Gardenhire Says Delmon is a Role Player

From the StarTribune:
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Ron Gardenhire was in Fargo on Wednesday afternoon, speaking at a farm
trade show, and the subject of the outfield came up.

According to the Fargo Forum, Gardy said he wants a starting outfield
in 2009 of Denard Span, Carlos Gomez and …… Michael Cuddyer.

Been nice knowing you, Delmon.

Gardenhire said about his outfielders-of-choice: “Those three guys
need to play every day. Delmon is in the mix. He’s a hell of a player,
a hell of a talent. But to me, those three guys should be your
outfield and then you go from there.”

This is the strongest indication yet that Young is available to a team
that can offer up something reasonable in return. Gardy told the Fargo
group that teams have inquired about Young.

Anyway, what’s just as interesting about Gardy’s words is the faith he
has in Cuddyer to come back in 2009 and be one of the productive right-
handed bats that the Twins were missing last season.

*** It also means the Twins are “officially” acknowledging that they
traded a starting shortstop (Jason Bartlett) and a starting pitcher
(Matt Garza) for two role players — and without even being able to
dump Juan Rincon in the process. ***

powrwrap wrote:
> From the StarTribune:
> -----------------------------
> Ron Gardenhire was in Fargo on Wednesday afternoon, speaking at a farm
> trade show, and the subject of the outfield came up.
>
> According to the Fargo Forum, Gardy said he wants a starting outfield
> in 2009 of Denard Span, Carlos Gomez and …… Michael Cuddyer.
>
> Been nice knowing you, Delmon.
>
> Gardenhire said about his outfielders-of-choice: “Those three guys
> need to play every day. Delmon is in the mix. He’s a hell of a player,
> a hell of a talent. But to me, those three guys should be your
> outfield and then you go from there.”
>
> This is the strongest indication yet that Young is available to a team
> that can offer up something reasonable in return. Gardy told the Fargo
> group that teams have inquired about Young.
>
> Anyway, what’s just as interesting about Gardy’s words is the faith he
> has in Cuddyer to come back in 2009 and be one of the productive
> right- handed bats that the Twins were missing last season.
>
> *** It also means the Twins are “officially” acknowledging that they
> traded a starting shortstop (Jason Bartlett) and a starting pitcher
> (Matt Garza) for two role players — and without even being able to
> dump Juan Rincon in the process. ***

One year later, it appears the Twins got seriously worked over in that
trade.

Can't really judge a trade like this until about 5 yrs down the road, but
I'm not holding my breath for it to turn around...

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