Comments on: Drew Butera avoids arbitration with Twins for $700,000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Fri, 24 May 2013 01:04:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: moogro http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428931 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:56:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428931 The arbitration process must be more trouble than it’s worth.

]]> By: moogro http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428917 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:26:27 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428917 More than I ever will in my lifetime. 60 years of income…yea, that’s about right.

]]> By: wlschneider09 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428564 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:32:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428564 Sigh…

]]> By: Mark http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428471 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:55:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428471 Were the Twins afraid he’d make more in arbitration?

]]> By: drsteller http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428450 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:27:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428450 Ugh.

]]> By: albertmn http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428378 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:34:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428378 Likely the worst hitter in MLB, and he will make more next season than I will make in the next 10+ years. Sad.

]]> By: kopy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428363 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:54:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428363 Speak for yourself. I just ended my hunger strike.

]]> By: hansob http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428362 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:54:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428362 Even if you wanted him back, I don’t know why the Twins wouldn’t just release him and re-sign him to a minimum contract. no other team is going to be interested in paying him more than $500K, if any team would be interested at all.

]]> By: mattdubya http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428360 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:51:44 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428360 I Googled “Slow News Day” and it brought me here.

]]> By: Joe http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428342 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:22:13 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428342 Quite the premium for a roster spot (third-string catcher) that most teams don’t fill at the major league level. But who am I to argue with the success of the Twins?

]]> By: zzalapski http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/twins-drew-butera-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-428331 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:04:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=291076#comment-428331 There is no logical reason for Drew Butera to be on a major league roster. None.

This would’ve been the easiest $220K the Twins could have saved. Plenty of AAA catchers can suck as much as Butera does for the major league minimum.

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