Editing Dave Winfield (section)

===Minnesota Twins (1993–1994)===
After the 1992 season, Winfield was granted free agency and signed with his hometown [[Minnesota Twins]]. In 1993, he batted .271 with 21 home runs, appearing in 143 games for the {{baseball year|1993}} Twins, mostly as their [[designated hitter]]. On September 16, 1993, at age 41, he collected his [[3,000 hit club|3,000th career hit]] with a single off [[Oakland Athletics]] [[closer (baseball)|closer]] [[Dennis Eckersley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/3000_hit_club/winfield_dave.htm |title=The 3,000 Hit Club: Dave Winfield |publisher=Baseball Hall of Fame |date=September 16, 1993 |access-date=August 21, 2010}}</ref>

During the [[1994 baseball strike]], which began on August 12, Winfield was traded to the [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]] at the trade waiver deadline on August 31 for a [[player to be named later]]. The 1994 season had been halted two weeks earlier (it was eventually canceled a month later on September 14), so Winfield did not get to play for the Indians that year and no player was ever named in exchange. To settle the trade, Cleveland and Minnesota executives went to dinner, with the Indians picking up the tab. This makes Winfield the only player in major league history to be "traded" for a dinner (although official sources list the transaction as Winfield having been sold by the Twins to the Indians).<ref>{{cite news | last = Keegan | first = Tom | author-link = Tom Keegan | title = Owners try on global thinking cap | newspaper = [[The Baltimore Sun]] | page = 2C | date = September 11, 1994}}</ref>