Twins now have 2 fat 6+ ERA pitchers January 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
The Twins took a chance and banked on Carlos Silva rebounding from an awful 2006 season when they made the decision to bring him back shortly after the end of the season. Now the Twins are taking a chance on another starter, Sidney Ponson, who had a miserable 2006 season in which he was released by the Cardinals and Yankees.
What’s sad is that these guys aren’t here to compete for the fifth spot or fill a long relief role. No, they’ll likely be the #3 and #4 starters at the beginning of the 2007 season. In the early days of the offseason there was hope of signing a guy like Ted Lilly, but then the market went nuts and even Gil Meche was getting a huge contract. The Twins, a team that can’t even make noise in a typical offseason, really had no chance. However, there’s no way to sugarcoat the signing of Ponson. It’s dissapointing. We can now officially say that the Twins have done nothing to improve their team for next year.
Jeff Cirillo and Sidney Ponson…There’s no way I could’ve dreamt up a worse offseason. However, the Twins now have no excuse for not throwing buckets of money at Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer to keep them around long-term.
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Andrew Kelly wrote: January 30th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Sydney Ponson, i agree with you, is not a signing that can be pointed to as a particular reason for encouragement in respects to the upcoming season, but at the same time, its not really costing them anything. He's signed to a minor league deal and has no garuntee that he will be in the major league rotation. Because of this I can sleep at night- he's going to show up in spring training, and if he isn't any good, he'll be gone, and one of the 5 or so young pitchers will take those innings. Now, by some chance, he has regained his form of 2003 or so, then he will make the team and cost them just a million dollars. Thats a pretty good upside, and really no downside. Ryan didn't make the same mistake he made garunteeing Bastista a spot and relatively large contract with Ponson, and I'm going to bet that he won't make the mistake of bringing Ponson to the major league club if he isnt going to help the way he did with Batista.
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Jeremy wrote: January 10th, 2007 at 11:48 am
However, the Twins now have no excuse for not throwing buckets of money at Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer to keep them around long-term.
Amen to that. And let's hope they find a way to pony up for Santana before he's free after 2008.