Offseason baseball Thread

They should give him three years. Maybe hard feelings about the lack of confidence at the trade deadline?

How San Diego Summit propelled reeling Twins to postseason

 

Richard Justice was on Korneiser last week and said it's 50-50 whether Molitor wants to be back.

 

I just assumed he was going to go to Philly to work with Ryan and MacPhail.

 

That article is almost a parody of itself.

Inspiring song lyrics! Team meeting! Key pieces traded away!

The Twins got good because their young players blossomed and they had an equally fungible reliever to replace the one they traded.

The Royals and Angels and Orioles probably had the same types of team meetings and attitudes. They just didn't have the talented, energetic, emerging young players to put them over the top. Maybe their managers need an iPod.

 

Ned Yost was too busy looking at the photos from better times on his iPad.

As Royals prepare to say goodbye this week, Ned Yost reflects

 

First, Elliotte asked why might Paul Molitor leave, and this story helped underscore the tension between the clubhouse and the front office far better than anything the Tribune, the competing newspaper, has written on the topic.

Second, young players had emerged before the mid-season slump that caused ownership to bail on this season. That Berardino used the lyrics from the song Molitor wrote about on the clubhouse white board only suggest to me that Berardino asked a lot of questions.

 

Hey, he wrote what they told him. Nothing wrong with the article. It's just that what they told him was nonsense. But I believe they believe the team meeting is why they won. Good thing Molitor had that Springsteen song on his iPod.

 

It wasn't nonsense at all and nobody said it is why they won. The players on the team consider it the turning point in their season. It was.

 

The Red Sox are 12 innings away from joining this thread, perhaps in more ways than one.

 

They should hold a team meeting.

 

New York Mets will buy Syracuse Chiefs, bring its Triple-A team to Syracuse