Twins win bidding rights on Japanese SS Tsuyoshi Nishioka

[Baldkin]

From the sounds of things, Hardy may be gone from them by opening day.

 

I'm shocked.

[dadofandrew]

The Twins do not seem like a team wanting to make a 1y/$6M commitment to Hardy. He's always been injury prone and seems to take a while to come back from minor nicks and bruises, so maybe that's it, or maybe, they just don't think he projects well after two down seasons.

[Jofis11ep]

But I thought they were a "small-market" team...

[1992casey]

$5.3 million isn't a huge posting fee. And the amount of the posting fee indicates that a huge contract shouldn't be required to sign Nishioka. I'd surmise that this is well within the Twins' budget. The only question is how good Tsuyoshi is likely to be.

[Invader3K]

But I thought they were a "small-market" team...

So did Joe Morgan.

[CheezWizHed]

Joe Morgan didn't know what a small market team was...

[pretendastronaut]

The Minnesota Twins, who were awarded exclusive negotiating rights to Tsuyoshi Nishioka, envision him playing second base rather than shortstop, according to a major-league source.

 

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