Santana trade official

hb, to paraphrase your friend BYH from earlier and elsewhere...mind your own business or take it to PMs.

 

Zeke, please correct me if I'm wrong. But wasn't Santana the best home-grown pitcher in Twins history? He's among the top five starters in the game. Why not give him the two additional years as an act of good faith, a way to thank him for everything he has done for the organization?

 

They don;t see him being worth that much in 6 years.
And I can't say I blame them.

 

But they aren't the Sox or Yanks.
An extra 40 million as a thank you gift isn't feasible to them.

 

Any idea if he would have signed such a deal without a no-trade clause?

 

Pohlad has the cash. He doesn't want to spend it.

 

You can sign him now and trade him to the Yankees or the Red Sox in four years, then. Hell, barring major injury, he'd be underpaid at $20 million a year in four years -- and you can take out insurance on such an injury.

This reeks of Pohlad simply not wanting to pay and copping out. Cheap fucking bastard.

He has a new, publicly financed park opening in two years, and he just let the best pitcher in the free world walk because he's a stubborn old coot.

 

Why should he? It's a business, he's in it for profit.
The only way this will ever get fixed is fans stop coming to make the point.
We all, unfortunately, know that's not going to happen.

 

I would think the new stadium is the part that is galling to Twins fans. I get that he doesn't want to dip into his own pockets rather than just spend team revenues, but this time I think it was just foolish and short-sighted.

Lay out some cash to make sure the team is good when they move in, make a big splash and pump up the revenue. Then go back to being a cheap bastard in a few years if you have to.

 

Bullshit. Pohlad pockets more than $20 mill every year in revenue sharing money. He's also the richest owner in baseball. He's just too fucking cheap to pay what Johan was worth

 

Johan is a draw. One of the five best pitchers in the game starting for your team every fifth day? That alone should sell out the new park. You'd have to be the biggest idiot ever if you couldn't market him.

Watch the Mets in '09. Reyes, Wright, Beltran and Santana are going to be all over Citi Field, marketing the hell out of the new digs.

 

Exactly. Forget cheap, though you can point to that as well. This was just dumb.