Gardy

Ron Gardenhire was fired today.  The former Minnesota Twins head coach and his entire staff were let go.  Here is my problem with firing Gardy; if you fire your head coach because they failed to deliver when it came to the success of the team, then your argument is that someone could have taken the same roster of players and done better than Gardenhire.  No one, alive or dead, could have taken the dead weight which was the roster for the Twins this season and gotten the team to .500, let alone had a winning program.  There is no way.

If you agree with me, then firing Gardy is the ownership, which insisted the new stadium built in part with tax payer dollars would make them more competitive, taking the easy out and not admitting they are responsible for the talent level on the field.

Here is the article I just had published on MinnPost today:

http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2014/09/requiem-twins

One addition to my argument the Twins front office is obsessed with Mauer; the National League batting champion is Justin Morneau, the former first baseman for the Twins.  Part of the reason he's no longer with the team is because they needed to put Mauer, an oft injured catcher who is making $23 million a year, somewhere.  They decided first base.  Without thinking about the talent loss the team would suffer by not trying to keep Justin, they insisted it was best to jettison Morneau, for the non-power hitting, barely major league quality first baseman, Mauer.

If Morneau was still on this team, they would have had 10 more wins this year and Gardy wouldn't have been fired.  Still think the front office's Mauer obsession is nothing to worry about?