#-1: Twins (Last Week: -1). A very up-and-down week for the Twinks which got more rollercoastery late last (Thursday) night. They rebounded from last Thursday's rout at Boston by taking Friday's game 2-1 and then outpounding the Red Sox 11-9 Saturday, but got nipped Sunday 8-7 to split their four-game series. They then dropped both ends of a two-game series at home to The Worst Team In The Majors, Atlanta, before beating Baltimore at Target last (Thursday) night in game rain-delayed from early May.
But the big news was that the organization traded Eduardo Nunez, the Shortstop having a great year and was the squad's only representative at this year's All-Star Game, to The Bastard New York Giants in exchange for a AAA-level lefty named Adalberto Mejia. Now, I understand that the record reflects the need to rebuild, I get that. And Nunez is in his seventh year in baseball, so it's not as if we're trading, oh, Miguel Sano. But while I'm not sure that Nunez is going to become an All-Star-caliber player so late into his career, I don't know if the club got enough for him. This Mejia kid was rated as the fifth-best prospect in the Giants organization (according to Baseball America) and a Top 100 baseball prospect. One-for-one, just for him? Call me greedy, but I don't think that was enough. Also, consider that Danny Santana and Jorge Polanco will platoon at SS now, and I think that's going to be a big drop. Yes, it doesn't matter this year, but the product that has been woeful so often this year will become even more unbearable as a result of trading away the player playing the best this year.
(This, by the way, I think also ensures that Joe Mauer won't be traded, either this year or any. If anything, Mr. Twin will get to walk as a free agent late in his career.)
This week they finish their homestand with a three-game set against the White Sox before starting a four-game series at division-leading Cleveland.
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