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Jorge López said it was more of the Twins organization’s decision to place him on the 15-day injured list for a mental health-related rest -- and he’s grateful for that decision.

In the aftermath of the move on Sunday, manager Rocco Baldelli indicated that there’s no set timeline for López’s return to the active roster, and the Twins will give the right-handed reliever the time he needs to “get [his] mind fresh and start clean,” as López said when he talked to the media Wednesday for the first time since he went on the IL.

López said he hopes to be back after the minimum 15 days, but he is also valuing the time to just be around his teammates in the clubhouse to clear his mind with their support and express to them how much he appreciates being around them.

“I really appreciate what they’ve been doing with me and just got to take care,” López said. “They love me, so I got to do the stuff that they try to be good to me. I will do everything I can to stay in the game. I love it. I love this team. I love the staff. I love everybody here. For me, [I’ll] do a little bit of my effort every day to make things better. I will do that.”

Normally very soft-spoken with an easy smile in the clubhouse, López said that he’d let the negative emotions of tough outings overcome him.

“Just little stuff where [after] bad outings, I’d start kicking stuff, punching stuff, getting mad real quick and I couldn’t control the emotion and stuff,” López said. “That took me a little bit out of the game and you became frustrated every day. You try to be a new guy the next day, but it kind of gets the snowball going.”

López is the fourth Major Leaguer to go on the IL for mental health reasons this year, alongside Daniel Bard of the Rockies,  Austin Meadows of the Tigers and  Trevor May of the A’s. López said he particularly appreciates the opportunity to continue to be around veterans such as Sonny Gray and Pablo López, and Baldelli said the Twins will give López all the support he needs as he finds a good routine, clears his mind and gets ready to return on his own terms.

“I’m just going to keep talking with the psychologist and everybody that wants me to get better, which is everybody here,” López said. “I will do everything I can. I will keep smiling nowadays.”

“It's not easy to stand there and state out loud the things that you're struggling with,” Baldelli said. “And it's easy when it's a physical injury, and you can just basically say what it is. But when it's not, when it's something else like Jorge's been dealing with, it becomes that added challenge. But I'm really so happy for him that he's taken this as a challenge.”