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Not sure where you are going with this (should the people in charge be the same percentage as players or society?)But this pdf shows the NFL https://43530132-36e9-4f52-811a-182c7a91933b.filesusr.com/ugd/3844fb_1478b405e58e42608f1ed2223437d398.pdf

What is the percentage of BIPOC people that work at TD? Don't mean any offense just asking an honest question?

Not taking a side, in In 2016, baseball spent approximately $30 million on youth development for underserved communities, according to league officials. In March 2015, Manfred appointed former Angels general manager Tony Reagins, an African-American, as the league’s senior vice-president for youth programs. In the past five drafts, 20.2% of the first-round picks were African-American. Five of those 34 selections (Marcus Stroman, Touki Toussaint, Justus Sheffield, Dillon Tate and Justin Dunn) were pitchers. (from an article in 2017) The Dream Series, established in 2017, is operated by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball. This event will host a diverse group of more than 60 high school pitchers and catchers from across the country, in a special development camp atmosphere as well as a showcase for professional scouts and collegiate recruiters. If the Twins care about diversity (they sure seem to by the way they talk, create some new upper level postilions and hire BIPOC people for them, or fire some of the ones they have and hire new. Not meant for you, but quit blaming the fans that have no say in who gets hired and put the blame where it belongs, I am pretty sure 99% of Twins fans don't care about the color of someone's skin who get hired, they only care about winning.

There is 60 games this year which is approx 540 inning (60 * 9) I want the Best pitchers the most. If I am Rocco I am trying to figure out how to get something like this done to get the most out the best best pitchers Berrios 72 Odo 72 Hill 72 Maeda 72 Dobnak 48 Clippard 30 Duffey 30 Littell 30 May 30 Rogers 30 Romo 30 Others 24 Why would they be worrying about getting Bailey/Chacín/Poppen/Smeltzer/Thorpe innings if they aren't your best pitchers. The relief pitchers should have no problem pitching 1 inning every other game, I understand that that the top 4 pitchers might not average 6 innings a start, but they are smart people and should be able to figure out.

If Cruz plays 60 games, that would be great, if Sano plays 60 games that would be great as well. If those two have days off, then I think Garver could fill those spots. So no I am not taking them out just to take them out and give Garver those starts. If Garver starts 40-45 that also would be wonderful. I

From my Math Kepler played around 813 innings (including fall league and major leagues) and Garver around 516 (including fall league and major leagues) I agree I want Kepler playing RF for just about every inning this year. I would like to see Garver catch around 35 games and play in close to 50, which means time at DH or 1B.

good article Seth, "Arguably the most important job of a manager - a baseball manager, a store manager, any leader - is to encourage communication and support and empower those you work with" I would argue that the most important job of a Manger is winning and the things you wrote are tools to help you succeed in winning. Nobody cares about that stuff if you are consistently 70 -90.

I am going with Garver and Gonzo if it a short amount of time

Isn't this a good thing for Sano and the Twins? He is asymptomatic and shouldn't have to worry about missing any of the season. I take this as a positive for him.

I see the deadline being crazy, if the Twins start out slow, they have a handful of players to trade and IMO they would be happy getting anything for them if they are not going to sign them. Rosario, Odo, Cruz, Romo, and others. I think if there is a few surprise teams that have been rebuilding that get hot, they would love to trade for players they are only getting for this year, opposed to the Twins being hot and they could trade for players they need giving up very young prospects that might be 4-5 years away but might be willing to take on players that have a few years left on their contract.

Why would Smeltzer opt out? because he is cancer survivor? I haven't seen anywhere that is a underlying condition at a higher risk?

I think both sides want to play, both sides want to make money. But neither side is looking forward to worst case scenario, what if a player, ump or manager gets sick and dies, or less serious what if there is an outbreak on one or two teams, what do they do. It is easy to say they can social distance in the field, but only a fraction of the team(and personnel) are in the field at one one, the rest are in the dugout and bullpen. Another question could the Twins actually follow the state and city rules to practice at Target field.

Congrats Mr. Cruz

Why go to a 6th man rotation? that means Berrios, Odo and Maeda would get 10 starts instead of 12, that is having "lesser" pitchers pitch in 10% of the games, If I am the twins I might pitch Odo every 4th start for 5 innings, he is a free agent and I would think he wouldn't mind trying to show case his skills in a FA year.

Agree on Thorpe he is 24, I don't consider him a prospect anymore. If this would have been a normal year this IMO would have been kind of a make or break season for him. Now he will be 25 at the start of next season. Including including Jeffers, I believe the other 3 are true prospects, they could be good to great or be nothing at all. Which is it bit different from the top 10 the last few years. Anyway thanks for the rankings they are always fun.