Carl Pavano & Joel Pineiro

The Minnesota Twins locked up the top remaining free agent on the market yesterday when they agreed to a two-year, $16.5 million contract with right-handed pitcher Carl Pavano. I'm not really here to go into too much detail on the quality of that deal from Minnesota's perspective; it seems like a reasonable deal, although you wonder how guys like Aaron Harang and Jeff Francis had to settle for one-year deals at $3 million or less in guaranteed money.

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