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  1. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  2. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  3. Richie the Rally Goat
    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/
  4. Richie the Rally Goat
    middle managers are a part of the succession process, not just the CEO
  5. Richie the Rally Goat
    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
  6. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  7. Richie the Rally Goat
    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?
  8. Richie the Rally Goat
    as a fan, agreed, as a guy who's suffered with shoulder, elbow, and finger pain for years, not so sure. I look back at all the stupid abuse I put my right arm through and wish I hadn't done it. Now granted I never made money throwing a baseball let alone 2.9 mil, but if I had to do it all over again, I'd change things. I would imagine Gibby feels as much or more discomfort than I do and says "when I'm old I'll learn to feed myself left handed" and "who needs to tie shoes, I'll wear slip-ons"
  9. Richie the Rally Goat
    29 seconds wouldn't even get him in the top 20 in the bigs http://tatertrottracker.com/news/tater-trot-tracker-leaders-all-time.html
  10. Richie the Rally Goat
    disagree, he's one pitch away from ending his career. he shouldn't waste them in AAA when as Brock pointed out that he has the fortitude and physical ability to be a Major League pitcher and "just" needs to hone his pitches at the highest level for a while to get it right. Nothing prepares you for the bigs completely, except playing in the bigs, especially pitchers. The Twins lost 103 games last year, they can afford to let the guy figure it out, and need him to figure it out to right the ship.
  11. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'm sure Parker can and has done better, but I found this https://youtu.be/Zu7v_xnaf7c not sure if this is to solve his "tell", or to reduce the stress on his elbow and reduce movement on the ball.
  12. Richie the Rally Goat
    how significant of a sample size can you get from the showcases and tournaments these players participate in? Would it be closer to the equivalent of 30 games or 50, more?
  13. Richie the Rally Goat
    sure, but can you teach rigid flexibility?
  14. Richie the Rally Goat
    As inane as that story was, God it's great to have baseball to talk about again! I hope Berrios is improving his command. The rotation competition will be much more interesting if he's hitting his spots.
  15. Richie the Rally Goat
    indeed local to Twins Territory (Geographically) is the Northwoods League. Alumni of the Northwoods League include Andre Ethier, Ben Zobrist, and Austin Barnes. It's fun baseball to watch http://northwoodsleague.com/about-nwl/alumni-in-the-majors/
  16. Richie the Rally Goat
    i wonder the same about Latin American and less baseball oriented countries like say Germany for instance. I would imagine some big collegiate programs have some of the ball flight equipment in place, but not many, and at most one or two high schools
  17. Richie the Rally Goat
    Thanks for sharing. Great read
  18. Richie the Rally Goat
    i wonder if manager tendencies have as much to do with how they are managed, as compared to their own philosophy and personnel/talent available to them.
  19. Richie the Rally Goat
    "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."
  20. Richie the Rally Goat
    Good update! Thanks for sharing. Not sure this is Twins forum fodder, but could be minor league or other baseball. Did you see Wright pitch? Was it plan/execution type issues with 85 pitches in 5 innings, as in he was trying to nibble and couldn't quite hit his spot? Or was he all over the place? Was he hitting mid nineties on the gun?
  21. Richie the Rally Goat
    Best wishes Gardy BYTO!
  22. Richie the Rally Goat
    i hope you are right.
  23. Richie the Rally Goat
    I think, and appears Antlantis too, that it will be a weak division below the Indians. PECOTA had the Twins at 80 wins. I think Atlantis has a more realistic number. I personally predicted in between the two so I'll take the over on Atlantis.
  24. Richie the Rally Goat
    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.
  25. Richie the Rally Goat
    I'm not really sure what $5.25 mil buys. It's a new era in international signings. Last year that wasn't much money.
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