As expected, the Twins officially announced today that they have picked up closer Joe Nathan’s option, which will pay him $6 million for next season. Nathan knew it was happening last week, and the team simply waited to announce it until after the World Series.

This means the Twins have seven players under contract for next season at $30.9 million. The others are Johan Santana ($13.25 million), Joe Mauer ($6.25 million), Nick Punto ($2.4 million), Jesse Crain ($1.05 million), Dennys Reyes ($1 million) and Mike Redmond ($950,000).

This entry was posted on Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 11:56 am and is filed under Twins thoughts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.