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  • Twins Acquire LHP Kevin Chapman For Danny Santana

    Seth Stohs

    By Seth Stohs

    According to the Twitter feed of the Atlanta Braves, the Minnesota Twins acquired right-handed pitcher Kevin Chapman in exchange for utility man Danny Santana.

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    The Twins acknowledged the trade with a press release.

    The Twins designated Santana for assignment late last week, giving them ten days to work out a trade or place him on waivers.

    The 29-year-old Chapman has struggled early this season, posting a 7.71 ERA in 11.2 innings for Gwinnett, Atlanta's AAA team. He had spent parts of the previous four seasons with the Houston Astros. He had a 3-1 record with a 4.09 ERA in 55 big league innings over that time. In those 55 innings, he walked 31 and struck out 48.

    While Chapman is far from a prospect, the fact that Thad Levine was able to find a taker for the athletic Santana is great. The fact that Chapman is not on the 40-man roster is even better.

    Santana was one of the longest-tenured Twins players, having signed back in 2007 out of the Dominican Republic. He debuted for the Twins in 2014 and put up a terrific rookie season. He has not been able to replicate that success, however, in the two-plus seasons since.

    Santana was DFAd to make room for Ehire Adrianza.

    Also over the weekend, the Twins DFAd RH RP Michael Tonkin, giving them ten days to work out a trade for him or put him on waivers at some point.

    Seth Stohs has been blogging about the Minnesota Twins since May 2003. A founder and owner of Twins Daily, Seth has been a Twins fan for 40 years and has a passion for covering the minor leagues and prospects.
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    DaveW

    DaveW 9,037

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    I think Santana could be a valuable role player, if his role is pinch runner. And emergency injury replacement.

     In the day of 1,000,000 man bullpens and SP who can't go more than 100 pitches, there really is no place for a guy whose main role is PR (unless it's the playoffs), but even then, Santana isn't exactly Billy Hamilton or even Aaron Hicks on the base paths.

    I think Santana ultimately is just AAAA type depth, he can fill in for a week or two if your 2B or SS gets injured, he can step in during that time and be the Util bench guy.

    It wouldn't shock me to see him "play" in the majors for another 4-5 years, but it also wouldn't shock me if with that he never saw more than 120 at bats a year as well.

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    Thrylos

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    Anybody remember Drew Butera--and how some proclaimed "we won that deal"?

     

    Sure.  Drew Butera was turned into Miguel Sulbaran who was turned into Eduardo Nunez who was turned into Adalberto Mejia.

     

    Butera for Mejia, thus, it's a Twins' win

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    DaveW

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    Sure.  Drew Butera was turned into Miguel Sulbaran who was turned into Eduardo Nunez who was turned into Adalberto Mejia.

     

     

    That's not how trades work though.

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    Mike Sixel

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    Let's stop pretending that trades are one-sided affairs where one team "wins" and the other "loses."

     

    As for this transaction, it's the equivalent of a minor league signing.

     

    if you can get a random ball player for a guy you were going to cut, you won. Doesn't mean the other team lost, btw......

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    DaveW

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    Let's stop pretending that trades are one-sided affairs where one team "wins" and the other "loses."

     

    As for this transaction, it's the equivalent of a minor league signing.

    Often times they are.

     

    The Twins certainly won the AJ trade, I imagine most Giants fans would say they "lost" that trade.

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    yarnivek1972

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    Often times they are.

    The Twins certainly won the AJ trade, I imagine most Giants fans would say they "lost" that trade.

     

     

    That was a head scratcher of a trade from the Giants perspective.  Why would you trade one MLB pitcher for a one tool catcher, let alone 2 and another with strong potential?  AJ hit for average, period.  He never hit for power as a Twin, he certainly was nothing special defensively and he certainly wasn't fast.  That's seriously right up there with the Herschel Walker trade for most lopsided in sports history.

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    notoriousgod71

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    Sure.  Drew Butera was turned into Miguel Sulbaran who was turned into Eduardo Nunez who was turned into Adalberto Mejia.

     

    Butera for Mejia, thus, it's a Twins' win

     

    Butera for Castillo= Castillo for Mejia. Twins lose.

     

    Scott Tyler and Travis Bowyer for Castillo= Tyler and Bowyer for Mejia. Twins win?

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    PseudoSABR

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    Butera for Castillo= Castillo for Mejia. Twins lose.

     

    Scott Tyler and Travis Bowyer for Castillo= Tyler and Bowyer for Mejia. Twins win?

    Isn't the lesson that you hold onto assets (even depreciated ones), so that you can retain future assets?   Whether the a certain team wins or loses a trade isn't the point so much as they didn't choose to wait until their given asset was worth nothing.  

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    biggentleben

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    My initial reaction is meh. My second reaction is both players will be lucky to survive the season with their new organizations.

     

    Maybe the Twins absolute travesty of a bullpen will force them to keep Chapman around.

     

    You've not noticed the black hole that is the Braves bench, have you? Julio Teheran pinch hit and pinch ran in back to back games between starts.

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    USAFChief

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    You've not noticed the black hole that is the Braves bench, have you? Julio Teheran pinch hit and pinch ran in back to back games between starts.

    And that hasn't changed. He's probably a better hitter than Danny Santana.

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