Charley Walters: Twins likely to decline trade offers for Jose Berrios, Byron Buxton
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
Jul. 24 Besides
Nelson Cruz, who as expected was traded to Tampa Bay last week, the most sought-after Minnesota Twin as Friday s trade deadline approaches is starter
Jose Berrios. Outfielder
Byron Buxton would be, too, if he were made available, but that s unlikely.
The Twins have made multiple contract offers to Berrios, 27, who is under club control for 2022. The same for Buxton, 27, also under control for 2022. Expect both to be in Twins uniforms next year.
The Twins
It ll be surprising if shortstop
Andrelton Simmons and starter
The Twins have played 60 seasons in our midst and the personnel decision among batters that holds No. 1 status for a blunder came on Dec. 16, 2002, at baseball s winter meetings in Nashville.
That was the day of the Rule 5 draft. The Twins made room on the 40-player roster for a selection by releasing David Ortiz. They selected infielder Jose Morban from Texas. He was waived, wound up in Baltimore in 2003, and hit two home runs in what became a career total of 71 at-bats.
Ortiz was signed by Boston on the cheap, was batting .200 after a month of the 2003 season, then started seeing the ball better:
Sid posed for a 2018
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine profile. Portrait by Cameron Wittig
One Sunday morning in the late 1970s, Dave Mona performed a live audition of sorts for a 25-minute radio show built around sports columnist Sid Hartman, because ’CCO farm director Chuck Lilligren was tired of working Sundays. The show aired before the taped Mormon Tabernacle Choir hour from Salt Lake City.
“Sid told me after that it wasn’t going to work out and he was going to quit so they’d have to cancel the show,” Mona recalls. Hartman did quit the show by dying in October, 40-plus years later.