Joe Christensen tells us that the Twins front office will not provide any insight to whether or not they will retain any of the impending free agents on the roster, including Orlando Cabrera. Christensen says that some baseball insiders are suggesting that "the team should hurry up and re-sign him to a two-year contract extension." The Twins obtain Cabrera at the deadline because he was playing Murderball with AL pitchers and arrived in Minnesota to hit .327/.333/.531 in his first eleven games but since then, the guy the Twins should "hurry up" to re-sign has hit .200/.244/.238 in the most recent 22 games. Even if he splits the difference next year, there is no telling what his already degraded defense will look like in the spring.
The Twins lauded Jesse Crain's development and work done at Rochester during his demotion in June to improve his approach. Since his return to the big club, Crain as thrown in 18 games and h...
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