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  1. Ncgo4
    When Ryan was canned, it was stated that they were looking for a new "GM" but that Molly would continue as manager in 2017 as part of the hiring deal for any"new GM. Just have to wonder, if that's finally off the table.
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    I went to Atlanta and saw them win. Sure hope it wasn't the last victory of 2016!
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    This team is sooo bad that firing of Molitor is hardly appropriate at this time. It's non-sensical to fire him before you bring in the staff that will be above him. The entire operation from top to bottom is a cluster mess. They have done a terrible job of drafting, they've done a terrible job of managing resources (look at some of the ridiculous contract extensions that were given out), they have been almost unbelievably bad in player development, trading and finally game management. Nothing about the Minnesota Twins, beyond their facilities in both Minneapolis and Ft. Myers, is Major league in any sense. The sooner they begin the process the better. Any one want to wager on whether they get a "President" from a very successful team on the way up, or get some dolt from a crappy, failing team. I'm betting it isn't the Cubs, but more likely the Red Sox or Yankees.
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    Berrios now has been sent back down. One of the best pitchers in the minors get to the majors twice and his pitching goes to hell and he gets sent back down. The problem isn't that a room full of people are giving him technical pitching instruction. The problem is that a room full of people are even allowed to approach him with advice is the issue. It means that no one has taken ownership for the development of our prize pitching future. This alone should be reason to fire Moitar. I cannot but wonder if the same thing wasn't done with Buxton and some of the other hitters that have failed. Can you imagine Jason Day on the practice range at the US Open and a series of retired good players not trained teachers mind you, just guys that used to be a good players came up to him one at a time and suggested that he change his grip, alignment and tempo? They'd shut down the practice tee. The circumstance described is the most damning description I've ever heard of how to deal with a valued prospect.
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    This is all part of an executive and management team that inspire no possible explanation as to what they are doing or where they are going! The trading of Hu, the $25 million to obtain Parkwhen we were over staffed at his possible positions, the extensions for moderate (at best) pitchers. The choices of who gets playing time. There's a pattern. Unfortunately it's a pattern if failure, not a pattern that suggests a map of direction.
  6. Ncgo4
    We have Mauer, Plouffe, Sano, Vargas, Walker, Park and a few others to play three positions, 1B, 3B & DH. Neither Plouffe or Mauer will absolutely not be part of any winning Twins team in the future. What they are doing is taking up space that could be used for development of the others. Compounding the issue, we don't know if the other 3 are capable of filling these 3 positions. As long as Mauer and Plouffe are around, we will not only not develop Sano and Park, we won't even learn if they can become the basis of a future winning team. Current management does not seem capable of actually facing the facts about what must be done to get this team ready for the 2019 season. Instead we seem driven to win however many meaningless extra game we can to make things look better and pee away about six layers of draft positions.
  7. Ncgo4
    Buxton is an enigma. A brilliant outfielder everywhere in the minors and terrific at the plate everywhere following a brief terrible start at almost every level. In the bigs, his fielding has remained crazy good, but his hitting has disappeared. It seems that there is no point to sending him back down. He's shown he can hit in Tripple-A. Is he a head case? Have the coaches screwed him up, or have they done nothing for him? I have no idea at all, other than knowing he has the skill needed to hit at this level, he just hasn't done it and someone needs to fix something. The way our brain trust has screwed Sano up, it's easy to figure they might have contributed to Buxto's issues, too, but that's way too easy an answer without knowing anything.
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    The Latin impact on the Twins is major. Sano, Barrios, Rosario, we all know the rest, but it's very big. I don't know if there's a major cultural difference, or not. I'd be shocked to find that there is not. My question is who on the Twin's management/coaching staff is the cultural link? Tony Oliva? I doubt a 70+ year old can fill that roll, so who on the team's leadership is there when the Latin players start speaking in Spanish when they feel one of "them" is being slighted? This is the kind of situation that could really become an issue. Wonder if it already is, but really am not implying that it is.
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    Absolutely not. There is nothing he can learn in AAA ball. Sano is a real issue for the Twins. His development has been totally mismanaged by Ryan and Molly. Putting him in right was only not tragic because he didn't have a year ending injury. Now they're screwing around with him at third. His production has been miserable. He can't hit a lick, except that every 3 weeks or so he hits 2 or 3 dingers in a 4 game stretch, almost none of which was in a close game at an important moment in a game. Counting on him to drive in a run in a critical moment is fool hardy. If he didn't walk a lot he'd be a bigger liability than Punto used to be. The worst part is he seems to want to be good more than almost anyone on the team. Witness his broken bat when he failed when we needed him a few games ago. Witness Tuesday's game when Cleveland walked Kepler intentionally to get to Sano. He responded with a double to deep center field. Of course the score was 6-0 at the time so he was under no pressure other than his pride was hurt. However, I'm afraid that until he gets in shape he will continue to be a hole in the lineup and in the field that will continue to be a laughing stock. Look at him! He's not an ounce less than 270 and what will he do when he's 26 years old and 290? At this point in his career, what a waste. Instead of thinking of his pride when the intentionally walk Kepler to get to him, I wish his pride would kick in when he has his 6th slice of pizza.
  10. Ncgo4
    Buxton has been a disappointment so far, granted. Long term my only concern is his injuries. He's got about 1% body fat and that is just too, too wired. How many superstar baseball's can you recall that looked like he does? Can lead to consistent injuries and I expect what we've seen so far will continue. I would not be surprised to see him out of baseball in 4 or 5 years because of injuries. Sano, on the other hand, probably not so much.
  11. Ncgo4
    The Pohlad family consider the Twins an investment. A very, very good investment. They spent $44 million to buy the club and another $240 million (or so) on Target Field. The latest estimate is that the club is worth about $900 million. A good investment, indeed! The value of the club will continue to rise no matter what the product looks like. However, even as the value goes up, I expect the Pohlad family is not prepared to face a major negative cash flow situation which could happen of ticket sales fall significantly. In a very odd trade off, an improvement in the second half on field result will throw away any chance of a top 3 or 4 draft pick. At the same time if it results in a major increase in team cash flow (from attendance) it may very well enable the team to make the investments necessary to upgrade the in field talent in the short term.
  12. Ncgo4
    John, I'm embarrassed for your performance last night. A string of 90 loss seasons followed up by this year's likely 100 loss season isn't bad enough to fire a GM? His total disdain for statistical analysis doesn't add enough to the record to fire him? How about Nolasco and Hughes contracts? Not enough, yet? You gotta be kidding! OK, we "borrowed" Jepson from Tampa Bay for about half a season and gave up Chi-We Hu (forgive spelling) for the privilege. Sano to right field? Berrios still in Rochester? The record of losses, bad decisions, and mishandling of players is almost beyond imagination. The man outlived his value years ago. That you still think he deserved more time is just goofy.
  13. Ncgo4
    My biggest fears are that with typical Twin's luck we will play just well enough to move from the #1 pick to #6 or worse. This will also give the F O the ability to tell owners that it's finally coming together so let's not change now. If we know one thing it's the fact that these owners like nothing more than not making decisions. The recent $30 million (approximate) gift for selling 35 % of MLB,com to Disney, has to have them thinking life is good, why would we screw with anything? Let's face it, those, generations of owners' down stream relatives are being fully vested by the Twin's cash cow.
  14. Ncgo4
    This is a learning year for the OF of the next 10 years. Please, please don't platoon any of these 3 to help their statistics. We need to determine just what they can do day/night, left/right or any other split that can be brought up. We don't care about the record this year, we're working on one last good draft in a while.
  15. Ncgo4
    The twins have no one that pitches well. They have no one that hit's well. They have no one that can throw out a runner at second. If Mauer hits .245 on this team, he's a hero!
  16. Ncgo4
    Sano, Escobar and Polanco as our starting infield should be the main motivation right now. This means trading Plouffe, Dozier, Nunez and Santana while they have some value. If we suffer some growing pains through the end of the year, so be it. The only impact would be to solidify our draft position.
  17. Ncgo4
    I have no idea what our management might do. My evil side assumes (unfairly) that whatever it is it will be the wrong thing. My optimistic self wants to believe we could get hot and still win the pennant. The real truth is that this is truly a critical period for the Twins long term success and I really hope the decisions are good ones. The one thing I do believe is that Sano must go to 3rd base and that to facilitate this Plouffe needs to be traded.
  18. Ncgo4

    2,500:1

    Ncgo4 replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk

    I'm chartering a flight to Vegas tomorrow so my friends and I can get in on this free money! Go Twins!
  19. Ncgo4
    I am a huge fan of Sano. I really think he must be a major part of any Twins resurgence. Given that he did not physically prepare himself for his first full season is a very troublesome development. He let himself down, he let his team down and he let down his many fans. It would not be crazy to think that if he weighed 30 lbs less he might not have injured himself running to first base.
  20. Ncgo4
    There is no good answer. We've seen the junk arms T R has signed the last few years and the trade of Hu (still a top prospect) for Jepsin (a near total bust). Is there any reason to believe that this head office can make a reasonable trade based on recent history. On the other hand why in the world would we ever believe that this group could develop a promising young staff of fire ballers? The only answer might be to hope the current staff gets turned over and the new group does the right things.
  21. Ncgo4
    Thank goodness we kept Santana! He can field badly, just like Arcia and hit much worse and do so in many more positions. 'Cuz, he's versatile.
  22. Ncgo4
    Folks, this is Mr Ryan's club to play with. There is some hope he will be gone at year's end. Even with only a slight hope I pray no trades are made until new mgmt is in place. Can you imagine how badly he could do for us in a fire sale environment?
  23. Ncgo4
    A baseball team these days with MLB.com, TV, Cable, satellite radio, $299 jerseys (made in Bangledesh) and $200 million gov't subsidies for team owned stadiums is a cash printing machine. Almost the only time a franchise is sold is for tax reasons following death of a majority owner. Even then the first choice is to sell other businesses and keep the ball club.
  24. Ncgo4
    The Twins are becoming a more and more Latin based baseball club each year. Sano, Arcia, Rosario, Berrios, Polanco and on and on. My question is how are they dealing with this? Not a criticism, a real question. Don't tell me their answer is grandfather figure Oliva. Throughout the system do they have Latin coaches on each team? What exactly do they do besides give the young players intense lessons in English?
  25. Ncgo4
    Stewart may be the biggest cock-up in recent Twins memory. Someone needs to take charge and motivate him to get into shape. Despite some of the comments here he is not anything but a minimum of 30 lbs overweight. He can run in a straight line very fast (as we saw when he ripped his hamstring) but when you watch him in RF he's a mess because hae cannot easily get his battleship of a body to change direction. As to his being in RF that's a disaster on so many fronts that I'm not going to realist them here. Suffice it to say that a very young very top prospect just learning to hit and putting into a new position that, 1 he's never played before, 2 he will never stay at and 3, they go out and recruit to block him from leaving is stupid beyond imagination.
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