{"id":458772,"date":"2025-12-03T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/458772\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:32:12","slug":"espn-ranks-3-twins-among-trade-candidates-buxton-willing-to-waive-ntc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/458772\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN ranks 3 Twins among trade candidates; Buxton willing to waive NTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In this season of giving, Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan have given baseball fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47166190\/mlb-offseason-2025-2026-trade-candidate-player-rankings-skubal-marte-buxton-peralta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a ranked list<\/a> of trade candidates, in turn relaying that Krampus Pohlad has taken Twins fans\u2019 morale and given them absolutely nothing in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Their ranking, ordered by \u201cvalue for their new team if being traded,\u201d lists Byron Buxton (#5), Joe Ryan (#6), and Pablo L\u00f3pez (#8) in the top 10. While Ryan and L\u00f3pez share a projected 50 percent chance of being traded, it\u2019s the opening of the buzz on Buxton (35 percent) that tears at the heart the most:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Buxton is willing to waive his no-trade clause \u2014 and not just for Atlanta (he\u2019s a Georgia native)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Is this really a surprise? No. After Buxton continuously expressed loyalty to Minnesota and his desire to remain with the Twins, ownership rewarded him by trading away 10 players from the major league roster, torpedoing any chance of a playoff push and dropping to fourth in the AL Central. They clearly have no interest in sustained victories, so one can\u2019t fault Buxton for wanting to play where he has a chance to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And if Buxton is traded, or Ryan, or L\u00f3pez, or article honorable mention Ryan Jeffers, how many people are going to want to watch this team? We\u2019d be lucky to get a couple dozen comments on game threads here, and attendance is surely going to plummet in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For now, this is still a hypothetical projection. But if beloved Twins players are shipped off during the Winter Meetings next week, we in the fanbase are depressingly prepared for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this season of giving, Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan have given baseball fans a ranked list of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,29427,822,60,3190,4,148,32220],"class_list":{"0":"post-458772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-hot-stove","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-twins","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-twins","15":"tag-winter-meetings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115655655002821833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}