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  1. Squirrel
    Maybe. There is more to being in shape than losing weight. I’ll see what he brings to Spring and how he performs next season. That said, I think your earlier 260 is completely unrealistic if not impossible. When was he 260? When he was still growing. He is not going to be 260 again, imo.
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    Back on topic. If you want to express that Nick’s blueprint isn’t financially viable, fine, you’ve done so. What I’d like to see from you is YOUR off-season plan. If you think Nick’s here is too ‘pie In the sky’ then tell us specifically what and how you would do things differently and stop the lectures about how you know more than the rest of us on running multi-million dollar businesses. Put your money where your mouth is and give us specifics of who, what and how much, if you were GM. And if you had bothered to read through all the ones posted, by the owners and writers here and other posters, you’d see a wide range of ideas with plenty of fiscal conservativism, and much more to discuss than how we don’t know how to run a big business. This is a message board, not a board room. It’s for sharing and debating ideas. Telling us all we don’t know what we are doing is neither. Yes, this a moderator warning.
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    Ditto!
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    Yes. In baseball, I think the path is revealed after you’ve traversed it not before. It seems more often than not we plan for one and get the other.
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    The tortoise and the hare might disagree with you re the Lamborghini.
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    This gets discussed on and off. The short answer is no, nothing can be done, for now. You can comment further on this subject in these forum threads in the Questions forum: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/28591-two-spaces-after-a-period/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces http://twinsdaily.com/topic/21610-why-are-my-posts-reformatting/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces http://twinsdaily.com/topic/17104-if-youre-suffering-from-the-no-space-after-punctuation-issue-please-read/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces
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    I don't think you say 'every' ... but you get so excited about positional flexibility I think you sometimes go overboard to make a point and then confuse us all, until we remember it's Brian.
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    Pfft.
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    Since his career was cut short, way short, there was no way to know when the latter part of his career was. His career ended, rather abruptly, at a young age (relatively speaking) and he's been working in some capacity ever since. He said he knows some Spanish, but isn't fluent. I'll take that as a good start. Also, as Pseudo mentioned, languages are not easy for everyone to just learn ... I had years of French, some German and some Italian ... no fluency whatsoever, not even broken conversational abilities, despite living for 2 1/2 years in a French speaking country. And I had the same SAT score! Not to mention to various Spanish-speaking countries players come from. There are likely different dialects and idioms to learn that are specific to certain countries, even areas of certain countries. While I had hoped for someone with a level of fluency, I don't fault him for this lack and I'll give him time to build on the some that he already knows. Or see who he hires to 'help' in that area of 'weakness.'
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    One of which areas? A weakness or a strength?
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    I don't know much about his illness or what treatments he has to do (if any) to keep it at bay. However, the physicality between being a manager and a player are not at all comparable. And it is probably that difference that makes his disease manageable in this role vs the physical rigors of a playing role. But ... as much as you ... I don't know; given his history, I'm sure it was addressed in the process to hire him.
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    Um, can't say I agree. I am MORE likely to buy tickets because they fired Molitor and hired Baldelli. I was disappointed that they gave Molitor a 3-yr contract last Fall. This is the kind of move they should have made earlier.
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    I knew that place well ... you a Winonan?
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    Okay ... the off-season gets off to a good start, imo.
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    Pffft. Be quicker next time, old man.
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    Oh bah, humbug! Harrrumph!
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    This thread is about discussing potential candidates. Twins spending, calling the owners cheap and bringing up contraction is off topic. Period. Knock it off. If you want to mention specific candidates and the odds of them wanting to come here because of specific financial information that you are aware of that would not being appealing to them, that is relevant, but this tired, old, generalization of who would want to come here because the owners are cheap is not going to fly.
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    There's a couple in there I would seriously consider.
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    And let's not project things and carry on a different discussion. This is a discussion on the search for a new manager. Let's keep these side tangents out of it.
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    I wish those numbers were switched and we were seriously looking for an upgrade at SS.
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    Exactly. Esco back on the team would be great in that role and he'd get a good amount of playing time all over the IF, probably more than a traditional back-up/utility.
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    Yes!!! I'm way on board with this!!!
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    So would RiverPositionalFlexibilityBrian.
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    This times 100. Also imo. I also agree with others that he needs to move to 2nd and we need to acquire a better SS. Maybe even one who could move to 3rd when Lewis or Javier are ready to take over SS. (I didn’t say it.)
  25. Squirrel
    That's a good question without a good answer. I'd be tempted to move Astudillo as the back-up and Garver as another super utility playing OF(RF)/1B/DH/C. But ... not sure ...
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