Twins Win... With my help

Everyone knows what the Minnesota Twins do well. They pitch, play defense, and score one or two runs, if they're lucky. This is a big off season. Hunter is a free agent. Santana and Nathan are a year away. Everyone wants both Hunter and Santana signed to big money. The Twins payroll this year was around 72 Million. Hunter WILL get at least 15 million. Santana could command upwards of 20 million, probably in the 22-23 million range. That's nearly 40 million dollars of a 70-75 million payroll. The Twins can't hit. Unless Torii turns into Pujols, this can't work. At best, Santana wins you one game out of every five. If we commit 35 million to the rest of the roster, we lose the other four. Last I checked, it's about winning close to three out of every five games. They should resign Hunter (a guy playing for a contract the past two years who put up career years who will be 32 next season, always a bad deal) because he can actually drive in a run. Trade Santana for the Kevin Garnett equivalent (one, hopefully two proven guys who could easily be stars, and a bunch of young guys with high ceilings that have yet to prove themselves). Just don't go for the Randy Moss trade. They got an OK linebacker and the 7th pick. They drafted a guy who never was that good but he was fast. 382 dropped balls later, the idea of drafting/trading for a replacement has left a sour taste in my mouth. Instead, they should trade for hitters. The Twins, last I checked, had around twelve pitching prospects who could be solid or better big league pitchers in the next two years. Unless they want a twelve man rotation, this isn't going to work. Someone has to go. Considering we're going to need big money to keep what little offense we have, let alone dream of improving the offense, we can't spend twenty or more million on Santana. Who could he go to? Well the New Yorks and Boston are obvious answers. The Mets have all these supposed great outfield prospects, but I'm not that excited about the Lastings Milledge era (although I give him ten Camel points for the name). Yankees claim guys like Joba The Hutt and Hughes are untouchable (until Georgey Boy loses his mind again and makes them trade for Santana). Boston? I like it, for both teams (and I am a Sox fan also, bring out the bandwagon talk if you want) Schilling will be gone. Dice is questionable. Wakefield may be done. I know they have a lot of good young pitchers. But how many of them are ready to start on a team expected to win the world series? The Twins need a leftfielder (unless Kubel thinks he's in AAA and hits around 350 with power), and thirdbaseman and a DH. Jacoby Ellsbury, Kevin "He's on first base" Youkilis, some guy who could hit fifteen to twenty homers and a couple youngsters? Gimme that. The lineup would be Ellsbury, Youkilis, Mauer, Hunter, Morneau, Cuddyer, 15-20 homer guy, Bartlett and anyone who can bat over .206 at second. If that lineup has trouble scoring runs, then our only chance is to somehow resurrect The Puck (R.I.P.). The rotation could be Liriano, Garza, Baker, BOOF, and Slowey/ Blackburn/Perkins/ any of the other half dozen good arms we have. You're telling me that teams won't win at least 85 with the potential to win 95?