"It's just better to take it now than if you lose your appeal and they determine when that appeal will be," Loney said. "So just might as well take it on your own terms.
"... I'm not sure if I was going to start today, anyway. So it was just kind of one of those things all the way around."
Left-hander Tommy Milone started for the Twins on Thursday night, so it's likely Loney would not have been in the starting lineup for the series finale.
Loney received a one-game suspension for making contact with home-plate umpire Paul Nauert during an argument in Saturday's 5-4 Rays victory over the A's.