Senator-Twins

I like reading your articles and comments and am equally frustrated by what is happening with the Twins. However, I disagree with several of the comments that have been made. First I think winning Division Championships, even in a weak Division, is still a successful year. No they did not go far in the play offs and I think the main reason is they were blown out by teams who had lots of money to spend, and could afford multiple failures on players they bought in order to get top talent. The Twins are not and will not be the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Dodgers etc. The failure during those years was that the Twins were not willing to go outside the organization and "buy" one or top players. They were also unwilling to spend deeply to hold their own top talent (with exceptions). But winning the Division did bring people to the park. As regards changes in management, the last time the Twins did this (Ryan to Smith) it resulted in most of the failure we see today. We traded for Young, got Gomez and flipped him for Hardy and then dumped Hardy for AAA pitchers and then let Ramos go for a set-up man. It has taken Ryan more time then I would like to get this team back to where they can compete, but I think with the new wave we will see improvements. As regards coaches I have my doubts about Anderson being the right guy as we try to promote strike out pitchers. But lets be frank he has not had much talent to work with for a while. The major change .I think the Twins need to make is to get a respected Latin American Coach who can work with the young Spanish speaking players. They also need to continue to invest in scouting and signing in the DR & Venezuela at take some shots at the Cuban players coming on the market.