Twins Designate Oswaldo Arcia

The votes are in: organization of the year!

What's killing me about this season is not that the Twins have gone from a winning record in 2015 to being the worst team in the AL this year.

What's killing me is that ownership and the organization appear to be determined to conduct business as usual and continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, learning absolutely nothing.

Having no idea what to make of an Arcia is the kind of thing that happens when a franchise convinces itself that it's no longer rebuilding the minute it claws its way back to .500, like the Twins did last year.

I won't miss Arcia.  He was not going to be a part of the Twins going forward. The wild swings, piss poor at bats and poor defense. Does he have power? Yes.  

His ceiling is platoon DH.  I think he heads to Oakland. These type of players are available every year at the end of free agency looking for jobs in the 3-5 million a year range. Think Chris Carter this year. His floor is what he has been doing the last two years.

JD Martinez just went down for the Tigers. Does Arcia find a home in the division?

At this point I'm reduced to hoping that Arcia A) does land with the Tigers, B} hits like a maniac, and C) thoroughly sticks it to his old organization when he gets the first chance to.

I hate having to include C), but A) and B} alone have no chance of getting through the insulation and inertia that's keeping the Twins' front office from taking meaningful action to remake this franchise.

I won't miss Arcia.  He was not going to be a part of the Twins going forward. The wild swings, piss poor at bats and poor defense. Does he have power? Yes.  

His ceiling is platoon DH.  I think he heads to Oakland. These type of players are available every year at the end of free agency looking for jobs in the 3-5 million a year range. Think Chris Carter this year. His floor is what he has been doing the last two years.

So the Twins are paying a thirty year old DH 12 million over 4 years to do what Arcia was doing pretty much for free 3 years ago at age 22, and less than Arcia was doing at age 23.

And the good news is that the Twins can do that again?

I have absolutely no idea how that's a defense of this front office. Arcia is a flawed player to be sure, but not as deeply flawed as an organization that turns a kid who OPS'ed in the mid .700's in the majors at age 22-23 into a DFA'd afterthought.

Now one less source of comic inspiration on a team struggling to put forth entertainment value.

Terry Ryan is out to show that the Sporting News article was too generous. The Twins front office is trying to get down to the 30th spot in the rankings.

This organization is in a death spiral!

Maybe we can get an Intl. bonus slot for him.

The Front Office should have two key skill sets upon which it is judged: talent evaluation and medium/long term asset management. It has consistently failed in these areas over recent seasons. The handling of Arcia is just another example of that. Heads need to roll and a fresh approach employed.

The Field Management team's key skill sets upon which it should be judged are short-term asset management/deployment and maximizing player output (whether by coaching, motivation or other means). Molitor and his crew have been abject in this regard all season, with head-scratching decisions made on an almost daily basis. Heads need to roll and a fresh approach employed.

The Twins are at risk of flushing away a potentially talented roster and minor league pipeline because of woeful management on and off the field. The rosters are a shambles, the Manager is getting nothing out of the assets at his disposal and the organization is becoming a laughing stock. The Twins' principles of stability and loyalty are laudable, but I think they're being stretched to breaking point.

One option not mentioned: send Park to AAA. He's on his way there anyway.

Park won't learn to adjust to ML pitching in AAA.  He needs exposure at the ML level in this lost season. So do Kepler and Buxton at this point in the season.  In the end, Santana's versatility wins the day.

The problem isn't that Arcia was DFA'd--it's that it should have happened earlier! It was clear that Arcia has negligible value on defense. There can be no future for that type of player with the Twins given that the Twins are committed to play Sano someplace in the field. Someone else could have been signed (even Grossman!) in the off-season to provide some kind of a safety-net if one of the "planned OFers" failed.