Minnesota Twins' Offseason Looking Clearer

Dennys Reyes was the only Twins Free Agent who qualified for arbitration and the team offered it to him in hopes of acquiring an extra draft pick next June.   With the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to their pending free agents now behind us, the outlook for the Twins' offseason is starting to look a lot clearer. A player that is viewed as a Type-A free agent and is offered arbitration by his former team will cost a team their first-round draft pick if it's not within the top 15. If the player is not offered arbitration, no draft pick will be lost at all. As for Type-B free agents, teams aren't penalized a draft pick for signing them, so the only team that stands to lose is the team offering arbitration if the player ends up accepting the offer and re-signs against the teams desire. With many Type-A & Type-B free agents not being offered arbitration, we can now begin to get a more accurate list of who the team really could go out and sign. Dennys Reyes received ... (link)