Twins outfield prospect Byron Buxton, rated by most outlets as the most promising young talent in baseball, was promoted this week from High-A Fort Myers to Double-A New Britain. But he apparently suffered a major injury in his first game Wednesday evening with the New Britain Rock Cats ...
There’s been no status update yet from the Rock Cats. Buxton was the second overall pick in the 2012 MLB Amateur Draft out of a Georgia high school and has hit .301/.390/.487 in 203 career minor league games.
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UPDATE, 10:21 p.m. ET: Via Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press ...
UPDATE, 10:33 p.m. ET: New information here from Yahoo’s Jeff Passan ...
#MNTwins top prospect @OfficialBuck103 being taken by stretcher to a waiting ambulance following an outfield collision in @RockCats debut.
— MiLB.com (@MiLB) August 14, 2014
There’s been no status update yet from the Rock Cats. Buxton was the second overall pick in the 2012 MLB Amateur Draft out of a Georgia high school and has hit .301/.390/.487 in 203 career minor league games.
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UPDATE, 10:21 p.m. ET: Via Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press ...
Twins vice president of player personnel Mike Radcliff told the Pioneer Press he’d been told Buxton “was responsive after the collision.” That knowledge was second-hand, Radcliff stressed, saying that it had come from one of Buxton’s agents.
UPDATE, 10:33 p.m. ET: New information here from Yahoo’s Jeff Passan ...
Source: Byron Buxton has no broken bones, CT scan came back negative after his nasty outfield crash tonight. Being treated for concussion.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 14, 2014
Buxton was unconscious for 10 minutes on the field after collision. Came to in the ambulance, where Twins GM Terry Ryan was riding with him.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 14, 2014
