{"id":155038,"date":"2025-08-18T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155038\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:25:11","slug":"corey-koskie-says-it-took-tenacity-determination-to-become-minnesota-twins-hall-of-famer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155038\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Koskie says it took tenacity, determination to become Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">There are worse predicaments, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/souhan-twins-byron-buxton-has-had-a-13-year-journey-to-stardom\/601394302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/souhan-twins-byron-buxton-has-had-a-13-year-journey-to-stardom\/601394302\"><b>Byron Buxton<\/b><\/a> had four bats made for Players Weekend, three of them painted with the name of one of his three sons, and one with the entire family. He homered, too \u2014 using the whole-family bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cProbably for the best,\u201d Buxton said. \u201cDon\u2019t want a kid saying, \u2018Dad, why did you hit one for him and not me?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodenal01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodenal01.shtml\"><b>Alan Roden<\/b><\/a>, acquired in exchange for <b>Louie Varland<\/b> and <b>Ty France<\/b> moments before the trade deadline last month, will not play again this season, the Twins determined Sunday, because of the ligament damage he suffered in his left thumb while sliding home during a game Thursday. Roden was put on the 60-day injured list and will be examined by a hand specialist this week, with surgery a possibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">That, and the decision to send righthander <b>Travis Adams <\/b>to Class AAA St. Paul after he gave up four walks and two hits while retiring only four batters Saturday, opened a roster spot for lefthander <b>G\u00e9nesis Cabrera<\/b>, who joined the team Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Cabrera, who signed a minor league contract Tuesday, is a seven-year big-league veteran reliever who has 290 strikeouts and a 3.90 ERA in 303 career innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are worse predicaments, though. Byron Buxton had four bats made for Players Weekend, three of them painted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-155038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115048345384743266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}