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Imagine (dream) about this lineup. Buxton Crawford Mauer Sano Arcia Pluffe (DH) Hicks Pinto Rosario

Very interesting, Jeremy. It seems to me that it really comes down to our willingness to be a little worse now in order to make an already good farm system even better. Personally there is no difference to me between being bad and really bad. Therefore, I say sell. I also hope for a silver lining in that moving veterans makes room to give more guys a shot to make in at the MLB level. How great would it be if one or two players out of Colabello, Albers, Tonkin, Hendricks, Worley, etc could surprise us and step it up if given the opportunity to develop in the majors. Morneau – If he is willing to sign an extension for 2 years at $14M it becomes an interesting decision. If not, and we can get a prospect with a decent shot at making the ML roster, you let him go. We can still try to sign him next season if that makes sense. Plouffe is actually the tough one to me because he has shown signs that suggest he might finally reach his potential. He has had a much better approach and been getting the barrel of the bat on the ball. At times he has drilled the ball the other way quite a bit but they were hit at someone. So, even if Sano does replace him, he could be a super utility player / DH. Holding on to him for another might also yield better prospects if he does in fact continue to improve. Perkins is pretty easy to me if he brings the kind of offers you have suggested. The twins are likely not going to be a serious contender until his current contract is up and a closer is not critical to a poor or mediocre team. Meyer, May, Sano, and Rosario likely will not be here until mid 2014. We can’t expect to be serious contenders their first full year in 2015. I think we need to be realistic about when this team could be a serious contender. Perkins does not fit into that equation.

Hello everyone, I have been following for a few months but never posted. When I saw this thread I decided to register so that I could pose a question. The question is ... If Morneau was worthy of a 2/20 extension would he not also be worth a pretty decent prospect?