Article: Your Turn: What Do You Want From A Manager?

[Doomtints]

 

That aside, I don't think we necessarily need someone with MLB managing experience. Take a chance on one of these new faces and try something different.

 

The last time the Twins hired a manager with experience Gerald Ford was president, so I wouldn't really call this idea taking a chance and trying something new.

Edited October 24, 2018 by Doomtints

[Einheri]

You want to truly utilize Analytics?
Then break the mold and utilize a shifting strategy of managers—plural.
You can have one Manager as an Opener, call in another one when you need to make an important Relief Pitcher choice, and so on.  Put the Shift On and send Baldelli to the showers after going through the order once, let the "Wonder Boys" manage remotely for an inning or two, and then bring in Baldelli.  And so on.
If nothing else, it would mess with the minds of whoever watched.

 

[AceWrigley]

World Series victories.

[USAFChief]

This is going to make pickoff throws problematic.

 

 

_{^{/ I'll see myself out}}

Not if he runs really well.

 

...

 

 

Or, come to think of it, throws really slow.

[terrydactyls]

I would like a manager that sends me free box seat tickets whenever I want them.

[ashbury]

You want to truly utilize Analytics?

Then break the mold and utilize a shifting strategy of managers—plural.

You can have one Manager as an Opener, call in another one when you need to make an important Relief Pitcher choice, and so on.  Put the Shift On and send Baldelli to the showers after going through the order once, let the "Wonder Boys" manage remotely for an inning or two, and then bring in Baldelli.  And so on.

If nothing else, it would mess with the minds of whoever watched.

You're either ahead of the times, or behind them.

 

1961 College of Coaches

[mlhouse]

The new manager needs to be a developer of young players.   Pure and simple.  If he understands analytics or not, it doesn't matter because it is 1,000 times more important that he teaches his young players how to play baseball.

 

These managers are rare.   As we have seen, most baseball managers would rather pencil in the name Bobby Wilson or Logan Forsythe rather than Willians Astudillo or NickGordon because a 30+ year old veteran isn't going to make bonehead mistakes that a younger guy is going to make.  Of course, they probably only have a fraction of the talent but it takes mistakes, and hence losing, to fully develop players.

 

Young players will make fielding blunders;  strike out looking in critical situations;  run the bases like wildebeast without a clue;  throw to the wrong base and/or miss the cut off guy; be inconsistent in the strike zone;   make bad pitch decisions.   

 

But, as we know, even players that have been very conservatively moved up the minor league system are still incomplete players.  This new manager is going to be coaching, eventually, the next wave of prospects from our system.  The way we approached the first group (Sano/Buxton etc) has mostly failed.  We cannot fail on the second group (Lewis/Gordon/Kirilloff).

[Mr. Brooks]

I want a manager who gets Buxton and Sano to play to their potential. (And who gets Joe Mauer a World Series ring.)

That's going to be pretty tough, unless he's going back in time.

You don't put on an event like they did for Joe, only to bring him back for another season.

[jkcarew]

 

I want everything Rocco Baldelli offers plus some actual managing experience.

 

Minus that, I'll take Rocco Baldelli.

An extremely highly rated prospect at one time, who did, essentially, nothing in his playing career.  If nothing else, he should have some good cautionary tales for Buxton and Sano.

[ashbury]

Not if he runs really well.

 

...

 

 

Or, come to think of it, throws really slow.

Approves:

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

An extremely highly rated prospect at one time, who did, essentially, nothing in his playing career.  If nothing else, he should have some good cautionary tales for Buxton and Sano.

He did little (not nothing) in his career because he had a rare cellular disorder that completely derailed his ability to play baseball through injuries (likely a result of the disease itself, as it causes muscle fatigue). There's a reason he retired at age *28* while sporting a 101 OPS+ despite all those underperforming years as he fought through injury after injury.

 

Come on, are we really holding diseases against players now?

 

[Vanimal46]

Some fans got sick of Molitor within the first 2 years... Managers are short term, hence what I want from a manager is going to be short term.

 

1. Fix Buxton and Sano. It is imperative for the organization to do so.

 

2. Help young players take the next step. Berrios is close to becoming a front line starter... Find someone who will help him make the leap.

 

3. Someone who can quickly identify what they have and makes quick decisions. Don't let someone toil as a fringe SP if they can be better utilized in the bullpen.

 

4. Find a way to be competitive immediately.

[old nurse]

I would hire Doug White.  The team needs someone who understands pitching, pitchers. He has a good pedigree from working in St. Louis and Houston.  Shelton can stay the bench coach

[jkcarew]

 

He did little (not nothing) in his career because he had a rare cellular disorder that completely derailed his ability to play baseball through injuries (likely a result of the disease itself, as it causes muscle fatigue). There's a reason he retired at age *28* while sporting a 101 OPS+ despite all those underperforming years as he fought through injury after injury.

 

Come on, are we really holding diseases against players now?

Nope...not at all.  I did not know the story, so this is different.  Thanks, Brock.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Nope...not at all.  I did not know the story, so this is different.  Thanks, Brock.

No worries, you just never can tell nowadays... some people would actually hold Baldelli's disease against him as proof of... well, something. I don't really know.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

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_{^{/ I'll see myself out}}

You was safe!

 

Manager should challange that!

 

Oh, wait...

[yarnivek1972]

I want a manager who just gets along with ownership and upper management and who is not all wrapped up trivia like wins and losses. I especially want a manager who is concerned about the players' personal lives and their day to day activities off the field and who wants the players to consider him (or her) to be a friend above all. On the field I want a manger who shows no emotion in the dugout and who rarely protests a call or the opposition's antics. The manager should remain stone faced in the dugout and concentrate on the lineup card, not action on the field.

Post game press conferences should always emphasize that the players are trying hard and there is no issue with effort on the field. Losses are simply part of the game and the result of a bad break here or a bad pitch there.

Finally, the manager should consider club house relationships to be far more important than what happens on the field.

I hope the Twins are fortunate enough to find such a manager for 2019 and far into the future as the year 2030 it will all come together.

... right now. Over me.

[less cowbell more neau]

Bunts, lots of bunts.

[mikelink45]

This is probably too late since we have now hired our new manager, but the reality is - I want a manager who can take the crap the FO gives him and make it look like a championship team.

[Teddy]

Just have a clear role and set of objectives in every player's mind. They should step to the plate knowing exactly what they're expected to do with that at-bat.