The Hardball Times has a good review of the Twins season up. At the end the Author, Josh Kalk, makes the case that the Twins should sign Barry Bonds to DH, move Jason Kubel to LF and Delmon Young to Center, benching Carlos Gomez. The article is worth reading but I disagree with him on one point:
"Give the front office credit for dumping Hernandez when they did as well. It takes some guts to dump your opening day starter, who also was leading the team in victories. The move was clearly the right choice, but sometimes the right choice is clouded by potential media/fan backlash."
Practically everyone who knows anything about the Minnesota Twins wanted them to dump Hernandez and bring up Liriano about two weeks before the Twins actually made the move. There would have been certain media/fan backlash if they would have kept Hernandez in the rotation and Liriano in AAA.
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