Just a couple quick notes:
Ran into Byron Buxton this morning. Buxton has been out since Sunday with a sore left wrist.
``I'm hoping to be back in a couple days,'' he said. ``Maybe sooner.''
Buxton injured his wrist while diving for a ball in the outfield. What's unfortunate is that Buxton felt he was seeing the ball better at the plate and getting his timing down.
Chris Parmelee and Josmil Pinto are playing with Class AAA Rochester today so they can get extra at-bats. Alex Presley is playing with Class AA New Britain.
La Velle E. Neal III has covered baseball for the Star Tribune since 1998 (the post-Knoblauch era). Born and raised in Chicago, he grew up following the White Sox and hating the Cubs. He attended both the University of Illinois and Illinois-Chicago and began his baseball writing career at the Kansas City Star. He can be heard occasionally on KFAN radio, lending his great baseball mind to Paul Allen and other hosts. Mark Rosen borrows him occasionally for WCCO-TV.
Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
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