Entering the 2025 campaign, the Minnesota Twins are in a bit of a weird spot.

They finished the previous season just two wins above .500 and comfortably in fourth place in the AL Central. Instead of putting the pedal to the metal and upgrading their roster over the offseason, they sat on their hands and did next to nothing.

So the club basically looks the exact same as it did last year.

If a handful of specific players bounce back the way the industry thinks they can, that may be just fine. The vast majority of this roster is comprised of players who are capable of being stars on their best days.

In fact, most of them have already been a part of the All-Star Game at some point in their respective careers.

Most, but not all. The Carlos Correas, Byron Buxtons and Pablo Lopezes of the world have already represented their teams in the Midsummer Classic. What about the players who have yet to earn their first trip to this prestigious event?

Let’s check out the Twins’ roster and pick out three players who could be All-Stars for the first time in the upcoming season.

3 Twins who should be first-time All-Stars in 2025

Jhoan Duran

Armed with one of the most electric arsenals from a relief pitcher in baseball, it’s a wonder how Duran hasn’t already made an All-Star Game. He only just debuted back in 2022, but he’s already posted a 1.86 ERA across 57 games (2022) and 2.45 across 59 (2023) while striking a boatload of batters in each season.

Functioning as the Twins’ primary closer for the past few years, Duran is going to kick off the upcoming season in the same role. Clearly, the only reason he has yet to represent the Twins in the ASG is the sheer amount of competition he’s got in other teams’ bullpens around the league.

If he can continue to punch tickets the way he has so far through his young big league career, Duran could be well on his way to earning the honors this season.

Royce Lewis

Lewis is one of the most exciting players in baseball when he’s on, but the Twins have so rarely gotten extended periods of him when he’s at his best. A former first-round pick (2017), Lewis has gone on some wild stretches that make him look more like an MVP candidate than simply an All-Star, but he can’t stay healthy to save his life.

This year could very well be the one where that changes. Sure, we said the same thing ahead of 2023 and 2024, but what’s done is done. Lewis is entering the regular season with health on his side, and there’s no reason he can’t finally elevate himself from a “what if” type of player, to one earning his way into the All-Star Game.

Since he debutedin 2022, Lewis has yet to play a full 162 games, so we can call his total production in his career basically one season’s worth. In that time, he’s hit 33 home runs with 104 RBI, 84 runs scored and a smooth .825 OPS across his first 152 contests. If he can finally turn that into a full year’s worth of healthy performance, the sky is the limit.

Joe Ryan

Ryan has somewhat quietly been the Twins’ co-ace for a few years now, and it’s about time some respect is put on his name.

The right-hander already has multiple seasons of 2.0 or higher bWAR since he became a permanent fixture in the club’s starting rotation in 2022 and 2025 could be the year he gets the national recognition he deserves.

He’s not going to blow hitters away with triple-digit heat and he can at times be prone to giving up his fair share of longballs, but Ryan does an efficient job at keeping runners off the bases (as evidenced by his low H/9 and BB/9 from last season) and he’s got some recent history of nearing 200 strikeouts in a season back in 2023.

If he can continue to go about his business like he has so far in his career, he’s got a legitimate chance at becoming more than simply the “second-best pitcher” on this Twins pitching staff.