Should Fans Trust the Twins' Front Office?

Two points to make off the top of my head: 

A trade or DFA of a current roster member may have jolted the team out of their funk. They're collectively not performing like a playoff-worthy team.

With so many hitters not coming anywhere close to meeting expectations, I am still skeptical about the effectiveness of the coaching. The hitting approach of many players border on downright painful. The strikeout totals bear this out. So the front office may need to be called out for more than player personnel decisions.

I am fine with Falvey and Lavine standing pat at the trade deadline. A year ago the trades at the deadline only served to decimate the farm system. By not trading any prospects they have strengthened their position for the upcoming off season while still being able to achieve this years goal (win the division and make a run in the playoffs) My question is, who is responsible for signing Gallo? I asked this question the day after they signed him...check your blogs.

I trust the front office. They’ve won 2 division titles back to back years in ‘19-‘20 but failed in playoffs. That will change this year. I feel winning division this year is very important in their future along with Rocco but they seem to have woken up and have started to distance themselves from Cleveland. Games with them will decide division. Say what you want about FO/Rocco but they’ve done ok. Best thing was staying put at deadline. We have the team to make noice in playoffs especially with our starting pitchers. Have feeling twins end losing streak and will make deep run in playoffs this Year.

There is so much to dislike about the manager and the FO.  The money they spent on Buxton and Correa alone is enough to send the boy wonders packing with their uninspiring manager in tow.

This is one of the worst front offices the Twins have ever had.  We have a joke of a manager that can't go anywhere without his laptop telling him what to do.  It's the most boring team, most frustrating team we've had in years.  Yes we will win the division.  We may win it by a lot idk.  We have an "easy" schedule compared to others.  But winning the Junior Varsity AL Central isn't much of an accomplishment.  No one in the division is very good including the Twins.  They will win the division and pat themselves on the back by telling us what a great job they did.  Then we will be forced to endure the same lackluster style of baseball for several more years.  This team has no self discipline.  They are terrible, just like Rocco, at making jn game adjustments.  Where's the sanity in moving Correa in a horrendous slump again from leadoff to clean up hitter?  Where is the sanity in keep sending Gallo out there to strike out and provide little else.  Surely any AAA player could do better than that.  Where us the sanity in letting many underperformed veterans play and continue to impede the progress of some of their prospects.  Where is the sanity of doing nothing at the trade deadline?  Yes maybe they couldn't find the right deal.  But not trading players on expiring contracts and getting nothing for them is worse.  Where is the (in)sanity?  It's in the Front Office.

This is baseball, not Monopoly. "Winning" the trade market doesn't guarantee making the play-offs.

Not making a trade is the least of the Twins problems. Tying up a good chunk of the payroll on two unproductive "stars", signing declining vets instead of promoting in-house prospects, rigid, unimaginative coaching by stats, puzzling lineups, swinging for the fence on most every pitch, leading the league in strikeouts, poor bullpen management... the list is practically endless.

The only "trade" that will fix the Twins is a swap for a whole new front office and coaching staff.

Trust them ???

It should be are they really leaders of the team ...

Leaders lead by not going the long way around the barn , be straight forward on their definitions to the players and fans  , if they continue to confuse the fans and media with their comments then what are they telling the players ...

Them telling us one thing and then they do something different  is not a good leader ...

As I've stated in prior threads, this FO is criminally inept.  They are getting worse instead of Baldelli who IMO has actually learned from some of his mistakes in prior seasons especially with the pitching staff.

• Signing Joey Gallo and them keeping him on the roster far too long.   They are hoping that he starts hitting to cover up this mistake.
• They did the same thing when they protected Jake Cave over Lamonte Wade.  Kept him on the roster two season too long.  Everybody saw it.
• The Correa contract alone should be enough to dismiss them.  Overrated to most knowledgeable baseball minds and then forced them to put Lewis in the OF where he ended up with ACL tear last season.
• Acquiring damage goods in Tyler Mahle for two absolute stud hitters.  I immediately called out this trade and it's even worse than I imagined.  Steer is going to be a cornerstone on an up and coming Reds team for years.  CES is going to be an all star and going to haunt the Twins like David Ortiz did.  Look up their stats if you have not already.
• Cano for Lopez.   Lopez had really only proved himself for less than a half a season..
• This team has more injury issues than any team in sports.  There has to be something with either the training department or the culture of the program.  
• Trading fan favorite Luis Arraez for Pablo Lopez.

2 hours ago, JD-TWINS said:

Fans can trust the Twins FO just as much as any FO in the game. None of them are transparent. Not a problem.

Miranda - CC - Polanco - Buxton - Vazquez - Larnach all underperforming are not things that were nor should have been anticipated by the FO nor anyone.

Gallo was a risk & squarely falls on the FO.

They are dragging Gallo along to the roster expansion date just in case they need him due to injury. Now he’s filling in for Kirilloff at 1B…..not the end of the world. It gets very tricky from a roster standpoint when Buxton - Lewis - Kirilloff are all ready to play. May have to creatively “option” pitchers to get to September 1 roster expansion. Who knows, Gallo may “pull a hamstring later this month”?

I pretty much agree with this.  Honestly, I was pretty happy at last years trade deadline.  I thought the moves they made looked good.  We all know they were disastrous.  In my defense, I'm neither a GM nor a talent scout; consequently, Falvine are accountable for those moves regardless of how they looked at the time.  And I never understood picking up Gallo which seemed(s) like a substitution for another failed slugger...Sano.  My biggest beef with the organization is how they managed to allow Buxton to turn from an obvious 5 tool player into a mostly one dimensional player when healthy.  To me, this is an organizational failure.  It may be irrelevant since Buck can't stay healthy.  That makes me sad.

Haven't read the article here, just came in response to the title.

"No."

The failure has been the offense.  As a group, I think it would be fair to say in general we were confident in Correa / Buxton / Polanco Miranda and Vasquez.  Some criticized the Arraez trade.  It appears the FO felt they could get equal offense from some combination of Polanco and Julien.  The team is definitely better with Julien and Lopez vs Arraez alone.  There was a lot of Criticism of Jeffers and some wanted him moved.  When they realized Buxton could not play the field they got MAT who has been pretty good.  

Remember the calls for Nick Gordon to get more time or start?   How many people were betting Kirilloff was washed up?  We wanted Kepler gone.  He has been quite good.  We were right about Gallo.  That's the one they got wrong and we got right.

Where do we stand now that we are two-thirds of the way through the season.  How have position players performed over the past 2 months?  The stats below are the last two months for position players.   The problem is clearly Miranda / Buxton / Polanco / Vasquez and Correa, probably in that order.  All players that in general were endorsed here.  They believed they could build the rest of the team from existing options and that has gone very well.  They did a very good job putting together a starting pitching staff we can quibble about the BP.   It seems a bit hypocritical to distrust them because they believed in the same players we did?

Time will tell, but I think they are doing a better job than they get credit for as a duo calling the shots.

The Good:

1) Recent Drafts:  Royce Lewis, Brooks Lee and Walter Jenkins are franchise altering talents.  Ryan Jeffers, Bailey Ober, Alex Kiriloff all look to be great picks.  They missed on Saboto and Cavaco, but the draft is very complex and with top picks they appear better than the prior regime who made a lot of whiffs with top picks. 

2) Attracting Top Talent: Before this regime top talents did not consider Minnesota.  This regime has attracted top tier players to this organization. They also have got the Pohlad’s to spend more and while not all talents worked out this is a great improvement from what he had seen historically.

3) Pitching: Particularly the starting pitching is the best we have seen in a long time if not ever.  The starting pitching depth is incredible.  We don’t have a Johan Santana, however he was a generational talent and we may have a few of those coming up in our system or even at the big league level.  

The Bad: 

1) Coaching Staff:  I am not sold on Rocco’s game management. The hitting coach also is a disaster and they continue to let it happen.  It would be great to see how Joe Masson would handle this club. Also a competent hitting coach could for sure get more out of this lineup.

2) Trades: Sonny Gray and Joe Ryan are both great adds.  Tyler Mahle, Emilio Pagan/Chris Paddack, Jorge Lopez were disasters that were masked by our deep farm system thankfully. I give the FO credit for having a deep farm system, but  we got fleeced in an epic way on those trades.  Perhaps Pagan/Paddack will still pan out better. 

3) Hanging on too long to failed projects: Too much talent is in the minors to allow Joey Gallo to take a roster spot. Same with Jorge Lopez and even to an extent Pagan who is performing now but was a huge reason for last years failures. We have too much young talent knocking at the door. We need to cut bait sometimes and much faster.  

Final Assessment: If they can upgrade coaching I sense this current roster could perform much better than today.  I would be for keeping them given how much they improved the short and long term prospects. With Lee, Lewis and Jenkins on the way. The future is bright for this team.  

My biggest question is "Why" for crying out loud, "Why is Gallo still on the team?"  As someone else mentioned, any AAA player can give you more production than Gallo has.  It's dumbfounding.  Secondly, this offense has been horrendous.  Someone has to be held accountable.  I put the blame here on Rocco and Popkins.  If what we are doing is not working, and this is quite obvious, adjustments need to be made.  We just HAVE  to get the bat on the ball more often.  

It has Zero to do with trust; front office is going to do what they do, without regard to any trust in any form.

Now appreciate or dismiss as being , not right, that fans can do.

I accept what they do ,  but have different attitudes on moves made.