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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not overrating anything. Read what I wrote. I said there's a core of young players with a well-stocked system to feed more over the next 3-4 years. If you don't believe that to be true, you're underrating the organization. In no way, shape, or form did I imply the farm system was elite or that there weren't holes in the system. My point is that most new GMs inherit a franchise in shambles and have to start from scratch. That's not the case with the Twins.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    If Ng was offered the job and turned it down, she doesn't deserve a GM position in the league. Minnesota may be "flyover country" but there are only 30 of these positions available and few will ever be as promising as this one (core of young players with a well stocked farm system to feed more over the next 3-4 years). Sure, ownership isn't perfect but they're not that bad, either. They don't stick their noses into the day-to-day very often and that puts them head and shoulders over plenty of other franchises. The Twins GM role isn't perfect but it's a pretty good gig if you want to make your imprint on the league in a hurry.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, Beane was a good GM. He also only inherited one rebuild while Ryan inherited two. Ryan also left under dubious circumstances (not of fan of how he dropped Smith into such an awkward situation) but he left a team with a solid core of players. I'm not making excuses for Ryan but the situations were rather different. If Ryan was GM from 2008-2011, would things have turned out differently over the past five years? Hard to say for sure but it's impossible to deny he inherited a crap situation (again).
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    And your new Minnesota Twins general manager is... *drumroll*
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    No, it's not. Someone from the Twins has to be involved with the hiring of a baseball operations manager. The actual baseball guys should weigh in on the subject. That doesn't mean you listen to everything they say and you cross-examine their choices with outside consultants but they're the people who actually understand the game.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    When it comes to hiring someone into a baseball-first position, I trust them a hell of a lot more than DSP or Pohlad.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Just to show how much I don't know what Krivsky does for the Twins, I completely forgot he was with the team even though I was reminded of it just yesterday.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I understand why they did it but if they wanted to give a legit candidate an opportunity to be GM for 3-4 months, why not go with Radcliff? I'm not a fan of the organization hiring anyone from within but if they're going to hire a person from 1 Twins Way, Radcliff is the least offensive option available.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it feels a bit like a non-tech company letting their CEO hire the CTO. Hey, maybe they get it right and pick the right person... But are they truly qualified to make that call? In a perfect world, they lean heavily on both internal help (from the qualified department) and external help to make that decision. A large part of being a good leader is acknowledging you don't know something and aren't qualified to make a call. I hope everyone involved are smart enough to bring external help and guys like Radcliff/Johnson into the conversation. While Radcliff and Johnson may have ulterior motives (keeping their jobs), they've both forgotten more about baseball than DSP or Pohlad will ever know. And you have the external company there to not only discover qualified candidates but to counter any ulterior motives from established employees.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Hire Ng as president and let her name the GM (hopefully McLeod). That won't happen but a guy can dream.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not trying to pick on you but this is a clearcut case of the Dunning Kruger Effect in action. No, you wouldn't be better at Ryan's job than he was from 2011-2015. Neither would I. That doesn't mean there weren't better candidates available but Ryan had 35+ years of baseball experience and was at least moderately capable of performing general manager duties. Which is more than any of us can say.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    How a person views Terry Ryan and Billy Beane seems to tell a lot about their personality (and blindspots). Because, when you get right down to it, they're basically the same guy, although they get there very differently. From 2000 until today, Beane's Athletics had nine postseason appearances, nearly all of them coming from a division with four teams (if you want your "the ALC is weak division" argument countered, there's a good place to start). That's great. Commendable from any GM. Beane's teams won a single postseason series. Against the Twins, naturally. Most of us think it was time for Ryan to go. As sad as it is to see, it became increasingly apparent by the day that he was well past his sell by date. The game had moved on in a way Ryan wasn't equipped to handle. All we can do now is look forward and choose a worthy successor.* *and if that successor is Rob Antony, I may shoot myself
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd prefer to see a first-time GM take the role but why wouldn't an experienced GM want this job? The Twins have a very good farm system and that's after they graduated a handful of young top prospects to MLB. I think this is a pretty attractive job for anyone in baseball who isn't already a GM/president on a winning team. With the right moves, the Twins could be a fringe contender as early as next season and a real contender as early as 2018. How often does a job like that pop up in baseball? Not very often.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Beane has an ownership stake in the A's. Let's put this to bed right now. Billy Beane will not leave Oakland.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I strongly disagree. Gardenhire and Smith can be assets and good management realizes that just because a person failed in one role doesn't mean you discard them as a failure in all roles. Wanting Gardenhire and Smith out of the organization is an emotional response. Smith is a capable administrator who never should have been named general manager. That's not his fault, that's ownership's fault. Throwing Smith to the curb because ownership put him in a role he was not equipped to fill is arrogance and stupidity on the part of ownership; they're putting their failure to hire the right person at the feet of the employee instead of themselves. If Smith was a capable administrator in 2007, he was likely just as capable of filling that role again in 2012. As for Gardenhire, he's out there coaching young players on the fundamentals of baseball. That was one of Gardy's relative strengths throughout his tenure. Why wouldn't you want that guy back in that role with limited authority over player personnel? Personally, I don't care one way or the other but I understand why the Twins thought he'd be good in that role, as he seemed good at it in the past.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't disagree. I only question whether Antony is capable of getting the right return on those players. Both are under contract and have value. The last thing I want to see is them handed away for junk.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. As long as he doesn't move anyone under 25 or Santana, Dozier, or Gibson, he can't do much right or wrong at the deadline. My best case scenario here is that Antony doesn't do much at all.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    They're not starting off fresh. Antony definitely knows the players in the organization so that's a plus. But I question his inexperience in handling opposing general managers who may smell blood in the water. I agree that it's unlikely he'll do much long-term damage - I doubt he's going to trade anyone under 25 years old - but I think it's possible, maybe likely, that he gets the short straw on a few trades he executes between now and September.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    No. That's an awful premise. There are good people in the Twins organization. It's the responsibility of the new GM/president to isolate those good people and retain them if they fit into the new organization. Cleaning house just for the sake of cleaning house is an awful management tactic.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, that's a good example of the virtue of patience. Cuddyer turned into Berrios. Sometimes, it's better to just sit on your hands if the opportunity isn't there to make a good move. Again, that's what worries me about this situation.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Those weren't great examples and I should have spent more time elaborating instead of trying to get a post in quickly. My worry is that trades will happen willy-nilly because that's what Antony feels he is supposed to do. That means lots of players shuffled around without a plan in place; who to target, who to move, organizational needs, etc. Compiling a game plan and executing it during something as trying and difficult as the MLB trade deadline without experience is a delicate operation, to say the least... And if Antony feels he has to "impress the boss", it might lead to some pretty stupid decisions.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I agree teams will be open to interviews, I only question whether they'll let their personnel deal with distractions in the middle of a season. The Twins will likely pursue teams with capable front offices (ie. in a pennant race) and teams want their personnel focused on the challenges at hand, not dallying with another business trying to steal them away.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, there's no way they could bring in someone from the outside and have them handle the deadline. That's completely unreasonable... But it still puts Antony in a dangerous situation. Is he ready to handle assets and negotiate with experienced GMs around the league?
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    No. This is the one part of the decision that terrifies me. I'm picturing a scenario where guys like Dozier and Nunez are handed away for peanuts. I'm also picturing a scenario where nothing happens, though I think that's unlikely because Ryan was just fired, likely over disagreements about what to do at the deadline. Putting an inexperienced person in a position of authority with a strict mandate to "do lots of things" in less than two weeks will often lead to disastrous results.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    My thoughts exactly.
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