The Minnesota Twins have placed All-Star outfielder Byron Buxton on the 10-day IL with a right hip strain. He suffered the injury back in May, but re-aggravated it on July 5 against the New York Yankees while attempting to play through the discomfort. The injury will hold Buxton out through the All-Star Game, forcing him to miss any competition on All-Star weekend.
Byron Buxton has been played on the 10-day IL with a right hip injury and will miss the All-Star game next week pic.twitter.com/2iAeLABJpN— Talkin' Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) July 7, 2026Twins general manager Jeremy Zoll is confident that Buxton will make a full recovery and will be fully healthy for the back half of the MLB season. Zoll spoke about the injury after placing Buxton on the IL.
“Originally, we gave it a few days and we were hoping that that had cleared it up,” said Zoll. “When the symptoms came back in the game, it’s not as bad as it was, but it’s still back...
As [manager Derek Shelton and head athletic trainer Nick Paparesta] worked through it with Byron, just thinking about the idea of kind of getting caught in this repeated cycle, the best thing at this point is probably just to give it clear down time to let it fully resolve itself so that he’s not in this in-between state and can feel fully confident hopefully for a full second half post-All-Star."
