Buster Olney says it's a huge buyer's market for salary dump trades:

The expectation among a lot of general managers is that you're going to see a lot of teams looking to make deals like this, eating some salary to get rid of as much as they can. The small handful of teams that appear willing to take on salary -- the Red Sox, the Phillies, the Giants, the Mets, perhaps a few others -- will be in position to dictate terms in what will be a buyer's market.

If this is true, all the more reason the Twins should be buyers. When they are within reach of first in a shabby division, have an embarrassingly low payroll, and were just given a huge public subsidy, there's no excuse not to take on some salary if it will make the team better -- especially if the going rate is rock bottom, and the trader even has to kick in some salary. If the Pirates are subsidizing a player going to the Yankees, it sure sounds like a buyer's market. So let's take somebody's overpriced second-baseman off their hands!