Minnesota Twins Talk

According to Jon Heyman, the Twins and Glen Perkins have reached an arbitration settlement of $1.55 million. Perkins was easily the Twins best reliever, working 61.2 innings while striking out 65 and walking 21. He held a 2.48 ERA while holding opponents to a .238 average. By Fangraphs.com's WAR standard, Perkins's 1.7 WAR was the 11th best among all relievers in baseball in 2011. His $1.55 million salary was slightly below the one projected in the TwinsCentric Offseason GM Handbook of $1.8 million - a decent savings for the team given his performance.

A lot of names are thrown around about backup plans if Morneau isn't right this year. The first problem with those plans is: none of them are likely to produce like Justin Morneau. The second problem is that they all have such significant risks. 1) Mauer - But then Doumit is the fulltime catcher. I can't see either his defense or his body lasting long as a fulltime catcher. 2) Doumit - Ok, but then who is DH? One way or the other, I think this means a platoon of Hughes and Plouffe, which also means Ben Revere is the full time left fielder. 3) Parmelee - I'm as optimistic as anyone about his chance to have a MLB career. But rushing the kid to play full time after …

According to Darren Wolfson on Twitter, the Twins have not been in contact with Wheeler's agent for the past two and a half weeks: In the past three seasons, Wheeler has held right-handed opponents to a .195 average with a very good 5.8 strikeouts-to-walks ratio.

The Twins are rumored to have interest in reliever Todd Coffey. What do you think? He is 35 years old and has career numbers of. I think he can be valuable because the Twins do have a need for a RH bullpen arm, a guy who can get righties out.

Who will be more valuable this year - Ben Revere or Delmon Young?

The Twins are creeping up on their $100M payroll target. Which relievers stand out as attractive options within a $2-3 million price range?

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I like baseball! I like the Twins! It is fun! I hope they win 100 games next season!

According to Joe C at the Strib, Twins are talking about Jason Kubel again: