Riverbrian

There are things that Molitor does that drive me a little crazy. I didn't understand his statement that Sano won't play 3B at all (I know he changed his mind). I don't understand what took him so long to play other players while the squad was losing 9 games to start the season. I don't understand why Nunez is seemingly the guy with the short end of the infield stick when his bat has been clearly productive while others who are not productive are getting the preferred playing time. I don't understand why Dozier continues to bat at the top of the lineup instead of in the middle. I don't understand how Park can sit 4 games in a row in Milwaukee and DC and I don't understand the use of Kepler, Polanco and Meyer. However... I'm not going to call for his head because he doesn't do what I want him to do. Honestly... most of you fine folks wouldn't do what I wanted you to do and even my idolized Joe Maddon wouldn't do everything I wanted him to do and eventually you just run out of managers that you are happy with until they give me the job. As Seth Said... Molitor's results were an over performance last year and an equal under performance so far this year. So what does he get credit/blame for? Now... As For Terry Ryan... This is where the buck stops in my opinion. He had an over achieving team that came close last year. The Twins surprised everyone... It was a young team in comparison to most but it came close and there is talent on the roster. So what did he do this off season? Here are my list of grievances: 1. He made the team even younger!!! This is what you do when you are rebuilding... you get younger. We got Younger in CF and Younger at Backup Catcher and much younger in RF and based on MLB Experience... We got younger at DH as well since Park is brand spanking new in this league. We took a young team and made it younger and said go win us a pennant. 2. He didn't learn from his past CF Mistakes... Perhaps the most puzzling thing to me is this. Why would he willingly make Buxton the opening day starter after he clearly struggled in 2015? And why would he do this when he made the same mistake with Hicks and made the same mistake with Hicks again? And each time he didn't provide an adequate safety net. 3. He didn't address the bullpen... The bullpen had serious issues in 2015 in my opinion and those issues were at the key positions. We didn't know what Perkins had left in him at the end of 2015... Jepsen was great filling in for Perkins but he was a vet with a pretty clear track record of a guy who was on the fringe of a set up position and if any of you were wondering why May wasn't really considered for a starting position... in my opinion... you can look right here. The bullpen needed help when May was moved to the bullpen in 2015 and that's why he was moved there and the bullpen still needed that help going into 2016. Ryan needed to add two quality bullpen arms that could provide insurance for Perkins and push everyone down a notch in the pecking order and by doing so... strengthening the bullpen. 4. He watched the entire American League improve around him... Everybody got better and we got younger... The American League was going to be a fight every single night and he decided that younger and the mistakes that come with younger players was going to help us win those fights. 5. He doesn't seem to be on the same page as his Manager and Rash changes on Cinco De Mayo suggest that he didn't see this coming. BTW... He gets credit for the Park signing. So the off season wasn't totally bad.

This doesn't look like a youth movement. This looks like a pure scramble to me. This is real finger in the dike type stuff.

2. Mauer 3. Sano 4. Park Those 3 every day in the lineup in those spots and the rest of them are rotated based upon who is playing well or weighted based on talent and slotted wherever. Plouffe can sit on occasion so Sano can play 3B on occasion and someone else can play RF on occasion. However... I feel most strongly that Molitor is going to have to find a spot other than 1B for Park or Mauer to play so they can both play in National League Cities.

Fantastic post He simply shouldn't have been called up in the first place. Like you said... A good April doesn't make up for his career. He should have remained in AAA.

Where ya headed to and from

Bad Game Good Game Thread G'Night

I just checked the Ole TV Guide Fox Sports North is airing a replay at Midnight. I'm going to do this again!!!

I only stuck around to watch a position player pitch and I got robbed of that.

"I'm not watching the game... I'm umm... Watching... Dora the Explorer"

Well Maybe if Pressly wasn't reading my posts between pitches we'd be in the top of the 9th already.

Well it looks like we Killed Pressly losing this game.

Seriously Two Walks Houston isn't even trying right now. Just toss it down the middle.

If I was the traveling Secretary for the Twins. I'm cancelling the flight and putting the whole team on a Greyhound to Chicago so they have more time to think about what went wrong.

Time flys when your...

You are doing good work Nice Job!!!

If they don't let Rosario pitch... When can they. Might as well just send Rosario down if they ain't going to use him.

Like a bad turtle pile up

We can use the coffee table to gut that deer. The Wife won't mind -Chief-

I've decided to not watch the Twins play tomorrow I mean it.

I Love Bacon Bits

I'd go to bed but I want to see Park and Sano hit one out and I'd like to see who takes the mound out of the positions player.

This might be post of the year

Yeah... That grounder would have been an F7 in any other stadium.

So Butera is gone Who comes in to pitch an inning?

Or Dick: What are you doing? Hey stop that... those are my corn flakes. Why would you do that to my corn flakes?