I agree, I don't think the Dodgers should give up 4 players, but I do think that the Twins will and should ask for 4 players, and probably our best 4 young guys. If the price came down to 3 of our prospects, I'd strongly consider it, but again it would depend on who the wanted and what holes it would create.
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I agree, I don't think the Dodgers should give up 4 players, but I do think that the Twins will and should ask for 4 players, and probably our best 4 young guys. If the price came down to 3 of our prospects, I'd strongly consider it, but again it would depend on who the wanted and what holes it would create.
The problem is that they are going to run into roster problems. There may not be enough space to just stockpile all this young talent... Sooner or later they are going to have to decide to get rid of some young guys or just let them all play... Funny thing is that some of their better games last year were with the 'all young' lineup. Back to their need for Santana though, unless Schmidt is back to his Ace self then they are in serious need of an anchor for the staff... I don't think the Japanese guy they are going after is the answer...
They offered him $95MM and he turned it down cold.
Santana has no desire to stay in Minnesota and scenarios like this are exactly why I turned away from baseball after the strike in 94. There are about 4 teams who can afford to pay Santana so one of them will get him. Without some type of salary cap or revenue sharing (which seem to work in the other 2 major sports leagues?????) baseball will be dominated by the big boys.
They may not win every year (see the Yankees) but they have an unfair advantage over the rest of the league.
Case in point, I didn't research this but I read this and have no trouble believing it--the Yankees payroll is more than the Twins GROSS REVENUES. They have their own freaking TV network!!
How do you compete with that?
I think you HAVE to trade Santana and get something for him before he's lost to free agency. I'm a die hard twins fan, but they just don't have the money to keep him. It will be fun though if Liriano comes back to the way he was.
Well see, therein lies the problem - as one of the biggest sticking points in what was almost the strike that would have killed MLB as we know it in 2001 (I think that was the year), the players union absolutely refused to deal with the owners as long as they had a salary cap attached to the new labor agreement. Basically the only way the owners will ever get the salary cap is to break the player's union - which will require either a massive strike or lockout, to the point of risking the league (while the owners think the fans would turn on the players in such a scenario, the fans are pretty much disgusted with ownership as well). However, if anything's to be learned from the NHL, it just may be worth it to have something in place that will ensure competition among all teams (much to the dismay of Boston, both NY teams, both Chicago teams, and both LA teams). As ironic as it sounds, with the exception of the TV deal, the NHL's actually in better shape now than it was before the strike that killed a season and a half.
If ARod is worth $300M to break Bonds HR record, Santanna must be worth $150M to get the best pitcher in the league outside of Josh Beckett. Yankees and red Sox will bid each other upo as they are scared the other will get him - or else they want the other to pay too much. Ha ha for Red Sox and Yankee fans. Raise the ticket prices.
I would think the Red Sox and Cubs need bigger stadiums to seat more people to pay all the bills. Am I wrong?
I would think the Red Sox and Cubs need bigger stadiums to seat more people to pay all the bills. Am I wrong?
While Terry Ryan made some great deals, his last year (getting nothing for Hunter) showed he wasn't into it anymore. Let's see what Trader Bill can do. So far so good.
Santana is maybe in the top five starters out there. Certainly not in the top three when you go .500 and lead the league in homers allowed (with three all-stars batting on the roster).
We need a third baseman and a center fielder. I hope we can get it done with the Mets or Dodgers as the two spend wads in the American league are getting old.
Santana is maybe in the top five starters out there. Certainly not in the top three when you go .500 and lead the league in homers allowed (with three all-stars batting on the roster).
We need a third baseman and a center fielder. I hope we can get it done with the Mets or Dodgers as the two spend wads in the American league are getting old.
Well, if they are going to get screwed, it looks like they are at least trying to get dinner first.
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Its really shaping up to be who decides to bend first: the Yanks give up Hughes with Cabrera, the Sox give up Ellsbury with Lester, the Mets give up Wright or Reyes, or the Dodgers trade a grouping of young talent probably four guys (three if its the right combination). Im a big Twins fan and any of these four would be just fine with me. It is only my opinion but I think you would have to be crazy to lock in any pitcher for six or seven years at over 20m per no matter who you are, a hitter is one thing a pitcher is quite another. On a side note I think the right thing was to let Hunter go and the trade a few days ago gives us four of the best young hitters together anywhere but had to give up plenty to get there.
