HOLY MINNESOTA TWINS!!

[Runnys]

8 years/184 million (full no trade)...WOW!! For all the talk in years past about Minnesota being a small market team they sure are dishing out the money. I think their payroll this year is going to be almost 100 million.

8 years seems like a lot for a catcher, but I am assuming he won't catch the entire 8 years. Also, it is going to be real interesting to see how their new park plays.

[Ace]

WOW. That is a HUGE contract.

[Fly]

Probably a good time to do it with them opening up a new park and the year after the playoffs. His bat can play at DH or first base, so the years shouldn't be a huge deal.

[Coach]

Good for them.

[ColoradoCub]

Too much money for a catcher, and his bat is too good to take a day off every week, but I'm sure they already know that.

[funkster]

Good lord that's a lot of money.

[cigar]

Pujols probably blew a load after he saw that contract.

[jstraw]

That contract is stupid. It will be regretted.

[Destined]

Twins had to do it. He's the hometown kid, so there was noway they weren't going to take care of him.

[jstraw]

<!--quoteo(post=83710:date=Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM:name=Destined)-->QUOTE (Destined @ Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Twins had to do it. He's the hometown kid, so there was noway they weren't going to take care of him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

He'd have left over anything less?

[Destined]

<!--quoteo(post=83711:date=Mar 21 2010, 06:22 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 21 2010, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83710:date=Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM:name=Destined)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Destined @ Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Twins had to do it. He's the hometown kid, so there was noway they weren't going to take care of him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

He'd have left over anything less?
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He would have probably taken less, but hell, good for him.

[jstraw]

<!--quoteo(post=83720:date=Mar 21 2010, 09:21 PM:name=Destined)-->QUOTE (Destined @ Mar 21 2010, 09:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83711:date=Mar 21 2010, 06:22 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 21 2010, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83710:date=Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM:name=Destined)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Destined @ Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Twins had to do it. He's the hometown kid, so there was noway they weren't going to take care of him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

He'd have left over anything less?
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He would have probably taken less, but hell, good for him.
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I'm not against anyone getting a pay day, good for him. But any GM that pays more than he has to for a player is an idiot.

[Andy]

<!--quoteo(post=83689:date=Mar 21 2010, 07:22 PM:name=stevestonescigar)-->QUOTE (stevestonescigar @ Mar 21 2010, 07:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Pujols probably blew a load after he saw that contract.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I'm hoping to hell that Pujols looked long at that. Either the Cards resign Pujols to a similar contract and then have TONS of money hung up in Pujols, Holliday and Carpenter, making them less likely to go after anyone else big name....

OR

Pujols walks.

Either way, it should be helpful to us.

[Destined]

<!--quoteo(post=83759:date=Mar 21 2010, 08:21 PM:name=Andy)-->QUOTE (Andy @ Mar 21 2010, 08:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83689:date=Mar 21 2010, 07:22 PM:name=stevestonescigar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (stevestonescigar @ Mar 21 2010, 07:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Pujols probably blew a load after he saw that contract.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I'm hoping to hell that Pujols looked long at that. Either the Cards resign Pujols to a similar contract and then have TONS of money hung up in Pujols, Holliday and Carpenter, making them less likely to go after anyone else big name....

OR

Pujols walks.

Either way, it should be helpful to us.
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This.

[Destined]

<!--quoteo(post=83734:date=Mar 21 2010, 07:43 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 21 2010, 07:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83720:date=Mar 21 2010, 09:21 PM:name=Destined)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Destined @ Mar 21 2010, 09:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83711:date=Mar 21 2010, 06:22 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 21 2010, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83710:date=Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM:name=Destined)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Destined @ Mar 21 2010, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Twins had to do it. He's the hometown kid, so there was noway they weren't going to take care of him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

He'd have left over anything less?
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He would have probably taken less, but hell, good for him.
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I'm not against anyone getting a pay day, good for him. But any GM that pays more than he has to for a player is an idiot.
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We'll never know what Yankee/Red Sox contracts for Mauer would have looked like, and I'm sure they would have bid against each other considering their lack of catchers in the future. Did the Twins overpay? Yes, they did. But at the same time, the Twins needed to keep him.

I would have offered 6 years at $117M ($18M in 2011-2014, $22.5M team options for 2015-2016).