BaconFighters

I was a big Flavine fan. They originally brought in some good coaches like Wes Johnson & Tanner Swanson. They pick up some good FAs, like Castro, Cruz, Cron, Schoop, Perez & Pineda. & Odorizzi trade fell into their laps. The perfect storm of the "bomba squad" that organically came about due to the "juiced ball". This all set up the 100+ game season. Falvey was the head mainly because of the Twins' switch to an analytical approach & his association with the CLE pitching pipeline.; Although Levine did most of the talking at 1st. One thing I didn't like about this regime was its being occult. We had no idea who was responsible for what between Falvey, Levine or Baldelli. But we were winning, so who cared back then?
Falvey was hailed as a genius and credited with the Twins' success. This all went to Falvey's head. He did more talking, took more & more credit & more & more control. Resulting in becoming more & more imbalanced. Analytics is a necessary tool that all MLB teams have devoted themselves to developing. Because of this mindset, Falvey has been well thought of. But IMO, this mindset has gone extreme; that MLB baseball has turned into a fantasy baseball game, driven completely by biased stats & HR Derby; that has compromised the game. MLB baseball isn't cold & hard stats. It's a game played by human beings, not video avatars. With human elements like conditions, intangibles like instinct & heart that analytics can't register, or fundamentals that analytics have difficulty measuring accurately.  It's time to bring back the baseball-smarts back into the game & not be completely dominated by analytics. I'll state again that analytics is a necessary tool, but we can't not driven by them. We need to get away from this mindset that Falvey possesses. Falvey doesn't have the baseball smarts that is needed to be a GM.

Watching "Moneyball", my take on Billy Beane's best quality as a GM wasn't his knowledge on analytics (that was Paul DePodesta's job); His best talent was initiating, negotiating & closing on trade deals. What really helped him was his ability & courage to think out of the (old school) box, using analytics to come out ahead in trades. IMO, now, the pendulum has swung far to the other side, where analytics drives the sport & "in the box" thinking is analytics. The analytical evaluation system that's biased on hitting HRs. If you were slow, a poor glove & struck out a lot, but you had at least the potential of hitting HRs, you had a great rating. If you thought outside this box, you were crazy.
IMO, the best characteristics for a GM are #1 to do the trades that are essential for the team to be competitive. #2 & 3 have good players evaluations & development. Correct player evaluation is key. Because correctly evaluating players will help you find essential players via the draft, the wire, FA & trade. Last but not least is to develop your young players correctly in the fundamentals of the game in the MiLB & reinforce them in the MLB. If you aren't good in all 3, you'd better find someone good who can head those areas that you are lacking. 
IMO, Falvey is lacking in every single one. Falvey is 100% analytical as he evaluates his players according to the above model of basically slow, poor glove & strike out a lot but had a big bat, that was his priority. That affected all areas of his control. Yet in all his years of GM at MN where are these "big bats" that were supposed to be developed? So you fill the system with these poor gloves, poor baserunners, bad ABs, no fundamentals, who can't hit HRs when you need them; what good are they? I have to give Falvey some credit, where he's starting to get away from the old mold & focus on more athletic players. If Falvey can't do these areas correctly especially trades & doesn't get anyone who can he needs to step down from the baseball ops & stick with the business (I don't know how well he's doing in the business side).