Byron Buxton Calls Twins Trade Deadline 'Heartbreaking,' But 'I Ain't Going Anywhere'

Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton says it was "heartbreaking" to watch his club trade away almost 40 percent of the roster ahead of the 2025 MLB trade deadline, per Bobby Nightengale of the Minnesota Star Tribune.

But Buxton added that he isn't planning on leaving Minneapolis despite the recent fire sale.

“Nothing’s changed. It’s just part of baseball," Buxton said, per Nightengale. "It’s the business side of it. Just because we go through these tough roads or whatever, it is what it is. We’ll be better once we get on the other end of it and figure things out a little bit more.

"The end of the season we’ll talk a little bit more, but I ain’t going nowhere.”

After the 2025 season, Buxton will have three years remaining on the seven-year, $100 million contract he signed with the Twins ahead of the 2022 campaign.

He likely expected to play out more of that contract with some of his former teammates.

Five of the 11 players the Twins moved at the deadline had at least two years of team control remaining on their contracts past 2025. Relief pitcher Louis Varland, for instance, was under contract through 2030.

The status of those contracts didn't matter as Minnesota sold heavily at the deadline, parting ways with players including shortstop Carlos Correa, closer Jhoan Duran, outfielder Harrison Bader and relief pitchers like Varland as well as Griffin Jax, Brock Stewart and Danny Coulombe.

The sales come almost a year after the Pohlad family, which has owned the team since 1984, put the team up for sale last October.

Front Office Sports' Ben Horney reported after the Twins' busy trade deadline that there was "momentum" toward the sale of the franchise.

According to Horney, the trades will financially help the Pohlads this season but "is not expected to impact the sale process."

Buxton will hope that the franchise's new ownership will be willing to put in the money to rebuild a competitive roster on a team that now has the lowest active payroll in MLB, per Spotrac.

Although he has posted a second career All-Star campaign so far this season by batting .282 with 23 home runs through 85 games, the Twins are on track to miss the postseason for a fourth time in five years with a 51-58 record.