The Colorado Rockies on Wednesday acquired righthander Ramon Ortiz from the Minnesota Twins in exchange for minor league infielder Matt Macri.
The 25-year-old Macri has split the campaign between Class AA Tulsa and Class AAA Colorado Springs. He has combined to hit .310 with 12 home runs and 37 RBI in 82 games between the two clubs.
The Twins did not have to pick up any of Ortiz’s salary. He is making $3.1 million this year, and the Rockies will now pay about $800,000 of that. After trading Luis Castillo to the Mets and losing Jeff Cirillo to the Diamondbacks on waivers, the Twins have now saved about $3.4 million from this year’s payroll commitments.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Twins trade Ortiz
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Love it. Dead weight. Good riddance.
By all accounts, Ortiz was a good guy in the club house and handled his demotion to the bullpen with class. It was apparent that there was not enough work for him, not to mention how you can't even get much out of him in a mop-up situation.
Hopefully Matt Macri turns into a steal, which is entirely possibly give TR's track record.
As for the $3.4M saved from the recent salary dumping, I have serious doubts about it coming out of Pohlad's wallet next year.
I'm kind of hoping that the Twins look at re-signing Silva (if it's at an advertised discount) and trade one or two pitchers to fill these gaping holes at 3rd/LF/DH(and possibly CF).
I have serious doubts about it coming out of Pohlad's wallet next year.
I would love to see the books on the Twins. Do they make money each year, break even, lose money? If they lose money, I could see using this savings to cover that. I just hope to see some bigger moves made this offseason, with this savings being a part of it.
Well, we could discuss the whole "It's a business/ he's a business man" defense for Pohlad ad nauseum. He probably does lose some money (I'd love to see the books anyway), but that's certainly not why he decided to buy a baseball team. Besides, if he is losing some money, it's simply a nice place to show some losses to offset the crap-tons of profits he makes elsewhere. So I'm sick of hearing that defense. Not that I'm jumping on you or saying that's where you were going : )
I hope for bigger moves as well. But the free agent market is not TR's forte, nor does he have the money to spend if it were.
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