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levendis
It’ll be intersting if any team will give him a shot to GM next year. He deffinetly deserves a shot though, his resume speaks for himself. I truly respect the Twins organization as a whole. They dont have money to spend on superstars (that Mauer extension is going to haunt them) but they find guys that are good old fashion ball players. They’re fundamentally sound, and just know how to play the game right (give credit to Gardenheir for this too). Yeah it fell apart for them this year, but hopefully they come back next year, cant help but root for them.
knucka11
At the risk of sounding condescending, you need to watch this team more, they haven’t been fundamentally sound or “done the little things right” in about 3 years. This year it has just gone to a ridiculous extreme
mauerfan
Fire that crap known as Bill Smith and replace him w/ Radcliff. Please. I’ve been a good boy.
MSUcorner
Sounds like a good option to replace Bill Smith at the end if the season.
Guest 6656
couldn’t agree more
mypoorbuccos
While as a Twins fan I get as aggravated with Bill Smith as anyone, when I look at his body of work objectively, I feel more and more that he isn’t any worse than most GMs; and aside from the Capps/Ramos deal and the Hardy to Baltimore moves, I think he’s done fairly well, given his situation.
Granted he’s no AA, Ruben Amaro Jr., Niel Huntignton, or Andrew Friedman, but I think he gets a little too much blame sometimes.
2HarborsTwinsFan20
Adios Bill Smith! Our only hope is to get rid of that clown..
CommissionerBart
I’m consistently amazed that some think that even a distinguished career in scouting (and, as with Radcliff, deserving recognition as vp of player personnel) qualify someone to be a General Manager. While knowledge of player skills and potential are decidedly an essential part of baseball operations, there are additional other aspects to being a GM that are also essential. Negotiating skills, force of personality, leadership, broad intelligence, diplomatic abilities, and business acumen are among these. A good GM has significant elements of ALL these things not only in his background and actual experience but in his natural make up. And he supplements his own strengths and strengthens the areas he is slightly less expert in by hiring a top-notch cadre of execs reporting to hiim. But top tier negotiating skills, force of personality, leadership, broad intelligence, and diplomatic abilities must come natural to him as they can’t be taught or borrowed through staff. Assuming a GM has only a pretty good command of player personnel skills, business skills, and legal comprrehension, on the other hand, the GM can draw more deeply on those talents in his staff to complete the “GM package.”
I don’t know if Radcliff has all these elements or not. I am merely pointing out that even an exceptional background in scouting/player personnel does not a GM make in and of itself.
Other teams have learned this at great expense across the board and with equally poor results on both the financial ledger sheets and in the standings.
Ian
Since Radcliff ran the Twins scouting department and drafts, I think it’s fairly certain he understands how to delegate work and contract negotiations. IIRC, Terry Ryan was a scouting director before he became the Twins GM.