All Things 2025-26 Minnesota Twins Off-Season Thread

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This is about as uninspiring as possible. I have nothing against Shelton, but what must the Twins be thinking making this hire? He's got pretty much the same profile as Baldelli, which doesn't address the team's shortcomings under Baldelli. Usually when a team fires and hires someone, they go with someone who's distinctly different. They just hired Rocco 2.0.
 

TruthSeeker said:
I wanted to pan this hire, but I can't. No one should, either.

Shelton was set up to fail every year by the Pirates. He'll know how to manage the Twins because they're rowing in the same boat as the Pirates.

There isn't a managerial candidate out there who will be able to succeed at a high level with the constraints that will be put on the roster.

In other words, who cares. It won't matter at all until his boss and boss' boss get a clue.
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If it's a massive uphill climb anyway, why not hire someone unproven to give them a shot. Rowson or Vazquez probably fail, but at least they'd provide a little bit of intrigue, at least early on. From a PR standpoint, this organization continues to do absolutely everything it can to keep all of the fans they've driven away moving further and further from the club, not closer.
 

This is about as inspiring as firing Richard Pitino to hire Ben Johnson. At least Shelton has manager experience I guess.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
This is about as inspiring as firing Richard Pitino to hire Ben Johnson. At least Shelton has manager experience I guess.
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I would have rather they just went with someone that had no previous connections to the organization, regardless if they had previous manager experience or not.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I would have rather they just went with someone that had no previous connections to the organization, regardless if they had previous manager experience or not.
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Yeah, but it's not about that. It's about having a guy who's not going to argue when Falvey says on game day, "Look, I just found out that Mickey Gasper is batting .329 during day games when I've had Quisp cereal for breakfast, and I had a big bowl of Quisp this morning, bat him leadoff."
 



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