FORT MYERS, Fla. — MLB’s first Spring Breakout promised to showcase the sport’s best and brightest prospects, the stars of tomorrow. And while nearly all of the Twins’ top prospects will be on display on Saturday afternoon, one notable player will be missing.

Top prospect Walker Jenkins, the Twins’ No. 5 pick in last year’s draft and MLB Pipeline’s 10th-ranked prospect overall, will not play, Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said Thursday, after straining his left quad in recent days.

“Any time you have a muscle strain, you just want to make sure you knock it out. So however long it takes him to get that knocked out and in a better spot — he’s still able to do a lot of activity,” Falvey said. “We just don’t want him to push the running at full tilt, which he would naturally do if he was playing in a game.”

Jenkins will still come over to the major-league side and be in the dugout with his teammates — he just won’t play, which will take place Saturday at 3:05 CDT against the Tampa Bay Rays’ top prospects.

While the game will no longer offer fans a glimpse of Jenkins, who hit .362 with a .989 OPS across two levels upon debuting in pro ball last summer, the quad strain is not considered a serious injury. The hope, Falvey said, is that he will be ready to start the season on time.

Making sure Jenkins is ready for what will be his first full year of professional baseball is the Twins’ top priority.

“I’m sure he’s going to be itching and champing to figure out how he could play,” Falvey said. “I think the thing about Walker is whether it’s a backfield game at 9 o’clock at night (and) nobody’s watching, or it’s that game, he just wants to be playing. … This kid wants to work, and now we’ve just got to get him lined up for the season.”

Farmer gives back

Kyle Farmer grew up tossing eggs back in Georgia — “I had to go into the chicken coop to get them,” he said — so as long as he’s a member of the Twins, he plans on winning the team’s annual spring training egg toss competition.

That might be OK with his teammates if he keeps providing them with tacos.

Farmer, who along with Royce Lewis, won the team’s competition last month, catered a taco truck on Thursday for his teammates, an idea he got from his former Los Angeles Dodgers teammate Adrián González. The truck was sitting out in the players’ parking lot around lunchtime and had a steady stream of visitors.

“I thought it’d be cool to give back,” Farmer said. “Then I found out that (manager) Rocco (Baldelli) had donated the winnings to me and Royce, so it was kind of like Rocco paid for the tacos.”

In all actuality, the taco truck cost more than Farmer’s winnings, so he pitched in some extra money to cover it, something which he said he was happy to do. Farmer got himself two steak and two chicken tacos street style, and said his teammates enjoyed the idea.

The infielder already has an idea for next year’s prize money.

“Maybe some soft serve ice cream,” he said.

Twins Pass on sale

The Twins announced Thursday that the Twins Pass, a ticket package that allows fans access to all home games except for the opener, is now on sale.

The pass is on sale from now until April 3 at its lowest monthly rate: $59. From April 4 through May 2, the price will increase to $69 for ballpark access for the final five months of the season. On May 3, the monthly rate jumps to $79 for June through September.

The Twins are also offering a one-time payment option of $324, which would save fans who are buying access for the full season $30. While the Twins pass only provides entry to Target Field and not a seat, fans can purchase an upgrade to seats for individual games.

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