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  1. old nurse
    The collection of players did not win. It wasn’t the manager’s fault. Can’t fire all of the players that you couldn’t trade so they fire the manager. Been that way in baseball for a very long time.
  2. old nurse
    Since 1977 here are the guys with no coaching or managing experience that became managers. Scott Servis Brad Asmus Craig Council Walt Weiss Robin Ventura Aj Henich Buck Martinez Larry Dierker Mike Matheny David Ross
  3. old nurse
    where did I say that spending did not have an influence or matter. In small windows you can eliminate the outliers, which you effectively did. If I want to return the favor of twisting words, I could say that your post proves that it is hopeless for the Twins to ever compete because they do not have the resources to compete.
  4. old nurse
    Suzuki was a Ryan player. This outfit has a bias against almost all the Ryan players
  5. old nurse
    There is the old saying you get what you pay for The streaming is bringing in so much money that baseball is looking at ending it. Fan attendance is down. The 23 Twins were in first place for nearly the whole season. Maybe 100,000 mor fans than the year before. Winning and great individual performance did not draw crowds. That is how a team has to come up with a “right size” budget plan. They did not come out for a winning team.
  6. old nurse
    Consider that a 4 year window is only but a glimpse at what a team does. Adjust your window by a couple of years and you have a little different results
  7. old nurse
    I don’t think the 160 million that the Twins have or will give Correa is the going rate for WAR. So paying Correa that much for that little production is a debacle.
  8. old nurse
    Keaschall did not choke on his opportunity. Too bad Zebby and Festa can’t be added to this list
  9. old nurse
    Only 2 earned runs given up the last 2 moths
  10. old nurse
    The comments I have made on ,player development have never said that the manager is not responsible. It is pointing out that after years of coaching and the player good at something perhaps it is not the coaching. Sorry people here can’t seem to grasp that concept. When somebody’s is stating an opinion and it is countered with there is no objective data, they should be providing objective data for their opinion. When you demand something of someone else and don’t provide it yourself, you should be called out for that. Sorry that is also a concept that people here will not understand
  11. old nurse
    None that I saw, I did see you posting a lot of opinions
  12. old nurse
    Yet you offer no objective analysis that he was bad at the job, just opinion
  13. old nurse
    Shumaher worked for the Rangers. As manager in waiting. He was also interviewed for managerial jobs and not hired. Before taking the Texas job. To be another Schumaker is why the Twins job should be more appealing for the up and coming manager,
  14. old nurse
    McPhail became McFail after leaving the Twins. Rantz;s farm system quit producing talent long before he left, Kelly has been advisor to the Twins since retiring from managing
  15. old nurse
    Texas has an aging core. Sustaining even their .500 status is not certain. They are not an ideal long term job
  16. old nurse
    Easier to write negative articles than it is to explain why somebody may be good. Easier to write conjecture than dig for the facts. Looking for the nuance takes thinking and time. There isn’t the money in fan sites to take that sort of time
  17. old nurse
    If I person wants to manage, has faith in their abilities to get the most out of position players it is not a bad job. The ceilings on man of the players is in the 3-4 WAR range. Lewis, Walner and even Julian have flashed that potential. Lee was a top 20 prospect.then there is Keaschall and the other ranked prospects. It is not an easy job, but moderate success will get that person jobs. It is just a matter of believing the rankings and your abilities. There are only 30 jobs. Craig Council in Milwaukee is an example of that.
  18. old nurse
    Talking to people who think they know all is a very difficult thing to do. Very few people master it
  19. old nurse
    Joe Pohlad and Jim Pohlad are two different people. Sometimes it seems like people can’t figure that out. Any friction they have on how the team is run they are going to keep it fairly quiet. That he says sometimes you have to try something different reflects that. In the media where people take that comment and turn it is why they play it pretty close to the vest. The problem Joe has is that he doesn’t have that much control. Jim still controls the money. Falvey is Jim’s boy. The managerial hire will show if Joe can change the direction. The team is always going to be dependent on development of players. If there are new ideas put in place on players drafted as position players it will take time, hence the pain. I would think that anyone who has followed baseball would understand that. Nick has proved me wrong.
  20. old nurse
    History does repeat itself.
  21. old nurse
    Collaboration has been a Falvey buzzword. There is collaboration of sorts. It starting to seem to me that Jim Pohlad still controls the money supply and Falvey was his hire. Changing that is not happening Little Joe has worked his way up the ladder doing things in the organization to now having some day to day control. Something that he said when they announced 2 investors was that they would bring in new ideas to the organization. That struck me as Gen3 has different ideas than Gen2 Pohlad. Of course a bunch of 70 year olds are old school . It may well be just as Falvey couldn’t fire Molitor without reason, Joe can’t fire Falvey without Jim’s approval. Joe is setting up Falvey to fail much like Falvey set up Molitor to fail in year 2. Stretch him thin, hit the organization where Jim will do something about it. Just a thought
  22. old nurse
    Attendance has pretty much followed wining. The 2 exceptions were Paul Molitor playing and the opening of Target Field. There is no comeback for Molitor, there is no native son that will be able to be added as a star from another team anytime soon.
  23. old nurse
    20 vice presidents of something. 22 Senior directors. It is really poor writing to say that someone is in over their head in an organization that you really don’t have any idea who does what, who has some autonomy, how much better or worse departments are working on the business side. Joe Pohlad supposedly oversees the day to day operations. Jim Pohlad makes the money decisions. The former was announced in stories here, the later should be obvious from the Correa trade.
  24. old nurse
    It is a no lose situation. If a new manager improves the multitude of players that are performing worse than their perceived talent the manager becomes a genius and valuable. The bar is low, better than 90 losses.
  25. old nurse
    Over 2700 PA by position players with a worse fwar and having at least 50 PA. Another way to look at numbers, there were 196 players with a worse WRC+ and 50 AB. No idea how many of either groups were catchers as so many can’t hit
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