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Report: Twins trade Santana to Mets

January 29th, 2008

Report: Twins trade Santana to Mets for outfielder Carlos Gomez and three right handed pitchers in Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey. I am so happy he didn’t go to the Red Sox or the Yankees, and this just might rekindle my love for my favorite baseball team from my youth. Go Mets!

According to Baseball America, we got four of their top seven prospects, though not their #1 guy in Fernando Martinez (power hitting center fielder). More on the prospects at Diamond Cutter.

2. Deolis Guerra, rhp
3. Carlos Gomez, of
4. Kevin Mulvey, rhp
7. Philip Humber, rhp

If this is the deal, I can’t say I’m thrilled with what we got, but I really have no idea what the upside is with these in these guys. Maybe it will turn out, maybe it won’t – either way we won’t know for a few years. I’m just glad it’s over so we can move on with the season. Now we just have to put up with all of the “Fire Bill Smith” talk and “Pohlad Sucks” talk from the local fans.

I’ll also add that we really have no idea what offers were ever really made, or if any other teams really had a chance to sign Johan, which is what it all boils down to. He was in control of this situation, we were all just along for the ride.

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  1. moe
    January 29th, 2008 at 16:36 | #1
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    Twins Geek:

    I suspect that the Twins were more handcuffed by Santana than they were admitting, which is a scenario I feared a couple of months ago. Maybe Santana basically dictated that there were only three teams that he would accept a deal with. That those teams caught wind of that. And that it left the Twins with almost no leverage. And of course, it appears he ultimately forced a trade just before the Twins could really react to a positive shift in the market.

  2. moe
    January 29th, 2008 at 17:14 | #2
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    The feeling so far around the baseball circles (Buster Olney on ESPN) is that both the Red Sox and Yankees pulled away in recent weeks so this was really the only offer on the table. And that this was also probably the 4th best offer. With the two Red Sox deals involving Jacoby Ellsbury or Jon Lester and a Yankees trade with Phillip Hughes.

    Passing on those deals looks like it really hurt, but I’d also like to point out that most fans weren’t all that happy with those trades either, so it’s all hindsight 20/20.

  3. J-Me
    January 30th, 2008 at 09:42 | #3
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    “Fire Bill Smith” chatter is premature without a doubt. The jury is still very much out on this guy. However, he has shaken my faith and the faith of Twins fans. He’s just done it in a very different way than Terry Ryan.

    “Pohlad Sucks” chatter is still pretty legit IMO. I’ll admit that relatively speaking, the Pohlad family has shown *some* commitment by locking up Morneau & Cuddyer. However, they still sit more than $20M under their 2007 payroll. That is by no means trivial.

    I hate the fact that we this trade situation get so far as to let Johan dictate the outcome. That is probably why we got what appears on the surface, to be a fleecing.

    Anyone have any thoughts on whether this stockpile of arms we now have will give us some ability to trade for more (future) offense?

  4. moe
    January 30th, 2008 at 09:56 | #4
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    I think Ryan is more to blame for this deal and the Hunter deal. Smith was left with it, after Ryan didn’t act on it last season.

    I still don’t buy the Pohlad sucks attitude, but we’ve talked about that enough, so we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

  5. moe
    January 30th, 2008 at 10:24 | #5
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  6. J-Me
    January 30th, 2008 at 11:20 | #6
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    RE: New Unis. Ugh. Gross. Can’t we come up with something original? Guess not. Why an incessant need to rehash the past look?

    Terry Ryan’s legacy is not shaping up well.

  7. moe
    January 30th, 2008 at 12:59 | #7
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    I don’t think those unis are real. The post is no longer there, so I’m thinking that they actually were the old ones from 1961. At least I hope so.

  8. J-Me
    January 30th, 2008 at 13:36 | #8
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    Let’s hope so.

  9. moe
    January 30th, 2008 at 14:42 | #9
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    MNPost: Smith and Twins had limited leverage and little chance to win Santana sweepstakes

    this was probably the best article I’ve read so far on the whole trade. Some info I hadn’t heard officially before.

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