Silva's option

The Twins have an option to sign Silva to a $4.3 million contract. Don't do it.

Silva is a pitcher who had 1 lucky year 2 years ago. They should have traded him then, when he had value. Any time a non-k pitcher has a good year trade him. He will mostly likely never repeat that season again.

I would take bets that Wang's ERA will be much higher next season, closer to 5 than 4.
Silva is the worst kind of pitcher, a flyball pitcher who can't strike anyone out. There is no reason to keep him on the team.

Even if he has naked pictures of Ryan and Gardy it is not worth keeping him around. Even if he was paid the league minimum I would not keep him.
The combination of young pitchers the Twins have will not perform worse than Silva and will do so at 1/10 th price.

He may be the nicest guy in the world but nice is not a stat that can be measured. And I don't think being nice prevents any runs from being scored.

Also, signing Torii was not the worst thing the Twins could have done. There is no guarantee they could have signed 1 of the quality centerfielders who are available. He is overpaid but would you want to go into next season w/ Tyner and/or Ford as your centerfielder option?