Check out this surprising team.

[cruzg24]

Call it the Target Field or Joe Mauer factor… what have you; the Minnesota Twins see the biggest increase in Opening Day payroll from last year to this, jumping 14 spots from 24th in 2009 to 10th this year. Hovering at just under $100 million ($97,559,166), the Twins see an increase of 43.4 percent from 2009’s $65,299,266 (select the image provided for details).

Source: www.bizofbaseball.com

Is that crazy or what for the Twins? Good for them, thats a team you cant really hate cuz its a classy organization and they play fundamental baseball.

 

[.infamous]

Yeah the twins organization is ran by some good people. But thats crazy that they increased that much in one year.

 

[.GR]

Damn, that is crazy.

 

[Barcode]

They have been adding "smart" payroll, which is happening with the new field and the revenue from it. Mauer's deal happened after 08's pair of extensions (Morneau's 6/80M + Cuddyer 3/24M). Keeping a core of players is necessary unless they want to do the A's/Marlins ramp up/rip apart route.

 

[Pujolsrules22]

It doesn't surprise me. You knew they would re-sign Mauer,Morneau, and Cuddyer, and you know they would want their money.