"Quick story first: About 12 years ago, we visited New York as part of the first modern day Great Baseball Road Trip. At the time, our grandmother (now deceased) was still living on Long Island in the nice little beach community of Long Beach. We took the train out there and spent the better part of a day with her. As we sat near the ocean, most likely eating ice cream, a hot air balloon drifted by in the distance. Our grandmother exclaimed, squinting: "What is that? Some sort of dirigible or zeppelin?"

We think of that from time to time, and it makes us smile. In fact, we thought of it while looking for an image for this post -- depicting Led Zeppelin's song "Kashmir." That brings it back to the real focus: Potentially cheap, high-upside starting pitchers the Twins could make low-risk runs at, a la reliever Joel Zumaya. So we looked at MLB Trade Rumors, and these four names popped out:

Brandon Webb.

Rich Harden.

Scott Kazmir.

Zach Duke."