In the midst of his capital improvement plan for the 2010
season, Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse submitted some very bold and very
blunt proposal for the offseason. The veteran
scribe prods the Twins organization to making several transactions this winter
– including sending Carlos Gomez to Rochester
in 2010, presumably for horse tranquilizer to slow him down on the basepaths,
trading closer Joe Nathan to save cash ($22.5 million to be exact) and playing
Delmon Young everyday. The problem,
however, with being blunt is that it comes off as rash rather than
calculated.
While I am not going to expound too deep on the merits of
the other items since I’ve outlined my 2010 blueprint in the Offseason GM Handbook, I will submit the
abridged version on my reactions to several of Mr. Reusse’s statements:
1.)
Gomez to Rochester.
Disagree.
Wholeheartedly.
Admittedly, the standard numbers (BA/OBP/SLG) definitely
went in the wrong direction for Gomez in 2009 but w...
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