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Punto to the Padres?

The Cardinals reached a deal with Padres, sending relief prospect Mark Worrell and a player to be named later to San Diego in exchange for shortstop Khalil Greene. The Cards will be picking up the last year of shortstops contract, all of about six and half million dollars. The Padres had been shopping Greene in November as the reorganize the salary structure of the team..

There are a lot of shortstops on the market now and the Twins have two free agents at that position this year. Everett is already in talks with the Tigers and Nick Punto has been in talks with the Twins.

The Twins seem to not have any priority in signing Everett at this point and have instead focused their attention on Nick Punto. Punto was a starter for the Twins for four years, but has taken on the role of utility infielder as of late.

With the market saturated with shortstops, it isn’t real likely that San Diego is too worried about filling the position right away, but the Twins might just want to step up the negotiations with Punto. There has not been a lot of interest for Punto so far this season. Other then the Twins, only the Phillies and the Mets have showed interest thus far, but all three teams are looking at Punto as a utility infielder and not a starter. The Twins negotiations with Punto have started, but they are slow at this time.

Although it is not likely, the San Diego could look to pick up Punto to fill the void this season. Nick is from the San Diego area and would likely fall into the salary range that the Padres are looking for. He has been a starter for four years and his 2008 numbers are better then the outgoing Khalil Greene who struggled offensively in 2008. If the 31 year old Punto is looking to get a little closer to home as he nears the end of his career, this looks like an opportunity for both San Diego and Nick Punto.

Tigers in talks with Twins Everett

The Tigers are scheduled to meet with the Adam Everett camp next week during the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, NV. Detroit has already had some preliminary discussions with the Everett representatives this week but things are moving slowly.

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Twins make offer for Blake

The Twins are trying to stir things up this week; making it known they are very interested in acquiring Casey Blake from the LA Dodgers. The Twins have offered Blake a two year contract worth $6 million a year, but current reports are that he and or his agent or looking for a three year deal.

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Gardnhire hints at 2009 outfield

While in Fargo, ND, Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire hinted as to who may be starting in the outfield for the 2009 season. Gardenhire said that he would prefer a starting outfield of Carlos Gomez, Denard Span and Michael Cuddyer in 2009. That would leave Twins left fielder Delmon Young out of outfield for 2009.

The Twins have three young outfielders in Young, Gomez and Span. Span played much of 2008 for the injured Cuddyer. All four players are popular with Twins fans and the question about who would be the odd man out for 2009 swirled at the year.

Gomez a.k.a. “Go-Go” started off the season with a bang with the bat, but before the break he hit a slump and never really found a way out of it. Cuddyer played well when he was healthy, but found himself on the injured reserver for most of the season. Span was called up and although it took a few games to get his hitting going, his defense in right field was phenomenal.

Young played well, but expectations were very high for the 23 year old for the 2008 season. Young was considered the best player from the trade with Tampa Bay, which included Brendan Harris and Jason Pirdie of the Rays for Twins pitcher Matt Garza and shortstop Jason Bartlett.

Gardenhire has indicated that the Twins have not been actively shopping Young, but have heard from other teams that would be interested in a trade for Young.

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