Is Jeremy Zoll a bot?

[mike8791]

Seriously, other than seeing the man at some press conferences, saying Twins are not trading Buxton, and living off the waiver wires to churn the bullpen, what has he done in the last 5 months that any logarithm couldn't do?  I'm no AI expert, but really any semi-intelligent coder could program a course of action better than we have witnessed from Z-man.  Couldn't a coder run thru a daily waiver wire and pick the oldest, most over-the-hill relievers, throw them up against ML hitters and get better results than our aspiring GM?  OK, Gomez has worked out and maybe Banda has turned things around  a bit, but looking at the garbage heap of signed & released waiver wire pickups this season brings into question if Zoll is a machine or a real baseball guy.  After all computers aren't yet able to strategize - a trait that Zoll fits perfectly.

I guess we'll learn more come trade deadline, but his lack of results, particularly in the pen where even the most casual fan realized we had nothing going into the season, makes me wonder whether the Pohlads could save even more money(and embarrassment) by dumping Zoll for Chat GPT.

[Linus]

I think Zoll is an interesting topic. When Falvey was around it was impossible to know who was responsible for what. It’s now clear we can  attribute results to Zoll singularly. It seems his playbook is similar to Falvey which is not surprising as people tend to hire people who have the same ideas and beliefs. One area that appears to be different is addressing under performing players - Zoll has been quicker to make moves then Falvey IMO. It will take time to get a real read on this situation. 

[ashbury]

5 hours ago, mike8791 said:

what has he done in the last 5 months that any logarithm couldn't do? 

Disagree.  The problem has been exponential for some time.