The Twins signed Nick Buss, who won the Pacific Coast League batting title last season, to a minor league contract. He likely is headed for Class AAA Rochester, which announced the signing, this year.
The 31-year-old lefthanded hitting outfielder hit .348 with 38 extra base hits, including 11 home runs, and 55 RBI with Class AAA El Paso in the San Diego organization in 2017.
Buss has played in 44 major league games. He was with the Angels for 36 games in 2016 after playing eight games for the Dodgers in 2013.
Buss, 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds, was an eighth round selection by the Dodgers in the 2008 draft out of Southern Cal.
La Velle E. Neal III has covered baseball for the Star Tribune since 1998 (the post-Knoblauch era). Born and raised in Chicago, he grew up following the White Sox and hating the Cubs. He attended both the University of Illinois and Illinois-Chicago and began his baseball writing career at the Kansas City Star. He can be heard occasionally on KFAN radio, lending his great baseball mind to Paul Allen and other hosts. Mark Rosen borrows him occasionally for WCCO-TV.
Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
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