The GM
Winter Meetings starts today in Dallas and the event holds plenty of
promise for adding new faces to the roster - including potentially finding a
starting pitcher to complete the rotation.
The Twins
were aggressive with the left-handed Chris Capuano but ultimately lost out to
the Los
Angeles Dodgers when the veteran decided to sign for a two-year, $10 million
to stay in the National League last week. Nevertheless, reports surfaced that
the team
has been connected to free agents Jeff Francis and Edwin Jackson.
Jackson is a
fairly young (28), right-handed power arm (averages 94.5 miles per hour on his
fastball) who has been a 3-wins above replacement the previous two seasons and
is now poised to command a multi-year deal which we estimated to be in the ballpark of three
years at $11 million per year. Francis,
on the other hand, is a slightly older (31 in 2012), left-handed soft-tosser
(managed to average just 84.7 miles per hour on his “heater”) who has averaging
2-wins ...
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