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I Wonder if David Wright is Available?



Fred Wilpon just sold a minority share of the team for 200 million and is apparently announcing that the team is going to loose lots of money this year and the plan is to shed payroll. I wonder if David Wright might be a part of that? He's fit nicely between Mauer and Morneau. He's owed 29 million over the next 2 with a 16 million dollar club option in 2013. I wonder if the Twins could a) afford him, and b) have the assets to get him?

Heres the players i would start with

1) Valencia- We would have a 3b and they wouldn't. He will be cheap for a couple years and has shown that he is pretty decent. Not a huge trade peice, but a decent part of the package.

2) Slowey- Again not a real mover as far as prospects go, but he might have value to the Mets given his extreme flyball tendencies and they play in a huge park. He's a decent pitcher that will be pretty cheap for them.

3) Kyle Gibson- I don't like trading him, but we need to add value to our package. He'd be the center peice and hopefully his inclusion can get the Mets to eat a little of Wright's salary. Not all of it, but taking 2-3 million a year would be helpful to us. We have 5 starters signed for next year, i would love to have Gibson in the starting rotation, but i feel he'd have to be included.

4) Wilson Ramos (Damn this would have been a perfect spot to trade him) Just kidding

5) Benson- ANother player i would love to see on the Twins, but we need a little more value to our trade offer. With Hicks, Arcia, Revere, Tosoni, Span, Young, Morales, Parmlee in the system next year (plus whatever toolsy OF we draft this year) we can use some of our depth in the OF to get a quality player.

Is that enough?

As far as the money goes, Kubel, Capps, Cuddyer, Nathan?, Thome coming off the books next year we might have a little more room than we think with payroll. They could probably try to trade Young to get his arbitration money off the books, or maybe do something with one of the starters, but if we coudl get the Mets to take on a little salary this might be doable.

Thoughts