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If the only thing that matters to attendance is what happens on the field, why do they even need a VP like St. Peter who's job is apparently to come up with ballpark foods and "Sano Globes"? Couldn't his salary + marketing dollars be better spent on the VP of Baseball Ops and GM (and players)?

2001-2010 was pretty good. Personally what I found the most preposterous was calling those years "as good of 10 years as you can have". I mean come on, the team won 1 stinking playoff series in 10 years. 2010 was a long time ago as well.. I'm not really sure in what business, pro sports or not, a boss would look back and say "while he did have a strong year 15 years ago, so maybe we should keep this going" And I agree with your very last sentence...

I didn't see any value in the comparison unless it was a billion dollar industry. Certainly any search firm used by my medium sized company has no comparison to a Major League Baseball team hiring a new president/ gm

Get over it. Seriously. Mauer is not going anywhere. These posts are not constructive in the least. Mauer is the least of this teams problems. BTW, the Payroll was $112 million, he makes $23. Not sure where you got 33% from.

This is a message board, not "media". I'm sure the person who started this thread used "all about the money" because the backbone to the article had to do with Target Field financials and how that is leading to the Pohlad's wanting change quicker than when in the Dome

You've had a lot of personal experience working at billion $ businesses who used a search firm to hire a CEO or COO (which by all intents and purposes the new GM/ Pres of Baseball Ops is for the Twins)? And those didn't work out, which companies? Interesting

Gleeman wrote in his article on Baseball Prospectus yesterday I believe that he did sit down with him, and came away from the sit down even more convinced Antony had no clue (not exact quotes, I don't have the article in front of me)

1) A search firm can be a useful tool, especially when the internal people charged with making the hire have the working baseball knowledge of "I have read other teams media guides". The UofM just made by all accounts a hell of a hire, I'm guessing Mark Coyles name would not have come up without help of the search firm. If there's even a chance it helps why wouldn't you spend the money to have them drum up a list of candidates for you? 2) The Twins have the 2nd worst record in baseball since 2011 and an organization largely considered as being well behind the times. That's why you wouldn't hire internally. 3) There are 30 GM jobs in all of baseball, and someone could do a hell of a lot worse than an organization with a good pipeline of young talent and seemingly endless job security if they can win even at an average clip. Even with the Molitor caveat (which i hate), they will have plenty of candidates. 4) Huh? You are advocating not to use all the tools at the front office's disposal, why? Because you aren't familiar with how they work?

While I understand your point, Park is 30 and in AAA because he can't hit a ML fastball. The Park acquisition was a problem....

I'll help out. They wouldn't do it.

Correct, worst player in baseball since the start of 2015. As for Buxton, you don't even need to count WAR (and defense, which Buxton clearly blows Santana out of the water)... Despite Buxton's struggles to adjust, he has a higher OPS than Santana since the start of 2015.

I've been confidently saying for over a month Ryan can't survive this season because of the declining ticket sales. Come September there might be 7,000 people in the seats. I agree with Reusse's (educated?) opinion - Rob Antony is not getting this job. Jim Pohlad may seem more incompetent every time he opens his mouth, but they are still businessmen. Hiring Antony would bring out the pitchforks, a team in their position can't afford. Everyone worried about Antony being the man should take a deep sigh of relief.

Defending TR a day after even the Pohlad's, the owners who's greatest fault may be loyalty, decided enough was enough is odd timing. Using a 30 year old DH who is currently in AAA as evidence that TR had a good off-season, is, well I don't know.. .

Yeah I mean the team is only 33-59... who cares that the player slated into the 5 spot in the lineup and caused a major lineup shuffle so happens to not be in the major leagues. Low risk, whats the worst that can happen with the 3rd most expensive FA in team history. It's not like they lost 70 of their first 92 games. Am I right???? *Also, at what age does Byung Ho Park stop being a "kid". He's only older than 19 of the 25 players on the current roster at age 30

Park led to potentially alienating your most important bat of the future by moving him to RF. Also his contract was actually >$25 million, the Pohlad's count the posting fee, you should too. What was it, the 3rd highest free agent signing in team history behind Santana and Nolasco? Low risk?

Can we agree on this basic premise... Terry Ryan was fired because; 1) his team has been a total failure for the better part of 6 years now. 2) his team/ organization is universally considered woefully behind the times in terms of 21st century Major League Baseball. 3) Lack of innovation, new ideas, etc. has this team falling further and further behind their counterparts in each year that goes by. Like or Dislike Terry Ryan, I don't think those points are all that much up for debate. Now tell me how an organization that is so adverse to change, who finally realized those 3 points (amongst other things) and fired Terry Ryan... would be better off hiring the person who has been the #2 to Terry for so long, over practically anyone else from any other organization in baseball. I will not even go into Rob Antony's baseball knowledge (or lack thereof), he could be the next great General Manager of another MLB franchise 3 years from all for all I know (I highly highly highly doubt this but I'll play along). There is still ample evidence to suggest he should be no where near the next person in charge of fixing this organization. And I don't know how any reasonable person can make an argument that THIS organization, that needs so much changing to keep up with the times and catch up to the rest of baseball.. will get that from hiring the guy who has been in the #2 seat all along - Sorry for rambling on, I may have talked in circles. But to sum it up. You like Rob Antony personally or are scared of change if you think he deserves the job. There's literally no other reason

He was here for more like 21 years... and your point still doesn't make any sense. They should potentially willfully put themselves behind the 8ball in hiring a new person to lead the entire organization, so they can string Terry around for another 3 months. That would've been brilliant

I wish this was from an Onion article, but its a Jim Pohlad quote from a new MinnPost story. Jim Pohlad on Ryan's potential successor; "When we had the all-staff meeting, you can see how loved Terry is by our organization. If I had to pick one requirement for somebody going forward, it's someone that's loveable. The only way you can be loved is if you're lovable. We want someone that can ultimately be loved. Technically they have to have the skills and strength and so forth, and have to have the willingness to look an organization and make hard decisions, or come up with ways for improvement."

He also has had 2 x 15day DL stints, so technically he has started much more than 40% of the games he's been on the roster for

Starting even 1 game in place of Buxton is blocking someone who will be part of the future, and he seems to start at least 1 out of every 3 games

I don't understand your point but that is not new. My response was directly related to the poster arguing that the system was rebuilt by Ryan not only because they picked top 6 every year. The farm system was rebuilt nearly solely on Bill Smith international signings and top 6 picks, evidenced by the top prospects nearly all fitting into one of those categories

You do realize that Kepler, Sano, Jorge and Polanco were all signed by Bill Smith, right?

You definitely are not in the minority. There's 100 baseball execs I would choose over Rob Antony... and I would still take Antony 10 times out of 10 over Torii Hunter. Why would his name even be mentioned? Because he played here and we all liked him?

Well past that point... The break even point for steals of 2nd base based on run expectancy is around 75%... With Santana currently sitting at 57.8%.

I hope you were just trying to play contrarian because that was hard to listen to. Did you really call the 10 year run in the 2000's one of the most successful ever? Didn't the Red Sox and Cardinals each win multiple World Series in that same 10 year period?