chuuke

...with the things...

jeffk and StormJ have said it perfectly. Positional scarcity means jack sh*t on a terrible team. It is after the fact to whine about signing him, because they pretty much had no choice but to do so. And yes, there would have been outrage....for all of about 1 year until he was producing like he is now in New York, in which case the Twins would've looked like geniuses. Who knows, with all that money and a new ballpark, we could've had an entirely different team by now.... who knows what the team would've evolved into... most likely, something better then it is now... But after the fact, yes