Well, that was one reason. We also filled the spot in the lineup he's best suited, DH. Lest we forget, he was DH most of his time with the Twins last year, where he flourished. We also can't toss away the notion that the Twins didn't think he could play 3B at the MLB level (whether one agrees with that evaluation or not, it might have been a motivation). Though one wonders why they'd think he couldn't play a position he's played for awhile, while also believing he could play a position he had never played before and do so at the ML level with any kind of competency. Wasn't hard to see, well in advance and with no need of hindsight, to know how that would work out.