Twins CAN afford Garza, Nolasco, & Salty...

[Trevor0333]

Nolasco signing at 12 mill per, its safe to assume it would take about 15-16 mill per year over 5 to get Garza. Salty reportedly would accept the 1st 3/30 offer he received. If the Twins signed all 3 counting Mauer, they are commiting 60 Million to 4 players over the next 3 years. That sounds like an absurd amount to have comitted to only 4 players.

 

How is it possible to afford that? They have another $20 million coming off the books in 2015 losing Willingham, Corriea, Burton, Doumit, & Duensing.

 

With the new $25M a year TV money a $100 million annual payroll isnt out of the question, that leaves 40 million to fill out the rest of the roster. Normally that would be impossible to field a competitor. What makes it very possible is the big wave of prospects & young position players the Twins have on their way. They can fill the other 17-21 roster spots with players on rookie contracts easily. I could see Arcia, Sano, Buxton & Meyer all being super 2 candidates but that is still 3 years down the road.

 

C Salty - 10M

1B Mauer - 23M

2B Dozier 2 years pre arb remaining - (Jorge Polanco)

SS Florimon 2 years pre arb remaining - (Danny Santana)

3B Sano 3 years pre arb remaining - (Matt Harrison)

LF Rosario 3 years pre arb remaining

CF Buxton 3 years pre arb remaining

RF Hicks 3 years pre arb remaining - (Max Kepler)

DH Arcia 2 years pre arb remaining

 

SP Garza - 15M

SP Nolasco - 12M

SP Deduno - 1 year pre arb remaining

SP Albers - 2 years pre arb remaining

SP Meyer - 3 years pre arb remaining

SP Gibson - 2 years pre arb remaining

SP May - 3 years pre arb remaining

 

BP Swarzak 2 arb years remaining

BP Fien 1 year pre arb remaining

BP Pressley 2 years pre arb remaining

BP Theilbar 2 years pre arb remaining

BP Tonkin 3 years pre arb remaining

BP Jones 3 years pre arb remaining

 

Being able to fill 7 of the 9 position & 7-10 pitchers with players under their rookie contracts is almost unprecedented. Having potential #1 Alex Meyer very close to being in the majors & slotting him as your #3 starter while having options galore with your 4-5 starters still under rookie contracts.

 

The Twins could easily have room going forward to afford a trio of Garza, Nolasco, Salty plus a stopgap LF such as Rajai Davis until Rosario takes over LF. Those signings alone instantly put the Twins in the crosshairs to compete for the division in 2014 & beyond.

[071063]

Where is Perkins? You missed him and his $3.75M.

[RedBull34]

and Burton and Plouffe is a Super Two and you're assuming we just cut loose all of the others. If Correia pitches like he did last year, I could see the Twins keeping him around.

[Tibs]

I would love to get Garza. Getting Saltalamacchia would be good as well, but it's no skin off my back if that doesn't happen.

[kab21]

There's no reason that a playoff contender couldn't have a payroll well over 100M. But I highly doubt the Twins are signing a more expensive FA this winter.

[Danchat]

There's no reason that a playoff contender couldn't have a payroll well over 100M. But I highly doubt the Twins are signing a more expensive FA this winter.

 

This. If we are signing a catcher, it shouldn't be for long term. Pinto looks really good, at least in my opinion.

[mudcat14]

Sounds like Hughes is down to just a few teams, the Twins included. He wants a deal around the 2/$16m range. I'd almost prefer that to Garza. See if we can have a modest success with FA this season. Maybe we'll go in even harder in the future when we're closer to contending.

[TopGunn#22]

If the Twins will give the type of contracts they have to the Corriea's and Pelfry's of the world, they should jump at the chance to sign Hughes to a 2/16m contract. If we like what we see, extend him, if not, it's just 2 years and it's time for Meyer, May, Gonsalves etc...