{"id":78844,"date":"2015-08-10T16:11:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=78844"},"modified":"2015-08-10T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T21:11:48","slug":"twins-buxton-to-stay-in-aaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=78844","title":{"rendered":"Twins Buxton to stay in AAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/buxtonbyron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-52133\" alt=\"buxtonbyron\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/buxtonbyron.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota Twins top prospect Byron Buxton will be staying in Triple-A for a while.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins announced Monday they&#8217;ve returned Buxton from his rehabilitation assignment for a sprained left thumb and sent him to Triple-A Rochester. The speedy outfielder was put on the disabled list June 26 after batting .189 in 11 games in his major league debut, prior to the injury.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buxton had five hits in 12 at-bats for Rochester on his rehab assignment. The move stops his service time clock toward eventual salary arbitration and free agency, and it also uses up one of Buxton&#8217;s three minor league option years.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins were off Monday after finishing 1-6 on their road trip to Toronto and Cleveland. They host Texas to start a three-game series Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota Twins top prospect Byron Buxton will be staying in Triple-A for a while. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins announced Monday they&#8217;ve returned Buxton from his rehabilitation assignment for a sprained left thumb and sent him to Triple-A Rochester. The speedy outfielder was put on the disabled list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78846,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78844\/revisions\/78846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}