Buzz: Keep Torii Hunter, Trade Johan Santana
On Sunday, at his blog for ESPN.com, Buster Olney writes…
“Heard this speculation this week: The Twins will re-sign Torii Hunter and at the same time, aggressively look to shop Johan Santana for prospects - a show, with the first move, that the team is not headed into a major period of rebuilding.”
…the sense i keep getting is that the Twins will re-sign one of them, which i guess would mean that if they do not re-sign hunter now then santana will stay…on the other hand, if they re-sign hunter now, santana is a goner, but when…will they trade him now, knowing it’s the best way to maximize his trade value…or will they wait, get another round of early-season ticket sales with both players on the roster to start next season, and then re-visit a santana trade at next year’s deadline…
…either way, you know the drill, with the talk around baseball having been that to get santana, a team like the Yankees will have to part with one of Chien-Ming Wang, Joba Chamberlain or Phil Hughes, along with Melky Cabrera and a prospect such as Ian Kennedy or Jose Tabata…as i have said in the past, in Mets terms, i think that reads like John Maine, Lastings Milledge and Fernando Martinez, and i’m not even sure that is a correct comparison, but it’s as close as the Mets can get…
