well, that answers that
in case you haven’t read it yet, the twins have picked up torii hunter’s $12MM option for 2006.
this pains me, and yet i think it was the right move. i had wanted to compare torii’s ’06 stats to the stats of this offseason’s crop of free agent centerfielders (because, face it, we weren’t going to hand the position over to lew or tyner.) thankfully, people have already done that for me here. (thanks, twinsgeek.) despite torii’s seeming loss of range in center, despite the complete evaporation of his patience at the plate in the second half, and despite that game two misplay that still haunts my dreams, i feel better paying him $12MM than paying someone else on that list less money. well, maybe juan pierre, but the twins need another no-power speedster like they need a hole in the head. and pierre’s on-base percentage isn’t that much greater than torii.
