Who is Jeremy Zoll, the New General Manager for the Minnesota Twins?

Somewhere along the line he forgot about teaching defensive fundamentals and baserunning 

Totally agree with bean5302 on this one. Of the 6 players you mentioned, only Ober has proven to be a viable major league starter. Wallner is getting there. Would be there or could be there if given consistant playing time. The other 4 not close. The growth from within is not impressive. Commitment to player health is very much in doubt with the number of injuries we see every year and data-driven-decision-making, which is a 4 word term for analytics, hasn't helped this team win anything significant. Internal options for depth and flexibility help keep costs down but it doesn't guarantee winning. I would also question if this team is really "competitive" like we have been led to believe. They seem to be more like "pretenders" not "contenders".

It is funny that he is so unknown that there isn't a picture of him in the database. He might be the youngest GM in MLB.

This will probably be the friendliest article written about him in the next 3 years.

Congrats to Zoll for the promotion.  The Twins job of developing players has so far produced very sketchy results.  Too many years times our prospects are brought to majors o ly to be relegated to a part time status through pinch hitting and platooning.  Most of the prospects on the team have proven very little in an effort to prove they belong in the big leagues.  

9 hours ago, Richie the Rally Goat said:

Preston Mattingly is close in age, born in ‘87, but Zoll might be younger, he graduated undergrad in 2012 so likely born in the late 80s/early nineties. However the majority of MLB GMs are in their 40s, he’s young, but not “that young”

10 hours ago, DJL44 said:

It is funny that he is so unknown that there isn't a picture of him in the database. He might be the youngest GM in MLB.

This will probably be the friendliest article written about him in the next 3 years.

Zoll is 34, mattingly 37

9 hours ago, Richie the Rally Goat said:

Preston Mattingly is close in age, born in ‘87, but Zoll might be younger, he graduated undergrad in 2012 so likely born in the late 80s/early nineties. However the majority of MLB GMs are in their 40s, he’s young, but not “that young”

Zoll is 3 years younger than Preston Mattingly.

Zoll being part of LAD org. I'd have high hopes for him. But his time at LAD was short & his time under Falvey's wing is extensive. Anything good he might have picked up at LAD, he has lost sitting under Falvey's philosophy & supervision. Many high picks of college big bats & weak gloves never made it out the MiLB. Focus on primarily developing HRs hitters, they have screwed up a lot of promising young hitters. Hitters that rejected this philosophy have done well. Hitters that have made it to the MLB Sano, Jeffers. Larnach, Wallner & Julien that adapted to Falvey's philosophy have had to revamp their approach to stay up. Jeffers & Larnach have adapted, hopefully Wallner has, Sano has not & Julien, I have serious doubts. We are way behind in defense & baserunning. In our system we have too many psuedo SSs & CFs & real ones are ignored or traded. 

But our greatest need & my greatest concerned is if Zoll is able to initiate & finalize essential trades. Zoll has been sitting in some of Falvey's transactions so Falvey has mentored him in the art of "creative" trade, What a laugh, a creative trade, needs to be initiated, have a positive effect & of course be creative. That said, Zoll  isn't qualified to be a GM. It took Falvey 3 yrs. to come to the revelation that Cave could not sub Buxton. It took them 2 yrs to discover that Polanco's ankles couldn't stand up at SS. It has taken them 6 yrs to hopefully discover that focusing on drafting & development for HRs while neglecting defense & basic baseball fundamentals was wrong, I want a GM who is 1 or more steps ahead than a GM who is always 2 or more steps behind, When are they going to discover that our catching situation is terminal that putting a bandaid (Vazquez) on it might mask it but hasn't fixed it? 

Falvey was hired to establish a pitching pipeline & that's taken to fruition. My guess is that we are now behind maybe only ATL, LA, TB, CLE, MIA & SEA as far as developing pitchers. Great! But why can't he sees that he sucks at everything else. He has deceived himself, BSed a good portion of the fanbase, the ownership but he hasn't BSed me. I hate to be BSed. My hope was that Falvey would have that epiphany of that he sucked at a lot of stuff & what the Twins needed to be GM, was a man (or woman) that is able to be who he couldn't be, not another hand-picked yes-man clone, who majors in weird analytics. Now Falvey has fingerprints all over the Twins, which I'm afraid will be the touch of death. No wonder Levine got out when he did, he didn't want anything to do will the Twins downfall. 

Well, here we go into another new front office adventure. In a situation like this, I'd normally say "Fasten your seat belts" ... but I still expect this winter will be a very boring and lackluster one for the Twins. No idea how good this guy will be or how qualified he is, but wishing him lots and lots and buckets of good luck!

On 11/12/2024 at 9:58 PM, Richie the Rally Goat said:

Matt Wallner’s .894 OPS 155 wRC+ put him in the top 15-20 in the MLB and he’s “borderline”?

Festa’s results were very good for the 7th starter. 60 innings at 27% k rate is top 30ish in mlb. 
 

Mathew’s results were good for an 8th starter 24% k rate puts him ranked in the 60s.

Yes, there’s more to pitching than Ks, but there’s a lot to work with for those two. Future is very bright

Wallner is getting close. he's basically had 1 full season in the 3 years he's played at the major league level. I would argue that is not a "proven" major leaguer when it takes you 3 years to get to 160 games played.

64 innings for Festa with an ERA close to 5 and Mathews ERA above 6 don't do it for me. They've proven nothing. The article says, "viable big league starters" of which they are not.... yet.

link to 1st Zoll "Inside Twins" interview.   https://fb.watch/w_BTItT55O/