One thing stands between the Phillies and a trade for Byron Buxton

The Philadelphia Phillies would greatly benefit from a guy like Byron Buxton in their outfield.

And just a year ago, the Phillies traded for their closer Jhoan Duran from the Minnesota Twins, the team that currently has Buxton.

Philadelphia is one of the listed possible destinations in a new ESPN article about Buxton's trade potential, too.

It all lines up, except for one problem.

Buxton doesn't want to leave Minnesota.

"I'm a Twin," he told reporters earlier this season, and not for the first time. He's spoken about wanting to spend his entire career playing for Minnesota, the organization that drafted him.

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"We've dropped the (trade) odds from unlikely (30%) to extremely unlikely (10%), removing Buxton from the board altogether discounts the possibility of a team blowing away Minnesota with an offer that's too good to refuse," ESPN's Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel wrote in a new article on Monday.

It's an odd situation that doesn't show up all that much in modern MLB operations anymore.

The reality is that teams are very business-focused, and so if they believe the best move for their long-term viability is trading away a star to build for the future, they do it. There's not often much room for sentiment.

But it seems that in Minnesota, both the Buxton side and the Twins side are feeling an affection for each other that they don't want to end.

That's just unfortunate for teams like the Phillies. In most circumstances that look like this, Buxton would be available, and Philadelphia could use some promising prospects to bring him aboard.

But in this specific instance, the reality that Buxton doesn't want to go anywhere may end up being too big a hump for the Phillies to get over.

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