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God Damn Eric Gagne and Scott Boras

February 17th, 2009 | Author: sirsean | Category: Uncategorized

Ah ha! Remember all those times I harped on the fact that other teams and agents seem to be out to screw the Twins? Well, it continues to happen.

After declining a $3M offer from the Twins, Eric Gagne turned around and signed a minor league contract with the Brewers. A non-guaranteed deal.

Are you kidding me?

This is not a case of the Twins “failing to spend enough money,” or being bad at negotiations. This is simply a case of an agent and a player going out of their way to take an inferior deal from a less successful, inferior team rather than deal with the Twins.

Is there really anyone that thinks the Brewers are going anywhere this year after losing Sabathia and Sheets? This is not a case of a player choosing to go with the team it thinks has a better shot at the playoffs.

This is, simply, a bunch of crap. Why did we have to pay $1.3M for piece of crap Luis Ayala and guarantee him a spot on the team, when we could have spent <$1M on piece of crap Eric Gagne (with the benefit of a modicum of upside) and not guarantee him a spot on the team? It had nothing to do with a failing on the part of the front office.

Maybe it’s just me, like everything else seems to be, but this is infuriating.

4 comments

4 Comments so far

  1. DrJubal February 17th, 2009 11:55 pm

    Ego. Twins already have an entrenched closer. Gagne didn’t want to be the set-up man.

  2. FunBobby February 18th, 2009 7:38 am

    We actually pulled the offer from Gagne. So i don’t think it was ego as he was ready to sign. I guess this is all heresay from beat writers, but I tend to believe it. My guess is once we pulled our offer, he was out of suitors and his next best thing was the minor league deal from the Brewers.

  3. Erica February 18th, 2009 9:21 am

    I have a hard time getting worked up about this because I never EVER wanted Gagne playing for the Twins- but I’m surprised the Brewers took him back. I can’t imagine their fans are too thrilled.

  4. sirsean February 18th, 2009 9:28 am

    Well I agree with that. I didn’t want Gagne either. And I’m glad that deal didn’t go through.

    But I don’t understand why “I won’t go lower than $3M” is what he says to the Twins, and “Got any pocket change?” is what he says to the Brewers.

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