My poor Twins. Once again it's a fire sale for our guys, because we can't afford 'em. And yet another Minnesota player (Papi, KG, Moss - by way of Oakland, Manny Fernandez) would head to Boston.

Sigh.

Kevin,

I don't think Crisp-Lester, Lowrie and Bowden is too much to give up for a guy who is the best lefty in the world.

Imagine a top of the rotation of Beckett and Santana for the next five years. Wow!

Plus, you have to look at it this way: Crisp doesn not have a position right now (non-starter), Lester is at best the No. 5 starter (so, non-starter) and Lowrie and Bowdon likely won't see time in Boston at all next year.

So to summarize, the Sox would be trading two of the bottom of the roster guys (Lester and Crisp) and two minor league guys) for arguably the best pitcher in baseball.

And, they'd keep him from the Yankees. Pull the triggah!

How is Lester a "bottom of the roster" guy? He was 4-0 and won Game 4 of the 2007 World Series.

He's got a heck of a future. Trading for Crisp, Lester, et. al. for Santana is a no-brainer, but you can bet it won't happen.

Even if the Sox don't get Santana, I'd put Becket, Dice K, Shilling, Lester/Wakefield/Buchholz up against any rotation in baseball.

They'd better find a back up for Varitek before they do anything else. Mirrabeli is gone, so it will have to be someone who can catch the knuckler and who will work every 5th day.

Justin: The Twins released Papi. There was no fire sale. The Twins just gave up on him. Their bad.

I don't think that the Sox should give up Ellsbury. I'd rather they give up less to get Dan Haren from Oakland, who is younger than Santana and will be significantly cheaper. If they get Santana they'll have to pay him at least twice what Beckett is making. Let the Yankees give up Hughes and Melky Cabrera, plus at least one other top propects for him. I don't make much of their deadline to Minnesota. This is the same team that said they wouldn't negotiate with A-Rod after he opted out of his contract.