ummm....apparently a Detroit radio station reporting it.

 

http://twitter.com/johnfayman

This is all sorts of trouble if true.

Where did you hear this?

If true, we're f***ed.

If true, we're f***ed.

We reall need need to have another big bat in the lineup coming out of the All-Star Break.

Edited July 6, 201015 yr by Thunderbolt

Wow. Well this automatically (if they weren't already) makes the Twins the team to beat in the Central. Worst case scenario for us. Now it's Kenny's turn.

Wow. Well this automatically (if they weren't already) makes the Twins the team to beat in the Central. Worst case scenario for us. Now it's Kenny's turn.

I think it's something Kenny had time to absorb and accept for a week or so though. It was pretty clear that the Twins had an awfully good shot to get him.

 

Hopefully KW has something up his sleeve.

This better not be true.

You can't take this as a guarantee yet, as it's the Cincinnati Reds beat writer citing a Detroit radio station, but, just to echo everyone's thoughts, it would be bad for the Sox.

This gives the Twins a formidable rotation. This is a move that's going to need to be countered.

Twins source denies it.

 

http://twitter.com/jclong/status/17835099604

And it looks like it was first reported by Mark Anderson. Here's his bio:

 

"I cover UNLV football and women's basketball for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Arena Football League for Pro Football Weekly."

 

uhh, what?

Twins source denies it.

 

http://twitter.com/jclong/status/17835099604

 

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if the Twins were close though.

The problem is, personally I think we need another big bat to keep up with the current Twins roster. If they add Cliff Lee, well, I just don't know what to think.

The problem is, personally I think we need another big bat to keep up with the current Twins roster. If they add Cliff Lee, well, I just don't know what to think.

 

You stay the course. That's been Williams' MO his entire career. If the right deal comes up, you make it. If not, don't. It doesn't matter if they're winning or losing, that's all he's ever done. If the Twins add Cliff Lee, then s*** happens, and you either try and add someone else, or you keep the current team and hope there's a God and he's on your side.

 

If the pitching staff remains crazy good the rest of the year, and I certainly think that's a possibility, that bat may not be required. It's just a wait and see game at that point.

You stay the course. That's been Williams' MO his entire career. If the right deal comes up, you make it. If not, don't. It doesn't matter if they're winning or losing, that's all he's ever done. If the Twins add Cliff Lee, then s*** happens, and you either try and add someone else, or you keep the current team and hope there's a God and he's on your side.

 

If the pitching staff remains crazy good the rest of the year, and I certainly think that's a possibility, that bat may not be required. It's just a wait and see game at that point.

I'm speaking from my point of view, not KW's. Just worried about my confidence in our chances.

The problem is, personally I think we need another big bat to keep up with the current Twins roster. If they add Cliff Lee, well, I just don't know what to think.

 

I think the Sox can offset the Lee trade if it happens by acquiring reasonable offensive help. The problem is, to your point, I don't think just offsetting such a move would be good enough. And this isn't even taking Detroit into account.

Edited July 6, 201015 yr by whitesoxfan101

I gotta say, I wouldn't be totally upset. It would be really nice to see the Twins going all in for a guy that is most likely leaving anyway, and to have them weaken that farm system as much as possible. For all of the people who think we can win this anyway, this is a win/win.

Hicks and Ramos

Kenny will have a better hand then the Twins.

 

He upstaged them last year.

Kenny will have a better hand then the Twins.

 

He upstaged them last year.

 

Pretty hard to have a better hand than one of the top 3 pitchers in all of baseball. I'm not as concerned about the Sox facing Lee, as I think we can hit his fastball. It's the other, more mediocre teams in the AL, that I think Lee will dominate and allow the Twins to rack up wins.

Hicks and Ramos

 

I'd be willing to argue that if the Twins actually offered that, the deal would be done already. That's an overpay for a half season rental of a pitcher IMO.

Edited July 6, 201015 yr by whitesoxfan101

Kenny stealing Lee away from the Twins sounds like something he would do. Can you imagine a rotation of .....

 

Buehrle, Peavy, Lee, Danks, Floyd (Garcia/Hudson)

 

That would be pretty amazing.

I'd be willing to argue that if the Twins actually offered that, the deal would be done already. That's an overpay for a half season rental of a pitcher IMO.

 

You're right. That would be an overpay. But that just goes to show that these aren't the Twins of the past. With the new park in place, they're looking to spend, or in this case sacrifice some of their future to go for it this year. They wouldn't even be in the conversation for Lee a few years ago.

You're right. That would be an overpay. But that just goes to show that these aren't the Twins of the past. With the new park in place, they're looking to spend, or in this case sacrifice some of their future to go for it this year. They wouldn't even be in the conversation for Lee a few years ago.

 

Meh.. unless they are offering Gibson and Revere, they aren't losing THAT much of their future. Ramos is obviously blocked (well.. for the moment barring a move to DH/3B) and Hicks, who I like alot, will be a loss, but they will have Span for a while out there also and an improving Young in LF. The writing was on the wall with their money when they signed Mauer to that loaded $ deal. Couple that with their superior scouting and they are in good shape.