Davey on new coaches...
Known guys for a while. Cairo mentoredby larussa.parra d and running. Gutierrez for IF d. Mostly emphasizes knows them. Glad for a few more years.likes direction. 24-27 time frame.
Gallo likes Nats style of play. Mentor.
He actually put Gallo and Mentor in the same sentence? Again:
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-twins-joey-gallo-striking-out-strikeouts-home-runs/600285250/“"I'm going to strike out a lot," said Gallo, who saw his batting average drop to .182 on Sunday. "That's how it is with me unfortunately.”
It’s one thing to say he’s going to do his thing and hopefully contribute, but to have come up goose eggs on the starter front and quite possibly come up with a negative on the free agent signing front and then try to portray him as a “mentor”?
This set up deserves the same level of “patience“ as the wizards do. This team has shown what it is, complete with the player development shortfalls. Someone elsewhere raised the possibility that there’s not even going to be a sale attempted until the estate tax return would be accepted, which might be another three years.
In the meantime, all of these issues could be met with honesty that shows some level of respect to the fan base that issues — some of the team’s making, some of that just happened the way things fell — are going to mean a priority on development and fan experience that isn’t going to equate to big signings. However, actual strategic sightings of players, even of the Candelerio variety would at least put something other than a patchwork mess that impedes development on the field.
Instead, here’s this letting the market come to us line dragged out of mothballs in late January. Say you have a hard spending limit, even if you don’t want to define exactly why and will leave it to other people to figure that out. If you don’t have permission to say that, where the fans the “mentor” part of it, walk into the ownership committee and shame them into promotions and fan engagement that at least rise to a major league level. You can’t tell me that not having a fan fest or caravan-type thing is a nonstarter until the estate is settled.
