Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Santana: "I guess the best thing for them was to make this deal."

The Strib recaps the Santana negotations and it sounds like Johan is both happy to move on to New York ($137.5 million later, who wouldn't be happy?) and regretful that he couldn't stay with the Twins.

One aside: my Spanish is lousy, but I've never understood the pronunciation of Santana's first name. He's from Venezuela, so I would think Spanish pronunciation would be correct. My understanding of Spanish pronunciation would mean his name is pronounced "Ho-an." But I've only ever heard him referred to as "Yo-han." So what is correct? Have we Midwesterners just been mangling his name for nearly a decade? That's my assumption, but if someone can clear that up, I'd appreciate it.

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