Sportsnation Chat with Buxton

[nicksaviking]

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/49930/twins-of-byron-buxton

 

Looks like Sportsnation has a chat with BB at 1:30 today.

 

Bonus: Buck is curretnly gracing the front page of ESPN's site.

[UCLA_YANKEE_COLA]

Pretty vanilla overall (as most athlete chats are) but I liked this answer -

 

Austin R. (Savage, MN)

 

Where do you think your bat fits in the lineup in the current twins roster??

 

Byron Buxton (2:48 PM)

 

Hopefully I'm more experienced and more disciplined at the plate to be a leadoff hitter. That's where I've hit most of my life. I feel confident there. Hopefully leadoff.

 

I don't really care where he bats but I like that he cares.

[nicksaviking]

And it's interesting that a big-name, well-rounded prospect such as himself isn't campaigning for the middle of the lineup.

[Willihammer]

What is greater, beast mode or mental mode?

[iastfan112]

Living within the constraints of a typical lineup I could certainly live with: Buxton Dozier? Mauer Arcia Sano sometime in 2015.

[shs_59]

He is a father, which is great, but interesting that Mauer's Twins and Buxton's first child are almost the same age....

 

Just a cool random thought....

 

I hope Bux realizes he's got a looong way to go , a lot of hard work left yet to do, well for at least 1 more year anyway.

[Shane Wahl]

Buxton, Mauer, Sano, Arcia, Hicks, Rosario, Dozier 1-7 opening day 2015.

[Steve Lein]

Buxton, Mauer, Sano, Arcia, Hicks, Rosario, Dozier 1-7 opening day 2015.

 

With those names I'd go Buxton, Hicks, Mauer, Sano, Arcia, whoever the DH is, Dozier, Rosario. But could flip around Rosario/Dozier/Hicks in pretty much any fashion.

 

I think Sano is going to be your prototypical clean-up guy. He's not going to have the batting avg. (compared to Mauer) for the 3-spot, and Buxton/Hicks will score a ton of runs in front of them.

[Jeremy Nygaard]

If you made it through Tuesday's Hangout, Seth and I spent about 10 minutes near the end of the 113 minutes we talked discussing the Twins lineup once the prospects are ready.