By the way, for all of you who do not buy into the notion that you can have a low payroll when players come out of the system but that will expand when system products become arb eligible, the Twins are another example. Only* teams that are severely market limited, like Florida and perhaps Tampa Bay, dump quality players when they start earning money.
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Johan was dumped in order to retain Morneau and eventually Mauer, but that was still a couple of years before the new ball park. Things might be different if Johan were just now at the end of his contract (assuming he was still healthy, too).
I think the two premises don't quite mesh
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