Prince Pirhana lengthens his stay
Known for his power, run production, and stardom in Minnesota, Nick Punto remains a Twin. Twins fans quivered in their snow boots at the THOUGHT of Nick leaving the Twins to play for anyone else.
*Sorry to all of those who specifially remember what you wore, where you were, and how you reacted, but it is necessary to relive the moment in order to add affect.*
To come back to reality for the remainder of the blog, the Twins DID resign Punto for 2 years, and an option in 2011, which could at least earn him 8.5 million. On top of that, Punto has already been named the starting shortstop for the 2009 Minnesota Twins.
In December.
That's correct folks, JJ Hardy, Yunel Escobar, or Jack Wilson is NOT the starting SS for the Twins, as I expected. But to get away from the rambling about how wrong and crushed we all are- let's evaluate the move.
The Twins get a shortstop in his early 30's, who can play anywhere and hit ... a little. Of course that's the problem we all have with Little Nicky Punto. After hitting for a homer, 22 RBI, and a .210 average, he rebounded pretty strongly (at least by his standards) by hitting 1 extra homer, 6 extra RBI, and 74 thousandths of a point added to his average. Pretty impressive huh? I guess it is to the Twins, those extra little dinks and dunks got him a couple extra mil in his pockets.
Gardy's favorite little guy got his stay, and I like the signing a lot actually. Yeah we had a couple of other options at that position: Tolbert was one, Harris being the other, but other than that the Twins couldn't do any better. The trade market was bare: the aforementioned JJ Hardy and Yunel Escobar were pretty much called safe and logically, the Pirates Jack Wilson wouldn't have been much better.
Nothing would've worked out better for us, and now we have the soft hitting, first-base-diving, "gamer" back on the roster.
Seems better suited in the offseason, does it not?
*Sorry to all of those who specifially remember what you wore, where you were, and how you reacted, but it is necessary to relive the moment in order to add affect.*
To come back to reality for the remainder of the blog, the Twins DID resign Punto for 2 years, and an option in 2011, which could at least earn him 8.5 million. On top of that, Punto has already been named the starting shortstop for the 2009 Minnesota Twins.
In December.
That's correct folks, JJ Hardy, Yunel Escobar, or Jack Wilson is NOT the starting SS for the Twins, as I expected. But to get away from the rambling about how wrong and crushed we all are- let's evaluate the move.
The Twins get a shortstop in his early 30's, who can play anywhere and hit ... a little. Of course that's the problem we all have with Little Nicky Punto. After hitting for a homer, 22 RBI, and a .210 average, he rebounded pretty strongly (at least by his standards) by hitting 1 extra homer, 6 extra RBI, and 74 thousandths of a point added to his average. Pretty impressive huh? I guess it is to the Twins, those extra little dinks and dunks got him a couple extra mil in his pockets.
Gardy's favorite little guy got his stay, and I like the signing a lot actually. Yeah we had a couple of other options at that position: Tolbert was one, Harris being the other, but other than that the Twins couldn't do any better. The trade market was bare: the aforementioned JJ Hardy and Yunel Escobar were pretty much called safe and logically, the Pirates Jack Wilson wouldn't have been much better.
Nothing would've worked out better for us, and now we have the soft hitting, first-base-diving, "gamer" back on the roster.
Seems better suited in the offseason, does it not?




