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Most of bullpen from this year can be gone. Expect Rogers and Shaggy to stay around. Would use Wimmers as a long man to start and Duffey here is you want him in the pen. Rest is audition time for most of the AA and AAA relievers. Perkins will be a lock if he has anything left.

Santana is the only name in the rotation I would write in ink. I would start Berrios in long mop in the pen and let him work his way into the rotation. May I would move back to starter and probably start in Rochester to increase his workload. Duffey also to the pen, that leaves me with Santiago and Santana. It also leave Mejia as a possible along with any signings and trades. Gibson I do not know what to do, non tender seems to be an option, since he is already late 20's and will probably not be here 2 years from now or possibly trade with another bad team for an A to A+ pitcher with some upside. Maybe Gonsalves is able to start here, would give him the chance in spring training to convince me. That would also leave probably Wimmers, Chagois, Rogers, Pressley in the pen also with the other 2 pitchers and leave only 1 lefty to be found. This would be written in pencil with hopes some of the other AA pen could force there way here.

Point that is missed. Minor league fields are worse than major league fields and major league first basemen save many more errant throws than their minor league counterparts. You are comparing apples to oranges.

If not Gordon, Vielma could man the position for a year or two. Your other choice would make Sano a DH until Mauer retired and force trades or release of both Vargas and Park. Maybe you try and find a way to get Mauer to retire, that would also open up the possilbility of make Jake Mauer the manager.

I still would like to see the Twins name McLeod to the top job. Then let him pick the GM under him. McLeod has the background of finding talent, that is something that cannot be overestimated. Any of the rest would be fine for GM(maybe not Antony). This would be promotions for all.

Cherington and AA would both have know TR and maybe have access to him. Maybe they reached out to TR and found issues they did not know existed and backed out of the interview process early.

That would depend on the age of the children. Would think it would be harder on the 8-12 range as all they know are family and friends. Teenagers would only be if they are in sports and good. I went through some of it as a youngster and only found a teacher in my senior year who started new activities and helped.

It could well be some of these did not want the situation and some did not want to move or seem disloyal to their current organization, so replacement process would start if they did not get the job.

Great list. I would give Granite a shot in spring training to make the club. He could start by replacing Grossman and makebe Romero after a period of time. Exactly the type of hitter major league clubs need. Hope Sano can stay at third, after looking at this list some of these players will be inline for DH next year. Guess we will have to trade Vargas this winter to make room(or trade either Palka or Walker).

Other candidates are dropping like flies. According to baseball trade rumors there have been more than 2 that have declined to interview. That is a problem.

That is what I am afraid of. Kim might agree to stipulations that would stop her from cleaning house and letting people go, if she felt it was correct, just to get the job. Would prefer a candidate who would not be as bound and would not come if not given control. That is what the new job is supposed to be.

Ng has worked in front offices before, just not in the last few years. That should not be a disqualification. I just think there are better candidates. More concerning is the withdrawal of 2 prior full GM's. May be message on how much power the new hire will have.

I read somewhere that Pohlad may be willing to spend some money this winter, wrong type of pitchers available. Need new baseball director to convince him we need to save the money and find out which youngsters can contribute to the next Twins good teams. Would rather Pohlad spent the money in the international market and got at least one top international player. Mc Leod really interests me as a great contributor, who may well be ready to take the next step. Background of finding players is excellent. Ng would be fine, just feel others would better. Piccolo could be fine, just not as confident. Seems he has already been interviewed when KC came through last week.

Dozier is the only player the Twins have that can bring you decent upside starting pitching. Otherwise we will be looking at 2 years of bad pitching until the younger core arrives and the Twins can figure out what they have. By that time Dozier's contract will be over and he will be past his prime.

Still think the best thing would be to trade Dozier if the return is good. Shortstops are coming and EE is an OK stopgap. Third base should be Sano's and Plouffe should be gone. Unless you make Sano the full time DH and then you have other issues with Park and Vargas. Same old, Same old. Molitors rotations make no sense and I would have fired him in May.

You have other options if you decide to non-tender Plouffe. Gordon should be at AA this year and Vielma could be a defense only SS if you need to punt for a year or two. Plouffe just ties up money for one more year, but do not want to have to make Sano a DH only at this time. Gibson I would also consider non-tendering. He has not improved and is getting expensive. He also stands in the way of a shuffle starting pitching rotation in 2017 to determine the way forward. You should be able to trade him, just expect you will not get much for him. Outside of Pressley, I do not see much in the bullpen. May needs to start because of his back issues, so door needs to be opened and see what we have in upcoming young arms. 2017 may well not be pretty, but it should lay the foundation for better times. If you go this route, it would not be fair to Molitor to blame him for the wins and losses, so cut ties now and give a new voice a couple or three years to see where this goes.

Would not mind AA, would much prefer Mc Leod from the Cubs.

Mets have no idea what they have at this time, so making a deal this offseason would be tough. Dodgers you have some options, possibly like adding Stewart to the deal and taking an equal prospect at a lower level. This could be worked out as Dodgers are in win now mode.

Congratulations to Gonsalves. Will need to see in the next 2 years how many of these are prospects and how many are suspects. Still do not see Wheeler as more than a stopgap, though he may function as that in the next couple of years, but would not add to 40 man unless I had extra spots(and I do not think I will)

Nice list and fairly close to what I hope happens. Grossman, Centeno, and Santana are the only ones who I might have to spring training next year. To get to the correct numbers, I could well add Tonkin and Wimmers to the list(Wimmers is close). That is before you make some trades. Would also not mind non tendering Gibson as he does not seem to be progressing. My biggest worry is that the new regime may not be in place early enough to make these decisions, so Anthony and company may make them without knowledge of what the new staff will want.

You cannot have more than 1 5 inning starter on your staff. Santiago is better than Gibson, so time to send Gibson packing.

Lots of moveable parts. Centeno may still be here, but no loss either way. Do not trust Vargas, might rather see them take a run at Morneau if that is the best you can do, and start with Park in Rochester. Palka and Walker are the same type of players and would prefer to have them show improvement in Rochester and keep Grossman as the 4th outfielder to start. Rotation looks fine except for Gibson, who I hope will not be here. Bullpen - Tonkin should be gone, Hughes or Wimmers can be your long man. Perkins could go either way, and maybe another minor leaguer will take the last spot. Not bad, but I have a few different choices.

Twins do not seem to feel that Wheeler is better than other options, do not know what that says for his future in the orgainization, but it cannot be good. However he is another soft tossing lefty(maybe a little harder than some of the other options). Twins will have many decisions on who to protect and extra choices just mean more players will be DFA'ed at the end of the season. Only players that should be added to the 40 man are ones the Twins have already decided to protect and have the possibility of being here next year. I expect Berrios and Duffey will be called up at some time, also Vargas and Murphy possibly Walker. Outside of that let the kids play and do not clutter players on the bench, so the players up can get some meaningful September AB's.

Twins will be difficult to fix and time is short. They have yet to hire a GM or president of baseball operations. Let us look at the timeline(assuming they are waiting to interview candidates until the teams they work for season has ended.) By mid November(shortly after the end of the World Series, you have to have your 40 man roster set, and players waived, added, and lists made up. This was usually done in the front office meetings in early November. Now most of you posters expect a new president of baseball operations and GM to have absorbed this in less than 2 weeks(worst case scenario). If I am an opposing GM, I love this prospect. I would not give the Twins anything for any of their players unless my people told me I am winning the trade. I would have a list drawn up by my people of the players our organization would want and good rule 5 draft picks from the Twins. Unless you intend to DFA about 20 of the Twins current roster, I should have plenty of opportunities here. This could be a bigger mess than most of you believe. Pohlad was probably too loyal and too nice to either make a change early in the year(though I would have fired Molitor rather than removed TR). Given his choice, I would have waited until the end of the year or slightly later and than fired TR Do any of you have confidence in Rob Anthony to make the correct choices, or just maintain the ship knowing he is also not going forward with the organization(at least in any personal role). I dread the next 3 months, guessing how many mistakes will be made in the transition and how many will come back to bite the Twins in the next few years. You just do not DFA useful major league players, but that is what it may come to with this roster construction and numbers of minor leaguers needed to protect.

You all forget about Hughes, who may or may not make it back. That will also affect the rotation. Believe you have to keep Santiago, at least to start. Maybe you have to trade Santiago or Gibson or both to free up room for starters (May/Duffey/Gonsalves/Mejia) as innings are needed to see who can pitch and who will not have spots here in two years. Cannot have constant rebuilding program, but better pitchers have to work way to top and do not believe much in the current crop outside of Santana. Bullpen already has 5 - 6 members so spots there should be difficult to get as Perkins(if healthy), Pressley, Kinizler, Rogers, and possibly either Duffey or May are slotted there. That only leaves 2 openings or 1 if you count Chargois). Then pen should be OK with more experience, but also could be bolstered by several pitchers in the upper level of the minors.