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Diaw and Mendez should be highly sought after and I would not have a problem trading them due to positional strength. Quick and Houston should also be highly sought after, but I would hate to see them traded also due to positional lack of strength. I'd love for EmRod to be less injury prone and be a long term Twins outfielder, but would not have a problem trading him for the right package. The Twins have a lot of very tradeable pieces in the minors because of depth but as others have said, they aren't getting their chances, at least not yet. Also agree that Roden is not the guy for Twins and Gray should be in AAA as an emergency SS and he's had some moments in the big leagues, but I don't think anybody is knocking on the door as a trade piece. I want to see Jenkins and Culpepper called up and Roden and Gray sent down.

I don't know why, but I get a feeling that Royce is going to be traded. What an up and down career he has had. For years he was going to be our next superstar. But the injuries he's had to overcome, plus the streaky good and then streaky bad stretches are very uncomfortable. I still very much like Royce and hope he is a Twin and becomes a more reliably good player, but I just see a change of scenery for both him and the Twins is about to happen. Gut feeling.

OHHHHH. My mistake. I thought they intentionally walked the bases loaded. Well, that changes everything.

I disagree. Playing out of position had nothing to do with it. All 5 infielders and the pitcher should have known before the pitch was even thrown, that the only runner that matters was on third base. Get the force at home first and foremost. If you can still get the double play great. If the game is on the line, end that threat and go on from there.

I like this move. Traded two guys that probalbly don't make it to the big league club and possibly not to MLB at all. Now a trade for Emerson Hancock and I'd be really happy. I still think that they could trade Jeffers and be satisfied with Caratini and Jackson, but another reliever in the same vein as Minter would be solid also. Time to see Culpepper and Jenkins called up. Kudos to Clemens who may be the Twins MVP for the year.

15 innings without scoring a run

Disagree. Need to look at his overall numbers.

Very good player. Not an HOF'er.

but can they do anything with an opening?

Twins are prone to sucking!!!!!

Attributed to ha bad American league. Lucky to not be 15 games below .500.

I think the Twins trade deadline thoughts should be on 9 new hitters.

Wow. You seem to take yourself pretty serious. That whole response was supposed to be semi-deadpan humor. For me anyway.

And when the deadline has come and gone, I predict that Jeffers will either be a Dodger or a Yankee.

There is another aspect to trading Jeffers that hasn't been talked about. Albeit probably quite minor and only something that would affect the Pohlads. And that would be that by keeping Jeffers in a possible playoff run, if he were to make the difference in making or not making the playoffs, there is a lot of money to be made, "again, by the Pohlads", in having home playoff games. I'm not sure how much difference that would make to even the owners or the differntial in their profits, but I thought I'd throw it out there for laughs.