NEWS: Twins Hire Rays Minor-League Coach Brian Reith as New Pitching Coach

Hard to nit pick heisting someone from the Rays.

While I was in favor of paying the money to hire an established major league pitching coach with a demonstrated record of success, at least we can give the FO credit for hiring someone outside the Twins organization.  Better yet, that org. is one with established success in keeping their pitching pipeline flowing.  Of course, we don't know exactly how much Reith contributed, but preliminary indications are favorable.  Between Kalk and Reith, perhaps we will not only see improvement in drafting of pitchers, but also in badly needed improvement  in getting our minor leaguers ready for MLB success.

Durham Bulls eh?

I guess he will have Twins pitchers bringing the heat and announcing their presence with authority.   LOL

1 hour ago, Whammy said:

I'm all for improvement, but has the Twins drafting of pitchers been bad over the last 5-7 years? 

I feel like this is something that just gets said because we assume other teams are doing it so much better. And I'm sure there are examples of organizations that do a really good job of it, but drafting pitchers, keeping them healthy, and having them contribute to the MLB club is just really difficult.

Yep.  I've done some experimental analysis that puts us 6th in value from drafted pitchers since 21 and we've spent the 16th most capital on pitchers and 8th in getting value from picks.  Our pitching issues have come from (1) horrible development of international players and (2) we basically never get good pitchers in FA.  We also haven't had a guy get drafted an become an absolute stud, but we've had plenty of solid players despite not spending firsts on pitchers.

Now that we know who will coaching the pitchers, let's see what he can do