{"id":512795,"date":"2026-01-09T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/512795\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:10:16","slug":"massive-twinsfest-omission-will-have-fans-asking-difficult-questions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/512795\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive TwinsFest omission will have fans asking difficult questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5i\">To get excited for the Minnesota Twins&#8217; upcoming 2026 season, the club has officially announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/twins\/fans\/twinsfest?partnerId=redirect-min-twinsfest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">its annual TwinsFest at Target Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5l\">On January 23 and January 24, fans have the opportunity to meet with players and coaches, as well as shop, eat, and play games. It&#8217;s a great time time to break up the dullness of the winter<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Come hang out with Shelty and the rest of the guys at TwinsFest on January 23-24!<\/p>\n<p>See you there: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iMf2HyLIFK\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/iMf2HyLIFK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5I1uI5j3E3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5I1uI5j3E3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minnesota Twins (@Twins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twins\/status\/2008986794260615362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">The anticipation is building, but some fans are going to be disappointed by one of the club&#8217;s stars not officially confirmed to appear at the event. Silver Slugger (and face of the franchise) Byron Buxton is not listed among the players scheduled to appear at TwinsFest.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\">What does this say for Buxton&#8217;s relationship with the Twins?<\/p>\n<p>Byron Buxton not listed to appear at Twins&#8217; annual TwinsFest event in January<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">Other Twins favorites among fans like Pablo L\u00f3pez, Joe Ryan, Luke Keaschall, and Royce Lewis are all on the list for TwinsFest. Newcomer Josh Bell is also listed, <a href=\"https:\/\/puckettspond.com\/twins-top-prospect-receives-high-praise-in-mlb-pipeline-executive-poll-01keccze362n\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as is top prospect Walker Jenkins<\/a>. But no Buxton.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"63\">Listen, we understand that players have other commitments. Maybe he&#8217;s out of town. Maybe there is a family event during this time. We pass no judgement, but Buxton not on the list as part of the organization&#8217;s official announcement of TwinsFest does raise some red flags. He is the best player on the team, and you will probably see a ton of Byron Buxton jerseys and t-shirts at this event. It will be a bummer if he does not show.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">Who knows, the stud outfielder may still be working out his schedule to try and make it. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/puckettspond.com\/3-painful-byron-buxton-trades-twins-should-actually-consider-01kds8qge7c6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amidst an offseason where trade rumors swirled around Buxton<\/a>, having him not on the list to appear at TwinsFest will organically have fans questioning if he is happy in Minnesota. Hopefully he is. Hopefully he is a late addition to the scheduled list of guests.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To get excited for the Minnesota Twins&#8217; upcoming 2026 season, the club has officially announced its annual TwinsFest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-512795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesotatwins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115863894408093025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512795","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=512795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}