You can bet your bippy that we should be. There are just five days left in the 2018 season for the Minnesota Twins and they will play them all at home against the Tigers and the White Sox. The 72-84 Twins would have to lose all their remaining games to have a 90 loss season so that is unlikely to happen, it is just as unlikely that they will win all six and finish 78-84. Either way the season has been anywhere between disappointing and disastrous. I love to watch the Twins play ball but I am ready for this season to end and see what the Twins front office can do to make this team better.
The first order of business on Monday morning should be to announce that Manager Paul Molitor has decided to retire. I can’t see how Derek Falvey and Thad Levine have any choice but to dump Paul Molitor after resigning him to a new deal after last season. You can’t blame them for re-signing Molitor last season because they really had no choice with the love that owner Jim Pohlad has shown for Molitor and the fact that the Twins won 85 games in 2017 after winning just 59 games the year before.
Derek Falvey would be foolish if in his first opportunity to run an organization he kept a manager from the previous regime and didn’t put his own man in that job. Falvey and Levine came into an organization that had no place to go but up and so far they have managed to do nothing but keep it downtrodden. A second place finish in your division when the team is under .500 means nothing.
Paul Molitor has been nothing but a puppet under Falvey, how many coaches did Molitor bring in, probably zippo. Since Falvey and Levine were forced to keep Molitor as manager when they came in they figured that they better fill the coaching staff with their types of coaches. How has that worked out for you?
Molitor has to go and Falvey has to finally show that he is really in charge of this organization. If not, Falvey and Levine should be updating their resumes next year. It is all about winning, if you don’t win you failed, simple as that.
Today Twins fans are tired of being losers, they don’t want to accept the fact that they should be lucky to have a MLB team and accept whatever crumbs are thrown in their direction. Twins ownership can’t have it both ways, they can’t have fans that are passionate about their team and yet tell fans that it is all about what is coming in the future. Passionate Twins fans want a winner now and it is the Twins organizations responsibility to put a winning staff and team on the field.
Maybe I am getting old and cranky but I have followed and watched this team since they moved here in 1961 and the Twins have rewarded me with sub .500 baseball. When exactly is the future going to arrive?
Yes, please.
I have the greatest respect for Molly as a person and a ballplayer. He is deservedly a HoF’er.
But– he was not the mgr the Twins needed then, and is certainly not the right guy now.
Ozzie!!!! Come on back, all is forgiven!
Agree 100%! We have had enough of his mismanagement of starting pitchers, relievers, pinch hitters, pinch runners, injured players, etc etc etc.