The 19-year-old Cedar Rapids phenom racked up three hits, falling a home run short of a cycle, knocked in three runs, and made a pair of spectacular catches Monday — and did it before the biggest audience he’s likely to have in the minor leagues. Fox Sports North broadcast the Kernals’ 6-2 victory over Kane County back to Minneapolis, giving Twins fans a sneak preview of a player they figure to be cheering for in 2016 or so.
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Also in the crowd at Veterans Memorial Stadium: J.J. Cooper, an editor and minor-league expert at Baseball America magazine — and a new member of Buxton’s fan club.
“It was fun. He’s so much fun to watch,” Cooper said. “It’s amazing how many different things one player can show in one game. You saw defense, you saw him hit the ball hard, you saw the speed. He really put on a show.”
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Cooper covered Andruw Jones, a 10-time Gold Glover and 434-home run hitter, when he was at Class A, and “that was fun every night,” he said. “This was like that — plus some.”
Andruw Jones plus some? I think 2016 is a little late.
That article was also about Hicks going on the DL. From the comments:
Hicks has learned from the M&M boys that the pays the same weather you play or not.
Any time someone posts something this stupid, I'm relieved to see that their grasp on English is so poor that very few people take them seriously.
Yeah, that's a sidebar and cheap source of amusement. What gets me, though, is the Baseball America guy saying Andruw Jones plus some. The pre-fat Andruw Jones was capital A Awesome. Oh, and he was in the majors before he was 20. It's a throwaway quote maybe, but a girl can dream.
Jones was signed as an international free agent, which shifts the schedule some. However, in 1995, his age 18 season, he was really good but not awesome in low A. In 1996, in high A, is when he was Awesome. He accumulated 289 PAs in A+ before moving quickly up to MLB: 176 in AA, 46 in AAA, and then 113 in MLB to end the 1996 season. I think the Twins move more slowly with Buxton, but I am thinking he starts 2014 in AAA and joins the Twins not long after.
I think he starts 2014 at AA and has a Sept. callup.
"Andruw Jones plus some"? I want Willie Mays plus some!
So the answer is to have Mauer bat against his own pitching staff. His numbers would be inflated even that much more because the Twins' staff wouldn't have the benefit of Mauer behind the plate.
ixnay on the Mauer-going-to-the-Yanquis talk, Scot!
You misunderstand. In my hypothetical Mauer remains in a Twins uniform and the pitching staff moves elsewhere.
I find it difficult to believe that other major league organizations would employ much of the Twins' pitching staff at the major league level. As pitchers.
r.a. dickey has been a disappointment for my fantasy team this year. after his latest outing, yahoo offered up this scouting report:
Dickey now has a disappointing 5.11 ERA for the year, a number that is in danger of rising again this weekend against the mighty Rangers if he can't coax Mr. Spalding into dancing like Selena Gomez as he did during 2012's Cy Young campaign.
uhh... what?
not every Yahoo writer is socal.
That is their frame of reference for great dancing? I'm sure she's adequate, but...
...maybe I'm just old.
Coaxing Mr. Rawlings instead would be more fruitful, too, unless he's throwing pre-1977 baseballs.
Or maybe the writer thinks pitchers throw basketballs? Now that I'd like to see.
Even I might be able to hit a ball that big.
Wait, Selena Gomez is a he?
Selena Gomez danced for his Cy Young campaign?
Selena Gomez had a Cy Young campaign?
What a horrible, convoluted sentence. I know what the writer meant to say, but that's now what he said.
I just found out about this. Pay $125 to watch a Twins game with Gleeman and the Geek? Food and Beer covered. Only two spots left:
Bill Simmons, who writes stuff like this on Grantland and then talks like this on ABC, to which America goes, "Huh?"
I like to assume that he has a pop culture references dartboard, and as a challenge to himself, he forces a comparison no matter how good or bad it sounds.
He has a tank of manatees.
That would make for a fun Spookymilk writer's challenge: write a sports-related blurb using this pop culture reference: [throw dart]
awesome link, Rhu.
Going back to the linguistic map conversation from a few days back, I just realized I say "sweet puh-tay-tah" instead of "sweet poh-tay-toe"
I would like to see a map for people who pronounce Washington as "Warshington"
Definitely Nebraska in that group.
aye to that. but I hear it in NorCal too.
years ago I worked with someone from Warshington that pronounced it Warshington
This guy must love baseball nearly as much as we do!
an odd thing happened in the weather yesterday where the winds blowing off the (still) cold waters of Lake Michigan into Chicago causing a layer of fog to form and invade the city. There happened to be 2 baseball games being played at the time. here are some pics
270 minutes of soccer in Mexico in the final round of World Cup qualifying. Aggregate score over those three matches? 0-0.
Probably not how our neighbors to the south envisioned these playing out.
I hope ubes has a good time at the USA-Panama WCQ tonight.
That looked like the best US WCQ to go to in years. Really good everything.
Agree. Altidore and Dempsey really working well together.
As captain, Dempsey really needs to dial back the flopping and bitching to the ref to avoid becoming the captain who cried wolf. Otherwise, that was a completely dominant by the US. One other minor nit: is there anyone worse at delivering a cross than Eddie Johnson?
I sense a feline disturbance in the universe.
Minds work in mysterious ways. The NSA kerfuffle appears to have sparked a surge in sales of 1984.
my favorite comments from this Libertarian nutso crowd:
oookay. You do see the irony in talking about government-run schools "requiring" a book about a totalitarian state to be read, right?
AMR has always been at war with Scioscia.
All teams are equal. Some AL East are more equal than others.
[Something about soma.]
Heh. It is impossible to avoid joining in to the two-minute hate.
Buxton's catch was one of ESPN's Top Ten last night, after the Sawks finally found a way to beat the Rays. ruh-roh! Now the Yankmes know about him!
From the Strib:
Andruw Jones plus some? I think 2016 is a little late.
That article was also about Hicks going on the DL. From the comments:
Any time someone posts something this stupid, I'm relieved to see that their grasp on English is so poor that very few people take them seriously.
Yeah, that's a sidebar and cheap source of amusement. What gets me, though, is the Baseball America guy saying Andruw Jones plus some. The pre-fat Andruw Jones was capital A Awesome. Oh, and he was in the majors before he was 20. It's a throwaway quote maybe, but a girl can dream.
Jones was signed as an international free agent, which shifts the schedule some. However, in 1995, his age 18 season, he was really good but not awesome in low A. In 1996, in high A, is when he was Awesome. He accumulated 289 PAs in A+ before moving quickly up to MLB: 176 in AA, 46 in AAA, and then 113 in MLB to end the 1996 season. I think the Twins move more slowly with Buxton, but I am thinking he starts 2014 in AAA and joins the Twins not long after.
I think he starts 2014 at AA and has a Sept. callup.
"Andruw Jones plus some"? I want Willie Mays plus some!
Minnesota Twins' Joe Mauer Striking Out More Than Ever.
Fun anaylsis.
So the answer is to have Mauer bat against his own pitching staff. His numbers would be inflated even that much more because the Twins' staff wouldn't have the benefit of Mauer behind the plate.
ixnay on the Mauer-going-to-the-Yanquis talk, Scot!
You misunderstand. In my hypothetical Mauer remains in a Twins uniform and the pitching staff moves elsewhere.
I find it difficult to believe that other major league organizations would employ much of the Twins' pitching staff at the major league level. As pitchers.
Hey, FTLT. rough day today in Buffalo, but we're here for you.
r.a. dickey has been a disappointment for my fantasy team this year. after his latest outing, yahoo offered up this scouting report:
uhh... what?
not every Yahoo writer is socal.
That is their frame of reference for great dancing? I'm sure she's adequate, but...
...maybe I'm just old.
Coaxing Mr. Rawlings instead would be more fruitful, too, unless he's throwing pre-1977 baseballs.
Or maybe the writer thinks pitchers throw basketballs? Now that I'd like to see.
Even I might be able to hit a ball that big.
Wait, Selena Gomez is a he?
Selena Gomez danced for his Cy Young campaign?
Selena Gomez had a Cy Young campaign?
What a horrible, convoluted sentence. I know what the writer meant to say, but that's now what he said.
I just found out about this. Pay $125 to watch a Twins game with Gleeman and the Geek? Food and Beer covered. Only two spots left:
http://www.minnpost.com/events/twins-vs-tigers-gleeman-and-geek
With the Geek attending, will any more beer be available?
Damn, sold out.
Who wrote it:
I like to assume that he has a pop culture references dartboard, and as a challenge to himself, he forces a comparison no matter how good or bad it sounds.
He has a tank of manatees.
That would make for a fun Spookymilk writer's challenge: write a sports-related blurb using this pop culture reference: [throw dart]
awesome link, Rhu.
Going back to the linguistic map conversation from a few days back, I just realized I say "sweet puh-tay-tah" instead of "sweet poh-tay-toe"
I would like to see a map for people who pronounce Washington as "Warshington"
Definitely Nebraska in that group.
aye to that. but I hear it in NorCal too.
years ago I worked with someone from Warshington that pronounced it Warshington
This guy must love baseball nearly as much as we do!
Well, he loves baseballs, that's for sure.
Well, sure, duh.
Top 3 World Series in Baseball History. You might have an idea as to what I thought was No. 1.
I don't know how I missed this before, but this is pretty good, dadgummit
an odd thing happened in the weather yesterday where the winds blowing off the (still) cold waters of Lake Michigan into Chicago causing a layer of fog to form and invade the city. There happened to be 2 baseball games being played at the time.
here are some pics
270 minutes of soccer in Mexico in the final round of World Cup qualifying. Aggregate score over those three matches? 0-0.
Probably not how our neighbors to the south envisioned these playing out.
I hope ubes has a good time at the USA-Panama WCQ tonight.
That looked like the best US WCQ to go to in years. Really good everything.
Agree. Altidore and Dempsey really working well together.
As captain, Dempsey really needs to dial back the flopping and bitching to the ref to avoid becoming the captain who cried wolf. Otherwise, that was a completely dominant by the US. One other minor nit: is there anyone worse at delivering a cross than Eddie Johnson?
"Feel confident? Let it fly.
Get your name in the paper."
—Greg Popovich