In the 2012 Major League Baseball draft, MLB.com ranked Buxton as the greatest prospect available. Second overall in the 2012 draft, the Minnesota Twins chose Buxton.
Byron Buxton’s deal with the Twins includes a $6 million signing bonus when he joined on June 12, 2012. On June 2, 2015, he made his professional debut in the Gulf Coast League (GCL) for Rookie-level Gulf Coast Twins by hitting .216 with 26 at-bats.
A few months after that, he was promoted to Appalachian League rookie level Elizabethton Twins and batted.286 for 21 games. He was voted the best prospect in the Gulf Coast League.
The Class A Midwest League’s Cedar Rapids Kernels were Buxton’s first team in 2013. He was promoted to Fort Myers Miracle of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in June after hitting .340 with eight home runs and 32 stolen bases in the first half of the season.
The best prospect in baseball by midseason was rated by MLB.com, ESPN.com, and Baseball America as Byron Buxton. At the All-Star Futures Game, he wore the uniform of the Minnesota Twins.
He had four home runs, 22 RBIs, and 23 stolen bases in a .326 batting average with Fort Myers. Buxton was voted the Midwest League’s Most Valuable Player at the conclusion of the season. Additionally, he won both the Baseball America and Topps Minor League Player of the Year Awards.
Is Byron Buxton Married?
Byron Buxton is married to Lindsey Tillery
Who Is Byron Buxton Wife, Lindsey Tillery?
Byron Buxton, the Minnesota Twins’ center fielder, married a pretty young woman named Lindsey Tillery. In 2012, Baron married his longtime girlfriend.
There are two children in the family, one born in 2013 and the other due in 2020. When Byron Buxton, a Twins prospect, became a father to his and Lindsey Buxton’s son Brix Scott Buxton on December 6, 2013, Lindsey became a household name in the MLB.
Their romance began in 2012 when she was a senior in high school and he was a freshman at Appling County High School, but they didn’t hook up until they were seniors.