Twins Hitter of the Month - June 2024

[Matthew Taylor]

The Minnesota Twins had an outstanding offensive month in June, scoring the third-most runs in the American League. It was an excellent month at the plate for many hitters, but only one can be named hitter of the month.

As June comes to a close, it's time to celebrate the outstanding performances by our Minnesota Twins hitters. This month was packed with exciting performances, but only the best of the best made the cut for the Twins' hitter of the month for June.

Honorable Mention: José Miranda
Stats: 25 G, .333/.388/.552 (.940 OPS), 9 2B, 3 HR, 20 RBI
What a difference a season makes, huh? The José Miranda we're witnessing this season looks nothing like the Miranda of 2023, when he appeared in just 40 games and posted an OPS+ of 57. Now fully healthy, Miranda is showing that his excellent rookie season in 2022 was no fluke.

Miranda just finished his best month of the 2024 season, playing in 25 of the team's 27 games, posting an OPS of .940 and finishing second on the team in RBIs for the month, with 20. Additionally, Miranda had the second-best WPA on the team for the month, meaning that he wasn't simply producing, but that he was producing in big moments. No moment was bigger than Miranda's massive three-run home run when the Twins were down to their last strike against the Rays, to tie up the game. The moment from Miranda might be forgotten by some fans due to the Twins ultimately losing the game, but it was certainly a moment that Miranda will not soon forget.

Third Place: Royce Lewis
Stats: 22 G, .259/.326/.624 (.950 OPS), 4 2B, 9 HR, 15 RBI
For the first two months of the 2024 season, everyone joked that Royce Lewis would re-join the team in June and immediately start hitting home runs and dominating, like he has every other time that the superstar has re-joined the Twins' lineup following a lengthy absence.

But even the most optimistic of predictions couldn't have guessed that Lewis would be this dominant after returning from his quad injury. In his first month of games following a two-month absence, Lewis led the Twins with nine home runs and posted a .951 OPS. He showed no signs of rust after being away from the game for so long, and until the last week of June, he had us all believing that maybe he really doesn't do slumps.

Lewis's 2-25 slump over the last week of the month prevented him from finishing higher in the rankings, but the way he transformed the Twins' lineup the second he was re-inserted is something that should excite Twins fans everywhere.

Second Place: Carlos Santana
Stats: 25 G, .337/.396/.565 (.961 OPS), 9 2B, 4 HR, 16 RBI
After beating the Twitter campaign for his DFA with a solid month of May, Santana just put up his best month of the 2024 season, and his best month at the plate since August 2019. Across 25 games last month, Santana finished second on the team with a .961 OPS, while getting on base nearly 40% of the time. Santana posted 1.2 WAR in June, which pays for the $5.25 million contract that he was handed this past offseason all by itself.

No moment for Santana was bigger than his pinch-hit, walk-off single in the bottom of the 9th inning against Phil Maton and the Tampa Bay Rays. Coming fresh off the bench with two outs, Santana laced a liner to center field, scoring Manuel Margot and clinching a win for the Twins in front of the Target Field crowd.

First Place: Carlos Correa
Stats: 25 G, .388/.441/.582 (1.023 OPS), 4 2B, 5 HR, 21 RBI
José Miranda, Royce Lewis, and Carlos Santana all had excellent months, but no player on the Minnesota Twins (and no player in the American League not named Aaron Judge or Gunnar Henderson) had a better June than Carlos Correa.

Correa led the Twins with a .388 batting average, 1.023 OPS, 38 hits, and 21 RBI in June, while also leading the Twins with 1.7 fWAR. In the 25 games in which he appeared in June, Correa contributed a hit in 17, with 12 of those being multi-hit games, including a five-hit performance against the Rockies on Jun. 12.

Correa contributed some clutch hits this month as well, including a go-ahead home run against Logan Gilbert and the Seattle Mariners in the top of the 6th inning and a 2-run home run against Sean Newcomb and the Oakland Athletics to put the game away in the bottom of the 7th inning.

Correa is finally fully healthy and is showing just how dominant he can be when he has two fully-functioning feet, and it is an absolute joy to watch.

Do you agree with the rankings for the Twins hitters of the month in June? Leave a comment below and start the conversation!

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[Dman]

Those are some pretty impressive numbers for all four of those players for the month of June.  I knew Correa's bat was good and that he had hot months, but his line for June is beyond what I thought he could do in any month given what I had seen the last two years.  It has been so important to have his productive bat in the lineup.  With Buxton heating up and Jeffers and Kepler who have also had good months at the plate this lineup suddenly feels very deep.

[Karbo]

I would have put Miranda in at 2nd place and move Lewis to 3rd with Santana 4th. Now that miranda is healthy he should be a big part of the team for quite a while. I see him as a regular at 1st next year.

[Rod Carews Birthday]

There are plenty of months that the Twins don’t have anybody with offensive numbers like any of these four guys. What a great offensive month!   Keep it going!

[LambchoP]

Buxtons bat finally has heated up too. But yeah, Correa has carried this offense all month,has been a lot of fun to watch. Too bad Lewis got hurt. If he goes on the IL will they just have Miranda play third and call up a pitcher, or will they call up Brooks Lee finally?

[Karbo]

34 minutes ago, LambchoP said:

Buxtons bat finally has heated up too. But yeah, Correa has carried this offense all month,has been a lot of fun to watch. Too bad Lewis got hurt. If he goes on the IL will they just have Miranda play third and call up a pitcher, or will they call up Brooks Lee finally?

They can't call up a pitcher unless they send one down per the rule that allows no more than 13 pitchers on the active roster.

[NotAboutWinning]

Wow, there is a lot of fire power on that list! No wonder they have been such so much fun to watch!!

[bean5302]

2 hours ago, Karbo said:

They can't call up a pitcher unless they send one down per the rule that allows no more than 13 pitchers on the active roster.

Can they redesignate a pitcher as a position player, call them up as a position player and still let them pitch in games that are out of control? LOL, I think they'd probably be able to get away with that...

[Karbo]

1 hour ago, bean5302 said:

Can they redesignate a pitcher as a position player, call them up as a position player and still let them pitch in games that are out of control? LOL, I think they'd probably be able to get away with that...

Ha ha No

[mikelink45]

I am happy with all of them.

[JD-TWINS]

Great offensive month!

Buxton was really good the latter 2/3 of the month! Castro seemed pretty impressive as well in June, to me.

LOOONG Line-up!