Winning puts butts in the seats, period. Look at the attendance during the recent 5 year decline. If this FO puts out a winning team on the field consistently they will sell tickets, Mauer or no Mauer.
Frankly, from what I've seen so far this spring, it looks pretty iffy. He bounced a throw to first playing second the other day and rushed and bounced one playing SS today.
Because it's time to give Garver his shot, he's earned it. Gimenez hasn't going to settle for 3rd string catcher waiting in AAA. Sometimes you have to roll the dice a little.
The problem of rushing players is that you start the service clock ticking. Teams like the Twins can't afford to waste 2-3 of the cost controlled years of the player "learning the ropes" at the MLB level.
So why haven't other teams just as desperate as us for pitching signed him before now? Plenty of teams could use a league average pitcher, especially at the price we paid.
Another post referenced a response made by Molitor that apparently the Twins see something in the analytics that suggest Sanchez is better than is numbers indicate. So apparently our analytics dept has gone from basically the bottom of the heap to being able to see things that even all the other teams that have very good/great analytics departments can't/don't see. Count me as skeptical.
thanks for the civil discussion. Are they really supporting/protecting them though, that's my point. The event occurred and will be with the victim forever. Just ignoring doesn't make it go way. Why do you think therapy works as well as it does?