Off topic, but the Twins were not "forced" to trade Santana. If they couldn't sign him, it was proper to offer him in trade, but if they couldn't get a deal better than they got, the proper thing to do would have been to keep him for one more year on a competitive team, put another 230 innings on his arm, let him leave as a free agent, and take the two draft picks they would have received in those days. It's not second guessing, either...lots of us said so at the time.