Friday, August 03, 2007

Update: Cirillo To Arizona

According to La Velle, the Twins have traded Jeff Cirillo to the Diamondbacks for a minor-leaguer, whose identity is unknown at this time. (Update: La Velle is now reporting that the D-Backs actually claimed Cirillo off waivers, meaning that the Twins will get nothing in return.)

Why? Beats me. They needed to clear a spot on the roster for Michael Cuddyer's return from the DL, but Cirillo is certainly more valuable than, say, Luis Rodriguez.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not only is Cirillo more valuable the way the current roster is set, but as far as I can tell, Rodriguez still has two option years left. The Twins first added him to the 40-man roster in October, 2004. So, in 2005, he would have been optioned to Rochester at the end of Spring Training.

Last year, he spent the entire year on the major league roster, so it would not have used up one of his option years.

Since we get three option years per player, I don't see why Terry Ryan couldn't have just moved Rodriguez to Rochester for two seconds until rosters expand again in September, unless he really thinks Cirillo's availability has been that much of an issue and the $500K is really a significant savings.