Can team take a page from Twins and As?
TAMPA — The Minnesota Twins and Oakland A’s have made Jay Feaster’s job a lot more difficult. TAMPA — The Minnesota Twins and Oakland A’s have made Jay Feaster’s job a lot more difficult. Tom Wilson, CEO of Palace Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Lightning, noticed that the small-market teams with limited payrolls made it to the American League playoffs, and he made the connection to Tampa Bay. “It makes it harder to say it can’t be done,” Wilson said Saturday before the Lightning’s season opener. “It’s been a sort of validating year for those of us who you want to call small-market or small-revenue teams that it can be done. The pressure and the onus is on the general manager to take a relatively small amount of money … and get it done.” Said Feaster: “I didn’t realize the Minnesota Twins and the Oakland A’s were hockey teams. However, I understood what I signed on for when I became general manager of the team.” That became obvious when this season’s opening-night payroll wa
