{"id":214274,"date":"2025-09-10T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:29:08","slug":"minnesota-twins-top-prospect-walker-jenkins-sets-sights-on-making-2026-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214274\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins’ top prospect Walker Jenkins sets sights on making 2026 Opening Day roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walker Jenkins<\/a> emerged from the CHS Field dugout about 20 minutes before first pitch Tuesday evening, readying for his first home game with the St. Paul Saints, and he signed a few autographs before he ran onto the field to begin stretching. <\/p>\n

Once he was done stretching, he took another couple of minutes to sign autographs next to the dugout. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy for fans to imagine Jenkins, a 20-year-old outfielder<\/a>, doing this routine before Twins games at Target Field next season. And Jenkins admits he has thought about it as well, unafraid to say his goal is making the Twins<\/a>\u2019 2026 Opening Day roster. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to set far-fetched goals and set aspirations that you think are going to be tough to achieve just to push yourself,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cUltimately, I want to be on the Twins team and play there for a long time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jenkins, the consensus top-ranked prospect in the Twins farm system, is moving quickly through the organization. He hasn\u2019t played 60 games at any minor league level because he looks superior to his competition. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow old is he? 20?\u201d asked Twins pitcher Pablo L\u00f3pez<\/a>, who made a rehab start when Jenkins debuted with the Saints in Toledo, Ohio. \u201cHe\u2019s a strong 20-year-old.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jenkins had one hit in his first 20 at-bats at Class AAA with four walks and six strikeouts. In his second week at the highest level in the minor leagues, Jenkins had 13 hits in 25 at-bats (.520 batting average) with four extra-base hits, two walks and four strikeouts. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat first week coming up, I was antsy,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cI was putting a lot of pressure on myself and wanted to do too much. I felt like I got that under my belt, got a day off, and I was able to come back out, and I\u2019m like: \u2018All right, man. Let\u2019s just go play. Let\u2019s not worry about all the stats, worry about all the results. Just go play hard.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker Jenkins emerged from the CHS Field dugout about 20 minutes before first pitch Tuesday evening, readying for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-214274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115177413961882240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}