Richie the Rally Goat
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yeah, ultimately it all falls on Ryan, he was the General Manager and got fired, just like it all falls on Falvey now. That's just simplistic. I still feel like Molitor needs to lead the major league organization and reach deeper into the upper levels of the minors for intel and influence of his sphere. He needs to be the driver of culture change for Falvey to the MLB operation and the inspiration for the minors. Being a baseball savant isn't enough. He needs to be an organizational savant too. For his career's sake, he needs to be a tactical conduit of change in the strategy outlined by Falvey and Levine. Passivity will not get it done. -
the legacy lives on, for now
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this is a very good point. Implied in my argument is that Molitor should not be mystified by any development plans made with players who are on the 40 man roster. Polanco's development was ultimately on TR but Molitor should at least understand the plan and the rationale for doing so. Ultimately that was on TR as well, but Molitor has more power than given credit for. This should not be a witch hunt on Molitor, but successful managers do more than just fill out lineup cards and call to the bullpen.
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The manager should have a firm grasp of the 40 man roster and be influential to the management of it, including influencing additions to it. If the manager and the GM are not in sync the talent available to the manager will not fit the tactics and decisions the manager wants to make. It seems very clear to me with all of the strange bullpen decisions and odd defensive alignments and batting lineups, what Molitor wanted and what Molitor got, were very different. So yes, I think the manager should reach beyond his borders to ensure he has the talent that he thinks he needs.
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no one ever said when these things would occur, and the analogy was succession planning for personnel moves to roster spots. This isn't contract management it's people management. Agreed, people are an asset, but they need a different kind of manager than my 401k. That's why PM doesn't negotiate the contract, Levine does. Same in DQ, the store manager doesn't negotiate the hourly wage either. It's prescribed to them by the corporate office.
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organizational health is not just Levine's job or Falvey's job, or at the time, Ryan's. It is up to Molitor to help drive the ship. When Joe at the DQ down the street gets the feeling that his assistant store manager is getting the itch to go to Subway for the extra 25 cents per hour, it's up to Joe to ask the other DQ store managers around if they have any candidates with potential and to see if the other store manager would start feeding said high potential candidate the CEO prescribed intermediate duties to setup that candidate for future success. That's not to say if isn't Ryan's fault. It's his primarily. Just to say that some of the onus falls on Molitor too/
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middle managers are a part of the succession process, not just the CEO
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very good points, my recollection was that he came up in 14 and 15 for a couple weeks each and played very sparingly while not playing SS in the minors. But memories fail us all
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TR exercised Polancos options in 2014,15,&16. Molitor let Polanco ride the pine rather than develop and play games in the bigs during 15. There's some onus there on PM but not near as much as Ryan and the minor league development and coaching staff.
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Why do MLB teams participate in spring training if players can just come in cold and be perfect from the get go? Is there not loss of skill from disuse?
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i hope you are right.
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in the near term I'm more confident of Polanco's bat than his glove. Today Adrianza is competing for backup super utility but if/when Polanco is a butcher between a second baseman with a bigger bat and not great range and a third baseman with an even bigger bat with even less range, Levine seems like he'll turn polar opposite to the all glove no stick guy.
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by predicting an outcome, are you not comparing those 4 against a sample to determine who you believe are the best candidates?
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i agree that Adrianza ends up the every day SS by the end of the season. Not sure about the rest. I think Polanco rides the pine until Dozier gets traded and then takes over second. I think Sano stays at third for a few years.
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According to the team it was cash
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and share it with us with context
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metric horsepower or imperial horsepower?
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agreed w/ both posts, the point wasn't what a return on a trade should be for the Twins, more of the amount of interest from Pittsburgh. Will I give up cash to take a flier on Light? Sure. More? Probably not. The Twins DFA'd him, so take return on a trade or risk losing him on waivers, not a big loss.
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When you name two players in a sentence such as this, it is comparative. We compare players continually. If Pittsburg was really worried Light would be claimed, why wasn't there a player traded instead of cash?
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im with you. I've been trying to get a handle on bbref's RF and i struggle with finding a grounding point with the stat. So these few references to it come with no meaning or context or link and so I rely on the stats that I am familiar with which indicate a very good fielder in a very small sample.
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imperial? Cuz the English use the metric system too
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Article: What To Make Of Kennys Vargas
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Tom Froemming's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
until the pitching improves significantly it's all pretty much one big punt. As there were no trades to do so it stays a developmental team in my mind. The goal for the season is to develop for the future, and if you catch lightning in a bottle with Berrios and May taking big steps forward in the rotation and Chargois, Hughes and a couple others in the bullpen with the fielding improvements at SS, OF, and catcher, you might be able to become competitive in 2017. This "plan" hinges on 4 to 6 hits on the roulette wheel in a row early in the season. Not exactly high likelihood for success. So yes if everything works perfectly the DH will matter a lot. I don't see that as likely so let's see if Vargas can be that guy. -
Article: What To Make Of Kennys Vargas
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Tom Froemming's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
very true, but statistical sample sizes have become more important since then. I think there's still a number and it's probably somewhere in this neighborhood and I would assume it's part of a rate over a period of time. It's still there and still important as a part of a philosophy to use all of the tools to analyze and develop players -
you compared Light to Chargois. It's very clear to me that Chargois would be claimed, just like you said. It's still not clear to me Light would be claimed. He was traded for cash which makes him marginal to be claimed. The biggest difference between the two in terms of woulda coulda shoulda is if Chargois were DFA'd I'd be pissed and with Light DFA'd I feel ambivalent They aren't comparable players at this point in their careers.
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Article: What To Make Of Kennys Vargas
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Tom Froemming's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
i also believe that some consistent fielding of first base for Vargas could help him become a more consistent player/hitter overall and by slotting Mauer in at DH more keep the veteran healthier throughout the season. I'm with you, give the 26 year old who's shown real promise a solid extended chance in 2017.
