Some candidates are starting to come off the market. Guessing the Twins should make a move soon here.
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But are good candidates coming off the market?
This is going to be hard to get used to. Maybe not for the current players, but for the alumni.
South Dakota is going to have a class of six-man football next year. One of my schools, Sully Buttes, will qualify, but it sounds like they're going to continue to play nine-man for the time being.
According to Darren Wolfson, Baldelli’s in Minneapolis to interview again today. He suggests the Twins could hire Baldelli & keep Derek Shelton as bench coach. If Meulens is out of the mix, this (or Shelton as manager, Baldelli as bench coach) would probably be my ideal arrangement. Hiring guys away from the Rays seems like a pretty good personnel strategy to me.
If I'm Baldelli, I wouldn't be too keen on having the guy that was runner-up for my job to be my bench coach. That would be too easy for management to change their mind and go with the other guy. Plus, I would want to choose my own coaches.
Baldelli has interviewed with the Rangers and Jays as well as the Angels and Reds before they announced hiring Ausmus and Bell. So if the Twins want Baldelli, they probably need to move pretty quick.
So he already got rejected twice? Hmm.
After about as easy a delivery as could be possibly expected, my wife had the baby last night (it’s not ours). All is well for her, the baby, and the baby’s mom. I think we’ll be heading soon in the next hour or so, and baby will head to his home tonight. Exciting times for all involved.
Congrats!
Congratulations?!?
On a serious note though, I’ve been thinking a lot about you guys. Good on you for being good folks. I’m happy that everyone is doing well.
If it happened that fast, I'm thinking that either the Twins or EE said no.
Could he have said no? I thought players weren't free agents until after the World Series ended and this was the exclusive window.
Let me rephrase: The fact that he re-upped so quickly is interesting. Based on all the love talk, I would guess that he'd wait to hear what the Twins had to offer. Whether or not it's "legal", seems like one of these parties would have let the other know it wasn't going to happen.
I'd hope that he come back, to, as he had become a favorite over the last couple of years.
He's getting paid, though. Good on him.
Well then. Dr. Chop is eyeing a job in Tucson... so maybe I’ll be seeing him in the desert.
You would think a city would do better at advertising its wildlife control contact number. You would think.
But are good candidates coming off the market?
This is going to be hard to get used to. Maybe not for the current players, but for the alumni.
South Dakota is going to have a class of six-man football next year. One of my schools, Sully Buttes, will qualify, but it sounds like they're going to continue to play nine-man for the time being.
Updated prediction sheet.
Well, at least I won't fall any farther back.
You're welcome.
According to Darren Wolfson, Baldelli’s in Minneapolis to interview again today. He suggests the Twins could hire Baldelli & keep Derek Shelton as bench coach. If Meulens is out of the mix, this (or Shelton as manager, Baldelli as bench coach) would probably be my ideal arrangement. Hiring guys away from the Rays seems like a pretty good personnel strategy to me.
If I'm Baldelli, I wouldn't be too keen on having the guy that was runner-up for my job to be my bench coach. That would be too easy for management to change their mind and go with the other guy. Plus, I would want to choose my own coaches.
Baldelli has interviewed with the Rangers and Jays as well as the Angels and Reds before they announced hiring Ausmus and Bell. So if the Twins want Baldelli, they probably need to move pretty quick.
So he already got rejected twice? Hmm.
After about as easy a delivery as could be possibly expected, my wife had the baby last night (it’s not ours). All is well for her, the baby, and the baby’s mom. I think we’ll be heading soon in the next hour or so, and baby will head to his home tonight. Exciting times for all involved.
Congrats!
Congratulations?!?
On a serious note though, I’ve been thinking a lot about you guys. Good on you for being good folks. I’m happy that everyone is doing well.
Eduardo Escobar won’t be coming back; he signed a pre-free agency three year deal with the D-backs. Given his versatility & the Twins’ holes at third & second, I’d hoped he might return.
If it happened that fast, I'm thinking that either the Twins or EE said no.
Could he have said no? I thought players weren't free agents until after the World Series ended and this was the exclusive window.
Let me rephrase: The fact that he re-upped so quickly is interesting. Based on all the love talk, I would guess that he'd wait to hear what the Twins had to offer. Whether or not it's "legal", seems like one of these parties would have let the other know it wasn't going to happen.
I'd hope that he come back, to, as he had become a favorite over the last couple of years.
He's getting paid, though. Good on him.
Well then. Dr. Chop is eyeing a job in Tucson... so maybe I’ll be seeing him in the desert.
You would think a city would do better at advertising its wildlife control contact number. You would think.