Morneau and Cuddyer signed

DeeEss57 · Post by **DeeEss57** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:42 pm

The Minnesota Twins announced Friday that they have signed
first baseman Justin Morneau and outfielder Michael Cuddyer
to multiyear deals.

Morneau signed a six-year deal and now is signed through
2013. The 2006 AL MVP earned his first All-Star bid in 2007,
batting .276 along with 31 home runs and 111 rbi.

Cuddyer, who signed a three-year deal with a club option for
2011, batted .276 last season while hitting 16 home runs and
81 rbi last season.

One less thing to worry about, I guess. Now if they'd only sign Santana to another contract.

Dawn
From many... One.

PurpleMustReign · Post by **PurpleMustReign** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:04 pm

Man you JUST beat me to it!!

I'm glad this happened. So far, I like this new GM better than Terry Ryan for the simple fact that he is aggressive. We'll see if he has Ryan's success.

I like Morneau, and I like Cuddyer, but I hope Cuddy stays in Right. His career took off when he started playing there, and I can see it going to hell if they move him.

Skoobs78 · Post by **Skoobs78** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:59 pm

Bargain for the numbers that Morneau puts up, we need to either lock up Santana or trade him for an established group of players, including a 3rd baseman.

DeeEss57 · Post by **DeeEss57** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:13 am

Skoobs78 wrote:Bargain for the numbers that Morneau puts up, we need to either lock up Santana or trade him for an established group of players, including a 3rd baseman.

If we're going to trade Santana (and they'd better not), they'd better get some good pitching in return. We got him and Liriano. That's about it. Trade Santana and we got a guy coming off Tommy John surgery as our ace. That ain't going to work.

Dawn

PurpleMustReign · Post by **PurpleMustReign** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:01 pm

DeeEss57 wrote:
If we're going to trade Santana (and they'd better not), they'd better get some good pitching in return. We got him and Liriano. That's about it. Trade Santana and we got a guy coming off Tommy John surgery as our ace. That ain't going to work.

Dawn

That's what I'm afraid they are banking on: Liriano returning to form. First, he had Tommy John Surgery, and second, he has only pitched for a little more than half of a full season.

DeeEss57 · Post by **DeeEss57** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:17 pm

PurpleMustReign wrote:That's what I'm afraid they are banking on: Liriano returning to form. First, he had Tommy John Surgery, and second, he has only pitched for a little more than half of a full season.

It takes two years to competely recover from that surgery and the Twins should know that. We'll be lucky if he can pitch even 75% of what he was this season.

I don't know what I'll do if the Twins trade Santana. I'm tempted to send them all my Twins stuff and tell them they just lost a fan to the Cubs.

Dawn

CalVike · Post by **CalVike** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:39 pm

A big step in the right direction.

DanAS1 · Post by **DanAS1** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:58 pm

DeeEss57 wrote: It takes two years to competely recover from that surgery and the Twins should know that. We'll be lucky if he can pitch even 75% of what he was this season.

I don't know what I'll do if the Twins trade Santana. I'm tempted to send them all my Twins stuff and tell them they just lost a fan to the Cubs.

Dawn

They probably should trade him, Dawn. The alternative is losing him in a year and getting nothing. The team is obviously too cheap to re-sign him.

Demi · Post by **Demi** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:22 pm

They should have traded Hunter too.

As far as being cheap, he'd take up like a third of their payroll. Simple reality is a team with bottom of the league revenue can't realistically afford that.