Minnesota Twins and Johan Santana agree to a deal

[KitchenWitch]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!
http://twins.kfan.com/sports/twins/story.aspx?content_id=BAA4A347-A22E-4B1D-A5A1-6009DE42DB66

I am doing the happy dance.

(edited to add Minnesota and Johan in subject line, to avoid confusing Twins with Jenna and Barbara *)

[smoogatz]

1. I thought you meant the Bush twins

and Carlos Santana. Now THAT's a story.

[KitchenWitch]

2. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

perish the thought.

The Minnesota Twins also signed a deal with Kyle Lohse (I am not so happy about this)

[SaveElmer]

3. Thank GAWD...I've been trollin the STrib all day

Waitin for this...

4th Consecutive Division championship upcoming !!!

Heard Gammons say last night that if Mauer stays healthy he sees the Twins in the series!!!

[KitchenWitch]

4. Funny

I did not used to like Peter Gammons, but he *has* been very complimentary to our Twins over the past half decade or so!

[chelsea0011]

5. I wonder if he will last to pick #15 in my draft?????

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

6. I do not think so!

But you can always hope!

[nickgutierrez]

7. Santana was coming back to the Twins for this year, no matter what

He had an arbitration case coming up, and this is just a case of he and the Twins avoiding that unpleasantness and getting a deal done outside of the courts.

The fact that it's a four year deal seems to me to imply that it's a pretty good deal, though. Any specifics on the financial side?

[KitchenWitch]

8. Looks to be about $40 million over 4 years

Yes, he would have been here this year, regardless, however, we Twins fans wanted to lock him up for longer than just this year. I personally got very sick of Spankee fans saying, "Johan Santana would look awfully good in the Yankee Pinstripes!"

Edited to include link.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/02/14/sports/s134227S46.DTL

[SaveElmer]

9. Johan is the Kirby Puckett of the 2000's

He is gonna be a rock star in the Twin Cities for many years!!!

[KitchenWitch]

10. True

But I hear he is much nicer than Kirby in person. I just hope he moves his family out of Venezuela, now that he is really rich (rampant kidnappings of rich folk's families there).