{"id":46605,"date":"2025-07-30T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46605\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:42:09","slug":"twins-place-byron-buxton-on-10-day-il-with-ribcage-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46605\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins Place Byron Buxton On 10-Day IL With Ribcage Inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins announced today that they have placed outfielder Byron Buxton<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with left ribcage inflammation. Catcher Ryan Jeffers<\/a>, who was activated from the paternity list, will take Buxton\u2019s spot on the active roster. In an additional transaction, the Twins officially selected right-hander Pierson Ohl<\/a>\u2019s contract from Triple-A. He will take the roster spot left vacant after yesterday\u2019s Chris Paddack<\/a> trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buxton left Saturday\u2019s game early with what the team then deemed left side soreness (per Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic<\/a>). His MRI revealed he had suffered rib cartilage irritation, which manager Rocco Baldelli<\/a> described as positive news on Sunday (per Gleeman<\/a>). At the time, the team believed Buxton to be day-to-day. Evidently, they have now decided he\u2019ll need more than a couple of days off to recover. He is now eligible to return next Wednesday, though it\u2019s not yet clear how long he\u2019ll be out.<\/p>\n

The All-Star center fielder is in the midst of a phenomenal season that\u2019s shaping up to be the best of his career. He is slashing .282\/.343\/.561 with 23 home runs, 17 stolen bases, and 4 OAA. His 3.9 FanGraphs WAR ranks him among the top 10 players in the American League. Of course, playing at a superstar level has never been a problem for Buxton. Rather, his problem has always been staying on the field. He has dealt with injury issues in every season of his career. Only once has he qualified for the batting title, and even then, he just barely reached the cutoff, taking 511 plate appearances over 140 games in 2017. Since then, he has yet to even surpass 400 plate appearances in a season, and only once has he surpassed 100 games (102 games played in 2024). This is already his second IL stint of 2025; he previously spent two weeks on the concussion IL. The Twins and Buxton will hope his rib injury is not much more serious than they initially thought, allowing him to get back on the field in time to set new career highs in plate appearances and games played.<\/p>\n

While Buxton is out, the Twins have an excellent backup plan in Harrison Bader<\/a> \u2013 as long as he isn\u2019t traded in the next two days. Bader is a Gold Glove-winning center fielder, and he also happens to be enjoying the best offensive season of his career. He has played most of his games in left field this year (marking the first time in his career he\u2019s spent more time in a corner than in center), but he was one of the game\u2019s premier defensive center fielders over the previous seven years. When the Twins signed Bader over the offseason, they were presumably hoping he\u2019d spend as much time in a corner spot as possible, but they surely knew he might eventually have to fill in for Buxton in center.<\/p>\n

Things will become more complicated for Baldelli if the Twins trade Bader ahead of the deadline, especially if they also part with utility man Willi Castro<\/a>. That would likely leave rookie DaShawn Keirsey Jr.<\/a> as Minnesota\u2019s starting center fielder in Buxton\u2019s absence. Keirsey\u2019s speed should help him hold his own in center, but he is batting .120 with a .354 OPS this year in 78 plate appearances. That\u2019s a big drop-off from Bader\u2019s production and a massive drop-off from Buxton\u2019s production. Regardless, if the Twins are planning to continue selling before the deadline, it seems unlikely that Buxton\u2019s injury would prevent them from parting with Bader or Castro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins announced today that they have placed outfielder Byron Buxton on the 10-day injured list with left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9883,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-46605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-byron-buxton","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46605","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=46605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}