HOLY MINNESOTA TWINS!!

[Coach]

<!--quoteo(post=83796:date=Mar 22 2010, 12:23 AM:name=Destined)-->QUOTE (Destined @ Mar 22 2010, 12:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=83734:date=Mar 21 2010, 07:43 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>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).
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I bet the Twins are sitting at home pissed that they did not have you conducting the negotiations.