Santana deal imminent?

Sunday, January 27, 2008 | Feedback | Print Entry

There is lots of Twins-related news this Sunday morning. First, Charley Waters, columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, writes today that a Johan Santana deal is expected to come down within 10 days. He has been dead on in forecasting forthcoming Twins machinations, so after weeks and weeks of start-up talks and lingering talks and pending talks and non-stop talks, we could view this as a two-minute warning in this whole Santana conversation. You can read pretty clearly between the lines of Waters' piece about who is saying what.

• Heard from a couple of sources that Boston has taken Jon Lester off the table, for good, in the Santana trade discussions.

• The Mets wonder if they've been played as a prop in these trade talks, writes Joel Sherman, but might wind up being the landing place for Santana because the Twins may have overplayed their hand.  
 

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