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After a year in which he posted numbers good enough to be the highest-ranked Twins prospect in almost a decade, Walker Jenkins was dissatisfied. A campaign that took him through four Minor League levels and put him at or near the top of prospect lists everywhere, to Jenkins himself, ranked as ¡°below average.¡±

Jenkins ranks No. 3 in MLB Pipeline's new Top 100. The last Twins prospect ranked higher in a Pipeline preseason or midseason Top 100 was Byron Buxton, who came in at No. 2 in 2016.

In his first full professional season, the Twins' No. 1 prospect posted a .282/.394/.439 slash line while reaching Double-A as a 19-year-old. He stole 17 bases in 20 attempts despite having an early season hamstring injury in the back of his mind all year. And as he explained Saturday at TwinsFest, he wasn¡¯t the slightest bit satisfied with any of that.

¡°Being injured somewhat hindered the way I like to play,¡± Jenkins said. ¡°I had to be able to manage my body, and I wasn't able to go what I felt like was full throttle all the time."

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So he¡¯s spent the offseason working on ways to stay healthy and strong over a full six-month season. He¡¯s begun incorporating swimming into his regimen, while also doing all of the usual baseball and strength activities.

All to improve on what by any objective measure was a very good year. Just, not to Jenkins himself.

¡°I have extremely high expectations for myself,¡± he said. ¡°I feel like last season, that was a below-average year for me. Like, I'm not happy with my performance last year. ¡­ I want to do better.

¡°I'm always going to set extremely high expectations that almost feel out of reach, because I think that's the only way I can get to where I want to be.¡±

And make no mistake, where he wants to be is where he was on Saturday: Target Field. He has all of 28 plate appearances above A ball, so it¡¯s a huge ask to think it could happen soon. But that¡¯s where those outsized expectations come in.

¡°I feel like going into this year,¡± he said, ¡°I have so much of a better understanding of how to navigate Spring Training, of how to navigate a routine, how to navigate my body, how to navigate going and competing, you know, while also managing that health side as well.¡±