.474 while mostly hitting leadoff for the Twins. His 0.6 fWAR entering Tuesday led all Twins. Talking to reporters after the game, Wallner said he was hopeful this is nothing serious. Of course, we've all heard that story before.
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Royce Lewis remains sidelined with a hamstring injury that was supposed to be short-term, as well. You can bet that Minnesota will at least let Wallner rest through the series finale on Wednesday . From there, we'll see how these early tests play out on Wednesday.
"Just tight. It's not painful so that's good, I guess. I really don't know because I've never done anything similar to that."
Carlos Correa joins Wallner on MN Twins bench
After Wallner exited the game early, it was Carlos Correa who joined him. Following a swing that had the star shortstop checking his wrist, he notably winced in pain and had a conversation with trainer Masa Abe and Baldelli.
Here's the swing Minnesota lost Carlos Correa on. He winced while check his wrist afterwards. pic.twitter.com/LE0u5WnF9v
— Ted (@tlschwerz) April 16, 2025
Postgame, Correa told Nightengale that this wrist issue isn't something new for him. That's probably not a great thing even if it had previously been cleared. Correa has gotten off to a dreadful start batting just .164/.227/.473 through the first 18 games.
"Since late last year I've been dealing with it. We did an MRI last year on it and it didn't show anything too serious. It's just about keeping it strong and making sure that it's stable."
Correa played through plantar fasciitis pain in 2023, gutting out 135 games but posted a 94 OPS+ . He proved in 2024, he wasn't going to play injured again. Last season, he missed most of the 2nd half of the season with the same injury in his other foot. When healthy and available, he was exceptional (151 OPS+).
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Minnesota certainly doesn't want to be without Correa given that they don't have ideal internal options to take his place at shortstop. That would fall on Willi Castro , who was worth a terrible -9 defensive runs saved at short last season, or Brooks Lee .
MN Twins replacement become questionable
Should one or both of Correa and Wallner need time on the injured list, things get dicey quickly for the Minnesota Twins. Austin Martin could have been a candidate for an outfield job but is currently on the injured list at Triple-A.
The only other outfielder on the 40-man roster is prospect Emmanuel Rodriguez, an exciting corner outfield option and consensus top 100 prospect. But Rodriguez has played just 17 games at Triple-A and likely needs a bit more time to develop.
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Why don't the Twins just insert Jose Miranda ? Well… not only was Miranda just demoted , but he is now hurt as well. After being demoted, Miranda hurt himself shopping at Target and has already been placed on the Saints injured list.
"He sustained the injury during the Saints' off day Monday shopping at Target. A case of water slipped from his grasp, and he felt pain when he re-grabbed it before it fell."
The Twins don't have another infielder on the 40-man roster. Another top prospect, Luke Keaschall, could be a consideration, but he is slowly easing back into full game action after late-season Tommy John surgery. He just started playing full 9-inning games at second base and is batting .286/.407/.381 across 12 games.
Minnesota has an off day on Thursday while they travel to Atlanta for a weekend series against the Braves. It's possible they wait until then to make a decision that could impact either player for at least ten days.
At any rate, Minnesota needs to keep winning in order to climb back towards .500 and close the 4.5 game deficit within the division. Losing starting talent isn't going to help them in that pursuit.
