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Joe Nathan (P-MIN)
2008-04-30 14:23:00 Nathan pitched a picture perfect ninth inning against the White Sox to pick up his eighth save of the year. He also sports a 0.90 ERA.
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Joe Nathan (P-MIN)
2008-03-25 04:04:00 The Minnesota Twins agreed to terms with closer Joe Nathan on a contract extension through the 2011 season, with a club option for 2012. He went 4-2, with a 1.88 ERA and 37 saves, allowing 54 hits with 19 walks and 77 strikeouts in 68 appearances last season.
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Joe Nathan gets $47 million extension
2008-03-25 01:44:00 Joe Nathan agreed to a $47 million, four-year contract with the Minnesota Twins. “We’ve shown that we’re committed to winning,” Nathan said. “A lot of people are counting us out, but we’re going to be good this year and for years to come, because we’re young and a lot of our guys are hungry.”
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Joe Nathan Agrees To Extension With Twins
2008-03-24 15:20:00 2:07pm: LEN3 has details. He says it's $11.25MM per year for 2008-11. He's unsure of the amount of the 2012 option, but it has a $2MM buyout. Since Nathan was set to earn just $6MM in '07, it seems that's been overwritten or increased. 1:19pm: MLB.com reports the deal as done. It's a three-year extension with a club option for a fourth. MONDAY, 8:22am: La Velle E. Neal III says only minor details remain on Nathan's extension. They still need to figure out what to do about a no-trade clause. Buster Olney says the deal will have "significant no-trade provisions." SATURDAY: ESPN's Buster Olney (Insider required) reveals in his blog that the Twins have all but re-signed Joe Nathan to a four-year deal, paying $11-12MM per. Olney considers this a surprising move for a mid-market team. It's particularly unusual for the Twins, as they re-signed Justin Morneau earlier in the year (and Joe Mauer last year), but couldn't hold on to Torii Hunt...
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Joe Nathan, R - MIN
2008-01-26 23:13:00 Nathan yet to receive long-term offer Visit Rotoworld.com for more analysis on this update.
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MLB Rumors: Should The Twins Keep Johan Santana And Trade Joe Nathan To Com
2007-12-14 12:33:00 Unsuprisingly, today's baseball news is dominated by yesterday's release of the Mitchell Report and how many of the mentioned players had connections to the various teams. However, the Twins did make a move yesterday that has possible implications for the Johan Santana Sweepstakes. The headline of La Velle E. Neal III's article today is to the point. Following the signing of Adam Everett to play SS, it is "Plan to add offense takes big detour with Everett signing." This virtually guarantees, the Twins will have an awful hitter in the everyday line-up. The move also pushes Brendan Harris to 2B or 3B. What does the signing mean for the trade package the team will ask for Johan Santana? With SS filled, does it signal the Red Sox are less likely to get Santana because SS Jed Lowrie was the main secondary piece in the Jacoby Ellsbury-led proposal? "We're trying to fill in some offense in other areas," Twins General Manager Bill Smith said. The area...
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MLB Rumors: The Twins Will Trade Joe Nathan
2007-11-28 13:53:00 From the length of Ken Rosenthal's latest FOXSports.com column, he looks to have emptied his notebook in anticipation of taking a few days off. The biggest news is the apparent willingness of the Twins to deal their closer, Joe Nathan, ahead of his free agent season after seeing Francisco Cordero land a 4-year/$46MM contract from the Reds. An unheralded part of the Twins success has been a great bullpen led by Nathan. If the Twins do reload for the next year or two, the team will likely be able to find a good closer from amongst its stable of curent relievers and to replenish the middle relief core from its stable of pitchers in the minors. Regardless of that ability, expect a reliever tacked on to a Santana trade. The Yankees could add Kevin Whelan or the Red Sox could add Craig Hansen or Manny Delcarmen. The player would be an under-the-radar type. He also writes the Twins are close to acquiring a centerfielder, but not Coco Crisp. Apparently, ...
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Santana Counters Twins' Offer
2007-11-22 17:19:00 Sid Hartman was correct - Joe Christensen confirms today that the Twins did offer Johan Santana a five-year, $93MM deal (18.6MM annually). The pact was designed to top Carlos Zambrano's by $1.5MM. Problem is that Santana isn't 1.6% better than Zambrano. He's a lot better than Z. Santana countered by asking for $126MM, according to Christensen. His article implies that Santana asked for seven years in the counterproposal, since Santana's agent cited Barry Zito's deal and the dollar amount is the same. The Twins balked at the counteroffer and expect to trade Santana. This doesn't compute, because the sides seem close. I wonder - maybe Santana actually asked for $126MM over five years? Santana could be a $25MM man on the open market, and maybe he's not offering a hometown discount. If Christensen's source told him the number of years, he would've put that in the article. Michael Silverman notes that the Red So...
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Twins Exercise Nathan's Option
2007-10-29 19:00:00 An easy decision for Bill Smith - the Twins exercised Joe Nathan's 2008 option for $6MM today. Nathan will earn about half the salary he's worth, but we haven't heard any complaints from him. The two sides have talked on and off about an extension for some time now. I have to think 4/40 would be the bare minimum home team discount Nathan would accept. Spending even that kind of money on a closer doesn't seem to be the Twins' style, so maybe they will explore a trade. It also wouldn't be surprising to see Nathan just play out his last season as Torii Hunter did. showad();
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Twins Hot Stove: Hunter, Nathan
2007-10-25 20:58:00 It'll be an interesting offseason for the Twins, who have a new GM and two coveted free agents in Torii Hunter and Carlos Silva. Here's the latest. Charley Walters quotes Hunter as saying he hasn't had any contract offers from the Twins since the end of the season. In August, the Twins reportedly offered a three-year, $45MM contract to Hunter. They're apparently open to adding a fourth year, while Hunter would take 5/75 from the Twins. There's still a chance he's re-signed, but Hunter says the chances decrease the longer the team waits. According to Tom Powers, the Twins have contingency plans in place in the event they can't sign Hunter or Silva. The 2008 payroll is expected to increase. It stood at $71.4MM on Opening Day '07. They'll need to spend at least $4MM extra just from current escalating contracts. Also in Powers' article, GM Bill Smith notes the team's continued focus on left-handed hitters who can use a short rig...
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Torre's Status Will Influence Rivera
2007-10-10 21:33:00 Mariano Rivera isn't a sure thing to return to the Yankees in 2008. He's not happy about Joe Torre's unknown status, and he doesn't seem thrilled that the Yanks passed on their opportunity to re-sign him earlier this year. Jon Heyman's best guess yesterday: the Yanks re-sign Rivera for two years and $26MM, plus an option year for 2010. That seems fairly reasonable to me; it's still hard to picture a closer earning more than $13MM. But Rivera may listen to offers, and it wouldn't be a shock to see a team offer him three years guaranteed. One stopper who could average such a salary in his next deal is Joe Nathan. Nathan will be well underpaid at $6MM next year; he's arguably the game's best closer. From 2004-07, Nathan has a 1.94 ERA and 11.3 K/9 in 282.3 innings. He's also got 160 saves over that four-year span. If given an extension window, would the Yankees part with a Robinson Cano this winter to get Nathan?
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The Closer Continuum: Goldfish, Pi, Joe Nathan, and BABIP
2007-06-22 22:35:00 All is well in New Haven, although much thought went into searching for another slickly-punned headline. Needless to say, the creativity fish were not biting. (On a side note, my girlfriend procured a fish at Wal-Mart [of all places] a couple of weeks ago, and she thinks it likes her. I keep trying to tell her that fish, however cute, are glorified plants. To my dismay, Dr. Culum Brown of the University of Edinburgh has apparently shown that the crimson spotted rainbow fish can recall the placement of a trawling net in its tank from 11 months in the past. Get a real job, Culum.) And, in another insanely unrelated and un-parenthesized side note, Hiroyuki Goto, of Keio University in Tokyo, correctly recited ? to 42,194 places in February of 1995.* My God. Do not let that man into your fantasy baseball league. Joe Nathan is no longer the top closer in my rankings, a change which regretfully mirrors Eric Karabell?s ?Relief Efforts? of this week. During the usual Friday morning perusal o...
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Joe Nathan - #36 - Pitcher - 6?4? - 220lbs
2007-06-06 19:57:00 This week, I’ll rip off The 40-Year-Old Virgin and give you my thoughts on Jon Lester, J.D. Drew, Ryan Garko and man crushes. …[more] Read the full story.
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