Archive for December, 2009

Quick note: Twins Tender Lots of Contracts

Posted: 13th December 2009 by David in Roster

The Twins will tender contracts to all 30 unsigned players on the 40 man roster.  Some of those names aren’t surprising; the Twins clearly weren’t going to give up on Delmon Young after his monster September and the Carlos Gomez trade.  Brendan Harris, despite maybe not being in the manager’s favor, is plenty valuable as [...]

Pavano to Return to Twins

Posted: 8th December 2009 by David in Uncategorized

The word in the Twins’ blogotwittersphere (mainly via LaVelle E. Neal III) is that Carl Pavano will accept the Twins’ offer of arbitration and return with the club next season.  Ed Price of FanHouse.com reports that Pavano could make $7 million or more.  This is not all that surprising given that Pavano is still fighting the stigma of 4 [...]

Matthew Pouliot of the excellent Circling the Bases baseball blog is reporting a list of type A free agents, and whether they’ve been offered arbitration or not.  Of significant interest to Twins fans should be the fact that neither Placido Polanco nor Orlando Hudson were offered arbitration, meaning the Twins will not be forced to [...]