Twins Rumors: Crede, Gagne, Springer

Crede would be a good risk for any AL team seeking a 3b on a one year deal. When he's healthy he's a contributor.

Too bad the Twins aren't opening their new stadium this year (with natural grass)... Crede would have been a perfect fit.

If he has to sign a 1-yr. deal to prove himself, I don't think it will be on artificial turf.

The Twins need to do one of 3 things with the third base situation;

1. Sign Crede, put him in the middle of our order for this year and polish up young talent like Luke Hughes and Matt Macri, so one can be ready for the new stadium next year.

2- Move Cuddyer back to third, I know I know, he is an exceptional outfielder and the Twins would hate to move him into the infield, but this way we can keep Span in the lineup along side of Go-Go and DY. The Twins could sacrifice defense at third to get Span in the lineup every day.

3. Make a 2-3 man deal of Bonser/Blackburn/Perkins/Duensing/Prospects to the Rockies(like they tried last year) for Garrett Atkins OR to the Padres for Kevin Kouzmanoff.

On the hush hush, maybe they will go with the Mauer experiment at third if they get another catcher lined up after this year.....

I think that that would be a good deal with the Twins. A 1 year deal would be nice because he is such a little girl about gettin injured so make him play this year so he can get a good contract next year

I think the Twins, Cuddyer, Tim Pawlenty, Bob Dylan and Yulia Tymoshenko have made it abundantly clear over and over again that Cuddyer will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER play 3B again.

Ryan,

I wouldn't call Crede a girl about injuries. He has a chronic back problem. I can't imagine that playing baseball is the best thing for the back. Especially at 3rd base.

When he's healthy, Crede is a player I'd want on my team. The problem is, I don't believe he'll ever be fully healthy again.

Getting Crede to take a 1 or 2 year deal will probably require either a lot of money or a vesting option that'll get him some guaranteed years at a good rate, say 1y@3.5m + a 1y@6m vesting option, maybe less on the first year with some more incentives. Boras would want as much non-incentive as possible in case the back doesn't come back, and he'll want to nail down as many extra years as possible in this terrible free agent market. But if the Twins let Casey Blake walk over a third year they sure aren't going to give one to a guy with a bad back who has to play on turf in year 1.