Back during spring training, we took an educated guess based on history and plate appearances that treasured Twins prosepcts Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano might make their big-league debuts in late June.
Buxton -- in trademark speedy fashion -- beat us there, getting the call last weekend. Even for him, this was fast: by our count, his debut is the quickest by a Twins hitting prospect over the past decade.
As we covered in March, the team has called up 28 position players since 2004 who met the following criteria:
-- Came up through the minors
-- Made their major league debut with the Twins
-- Had a long enough career to exceed rookie service time limits
The average prospect from that group saw about 2,000 minor-league plate appearances, 570 of them at Double A.