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I think Seth gave his opinion and I know that I respect it. I also think knew his opinion would be against the wind and knew some blow back.

If he is still striking out at an unusually high rate. He will have to go back down. If his contact is up... I think he should stay up. Even if other metrics are low.

Isn't guilt by association somewhat justified in the current situation. I realize it isn't fair or even close to researched since we really don't know anything about internal candidates but isn't it somewhat reasonable to associate anybody that is part of the process in a total system failure such as it is. Do we have someone in the Org who is loudly critical of the decisions made?

I like the precedence that has been set. It shows that even vets can get shuffled about even if it's just a little. I'm just surprised that Pat Dean was the one who caused it.

Private Message to Jim Pohlad: This is one of those moments that you don't want to screw up. Pick a good one.

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This is exactly how I feel... Right now I simply don't have the room available to care about St. Peter. I want immediate supervision for Terry Ryan and the advocates he has assembled. I don't know what the problem is exactly but there is a problem. I've personally been wrong for many years when I've stated let the man (Terry Ryan) do his job. My personal clock has run out. SP is a mess Bullpen is a mess... Actually there wasn't even an attempt to fix it. The Veterens have been average at best and well below average for the most part The Youth hasn't been ready and it has over run the 40 man roster. The enormity of the missed assessments in total is off the charts and nobody should survive it. Nobody would in most businesses. I'm simply at the point where I don't trust the collective room and the decisions coming out of that room and I want immediate outside supervision. Does anybody here feel comfortable letting that collective room make a trade in July or June to improve this club for 2017? Does anyone believe there is no way Buxton would be traded and if he was... would you trust the return with the current track record of return on trades? Does anybody feel comfortable letting this room decide when Rosario is ready to come back... Berrios... Meyer... Kepler... Any of them after looking at what the room came up with for opening day 2016? Does anybody here feel 100% sure that this collective decision making room isn't capable of setting us back even further before this season is done? Decisions for 2017 and beyond are important right now and so the search for a Preisdent of Baseball Ops must began now.

Yep The Twins have needed a big league OF for 4 years now. If they would have got one in the off season. Buxton could have started in AAA and could have been called up if he is hitting AAA like he is now and welcomed to the league with a chorus of voices saying "Finally!!!". That's what should have happened but it didn't because the Twins have horribly assessed CF for 4 years straight now.

That's what I got from Nick's suggestion. I have no idea about St. Peter and what he does and he isn't really a part of my equation. I like Nick's idea because I like the idea of immediate supervision while being able to take some time making important assessments about who and what went wrong. Bottom Line for me... This current front office got a lot wrong to be asked to make it right. I'd rather bring in an outsider for clean up supervision. This has nothing to do with St. Peter in my mind. Unless he meddles and if that's the case... the new guy can make a note of that.

I have no problem with the call up. This is how the 40 man is supposed to work and I'm hopeful Buxton impresses and sticks. I also agree with Tobi... Our front office has a terrible track record with OF assessment.

Jackie Bradley Jr. looked lost at the plate and K'd a bunch as well. Then he stopped and all is well.

He may or may not keep Terry. More importantly... A new Pres of Baseball Op (From the outside... please) could take the time to look at the entire operation to determine the right changes needed and he could start that process right away but he doesn't have to move immediately. He can take his time and do it right. I'd appreciate that he could immediately serve as checks and balances for any decisions that will need to be made this season. I'm not trusting of the front office right now and I'd appreciate someone who could stop them from making a serious mistake like moving Buxton to the Brewers for Jimmy Nelson or something. This front office made some serious assessment mistakes this off season and I think a supervisor ASAP is a great idea. The other alternatives are: Replacing your GM right away or replacing him in the off season or not replacing him at all. Which Would Mean: Interim GM while a rushed search is conducted or interim GM eventually becomes the GM. New GM hired after the season and he walks into the job cold and has to rebuild a front office while all the other teams don't have to do that. and of course... the easiest answer of all of them... not replacing Terry Ryan at all.

Leg Kick... Ok Fine. In my opinion... I'll be watching the swing. If he levels it out... I believe he will look real good real quick. If he's still upper cutting he will be striking out too much again and be heading back to Rochester amongst much hand wringing from us on TD. Level it out... Keep the bat in the zone longer and once his contact rate goes up as a result... His feet and talent will do the rest. In my opinion of course... I think Buxton is an easier fix than Dozier is.

I've missed most of this game. Storms rolling through... reports of hail so we decide to move our outside cars to a parking ramp. Get back and we need hamburger buns so I go get them and then I get back and sit down and it turns out we need something else at the store so back I go. I'm back again and sitting down and I'm hoping to see the last inning but I'm guessing we will have to go pick up the cars soon.

My guess is that this is usually the case. The details are left out and that's the hair curling stuff. You don't get a lot of details so I was curious and read about it myself. 2500 Men from North Dakota made up the 164th and after 6 months on the island... think about this... they were no longer battle ready because over one-third of them had died and the survivors had lost at least over 20 pounds each. Malaria was almost as big an issue as the Japanese were. I like to think that my 9 months in Michigan was an experience and I got some stories but it just wouldn't compare to 6 months with the 164th in 1942.

Memorial Day isn’t just a day off from work… The Memorial Part is quite important. Those who served and sacrificed have earned that respect and they deserve the honor. It’s also a day to remember the loved ones that you’ve lost. Today can also be a day to remember the Twins players that are no longer with us: Bob Allison, George Banks, Earl Battey, Reno Bertoia, Bub Bloomfield, Walt Bond, Lyman Bostock, Dave Boswell, Ken Brett, Fred Bruckbauer, Terry Bulling, Bobby Castillo, Carmelo Castillo, Dean Chance, Jackie Collum, Billy Consolo, Jerry Crider, Bert Cueto, Joe Decker, Mike Fornieles, Paul Giel, Ruben Gomez, Herman Hill, Steve Howe, Riccardo Ingram, Lamar Jacobs, Pat Kelly, Harmon Killebrew, Ron Kline, John Klippstein, Jack Kralick, Craig Kusick, Charlie Lea, Jim Lemon, Joe Lis, Dwight Lowry, Danny McDevitt, Georges Maranda, Billy Martin, Marty Martinez, Danny McDevitt, Bob Miller, Don Mincher, Dan Monzon, Ray Moore, Joe Niekro, Ed Palmquist, Frank Pastrore, Wally Post, Vic Power, Kirby Puckett, Jim Roland, John Roseboro, Ted Sadowski, Al Schroll, Chuck Stobbs, Frank Sullivan, Danny Thompson, Cesar Tovar, Bill Tuttle, Ted Uhlaender, Elmer Valo, Zoilo Versalles, Bob Veselic, Jay Ward, Vic Wertz, Pete Wisenhant, Bill Whitby, Don Williams, Jerry Zimmerman. This list was compiled by Jim Thielman and posted on his website cooloftheevening.com. It would have been much easier to just provide a link to his website but I felt it was more respectful to type out each name myself and so I opted to copy the names by hand and not link. I just want to make sure that Jim Thielman gets full credit for the listing the names. Here are some things to think about: 1. Memory – I have a theory that eventually you just run out of RAM. You reach a certain age where your brain just can’t hold any more and when you learn new things… something has to fall out to make room for the new information. For example… I was surfing the web this morning and learning some new things and right now… at this very moment… I can’t remember where I put my car keys. 2. – Post-It Notes -- These little things were invented right here in Minnesota by Romy and Michele. My wife likes to post them honey-do style on the fridge. If a few days go by and they are still on the fridge and still unacted upon. She will take them off the fridge and stick them on my forehead. I tell her that this makes them really hard to read but she still does it anyway. 3. Bedtime – If you have to memorize something… experts say that the best thing to do is to study right before bed and right after waking. In a nutshell… too much crap happens during the main waking hours of the day to keep you from retaining new information. I can personally say that this method does indeed work because every night I read Twins Daily and every morning I read Twins Daily and can easily remember that the Twins have won 4 games in a row. 4. Good Times Bad Times – We do seem to have a tendency to remember the bad times more easily than the good times. I… on the other hand… only remember good times because I try to turn the bad times into good times and therefore only remember good times even if they were originally bad times. 5. Russ – I met Russ back in the 90’s when he was a young 70 something. I worked alongside him for maybe 10 years at the scorer’s table of many Basketball and Football games. I gave him crap and he gave it right back and I enjoyed every minute. It must have been 5 years into our working relationship that I found out that he was a Veteran of WWII. It took maybe 5 years because he never talked about it. It wasn’t that he couldn’t or wouldn’t talk about it… it just never came up in our conversation and that’s probably because I was more apt to talk about the flavor of a Banana then something important like this. Russ was a Lieutenant with the 164th Infantry. The 164th was the first Army unit to engage in offensive action at Guadalcanal in the Pacific providing reinforcements for the Marines already onshore and at the time in a deadlock with Japan in a battle for control of a strategic location in the South Pacific and the airfields on the island. The Island was nicknamed “Green Hell” and the 164th were green themselves and barely unpacked when the Japanese attempted to reclaim an airfield and ran out of the jungles in the middle of the night backed by air and naval support. The unit bent but did not break and they held the airfield despite overwhelming Japanese numbers. Taking a look at the scoreboard from that night… there were over 1,700 Japanese casualties while only 26 killed from the 164th. It was quite an introduction to the War for the unit and it impressed the Marines so much that the unit received the nickname the 164th Marines from the Marines. Russ made it all seem routine as he talked about it. The complete darkness of night, heavy tropical rain while holding off a full scale assault on their position, battling for control of an airfield and pushing back opposing forces to provide a safe distance from artillery for the airfield, followed by jungle patrols and offensive sweeps of the island to find remaining Japanese resistance hiding on the island… fighting in jungles and up mountainsides at the same time while also battling… malaria, heat exhaustion, exotic tropical diseases… it was all pretty routine stuff I’m sure… like a Saturday night in Mayville, I suppose. 6 months after arriving on the island the 164th was no longer considered combat ready. The unit had buried too many of its men on the island and the majority of those who survived had lost 20 plus pounds but what they managed to accomplish... was a turning point in the Pacific Theater. As I tried to imagine what the conditions were really like… all I could say to Russ was “Thank You” and I truly meant it. I heard of Russ passing last year and I heard of it too late to attend the funeral. I missed my chance to say goodbye. Today… just might be a good day to find his final resting place and say “Thank You” one more time. Twins: SP Ervin Santana 1. Eduardo Nunez 3B 2. Brian Dozier 2B 3. Joe Mauer 1B 4. Miguel Sano DH 5. Robbie Grossman LF 6. Oswaldo Arcia RF 7. Eduardo Escobar SS 8. Juan Centeno C 9. Danny Santana CF A's: SP Graveman 1. Coco Crisp CF 2. Jed Lowrie 2B 3. Stephen Vogt C 4. Danny Valencia 3B 5. Khris Davis LF 6. Billy Butler DH 7. Yonder Alonso 1B 8. Marcus Semien SS 9. Chris Coghlan RF Click here to view the article

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“I cursed the gloom that set upon us, pon us, pon us. Upon us all… a little rain must fall." – Robert Plant It’s good time to think about rain… because of that retractable roof, there is no chance for a rainout at Safeco, in Seattle, when rain is a common occurrence in the Pacific Northwest. Indoors or outdoors… our Twins have been one collectively wet team in 2016… the raindrops have been continually falling on their heads. 2016 for the Twins came in like a lion and we still haven’t seen a sign of the lamb. It sure looks like the lamb has been silenced. Here are some things to think about: 1. Noah’s Ark – According to Genesis… Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford report that Noah was given 7 days to build a massive ark. It was about to rain for 40 days and 40 nights and this thing needed to stay afloat and be large enough to provide shelter for every species. Two lions were loaded alongside two gazelles and the Ark was named the S.S. Food Chain before floating off into history. Although intentions were good, and hindsight is certainly 20/20, it ended up being a harrowing experience for the gazelles and rabbits and such; it was also an impossible trip for the marlins, swordfish, walleyes and lobster who failed to survive being pulled from the water to protect them from the water. The very large boat measured in cubits and was approximately the size of a football field and a half... and it was made out of gopher wood imported from the Minnesota campus. The loss of this amount of gopher wood has hamstrung Gopher football recruiting to this day. 2. Seattle Rain – It actually rains more in Atlanta than it does in Seattle, but in Atlanta… when it rains… it pours. They get so much rain in one downpour, diving boards have been resourcefully constructed over the car pool lanes. In Seattle… clouds have to rise to clear the mountains and those clouds drop rain as they rise. They never get a chance to load up for the big drop so it’s more like a constant light rain. When people talk about change in the weather in Seattle… it rains actual coins. Otherwise there is no change at all. Daylight savings time means an extra hour of rain in Seattle. 3. If You Like Pina Coladas and Getting Caught in the Rain – Most of you know the song “Escape” by Rupert Holmes. It’s an interesting narrative that describes a married guy getting tired of his lady so he decides to answer a personal ad for a fling. He replies back and after finding out that they have similar interests they decide to meet at bar called O’Malley’s. Turns out that the ad he answered was placed by his wife and when they discover each other... they laughed and laughed and laughed… probably because the odds of this happening were off the charts. I’ve heard the song many times and I can’t help but wonder, "What guy enjoys getting caught in the rain?" Personally… rain just makes me hunch my shoulders while making me walk faster to get out of it; and I would never consider it a good time or the basis for a strong relationship. Pina Coladas? Again… what guy would like that? This is clearly a case of a guy agreeing to anything so he could… well… you know. Back in my single days… I’ve told women that I wanted honesty, understanding, caring and compassion in a relationship and it was hard to keep a straight face while doing so. And… and a bar called O’Malley’s serving Pina Coladas next to the guy throwing up in the corner from too much Irish whiskey and Guinness doesn’t make sense either. Perhaps the most amazing part of the song was that laughing part. They laughed… they didn’t go straight to a marriage counselor… they laughed and all of their problems were solved. Can anyone think of a similar scenario where your wife wouldn’t blame it all on you? 4. Purple Rain -- This song is reported to be about new beginnings… Purple is the sky at dawn and Rain is the cleansing factor. I didn’t know that the sky is purple at dawn because I have curtains that let me sleep in a little bit longer. I’ve also never thought about rain as cleansing… but… now I realize that I have shower options in case the wife or the kids have taken control of the bathroom again. 5. My Trip to Seattle – I’ve been to Seattle once. It was raining that light rain thing. I was standing near a young couple from Seattle with a 5 year old child and they told me that this was normal because it rains like this all the time. I remember asking them if it ever stopped and before they could answer the 5 year old decided to chime in and said… “I don’t know.” I then stooped down to talk with the child and I said, “You don’t know if it ever stops raining?” and she replied… “I’m only five.” -------------------- Lineups: TWINS Eduardo Nunez(R ) SS Brian Dozier(R ) 2B Joe Mauer(L) 1B Miguel Sano(R ) RF Trevor Plouffe(R ) 3B Robbie Grossman(S) LF Byung-ho Park(R ) DH Kurt Suzuki(R ) C Danny Santana(S) CF Pat Dean(L) P MARINERS Norichika Aoki(L) CF Franklin Gutierrez(R ) RF Robinson Cano(L) 2B Nelson Cruz(R ) DH Dae-Ho Lee(R ) 1B Kyle Seager(L) 3B Chris Iannetta(R ) C Stefen Romero(R ) LF Luis Sardinas(S) SS Felix Hernandez(R ) P Game-time forecast: Who cares as it doesn't matter. It'll be raining somewhere in the world, sunny somewhere in the world, dawn somewhere in the world, night somewhere in the world, windy somewhere in the world ... 5 o' clock somewhere in the world. Cheers! Go Twins! 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There is a ton of logic to what Diehard posted. Everyone seems to have different timelines. In my opinion... It is year 0 of the rebuild. Terry Ryan has never pushed that button. Unless the rebuild started so subtly that I didn't notice. This is year whatever of trying to win and not doing that.

There is no way that I can pinpoint where the wheels came off the tracks because I don't know who the advocates for each decision were. I will just say this TIMES UP I've given Terry Ryan the benefit of the doubt for many years now but for a rebuilding plan 5 years is long enough... TIMES UP. The Buzzer is going off. This front office never committed to a full rebuild and that may have been mistake #1 . The search for a new leader should begin immediately and from outside the organization and in place ASAP to make decisions important for next year ASAP.

Alright my assumption from this: I am the owner and I am hiring a GM to run the baseball operations. BACKGROUND I'm not limiting myself to any possibility. All backgrounds will be considered. Obviously past experience and success is weighted but I would never go into a search of this importance with immediate filters. SCOUTING This is one area where I would change the operation model completely. Long term success can only be sustained by accurate identification of players who can help you achieve long term success. The Twins can't keep up with the Dodgers operation model and spend accordingly. You will need advisers who are capable of finding young talent that will develop and keep the pipeline flowing. Even if you play the Free Agent Market heavily... you will need scouts and advisers at the top of their game for that as well.. Bottom Line: I would double salaries if necessary to attract and retain the very best in the business from any organization. I would pay more for the best scouts and outbid other organizations to do so and if this creates an arms race... so be it. I will be the first organization to handle scouts with this respect and reward them accordingly. If possible I would add designated analysts to my advanced statistic department to create and implement metrics to track and identify the best in the business and target the top of the list. Success ratios... that sort of thing. Scouting positions will be highly competitive and those who rank toward the bottom of the curve would be replaced. We will be top of the league in quantity and quality and budget. We have player salaries that exceed the cost of this additional expenditure so I'm honestly not sure why this isn't already happening. THE DRAFT The General Manager would set any priorities necessary for each draft and be the final decision maker throughout the draft. Best player available would be standard however starting pitching would be the preferred emphasis in the first 5 rounds because extra starting pitching will keep you competitive. Starting Pitching suffers more injuries so you need more of it and if you have more than you need... starting pitching is always an easier trade chip to other positions. There is more value in Starting Pitching than any place else so it must be weighted accordingly in the early rounds. There would not be a standard answer for college or high school preference... it would be a priority that you set if necessary before each draft. The GM should be absolutely involved because the results of the draft are critical. INTERNATIONAL MARKETS As part of my increase of the scouting department this would include all international markets. You at least need to be confident in the players available and the potential of these players and if you are confident in someone... you should be aggressive. I for example am not currently qualified to assess slot management and so I'd like an Asst. GM who is fluent. ADVANCED SCOUTING Yes it should continue and all reports should be sent to the General Manager, Assistant General Manager and Advanced Statistics for fine tuning before being submitted to the Field Manager. ADVANCED STATISTICS This department should be increased to the size necessary to be comprehensive. The danger of this department is providing half cooked information and being under staffed will only lead to misleading out-liers or incomplete information. Databases will need to be up to date to the minute. As I mentioned earlier... a separate department for scout metrics will need to be created for identification and recruitment of the best scouts. You will need a department that adds appropriate metric information to each scouting report submitted before it reaches the manager. You also need a department that will solely focus on the creating of new metrics or ways to use new technolgy. Things will keep advancing as time goes by and you will be better off if you are a leader in any new advancements. I'd have a crew on that. You also need a department that simply crunches data. PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Be Humble. Never assume that their is a right way or a wrong way with any player's development. Watch what other clubs are doing for possible discovery. Hire consistent leaders at the top for continuity but bring in new people below to bring in fresh new ideas with them. Your Minor League director and his top assistants should be able to database and deploy multiple ideas to almost any issue as the years pass. Make sure that every player has every tool needed to advance. Make sure that a player has enough film to see his mechanics and film of other successful players for compare and contrast. Increase the number of paths to the major leagues. Play players at multiple positions in the lower levels and ween them down when it becomes obvious to do so. By the time a player reaches AAA and is ready for possible major league call up.. ideally they will be skilled enough to be considered at multiple positions. Development and Winning are both important but Development is more important because I believe that Winning is part of Development. Discipline is case by case... simply try to not throw babies out with the bath water. Each player has value and thrown babies is lost value. Do not take decisions lightly. Don't allow a single coach who says a player is not teachable to be the sole opinion which causes a red mark on the top of a player's file. The GM should spend most of his focus on the 40 man roster and rely upon his Minor League Director to provide the candidates for the 40 man. Once a player is identified... then the GM can make a trip to Rochester or Chattanooga. If you trust the people who work for you... there shouldn't be any reason other than curiosity to go to Ft. Myers or Cedar Rapids. MEDIA/PRESS RELATIONS Information will leak because it has since the beginning of time. That said... there is no benefit of revealing your methods to anyone and your methods should be closely guarded. PR/Media Directors should be college educated and control the message that is presented to the public. The GM/Manager and Players must be accessible to the media and fans but properly trained on how. Employees who tend to start fires should be held away from public situations. I see no need and only problems for complete transparency. FRONT OFFICE Asst. GM -- He must have strengths that compliment the GM. Be strong where the GM is weaker. Ideally... I'd like a GM who can focus on the 40 Man Roster so I'd like to see an Asst. GM who is an expert at contract negotiations for example. The Director of Player Personal would be a very important position and would require the best and the brightest. He or she would be a future GM in training... and he would know more about every player in the organization than anyone including the GM. He would be vital in all player decision and discussion. He would be in charge of player recruitment and player support. Minor League Director... I covered this earlier but I'd like the guy to be open minded first and foremost. Keep Historical Figures that make sense but don't force it. I am not qualified to asses anybody current at this time as far as who stays and who goes... I am qualified to say that something isn't working and I'm hoping someone is finding out and changes are forthcoming. THE ON-FIELD STAFF Manager -- I want Joe Maddon or someone who can do Joe Maddon. I want creativity and the guts to try something different. I want a manager who isn't afraid to ask Joe Mauer to play RF if it improves the team. I don't want anyone to stubbornly cling to what could be false assessments made a month ago waiting for things to change. I want the manager to know who has the hot hand and play them accordingly. I don't want the manager worrying about how much a player is making unless the GM tells him to. I want a manager who understands and listens to the GM so he can properly consider future needs to today's need when asked. The Manager will be given every tool available and the Manager will need to know what it all means and use what works and report back on what doesn't. The Manager must be able to manage the players and staff and be able to manage up when talking with the GM and down when working closely with the analytic department and he needs to know when to ignore it all and use his gut (hopefully not too often) and he must be able to be an amateur psychologist. The Manager opinions on his current team will carry enormous weight. The manager's opinions on players outside the 25 man roster will have very little weight. Ultimately if a conflict arises between the GM and Manager on personnel decisions such as lineup construction or in-game decisions. They will hopefully have the type of relationship where they can talk about it stress-free. If they persist and the results are not working... and communication begins to shut down. It's time to look for a new one. Otherwise... trust the guy you hired or hire someone that you will trust. THE CURRENT SITUATION 1. Take responsibility for it... This is on the GM primarily... take full responsibility. 2. Realize that you can't fix it tomorrow and start getting ready for 2017 the best you can. Moving 4 players off the 40 man in one day was wrong even if each move was the right thing to do. Take your time and get the holes in your evaluation fixed first and foremost or you won't get anywhere while you are trying to bail water. 3. Identify everything that went wrong and address each thing. 4. Don't rush but walk a little faster and try to get prospects up for next year when they demonstrate consideration and when they are called up... Make sure that the Manager doesn't waste those chances to assess value for 2017. 5. Only Sano should be considered for everyday play. Everybody else can rest a game here and there so others can play. It's open audition time for 2017. Nobody on the 25 man roster should spend large amounts of time on the bench. If Mastro is not considered a 2017 possibility... get him off the 25 man. If Grossman is now considered an option for 2017.. continue to play him. 6. Look for your chances to bring up Berrios and Meyer and start them. Don't worry about trade value or feelings for Nolasco or Hughes or Gibson if they are struggling. It's open audition time for 2017. 7. If you have young power arms with talent for the bullpen... find out if they will be ready for 2017. If you still have holes and you do... Take the bullpen more seriously and acquire the top level arms you need to build a good one. The game is changing... starters are pitching less and the bullpen is going to grow in importance. TRADES Do not trade for more youth at this point... Trades at this point have to be for Major League ready talent. You have a 40 man issue with all of the youth piling up right now that is only going to get worse. Find out what youth is close and should help you in 2017 and get them ready for 2017. The 40 man youth not quite ready... You can trade for Vets that are ready and will help in 2017. FREE AGENCY Be competitive in free agency to plug immediate holes when you are in contention. If not in contention... you sign what you need to function on a case by case basis. Do not dive into free agency headlong unless you are a step away. This was a mistake that was made when Signing Nolasco and Hughes in the first place. You were just desperate for starting pitching but you were not realistically in contention. Develop your core in house first. MISCELLANEOUS Success is defined by the meeting or failing to meet reasonable expectation. A GM should be able to look at the roster he has to put together and meet with his key personnel to set reasonable goals and then share those goals with the owner. You should only allow yourself two years of low bar goals. Clubhouse atmosphere should be fun... a reputation of a great place to play should be fostered with the understanding that the occasional day off will occur and the understanding that you will compete for playing time constantly. Front Office Atmosphere should also be fun... who wants to work in misery? You can't retain the best people otherwise. Yes... Build from within but also understand that bringing from the outside is equally important for the fresh ideas that come along. Bottom Line: I think Terry Ryan should inform Jim Pohlad that he is responsible for the current situation and privately ask him to begin the search for his replacement from outside the organization. This should begin immediately because 2016 doesn't matter but 2017 does and the decisions being made right now are important for 2017. This isn't something that should wait until the off season in my opinion. Treat Terry Ryan with the respect that he deserves... name a street after him or build him a statue. He seems like a stand up and loyal guy. Paul Molitor and the Coaching staff... Make no decision on them until the new GM is hired.

Nope but I've been staring at this