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He was playing everyday at 1B but was struggling big time at the plate as well, as soon as they moved him to DH he started hitting very well. The reason they seemed to give at the time was the more "tired" he was the more symptoms or possible symptoms would show back up. Against a RHP the lineup should include Mauer, Morneau and Parmelee for sure, against a LHP you can move Morneau to 1st base and have Doumit DH (if hes not already playing RF)

It was nice to see Morneau back in the field, but I imagine he will go back to DHing. No need to rush him back into the field every day and risk further set backs.

Pretty sure it wouldn't work like that, and nobody would ever give Nishioka that much money or even close...

I'd def bring in Bowden as he would help out both the pen and potential rotation. However I will say that much like Lowrie he is a bit over-rated due to hyped up Boston prospect status, you often see this with Yankee prospects as well.

No need to "sell" high on him this year, you can always sell higher on him next year or down the road when he has an (ideally) full healthy productive year under his belt AND someone has stepped up to take the CF position. And I already mentioned you trade him now if you get a really good offer for him. A couple years ago the apparently had the chance to trade him for Storen, a young relief pitcher/closer isn't exactly a mid rotation starter and 2 top prospects. Also I will take exception to calling Morton a major league ready mid rotation starter, Morton was always medicore and his 5.11 ERA in the National league proves how bad he is. He is a boarderline #5 pitcher who would only bet getting starts for a team as bad as the Pirates. Also the two "top" prospects they got turned out to be pretty worthless as well. Hernandez is a bust, and Locke another boarderline #5 guy. So using that as an example doesn't exactly hold a lot of weight. If someone wants to give us a young pitcher with upside (who is close to ML ready) then by all means trade Span now, but if not it doesn't hurt to keep him around past this season. At this point he is actually one of the few close to sure things in this lineup, and he is on a team friendly deal for the next few years. Last thing you want to do is create a huge hole at CF and have to plug that in with overpaying for a CF in the FA market. If you trade him now you run the risk of 2012 and 2013 having CF being patrolled by Revere and his completely empty .280 average or Benson who clearly isn't major league ready...yet, unless you want him to be striking out at a Mark Reynolds rate without as much Home Run power. If Benson steps up or Revere magically learns how to OPS over .740, then you be more active with Span on the market.

If they are "out" of it by the deadline, Pavano, Capps, Doumit, Marquis and Liriano all certainly need to be traded for anything. Pavano however might bring back a draft pick, and I think the Twins would give him the qualifying offer of 1 year 12.5 mil either way? However the rest need to be shipped out for anything they can get, and if Pavano pitches like he did the past 2 years he should be able to bring back a decent prospect from a contender. Ideally Liriano can go on a little hot streak as well and can trick a team into trading for him. Hopefully Capps has a nice year as well and we can trick someone into giving us a top 100 prospect back...well I guess there is only one Bill Smith so that won't happen. Doumit is interesting though... if he proves effective and healthy I wouldn't mind trying to sign him during the season through 2013, nice to finally have some legit catcher depth. If Dozier proves himself major league ready I would toss Carroll on the block as well, though he could be nice to keep around for 2013 as a starting 2B if that is the case. Hughes will never cut it and Alexi continues to be an enigma. I wouldn't trade Span unless one of Revere, Benson or Hicks proves they are ready to take over full time in CF. He is already signed to a pretty team friendly deal until 2015, so I don't see the rush in trying to get rid of him (unless you get blown away by an offer), if Benson or Hicks steps up you can move Span to RF/LF and have a really nice defense.

You always go for the best available player (unless there were sign-ability issues etc). Especially with the number 2 pick.

Bloggers for the most part don't get paid (rightfully so), or at least nothing worthwhile. Of course the top 1% can/do get paid a decent amount, but those people actually have talent and don't write blogs on such bating/stupid things like "are the twins racist? A through derpnalysis" Unfort this is one of the problems with the internet, any idiot with some time on there hands can post absurd articles, thus cluttering everything up and often hiding the truly good and worthwhile blogs/articles such as Seth and Nick, who I am glad are seeing getting a bigger following now! Unfortunately Seth and Nick are the rare exception amongst "sports bloggers"

You'd send the league leader in wins down to the minors??!?!?!11!?

Sweet! On the record? Sounds professional.

Wow, this thread, wow, just wow. Wow. Wow! Wow! Colin Cowherd wants his bit back. So 12 months from now when the Twins fail to resign Pavano will we have a thread titled: Why don't the Twins Re-Sign bisexual* players? Or perhaps: The Pohlads: Haters of America, lovers of Socialism: The Justin Morneau and Corey Koskie theories. *According to some seemingly shady guy who was trying to extort Pavano.

What type of league? What type of scoring? How many teams? Keeper vs Non Keeper?

Jury is still out on that. From past preformance they look pretty equal at the plate. Cuddyer gets a slight edge for being slightly more healthy. Cuddyer also is a least a little better defensively then Willingham. Also, Cuddyer is having a pretty nice start to his season as well with a .400/.429/.800 line. If Willingham ends up being a wash (or even slightly below) to Cuddyer this year it is an absolutely huge win for the Twins though, seeing how the Twins get 2 additional picks out of the deal and are paying Willingham 2.5 million less a year then Cuddyer. Also to curb expectations to the guy who said he will be happy with 40 HR and 120 RBI (RBI is a dumb stat but whatever) Willingham has never hit 30 HR or had 100 RBI in a season. I personally would be escatic if he finishes with 30 HR and a .870 OPS or so, which would be a career year for him. If he can give us 25-29 HR and a .830-.850 OPS I will still be very happy.

Sweet reference bro.

I wonder if they plan on eventually giving Morneau any occasional days off as a precaution? I could see them with Mauer @ DH, Parm @ 1st, Revere in RF and Plouffe @ 2B