{"id":10315,"date":"2015-06-13T19:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10315"},"modified":"2015-06-13T19:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:17:28","slug":"byron-buxton-to-make-major-league-debut-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/06\/13\/byron-buxton-to-make-major-league-debut-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Buxton to make Major League debut on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10316\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/06\/byronbuxton.jpg\" alt=\"byronbuxton\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/06\/byronbuxton.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/06\/byronbuxton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins will call up the No. 1 ranked prospect in baseball on Sunday having him play in a game against the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Byron Buxton will play in the Twins outfield wearing the No. 25 for a match-up against Rangers right hander Nick Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Buxton was hitting\u00a0.283\/.351\/.489 with six homers, seven doubles, 12 triples and 37 RBIs in 59 games at Double-A while stealing 20 bases on 22 attempts.\u00a0Buxton is in currently on a\u00a010-game hitting streak, batting .421\/.489\/.500 with a double and a triple.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Buxton dealt with a\u00a0sprained left wrist, a concussion and a dislocated left finger but has managed to stay healthy this year.<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 2 overall pick in the 2012 draft, Buxton fills a Twins outfield which has Aaron Hicks out with a sore right elbow and Torii Hunter currently serving a two game suspension.<\/p>\n<div class=\"info\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins will call up the No. 1 ranked prospect in baseball on Sunday having him play in a game against the Texas Rangers. Byron Buxton will play in the Twins outfield wearing the No. 25 for a match-up against Rangers right hander Nick Martinez. The 21-year-old Buxton was hitting\u00a0.283\/.351\/.489 with six homers, seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[959,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-byron-buxton","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}