KANSAS CITY -- Walker Jenkins, the Twins’ top prospect and the No. 3 prospect in all of baseball per MLB Pipeline, is back on the injured list.
Jenkins, 20, experienced “renewed stiffness” in his left ankle, according to Twins general manager Jeremy Zoll. It’s the same ankle that Jenkins sprained early in Spring Training, causing him to miss much of camp.
The outfielder, who was the No. 5 pick in the 2023 MLB Draft, opened the season on the active roster for Double-A Wichita and played two games before being placed on the IL. He was 1-for-8 in those games.
It’s the second consecutive season that Jenkins has been placed on the IL in the season’s first week, though the hope is that it should be a less lengthy stay this year. He sustained a strained left hamstring on Opening Day last year and missed much of the first half of the season.