Aug 11, 2025, 02:04 PM ET<\/p>\n
NEW YORK — The Minnesota Twins<\/a> reinstated center fielder Byron Buxton<\/a> from the 10-day injured list on Monday before beginning a three-game series against the New York Yankees<\/a>, after the All-Star missed 13 games with inflammation in his left rib cage.<\/p>\n Buxton was sidelined just before the Twins tore down their roster leading to the trade deadline. He was batting .282 with 68 runs, 23 homers, 59 RBIs and a .905 OPS in 85 games when he went on the IL, all team-leading totals and averages among players with a qualifying amount of at-bats.<\/p>\n “It’s a pretty nice addition I would say,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said.<\/p>\n Buxton was slotted into the leadoff spot as Minnesota’s center fielder in his first action since July 26 against Washington. The Twins went 6-7 in his absence, though they entered Monday coming off series victories over Detroit and Kansas City.<\/p>\n “Energetically, it’s itching to get back,” Buxton said. “I’ve been on the bench seeing them take the extra base, stealing bases. It’s fun. We’re a young group now even younger.”<\/p>\n The Twins sent outfielder Carson McCusker to Triple-A St. Paul to make room for Buxton, who also has stolen 17 bases in 17 attempts.<\/p>\n Despite the rib cage issue and a concussion that cost him time earlier, Buxton has been as healthy as he has in several seasons. He’s on pace for the second-most games in his 11-year major league career, behind the 140 games he played in in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 11, 2025, 02:04 PM ET NEW YORK — The Minnesota Twins reinstated center fielder Byron Buxton from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-61260","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\/61260","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=61260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}