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Twins Not Expecting Big Payroll Increases In Future With Current TV Deal

The Twins' Opening Day payroll projects at $104.5M, "down slightly" from the $108M the club they took into '15, and fans "shouldn't expect player payroll to increase drastically in the near term," according to Mike Berardino of the ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS. The team has eight years left on its current deal with FS North that is worth an average of nearly $40M annually. Twins President David St. Peter said, "Our time will come to get back to the table with Fox (Sports) North, and when it does, I trust that once again we'll be at or above market in light of our television deal." In the meantime, he said he currently is "very comfortable with the fact our deal is close to market." St. Peter: "People always evaluate television markets differently. They tend to look at Minneapolis-St. Paul as the 15th- or 16th-largest television market. That's the wrong metric to look at. ... You need to look at the number of cable and satellite households within a television territory, and the bottom line on that front is we're bottom five in the league on cable/satellite households" (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 2/13).

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