dxpavelka

He won manager of the year because we put good baseball players on the field. The fact that we're no longer doing so shouldn't be a condemnation of him.

DON'T LET HIM CUT THAT HAIR!!

Biggest issue is that this team plays with no heart. EVERY decision is based on advanced analytics. A wise man once said that advanced analytics is an excellent means of predicting the past. Analytics has a measurement for everything. Except for things that can't be measured. Heart. What does a guy do when nobody else is doing anything. ‘Jump on my back. I’m driving the bus tonight.’ Infamous Kirby Puckett quote. Nobody on this team is driving the bus. Started when they moved on from Eddie Rosario. A guy who didn't have great measureables. But he did things nobody else did. He took a pitch 8 inches off the plate and drilled it for extra bases at a moment when nobody else was hitting. Can that be measured? Sure. And probably quantified as a negative. Should I bring up the fact that the guys (admins won't let me use the word(s) I want to use) playing his position this year have the worst OPS in the big leagues? Continued when they traded Nelson Cruz. Heart and soul of the team. Give them a pass on that one cuz they got Joe Ryan. Won't even mention multiple opportunities to bring Cruz back. Traded Berrios. OK, great. Got studs in return. (note sarcasm) Of course, a year later we found ourselves in need of a Berrios caliber pitcher and traded for Mahle. Of course when HE failed to bring the expected return we again found ourselves in need of more pitching and traded a guy who won some big American League batting award thingy for another pitcher. NOW I'm about to cross into heretofore uncharted territory and ask one simple question: What has our lineup done to exhibit heart in the year since Miguel Sano's name stopped being written on the lineup card? Great hitter? Not really. Guy who makes everybody in the stadium and within earshot of a television stop and take notice when he's hitting? Absolutely. Guy who can wake up a line up and a crowd by hitting a ball to St. Paul. Yep. Is the manager and / or coaching staff an issue.? Maybe. But at the end of the day the game is won or lost by the guys on the field. Do we have the right guys? Maybe. Do we have the right kind of guys. Maybe not.

If I hired someone who wasn't a fit for the job the first place I looked was in the mirror. So the guy who was manager of the year three years ago is a complete misfit for the job? Perhaps the issue lies with the players on the field.

the grass isn't always greener....

Firing folks tends to lead to hiring folks whose firing will soon be called for. Look it up.

To be fair, Larnach has also shown the other end of what young players can do and Lewis and Kiriloff could be tripping over a sunflower seed from their next injury.

Sounds like maybe Larnach should be replaced.......

Arraez never flirted with .400 as a Twin so can you miss something you never had?

and just who would that be?

Going on for the third straight season. It's almost like this team has played with no heart since Eddie Rosario (and Nelson Cruz) left.

Further Fun fact: Twins LFs have the worst OPS of any team in the big leagues.

Huh. Talent is there. Stats are there. Something is missing. It's almost like something not measured by stats and analytics is missing. HEART. This team has none and hasn't had any since Eddie Rosario and Nelson Cruz left. You can call this a ******** argument all you want but the fact that the discussion exists validates it.

His runs scored and driven in would both be second on the Twins. More fun.

Fun fact: Eddie Rosario would be 3rd on the Twins in home runs.

The flaw in your argument is that the issue is that Taylor is not a good enough hitter to be the every day CF. Which may be true. Perhaps the cure would be to find a better bat to play CF. File the name Nick Senzel away in your roladex.

Could be worse. Most of the writers on here spent the whole fall pleading for us to sign Omar Narvaez.

About as close as you are to marrying a Kardashian.

Probably just missed this one but Solano is 382nd in RBI

Meanwhile, Simeon Woods-Richardson...

Dude, let's go a little easy on Solano. He's got FIVE RBI.

advanced analytics are an excellent means of predicting the past

Don't know why folks are so surprised. We scored fewer than 700 runs last year and did nothing to improve the offense. The fact that the offense is not improved is not shocking. Solano STILL stuck on FIVE rbi. On a positive note, Garlick being send across the river.

Berrios solid. Woods-Richardson, not so much. who'dathunkit

We've likewise yearned for a 4th (or maybe even 3rd OF) since dumping Rosario. Sometimes foolish to move a vet without somebody playing him completely off the roster.