Falvey Has Seen The Value Of Patience

"Of course, we don’t want to wait four or five years for Berrios or other pitching prospects to take off in their careers"

Obviously nobody wants it to take that long but the bigger issue is that the team can't afford to wait 4-5 years for the pitching to finally develop. If the Twins had an average rotation in place maybe they could be more patient waiting on younger pitchers to step in but given the current state and the fact that so much of the rebuild burden has been placed on younger players contributing waiting another 4-5 years just isn't feasible. They're going to waste too many potentially competitive years with a young, cost controlled core reaching their prime.

I think one of the great misunderstandings of fandom is the idea that all prospects are the same or should develop on a certain path. Each guy is unique and really have to be considered individually.

I think one of the great misunderstanding of fandom is expecting fans to be rational, or to keep paying for a bad product....fans are under no obligation to be patient.

I certainly would never accuse fandom of rationality. Or sobriety, for that matter.

Patience is important, and no two prospects develop exactly the same. Which is part of the reason I get frustrated, and almost laugh at times, when I read things about how Buxton, Berrios, etc, should be moved or given up on already.

The truth is, we as fans need a different kind of patience than was required the past few 90+ loss seasons. Before, we were impatient with injuries, poor trades or not making flip trades, poor to mediocre FA choices or no FA choices, etc, while eagerly awaiting the arrival of a wave of talented prospects.

NOW, we have a new FO in place and we already here about some changes and expansions they want to make. But it won't all happen overnight. Further, with young talent in place, and more coming, this different form of patience must be exercised. At least now, it feels as though there is a new and hopefully forward moving plan taking shape.

All that is true, but it should in no way affect the development of the pitching prospect. All that 'rest-of-staff' stuff has to be figured out independent of it.

Truth. I'm not advocating for a rushed approach, I'm just pointing out that unless the Twins make major trades or become actual players in the FA market they run the risk of those young position players leaving before the team can truly be competitive. Windows don't stay open forever; this team needs to do something other than just show patience with pitching development. 

The last few years I got the impression (whether an accurate read or not) that the Twins were not so much reluctant to have propsects struggle as part of their development as they were reluctant to put those struggles on display in front of a shrinking fan base that they were hopiong to sell hope for brighter days ahead.  

By changing up the front office, a fair amount of that hope is now transferred to Falvey and Levine who are, in a way, propsects themselves.