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  1. h2oface
    Then lets look at it. From 2011 to 2014, the Twins won 63, 66, 66, 70 games. (The Astros, 56, 55, 51, 70). Many on these boards thought that the Twins should have improved to 74-76 wins in 2014. 2014 ended with the Astros and Twins having identical records of 70-92. The Twins were getting better each year, no? Very slowly. Then, in 2015, an improvement that had been in the works (surely, right?) and the Twins new manager inherited that, and improved 13 games to 83-79. Probably unfair to continue to look at the Astros as a comparison from 2015 on. I don't know why, but let's drop that. I still find the 59-103 2016 hard to ignore. And I don't, just as I wasn't ignoring the history of 2011-2014, even if it was not reviewed, again, here. So now it was, again. The point to me is, that Molitor is having difficulty accepting the offer of employment, for whatever reasons. It seems to be his hand to play, and there was a net gain of 2 games from 2015 to 2017. That is history.
  2. h2oface
    Nobody said anything about lowballing Molitor. Unless you consider one year a lowball. The money is probably in line with mediocre managers that took a team from 83 wins to record 103 losses (59 wins) in the span of one year, and then back to just a net 2 game gain over two years at 85 wins. One year is not lowballing. He has not earned anything more (if that), as much as a manager likes to have more than one year. This fascination with the improvement between 2016 and 2017 I find ridiculous. It is like bringing in your closer in the top of the 9th, handing him a 3 run lead, and he gives it up, loads the bases throws meat that results in a grand slam and 1 run behind...... and then he gets the win with a walk off two run homer by the home team in the bottom of the ninth. To me, it is a performance that is hardly something to get excited about.
  3. h2oface
    It is like a qualifying offer, except a hell of a lot cheaper. The plot has already ben executed. Molitor is taking his sweet time. He may not like the 1 year offer. It would seem that if he is thinking about it this long, that there is a good chance he will not accept and then the Twins didn't fire him, they didn't not make him an offer, and they can move on gracefully with the least amount of guff from fans if he makes the decision, and not them.
  4. h2oface
    Yup. It would be hard to get Francona now. Watching Molitor create a 20 some minute delay and make our own players leave the line up in Los Angeles this July trying to execute a double switch...... I can't agree that he knows what he is doing.
  5. h2oface
    not everyone is a twit. the vote is not representative of as many fans. Kudos to Doubles for not doing a twitter poll.
  6. h2oface
    Yes. Absolutely. Trade prospects for actual MLB ace and very good pitching, relief and starting. Of all the prospects you are considering, maybe 2 or 3 pan out. It is Falvey/Levine's job to pick the right ones and sell high on the others, before they lose value. What makes a great front office, is making those choices and DOING SOMETHING, and hopefully making the right choices.... like drafting Judge instead of Kohl Stewart....... Andrew Benintendi over Tyler Jay...... not a trade, but similar point. It is the success of the crap shoot choices that make you successful. Hopefully, they will be and will do somethings that make our team a champion again.
  7. h2oface
    Getting Ervin through Baltimore's famous medical screening would seem impossible to me, considering his partially torn UCL.
  8. h2oface
    In a rebuild, I don't believe this to be the case. In a rebuild, it is all about the best package to get you better and fit the plan. Division be damned.
  9. h2oface
    Is this a call for more "do nothing"?
  10. h2oface
    Duh. There's nothing that chides me more than casual fans fansplaining the obvious that every casual fan knows. Of course it would have put him out (not wasted in my opinion) the rest of the season, but it would have been the safest and best long term for Sano and the team. Him being healed, and having the best opportunity to be ready and healthy for 2018 is why I don't understand it. After all, Falvey/Levine were sellers, and have done nothing to try to compete farther than the wild card game. At all. So the decision to drag this along is fair game for speculating...... as a casual an obsessive fan. Ugh.
  11. h2oface
    The perfect scenario.
  12. h2oface
    Well... they did improve all of 2 games in two years. From 83 wins to 85 wins. On pace for another game improvement next year? If 2016 was an aberration, as many want to suggest, and I will say it is for the benefit of the doubt, then the progress has still been very minimal for two years.
  13. h2oface
    I really don't understand why, if he needed surgery, why it wasn't done right away. Seems like a massive waste of time.
  14. h2oface
    Nobody knows except the front office at this point, right? I haven't seen any plan. Have you? Does it matter? I stand of the same opinion. I think Molitor had his three years.
  15. h2oface
    If true, being good news is definitely a matter of opinion.
  16. h2oface
    I'm all for replacing Molitor. The virtually inactive new front office needs to implement their own system as soon as possible, and DO IT! Molitor is not part of that. I don't know or care who it will be, but they have been cleaning house in their way from the bottom up. Molitor got his three years. There was no excuse for last year. That counts. I am excited for the future, and hope the new regime surprises me, and actually starts to do something.
  17. h2oface
    The next batter pops out to Buxton in shallow center. That would have been 3 outs, with the score 3-0. There were 14 additional pitches thrown by Santana after Gregorius actually had struck out (not including the 6 to Marte for the fly out, which should have been out #3, not 2). 14 extra pitches in the 1st inning - 1 To Gregorius, 7 to walk Bird, and 6 to get Hicks to ground out. Santana would have been pitching ahead, and even after the second inning solo homer, the game would have been 3-1. So, I heartily disagree that the Twins chances wouldn't have been much better had the proper call been made. (and that is not entertaining that the Bird walk, and the Hicks strikeout would have been in the 2nd inning, and the 1st out, and Gardner wouldn't even had come to bat in the second to hit the home run..... because that is just ridiculous to consider because there is no reason to think the same chain of events that happened would happen if the space time continuum had been changed by actually correctly calling strike three in Gregorius' at bat)
  18. h2oface
    Not ridiculous enough for the Twins bats to hit more than 2 out and score more than 4 runs.
  19. h2oface
    Sure! But the brain trust was so sure that there would be no need for anything except playing the year out, getting their own manager, purging the minors and scouting, and concentrate on next year. Always next year, and hope there are not mysterious bilateral or unilateral leg injuries, nobody takes a pitch and breaks their hand for the year, nobody runs into a wall, etc etc..... next year. There was literally almost nothing done to this team yet. And even though they got to the wild card game, they are not even close to having a team that can really compete once they get in the playoffs, and no attempt, as of yet, has been done in that direction.
  20. h2oface
    Any wrong call is tragic, in my opinion. And just because it was consistently off on both sides, how does that ever make it better or correct? A perfect pitch by Santana was missed, and drastically changed this game. I, for one, will never be accepting of something that could so easily be improved for the better of the game.
  21. h2oface
    NY idiot. He is from NYC, right (a Staten Island High School)? Maybe he was on the take? Just kidding, but his severe mental mistakes in LA and this Wild Card game are unforgivable in my book. There is one mission..... only.... when running to first base...... and that is to step on the base - hopefully before the ball gets there. Anything can happen, and sometimes does. TOUCH THE DAMN BASE!
  22. h2oface
    Still interested in your take on what the actual criteria is, specifics beyond the generality. I speak for myself, without summoning a group that I haven't polled.
  23. h2oface
    You just needed to be a Giants fan 2010-2014.
  24. h2oface
    It was nice to get to the wild card game. It really was. In the day after, It is ever so clear that this club is so not built for the playoffs. Maybe all the .250 bats with high potential will become that. Surely it will not be banked on. But the pitching, starting and bullpen, is so far away from doing anything except arrive. I hope the Front Office DOES SOMETHING this off season.... and not a Belisle or Colon type. I had lamented on a thread about a week ago that it sure would be nice if Verlander was pitching for us. Somebody replied that he was.... by beating some of the teams we were trying to get distance from for the 2nd wild card. And indeed, he sort of was But a Verlander was nowhere to be found yesterday, and certainly wasn't pitching for us.
  25. h2oface
    prophetic!
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