I'm not sure what the Twins need Alex Presley for, and losing the 2-3mm they owed Morneau for the rest of the season doesn't really seem worth the move given the payroll trimming they did prior to this year. Maybe the PTBNL is a guy, but that hardly ever happens.

I hope he plays well in Pittsburgh and gets some team's attention in the playoffs to maybe get himself some money this winter. His career since the concussion in 2010 has been a weirdly underplayed tragedy. Whether or not he deserved the 2006 MVP (he didn't, but his roommate did) he was well on his way to a legitimate MVP in 2010 with a Jim Thome-classic style batting line and defense at first that had improved to "wow, that's rather quite good." A pair of MVPs, a handful of playoff appearances, and a reputation as the team leading bad cop to Joe Mauer's boring cop is enough to at least make a Twins legend on the level of guys like Torii Hunter - who probably wont be Hall of Famers but will get some down-ballot action and never pay for a meal in Minnesota. That last one is probably still true.

Instead, he had two years of living miserably - not just in his career but in life. And then never really got his footing back with his health.

He was a great Twin though, and we were happy to have him here.