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First positive move:


Twins cut Buscher from 40-man roster Posted on November 3rd, 2009 – 11:57 AM
By Joe Christensen

The Twins have cut infielder Brian Buscher from their 40-man roster, outrighting him to Class AAA Rochester. He can become a minor-league free agent 16 days after the World Series.
Buscher, 28, batted .235 with two home runs and 12 RBI in 61 games for the Twins this season, posting a .360 on-base percentage and a .316 slugging percentage.

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ORIGINAL: Mr. Ed

First positive move:


Twins cut Buscher from 40-man roster Posted on November 3rd, 2009 – 11:57 AM
By Joe Christensen

The Twins have cut infielder Brian Buscher from their 40-man roster, outrighting him to Class AAA Rochester. He can become a minor-league free agent 16 days after the World Series.
Buscher, 28, batted .235 with two home runs and 12 RBI in 61 games for the Twins this season, posting a .360 on-base percentage and a .316 slugging percentage.

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Other guys expendable on the 40-man IMO:

Butera (don't need him when you have Ramos/Morales both on it). I'd guarantee there's no other organization with FIVE catchers currently on it.
Redmond (obviously that will come).
Gabino
Keppel
Pavano
Cabrera
Crede
Huber

To add: Boof/Slowey/Neshek

By my count, if all the above are done, that'd leave 6 open spots on the 40-man.

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One less bullet in the gun . . . for Gardy to shoot himself in the foot with.

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ORIGINAL: Todd Gray

One less bullet in the gun . . . for Gardy to shoot himself in the foot with.

Now if we can just eject that Nick Punto shell from the chamber we will be in business.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Todd Gray

One less bullet in the gun . . . for Gardy to shoot himself in the foot with.

Now if we can just eject that Nick Punto shell from the chamber we will be in business.

The sad thing is, Gardy would find a new worthless player to latch onto...like Matt Tolbert.  I rejoiced the day the Twins let LewLew go because they finally discarded Gardy's favorite worthless guy.  It didn't take long for Nick Punto to step into the role.  The question isn't will Gardy find some new pile of worthless shit to make his new favorite extra versatile scrapper, it's who will he decide is that player, and how long will we have to suffer through that guy batting sub .200 with mediocre baserunning and only halfway decent defense?

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Trekgeekscott

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Todd Gray

One less bullet in the gun . . . for Gardy to shoot himself in the foot with.

Now if we can just eject that Nick Punto shell from the chamber we will be in business.

The sad thing is, Gardy would find a new worthless player to latch onto...like Matt Tolbert.  I rejoiced the day the Twins let LewLew go because they finally discarded Gardy's favorite worthless guy.  It didn't take long for Nick Punto to step into the role.  The question isn't will Gardy find some new pile of worthless shit to make his new favorite extra versatile scrapper, it's who will he decide is that player, and how long will we have to suffer through that guy batting sub .200 with mediocre baserunning and only halfway decent defense?

Yeah, but if it was down to Tolbert Gardy would be on his last worthless guy.

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ORIGINAL: Trekgeekscott

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: Todd Gray

One less bullet in the gun . . . for Gardy to shoot himself in the foot with.

Now if we can just eject that Nick Punto shell from the chamber we will be in business.

The sad thing is, Gardy would find a new worthless player to latch onto...like Matt Tolbert.  I rejoiced the day the Twins let LewLew go because they finally discarded Gardy's favorite worthless guy.  It didn't take long for Nick Punto to step into the role.  The question isn't will Gardy find some new pile of worthless shit to make his new favorite extra versatile scrapper, it's who will he decide is that player, and how long will we have to suffer through that guy batting sub .200 with mediocre baserunning and only halfway decent defense?

Yeah, but if it was down to Tolbert Gardy would be on his last worthless guy.

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And only one other team in baseball has 5-catchers on their 40-man, the Red Sox. And you have to figure that's about to change. Most teams don't have more than 3.

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And only one other team in baseball has 5-catchers on their 40-man, the Red Sox. And you have to figure that's about to change. Most teams don't have more than 3.

Well, if the greatest baseball genius who ever lived -- Theo Epstein -- and runs the most astute baseball front office in history -- the Boston Red Sox -- has five catchers on the 40-man roster, that must make it okay, eh Dustin?

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I've just got a feeling that this team is the Twins:
Rays working on Iwamura deal Just got back to New York and heard from an industry source who's not with the Rays that they are on the verge of completing a trade of 2B Akinori Iwamura.

The Rays were looking to do some kind of deal since they weren't planning to pick up the $4.85-million option to bring him back. What's interesting is that the source indicated the deal wasn't with the Cubs or the Dodgers as has been speculated on but to an unexpected team. Hmmm.
The Rays are operating under something of a deadline since they have until one day after the end of the World Series to either pick up the option or pay a $550,000 buyout and allow Iwamura to become a free agent. They have been working on essentially a sign-and-trade deal, where they would get something back for him. It would probably be too big of a gamble for them to pick up the option without having a deal in place.
Iwamura hit .281 in three seasons with the Rays after coming over from Japan, playing third in 2007 and second the last two seasons. He sustained what was considered a season-ending knee injury in May of this year, but made an unexpected recover and rejoined the team for the final month, playing 69 games total. He has a career .354 on-base percentage.
Iwamura, 30, indicated a preference to stay with the Rays, but they are talking about using either Ben Zobrist or Sean Rodriguez, or a combination of the two, at second next season.
Posted by Marc Topkin at 01:13:15 PM on November 3, 2009
in Akinori Iwamura | Permalink

http://blogs.tampabay.com/rays/2009/11/rays-working-on-iwamura-deal.html

It would explain why Buscher was cut from the 40-man now, and Iwamura just seems like a player the Twins would target.

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I've just got a feeling that this team is the Twins:
Rays working on Iwamura deal Just got back to New York and heard from an industry source who's not with the Rays that they are on the verge of completing a trade of 2B Akinori Iwamura.

The Rays were looking to do some kind of deal since they weren't planning to pick up the $4.85-million option to bring him back. What's interesting is that the source indicated the deal wasn't with the Cubs or the Dodgers as has been speculated on but to an unexpected team. Hmmm.
The Rays are operating under something of a deadline since they have until one day after the end of the World Series to either pick up the option or pay a $550,000 buyout and allow Iwamura to become a free agent. They have been working on essentially a sign-and-trade deal, where they would get something back for him. It would probably be too big of a gamble for them to pick up the option without having a deal in place.
Iwamura hit .281 in three seasons with the Rays after coming over from Japan, playing third in 2007 and second the last two seasons. He sustained what was considered a season-ending knee injury in May of this year, but made an unexpected recover and rejoined the team for the final month, playing 69 games total. He has a career .354 on-base percentage.
Iwamura, 30, indicated a preference to stay with the Rays, but they are talking about using either Ben Zobrist or Sean Rodriguez, or a combination of the two, at second next season.
Posted by Marc Topkin at 01:13:15 PM on November 3, 2009
in Akinori Iwamura | Permalink

http://blogs.tampabay.com/rays/2009/11/rays-working-on-iwamura-deal.html

It would explain why Buscher was cut from the 40-man now, and Iwamura just seems like a player the Twins would target.

That would be awesome. I'd assume we wouldn't have to give much up either.