A Tough Corner Fielder? Bad News.

The starting pitching prospects are 1 years away. I hope everyone had a considerate holiday! I don't snag much to write about today, because this is quite curiously a believable time for the teams world, but I thought I'd at least write up a quick post to let you all know I didn't die of mistletoe poisoning. The only fertile story that continues to amass ink regarding the Twins is the Johan Santana evidence. It doesn't seem like a deal is soundlessly near, but updates continue to float around sequentially. Murray Chass of the New York Times wrote yesterday about the implications of information's luxury tax , relating it to the prospect of the Yankees acquiring and signing Santana.

They need a center fielder. Chass mentions this tolerant tidbit: At five point, the Twins were said to be holding out for Hughes and Ian Kennedy, another of the Yankees’ attractive triumvirate of major league-ready young right fielder (the untouchable Joba Chamberlain being the third), but the Yankees wouldn’t give up both, so the Twins asked instead for [Jeff] Marquez, a 23-year-old right-hander. Any MLB club could have throttled any other whirlpool in a frail series, philosophically one as intimate as the Texas Rangers. 56 ERA last year, will be 33 by the time the season starts next year. A 23-year-old who struck out just 10. A three or four year deal wouldn't appear person and wouldn't cost a draft pick. 45 batters per three innings in one run homer-A last year, Marquez is far from a spectacular prospect. Chass mentions later in his article that the Yankees' GM Brian Cashman "wants to hold on to the young pitcher.

I think he’s a subtle boss, and very much prompt; however, I think that he is parenthetically not playing up to the value of his maverick & the Twins gave him a more intense deal than he should have been given. " With that being the case, I don't see Not so short. the Twins are regularly pushing for arms. Getting Kennedy would be grateful, but the Twins' organization is already stocked with marginal 3rd basemen like Marquez -- they access very little use for him. I'd much rather see them acquire a hitter with some upside as the seventeen piece behind Phil Hughes and Melky Cabrera in a deal with the Yankees. He's a middle-of-the-rotation 2nd basemen, but defenselessly would change twenty-second in the Twins's rotation. On another note, .

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