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Honestly, I would rather fire Ryan now, let Anthony come in and prove he is no different, so he is ultimately "not retained" heading into 2017. Him failing now (Anthony) would insure that he wouldn't be back around in 2017 as the GM. You know damn well that if Ryan is fired at the end of the season, the clear odds on favorite to take over is Anthony or someone else internally. -
Plenty of reason to, give someone a shot at being an interim manager to gain some experience/audition for a role here or somewhere else next year. If you can bring up Dougie and he can get them to play close to .500 ball, then I think the next GM seriously interviews him for the permanent position. I'm sure Dougie would take the job/experience as well, even if the odds of him sticking around with a new GM weren't great. Do you think Torch was "hesitant" to take the Wild role mid season? Knowing that baring a miracle he wouldn't be the Wild HC in 2017? Most importantly, you need to show to the players, the fans and everyone else that utter failure is NOT acceptable. Fire Ryan and Molitor now, let Antony or whoever run out the string for the rest of the year as the GM (can't be worst than Ryan) and let Dougie get a shot to get the ML team playing a little bit better.
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Maybe! But he doesn't need to become David Ortiz 2.0 for this to end up being a simply horrible and pointless trade. In fact, a couple of seasons with 25+ HR and a .800+ OPS would make it one of the dumber moves in all of baseball this decade!
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April 7-17 May 8-19 June 9-15 3rd worst hitting in the AL 2nd worst pitching in the MLB Worst fielding team in the AL Worst record in baseball. Things aren't exactly turning around, in fact things in many ways are getting worse and worse with these two at the helm. They inexplicably let Arcia, a 25 year old, 30+ HR type guy leave for absolutely NOTHING. All he has done since then? Torn the cover off the ball for the Rays to a 1.417 OPS thus far. The few "tradable" assets the Twins do have, haven't been aggressively shopped thus far, their "strategy" with the young players still remains perplexing, and Molitor hasn't changed up his managerial approach at all (besides switching up the batting order 5 times a week) At this stage, it's painfully clear to nearly everyone that Molitor and Ryan aren't cut out to be major league managers/general managers in 2016. So thus, I ask, how on earth have neither of these guys been fired at this stage? Why are the Twins the only team in ALL of sports that would keep both of these guys around to continue to throw more gasoline on this dumpster fire of a season?
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Since the trade: Arcia: 1.417 OPS. 2 doubles, 1 HR, 4 RBI. Way to go Terry!
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Trading Mauer would be one of the dumbest things this team could possibly do: First off: they wouldn't get anything notable in return for Mauer and would still have to pick up a huge chunk of that contract. Second off: Mauer is like one of 3 guys on this team that actually is taking good at bats, good example for the youngsters to emulate.
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Game Thread: Twins @ NY Yankees 6/26 12:05 PM CT
DaveW replied to Vanimal46's topic in Archived Game Threads
Fun game to be at. Wish Duffey could have pulled off the perfect game. -
The Twins should offer to pick up 3-4.5 mil a year of Santana's contract and let a few teams "bid" him up. Might be able to get a C+ type prospect for him. Santana at 9 mil a year has some value IMO
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That puts you in the extreme minority of fans. Baseball absolutely needs to do something about the pace of play, every year that goes by I find myself watching less and less baseball that doesn't involve the Twins. I have to be extremely compelled to tune into a non Twins game, even a lot of playoff games, there is a reason why the playoff ratings go down nearly every year.
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I saw Kershaw pitch earlier this week in LA, good lord does he make it look easy. He wasn't even close to his "best" but still had a line around 7IP 8k 1 ER 5H Kershaw might be the best pitcher of the last 30-40 years to be honest. Dude is flat out dominate. Only an in his prime Pedro or Clemens comes close IMO
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The Twins are on pace for 115+ losses and their 5th 90 loss season in the last 6 years. How anyone can give the franchise the benefit of the doubt when these do these dumb and unnecessary moves is hilarious, sad and perplexing all at the same time. This team is clueless and has no real plan, idea, etc on how to right the ship. Sending guys up and down to AAA after every bad or good game and cutting guys like Arcia when it wasn't even close to needed shows it. I hope Arcia hits 20 bombs the rest of the way for the Rays, just to show the Pohlads reason 545 why they need new leadership across the board in this org.
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A look into the mindset of Ryan and Molitor
DaveW replied to Platoon's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Both are lame ducks (or would be in any other sports franchise in the US) Frankly I don't think either one has a clue on how to win games in 2016. -
Milone had a chance to build some trade value, Nolasco is simply terrible, he isn't going to build any worthwhile trade value, and even next year he is a horrible option for this rotation, he should be cut ASAP.
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Who are you talking about?
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Get who back?
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It wouldn't take a whole lot to get Zunino, but Nunez to the Mariners doesn't make much sense. Seager, Cano and Marte are all going to start over him.
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And yet a guy with worse numbers and even less upside is still on the 25 man roster....(Santana) This is a terrible move for a rebuilding team to make, no doubt about it.
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For cash or a PTBNL. This could be worse than the Delmon Young trade. Guess 30 HR power from a young player does have a price.... About $150,000
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2-0 since the bet was placed. Your welcome.
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Yes. And yes, I did bet $20 to win $50,000. Because I am an idiot.
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Twins odds of winning the World Series according to Vegas. Discuss
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Game Thread: Twins v Phillies, 6/21 @ 7:10pm CT
DaveW replied to Squirrel's topic in Archived Game Threads
Duffey is terrible. -
The Dodgers could use Suzuki IMO. I wish we could have gotten Zach Lee for him(who was just dumped for a backup INF)
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Which is when? Does 115+ losses not signify a team is rebuilding or needs to rebuild?
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Yeah, it's way too early to pencil in Murphy as a starting catcher option...
