Update….
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minnesota Twins are relieved that prized center field prospect Byron Buxton only has a concussion following a violent outfield collision with a teammate.
In Buxton’s first game for Double-A New Britain on Wednesday, Buxton suffered a head injury bad enough to knock him unconscious for about 10 minutes. He ran into right fielder Mike Kvasnicka after both of them ran full speed for a fly ball in the fifth inning.
Twins general manager Terry Ryan said on Thursday that the scary situation “turned out about as good as you could ever hope.” Ryan happened to be at the game and visited Buxton in the hospital after he was taken there for further evaluation.
Previously…
One of baseball’s top prospects was injured on Wednesday. Twins farmhand, Byron Buxton was taken off the field in an ambulance after an outfield collision in his first game for Double-A New Britain, Minnesota’s No. 2 minor league club.
The 20-year-old Buxton was motionless for several minutes on the field before he was carted off on a stretcher to an ambulance and taken to a local hospital. Twins general manager Terry Ryan said Buxton was unconscious for 10 minutes before he awoke in the ambulance. Ryan added that Buxton was alert and a CT scan came back negative.
