Who’s Responsible for the Twins Failure?

[Greglw3]

 

No, the guy in charge is always 100% responsible.

If it’s a matter of the players being bad, why didn’t the talent evaluators figure that out? The FOs job is to put together a collection of players that can win baseball games.

The managers job is to get that collection of players to perform. That’s his one and only job. Literally.

Blaming this on guys like Kepler and Polanco, who now have a large sample size of suck, is absurd. Why would you think Maeda, in his mid 30s, is all of the sudden an ace because of one good shortened season? You can’t heap praise on these guys as “geniuses” when the players perform, then blame it on the players when they don’t. When Molitor was given crap team, nobody seemed to be lining up to give him a pass like they are Baldelli.

The FO had every opportunity to get this bullpen in adequate shape. They made the decision to let two key late inning guys walk (May and Clippard) and replace them with guys off the trash heap. They terribly misjudged Colome (other FOs that wouldn’t touch him seemed to figure it out). If they would’ve addressed that properly, we’d be within spitting distance of the division leaders now despite the slumping offense. We wouldn’t be having this conversation.

It’s time to stop making excuses for these guys. We’ve been sold a bill of goods on them (brilliant data analysts, pitching wonderkind, etc.) that is false. They got lucky in 2019-2020. Do your job or be held accountable.

I agree with you 100%! 60% to Falvey, 35% to Rocco, 5% to players who are doing the best for who they are.

[Greglw3]

 

How do the Twins keep putting up terrible production from major league players. Cody Stashak is a prime example. Why is he in the major and pitching in meaningful games?

Why must we watch him to try and find himself at this level. Isn't that what the minor leagues are for?

Why let go of Rosario and then use Cave as his primary replacement? Boggles the mind!

[cHawk]

 

I agree with you 100%! 60% to Falvey, 35% to Rocco, 5% to players who are doing the best for who they are.

 

Um...no. There is no evidence that the players are doing their best. There also isn’t clear evidence that they aren’t, but they don’t look like they are (at least at the plate). We’re not seeing them take good at bats or them constantly getting hits taken away by great defense or deep fly balls just come up short. We’re seeing 4-pitch K after Pop-up after weak dribbler (almost always in scoring situations). If that’s not the case then the professional hitting careers of half our lineup are all over.

 

5% to the players?

 

 

Players should receive criticism for bad performance and that’s what we’ve been seeing this year.