{"id":50168,"date":"2025-08-07T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50168\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:34:12","slug":"minnesota-twins-are-encouraging-austin-martin-to-remain-aggressive-after-miscues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50168\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins are encouraging Austin Martin to remain aggressive after miscues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cI want him to play aggressively,\u201d Twins manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/neal-rocco-baldelli-is-the-right-person-to-manage-twins\/601372567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/neal-rocco-baldelli-is-the-right-person-to-manage-twins\/601372567\">Rocco Baldelli<\/a> said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good, athletic player. He is methodical. He uses his mind out there on the field. Yeah, there are some plays that I think he\u2019s going to want to make and we\u2019re going to want him to make, but I see nothing wrong with what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/souhan-twins-byron-buxton-has-had-a-13-year-journey-to-stardom\/601394302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/souhan-twins-byron-buxton-has-had-a-13-year-journey-to-stardom\/601394302\">Byron Buxton<\/a>, on the 10-day injured list because of inflammation in his left rib cage, did defensive drills Wednesday in Detroit and ramped up his hitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cDefinitely in good spirits when I can swing a bat,\u201d Buxton said. \u201cI started [Tuesday] and did a good bit. Just working my way back into it, pushing myself a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Buxton, a 31-year-old All-Star, could return this weekend against Kansas City if he continues to progress as expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cI haven\u2019t had a broken rib, but the expansion, so breathing, deep breaths \u2014 and running, like shaking the rib cage \u2014 it\u2019s a little shock sensation at the moment,\u201d he said. \u201cMy body\u2019s telling me don\u2019t do nothing crazy. Just pushing it until we get to a good point and then do everything I need to do to recover. Then come back the next day and try to push it a little bit farther.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI want him to play aggressively,\u201d Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good, athletic player. He is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-50168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}