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For as long as I can remember, a Twins offseason would run along the same paths every year. It would start with a faint sense of wishful thinking: Maybe, just maybe, this is finally the year we make the move to put us over the top, that one player to make us contenders. The hope was soon lost though, as in the next months fans would see Twins shopping in the discount aisles once again, picking scraps out of a heap of has-beens and never-weres. Such was not the case this past offseason, and the Pohlads have made true their promise of additional spending as a result of new stadium revenues. The acquisitions of J.J. Hardy, Jim Thome, and Orlando Hudson, the re-signing of Carl Pavano, and the inevitable contract extension to Joe Mauer push the Twins' payroll north of $100 million, a stark cont ...

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