Richie the Rally Goat
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I think most of us had that figured out on August 5 when Lee looked like a statue both in the field and at the plate while all of the prospects were either butchers or 5 years away. It’s just amazing it took this long for a national writer to say it.- 85 replies
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So, Was the Falvey Era a Success?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Matthew Taylor's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
That was reactive to two passive offseasons in a row that should have been more aggressive (buy or sell). -
So, Was the Falvey Era a Success?
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Matthew Taylor's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
The aggressive approach from the beginning of Falvey’s tenure that I loved, corresponded with Thad Levine’s tenure too. Mysteriously when Levine left so too did the aggressive moves. From the outside, Falvey’s largest failure is in managing up and aligning the ownership team, something TR was very good at. It led to stagnation and underspend, but from the outside it looked like TR always had a clearly aligned directive. It probably wasn’t because the disfunction of ownership we saw over the last couple years didn’t just crop up. Falvey’s legacy appears to me as transforming the FO, becoming more modern. That’s a huge success. While marred by significant failure, the success outweighs the failure. -
Correct! The value comes from what flows through not the pipes themselves.
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I think the idea is a good one, strengthening the rotation and bumping a starting prospect to the bullpen or trading for a position player makes a lot sense. As others point out, the Twins need a fly ball pitcher not a ground ball pitcher to make that work. Not Valdez but I like the concept.
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Isn’t trading established players for prospects that you haven’t shown the ability to develop impactful?
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at least according to SI, Tom was chairman of Pohlad Companies. SI is not what it used to be, now a lot of AI garbage, but this is what I based that on. https://www.si.com/mlb/twins/onsi/minnesota-twins-news/we-have-lost-trust-tom-pohlad-on-replacing-brother-joe-atop-the-twins clearly the chairman shouldn’t be in the weeds on The Twins, but should have a pretty good idea of the Twins executives and was a part of the sale process for the Twins that ultimately ended in retaining them and bringing on another investors. That process should have illuminated far more than 6 weeks of sitting at 1 Twins Way.
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So the CEO of the parent company had no idea how his largest asset was ran but stepped down to run it himself with zero idea of what needed to happen?
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If it’s a “mutual parting of ways” it’s absolutely a half measure. The guy that’s supposed to go big or go home can’t let a guy he doesn’t trust quit on his own 2 weeks before pitchers and catchers report. If he was to be fired, it should have been weeks or months ago. to that end Tom was the CEO of Pohlad company. It took until December 17 for him to fire his brother. A decisive leader would have fired him and Falvey in early November or during the season.
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Effectively Tom went from CEO of Pohlad Company to VP of a division of Pohlad Company. Looks like he got a demotion too
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Joe is gone for a reason
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agreed, My complaint about Falvey has been his indecisiveness, especially since Levine left that man has been incapable of making a direction, getting worse with the full financial weight on his shoulders. then he and Zoll traded away 40% of the roster, very decisive, but then using the remainder of the season on scrap pickups rather than prospects (back to the dithering). This offseason has illuminated just how toxic the Pohlads are and how badly they handcuff their Twins leadership. No wonder Falvey has been incompetent! How could anyone succeed with this level of chaos in the ownership. while I feel for Falvey being out of a job, glad to see him gone. He was on his way out anyways.
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Me too, and agreed, my read is they’re going back to a business lead and a GM and eliminating the POBBO
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He wasn’t the final decision maker, he still had Falvey and Joe above him, but the reports are that he led the process.
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Joe is gone for a reason
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Absolutely agreed! On the baseball side of things it could have been Pohlad:”why haven’t you signed anyone?” Falvey:”because you changed direction 2 months too late”
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Zoll supposedly led the fire-sale. I’m guessing his idea of leading with courage and yours might be different.
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Bingo! From Gleeman via @jharaldson ‘Tom Pohlad says he "will immediately begin a search for a president of business operations who, along with GM Jeremy Zoll, will report to me."‘
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Or from the offseason “not-fire sale”
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We have math problems. If $110m is the current projected payroll breakeven point (other costs relatively fixed) how did they accrue $500m in debt over 5 years with higher revenue and payrolls between $130 and 150m? The would have accrued somewhere in the $150m range in debt (20m in debt per year and 5% numbers being strewn about last article) if they never paid maintenance or principle at all.
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Twins Trade Jhonny Pereda to Seattle Mariners
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Cody Christie's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Unless they trade Jeffers- 46 replies
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So Larnach cumulatively has more OAA in RF than Wallner in a smaller sample size? Granted it was more positive 21 and 22, maybe he’s losing a step The charts above split LF and RF.
