{"id":11374,"date":"2025-07-15T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11374\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:11:05","slug":"twins-byron-buxton-says-all-star-game-in-georgia-is-great-but-minnesota-is-his-mlb-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11374\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins’ Byron Buxton says All-Star Game in Georgia is great, but Minnesota is his MLB home"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA \u2014 Byron Buxton<\/a> has given a lot of thought lately to the concept of \u201chome.\u201d He probably used no word more often than that one during his hourlong question-and-answer session Monday, ahead of his appearance in the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game, calling himself blessed to be able to perform in his home state, just a couple of hours away from his hometown of Baxley, Ga.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from a small town, so to be able to come home, to show kids there that nothing is impossible, that as long as you put the work in, you can do it \u2014that gives me a really good feeling. This is a once-in-a-lifetime memory,\u201d Buxton said. \u201cNothing is more important to me than home, except for my family. And they\u2019re kind of the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, coming from a man to whom home has such a spiritual meaning, it was startling to hear Buxton\u2019s choice of words when he was asked whether he would someday like to play for the Atlanta Braves here in Truist Park, where his fellow Georgians could see him play every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a no-trade clause \u2014 I\u2019m a Minnesota Twin for the rest of my life,\u201d Buxton said without hesitation. \u201cThat\u2019s the best feeling in the world, knowing when I when I walk into the clubhouse every day, it\u2019s going to say Twins. I love Minnesota \u2014 that\u2019s home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is. Baxley, it\u2019s where I\u2019m from, and I go back every offseason. Once our season is over, I\u2019ll be back there. Back home,\u201d Buxton said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to play anywhere else. The team, the people, the city \u2014 they made me who I am and made me a part of it there. That\u2019s home, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Buxton sounds more philosophical, more thoughtful, than the 21-year-old phenom who arrived in his adopted hometown just more than a decade ago, he would agree with that. And though part of it is simply wisdom borne of age, not to mention parenting three young boys, Buxton also says his outlook is a product of something he has experienced only rarely during his MLB career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Byron Buxton has given a lot of thought lately to the concept of \u201chome.\u201d He probably…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-11374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}