Minnesota baseball followers in search of depression can start with the best characters the Twins had going for them:
• Byron Buxton was producing and playing center field in such astounding fashion that I was looking up Willie Mays' numbers for the 35 games he played for the Minneapolis Millers in 1951. Those were .477 batting average, eight home runs and 30 RBI, meaning Buxton was 100 points shy of Willie, but already had him in homers.
On Tuesday at Target Field, Buxton smacked No. 9 above the bullpen in left center. By Thursday, he was injured again — this time, a hip blip that showed up running to first — and will miss weeks.