The Minnesota Twins could lose 90 games for a third straight season.

They have a $75.8 million payroll, ranking 21st among 30 Major League teams.

"I am going to help Terry (general manager Terry Ryan) however he wants me to help," Jim Pohlad said. "We made a couple trades last year; I'm not sure that we can rely on that this year. So if we're going to do something, it's going to have to be that way (free agency)."

The Twins will try to avoid issuing long-term deals.

"We're just not going to go there in a lot of cases," Pohlad said. "We would spend any amount of money in the current year, but in order to be able to spend that amount of money, you often have to obligate yourself so far out also.

"But there will be situations that will work. We're not going to spend just for the heck of it, but, personally, I believe that could be a way to put some juice in there."