2025 Player Outlook
Julien hit under the Mendoza line in 2024, and that .199 average is quite the eye sore when looking at numbers from last year. A strong 11 percent walk rate propped up his OBP to .292, and his hard contact and quality of contact rates from 2023 did not carry over to 2024. He saw far fewer fastballs, and he hit just .120 with a 41.3 percent whiff rate against breaking pitches. Minnesota won't send him out there against southpaws, so he'll operate in a platoon in the Minnesota lineup. The talent is there and worth betting on, and while I'm confident he won't be as bad in 2025 as he was in 2024, but a 30+ percent strikeout rate and career .217 xBA doesn't instill much confidence in projecting his batting average for anything more than .230.
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Edouard Julien is out of the Twins lineup Monday after starting the previous five games.
Julien, who didn’t start any of the Twins’ first four games, went 3-for-14 with a double and a walk in the last five contests. Jose Miranda is getting the nod over Julien today, with Willi Castro sliding from third base to second.
Edouard Julien is starting for the first time this season against the White Sox on Tuesday.
The Twins have Julien DHing, Trevor Larnach playing left field and Harrison Bader sitting tonight. It makes for their best offensive lineup, at the cost of some outfield defense. They could have used Julien at second, Willi Castro in left and Larnach at DH instead, but that would have weakened the infield.
Edouard Julien is on the bench again Sunday and has yet to get a start for the Twins in three games this season.
That’s the case even though all three games have been against right-handers. Julien had a solid spring, hitting .281/.349/.456, but the Twins seem to be prioritizing defense in using Willi Castro at second base and Harrison Bader in left field. Julien at second and Castro in left seems like a better alignment against righties.
Edouard Julien doubled in a run as the Twins’ DH against the Red Sox on Sunday.
It seems like only a couple of weeks ago we were wondering how the Twins would find at-bats for Julien and Jose Miranda. Now they’ll get all of the playing time they can handle with Royce Lewis and Brooks Lee on the IL. Julien still should take a seat versus lefties, but he’ll be at second base or DH the rest of the time.
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