Twins had the opportunity to take Eduardo Morlan, the minor league reliever they dealt in the Young-Garza swap, in the Rule 5 draft... they didn't and instead picked something called Jason Jones, who isn't bad but I doubt he has the upside of Morlan.
Twins also announced the signing of Punto to a 2-year, $8M deal, with a $5M option for 2011. Gardy says he is the starting shortstop. If they're set with that, they won't be moving Casilla to short, so all 2Bs are out of the question in a trade. The only way to improve this team now is at 3B, meaning one year of DeRosa or Beltre (good options, but not for long), or multiple years of Wigginton (decent option), Atkins (bad option, especially since we'd probably have to give up more for him than for Wigginton or DeRosa), or Kouzmanoff (horrible, horrible option).
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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