The Twins took the field manager job away from Paul Molitor, but hope to bump him upstairs:
The Twins fired manager Paul Molitor, who will be offered a position in the team’s baseball operations department.
“It was a complex decision,” said Derek Falvey, the Twins’ chief baseball officer. “It’s in the best interest of the club right now.”
Falvey said he and General Manager Thad Levine would begin the search for a new manager both externally and internally, and process that could take “multiple weeks.” Levine said they don’t have a specific person in mind, but do have “specific qualities” in mind.
The Twins should have been developing into a good long-term team, but took a big step back this year. Another article examines why he was fired:
Falvey and Levine insisted the decision wasn’t about wins and losses this season, though it’s hard to imagine Tuesday playing out the way it did had the season played out with 10 more wins.
To that end, Molitor might be culpable of not squeezing the maximum out of his teams. He finished 22 games under .500 in one-run games as Twins manager, including 15-21 this year; Ron Gardenhire’s Twins teams, by contrast, were a combined 30 games over .500 in one-run games in his 13 seasons.
We’ll see if Molitor sticks around.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2xVF7h7
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