Baseball player Matt Capps

Washington Nationals traded closer Matt Capps to the Minnesota Twins for a highly regarded catching prospects Wilson Ramos late on Thursday. This step is likely to accelerate the ascension of a newcomer Drew Storen, ten pilot project last year, the closer role when a command is only all the stars in Minnesota.

Citizens also included $ 500,000 in the transaction and will get left by pitcher Joe Testa, who was recently demoted from Class AA New Britain to the class of Fort Myers.


Ramos, 22, currently Class AAA Rochester, gives citizens the spectacle potentially replace Jesús Flores, whose shoulder surgery, and subsequent failures have put its future in question. Ramos, rated prospects number 58 in baseball before the season in America, baseball appeared in 7 games with the Twins May.

Kaps, who is fourth in the specialty with 26 saves was purchased this winter after the Pittsburg Pirates will not declare him the contract. Nationals signed Capps on 3,5 million dollars for one year, but it will be because of the large increase in arbitration this off-season, most likely somewhere between $ 7,000,000 and $ 8,000,000.

Now, the source said the team will use the Nats Committee cords to close in the game and use depending on whether a pitcher is a "hot hand".

Atahualpa Severino, left the pitcher Class AAA in Syracuse, will likely take place Capps on the registry of citizens.

Later on Thursday evening Capps, in his final act of the citizens, went to Nationals park, so that it can clean your locker and prepare for early morning flight, Minnesota, and in pennant races. Capps had heard of the first general manager Mike Rizzo, and then from the Manager Jim Riggleman and pitching coach Steve McCatty.

"They appreciated the work that I did," said Capps. "More than anything, they kind of appreciated the club thing, as I walked my business. To see the face of the most important thing in my life. I hope I left more impressed than I do baseball.

Capps, 26, was prepared for the possibility of trade, saying that he understands how business works in baseball. Nevertheless, "it kind of caught me off guard," he said. "I heard something. I have not heard much about the Twins. I know that a good organization, in the year they have been great."

As Capps went to Nationals Park, he is "different emotions. He felt excitement about joining the team can qualify for Matches. Moreover, he felt sadness about the departure of citizens. He thanked the citizens to believe he could be closer after the Pirates gave him free after the worst major league season of his career, the same off-season in which his father died.
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