Twins Looking To Hire President Of Baseball Operations

The decision to have a PBO likely based on two reasons: a fancy title with a big salary is required to get a big name and respectability and for said person to be a figurehead so the fraternity can be kept (nearly) unchanged to do the "real baseball work". Sadly, the fraternity needs to be dismissed to build a strong franchise.

Yeah, that makes sense. Spend a bunch of money on a consultant firm, spend more money for a figurehead, spend even more money on a new GM, and then continue operating business as normal.

 

C'mon guys, the negativity and presumption on this forum in the past week has become intolerable.

 

Let the process play out, then form an opinion. This is good news, there's no need to **** all over it. If the Pohlads flub the process from this point forward, I'll be right there beside you, pitchfork in hand but there's no indication they're going to flub the process other than wild speculation and blinding resentment toward past actions.

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Yeah, that makes sense. Spend a bunch of money on a consultant firm, spend more money for a figurehead, spend even more money on a new GM, and then continue operating business as normal.

 

C'mon guys, the negativity and presumption on this forum in the past week has become intolerable.

 

Let the process play out, then form an opinion. This is good news, there's no need to **** all over it. If the Pohlads flub the process from this point forward, I'll be right there beside you, pitchfork in hand but there's no indication they're going to flub the process other than wild speculation and blinding resentment toward past actions.

Of course they aren't spending that amount of money for giggles! Nor do I care how much they spend. Money doesn't make good decisions, people do. I don't think anyone here wants them to fail. I certainly don't. The last 21 years have removed any possibility of giving them the benefit of the doubt. And that fact scares many. They get this wrong, and with the history of loyalty in this orginisation, you'll be waving that pitchfork while you are on social security!

 

Yeah, that makes sense. Spend a bunch of money on a consultant firm, spend more money for a figurehead, spend even more money on a new GM, and then continue operating business as normal.

 

C'mon guys, the negativity and presumption on this forum in the past week has become intolerable.

 

Let the process play out, then form an opinion. This is good news, there's no need to **** all over it. If the Pohlads flub the process from this point forward, I'll be right there beside you, pitchfork in hand but there's no indication they're going to flub the process other than wild speculation and blinding resentment toward past actions.

 

I fail to see how your sarcasm helps move this discussion forward Brock.  Your opinion of what the future will entail has no more validity than mine or any other on this forum.  To pretend that you and only you have a justifiable vision of the future is insulting.

I like to see this because it's not just the Twins that are a mess, the minor league teams are also failing to get players ready for the Majors despite being competitive in their respective leagues. This way the GM can focus solely on making the Major League team better, while the new president can focus on the system as a whole. Divide and conquer.

This should come as a relief to all of us who were worried that Jim Pohlad didn't have the baseball acumen to make the right call.

 

This is a quote from above......Jim Pohlad baseball acumen? Really?

I agree with Brock's theme. We really need to wait this out.

 

Had someone asked me on May 15th what needs to happen it would have started with:

 

1 - Fire Terry Ryan

 

2 - Put a third party in charge of the search and to provide general feedback

 

3 - Hire a baseball operations head

 

They can still screw this up a few ways. They could hire an external adult supervision type and promote Antony to GM. Or they could promote St Peter to manage an external GM so the boat does not rock enough. Or simply make a bad hire or two.

 

But let's wait and get mad IF one of those things happen.