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Then put Papi in left and DH Manny. It would probably be a defensive improvement.

At the time it looked like we'd just been convincingly swindled; I would have laughed at any Mets offer without Wright, let alone an established SP, and what we got was essentially a bag of magic beans from the Disneyland gift shop.

On the other hand
- we got Carlos Gomez and so far he's been just about the coolest kid to put on the Minstripes in quite a very long time
- the financial constraints of the best Boston/NYY deals would have been more dire a lot sooner than simply gutting a team's prospects, developing them, and worrying about their contracts years down the road
- Santana's happier on an NL team where he can hit and where he can plow through a whole new batch of poor saps, plus we don't have to worry about facing him
- the Mets are the more palatable of the mega-market clubs; there's nothing sadder than a superstar from a small market getting sucked into the Empire and Boston's right behind them. The Mets are the Twins with a payroll.
- we're not doing any worse without him than with him anyway, in fact we're overachieving compared to preseason projections and somehow we're currently on top of the, uh, let's say "most competitive" division in baseball

How well the trade worked out will be determined in the long run by those prospects. After all, we traded Pierzynski for Joe Nathan and two prospects named Francisco Liriano and Boof Bonser.

The Twins need a real ballpark.

They put up a countdown in the left field seats ticking off the number of home games until the new park opens, and they make a little ceremony out of it every night in the fifth inning. Even the Metrodome people have abandoned all delusions of positive thinking about the place. However, we did win both our WS there and it's snowed the last several Opening Days.