Frostillicus
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The other AL Central teams are stocking up for next year, while things remain relatively quiet for the Twins. We have:
- Possibility of signing Carl Pavano long-term. Sounds like it's looking fairly likely at this point. If it's more than 2 years it's a terrible deal.
- Signing Tsuyoshi Nishioka from Japan. Paid $5 million for the exclusive negotiating rights and it sounds like they're close to signing him for 3 years/$10 million. Hopefully he's more Ichiro and less Kaz Matsui.
- Trading JJ Hardy and Brendan Harris to Baltimore for a couple minor league pitchers. Not sure of the rush to get rid of Hardy. He's affordable and an above average defensive shortstop with average offensive skills. That's not all that easy to find. I haven't looked up the pitchers they're supposed to be getting, but I heard some speculation that this may be them trying to get more prospects to go after Greinke. This I can support.
- What else did I miss?
- Possibility of signing Carl Pavano long-term. Sounds like it's looking fairly likely at this point. If it's more than 2 years it's a terrible deal.
- Signing Tsuyoshi Nishioka from Japan. Paid $5 million for the exclusive negotiating rights and it sounds like they're close to signing him for 3 years/$10 million. Hopefully he's more Ichiro and less Kaz Matsui.
- Trading JJ Hardy and Brendan Harris to Baltimore for a couple minor league pitchers. Not sure of the rush to get rid of Hardy. He's affordable and an above average defensive shortstop with average offensive skills. That's not all that easy to find. I haven't looked up the pitchers they're supposed to be getting, but I heard some speculation that this may be them trying to get more prospects to go after Greinke. This I can support.
- What else did I miss?
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