October 30: The Twins officially announced Shelton as their new manager this morning. The team will introduce Shelton at a press conference on November 4.
“Derek brings a tremendous amount of experience from his many years coaching and managing at the Major League level,” Derek Falvey, Twins president of baseball operations, said in a statement. “He cares deeply about this community and our fans, and he’s genuinely driven to take on the challenge of bringing winning baseball back to Minnesota.
“We’ve seen firsthand the trust and respect he earns from players and how he helps them reach their best,” Falvey’s statement reads. “His journey, through both the successes and the tough stretches, has given him real perspective as a leader. That balance and his connection to what this place means to people will serve our players and staff well as we work to build something lasting for our fans and for Minnesota.”
October 29: The Twins are hiring Derek Shelton as their new manager, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post. The team will not announce the hire tonight, as MLB discourages clubs from revealing personnel news on playoff game days. Dan Hayes of The Athletic reports that Shelton will be officially introduced sometime next week.
Shelton returns to the Twin Cities, where he previously spent two seasons as bench coach. He held that role between 2018-19, working one season apiece under Paul Molitor and Rocco Baldelli. His familiarity with the front office surely gave him a boost in the managerial search. Shelton was a finalist during the 2018 hiring process that led to Baldelli. While he didn’t get the job at that point, he only needed to wait one more year before he got a managerial opportunity. Shelton landed the top job with the Pirates going into 2020.
Pittsburgh was coming off a 69-93 season that had led ownership to fire manager Clint Hurdle and GM Neal Huntington. They brought in Ben Cherington to run the front office and Shelton to oversee a rebuilding roster. Pittsburgh went 19-41 in the shortened season, then posted consecutive 100-loss records in 2021-22.
Things appeared to be trending up by 2023. The Bucs improved to a 76-86 record. The next season, they hovered around .500 for a while and were very soft deadline buyers. Pittsburgh finished with a 21-33 performance in the final two months, leaving them 10 games under .500 for the second straight year.
The poor finish carried into the ’25 season. The Bucs began the year with a 12-26 record and were more or less locks for another last place showing when they fired Shelton in the second week of May. Pittsburgh played .500 ball under Don Kelly the rest of the way, so they’re sticking with a Cherington/Kelly tandem going into 2026.
Overall, Shelton holds a 306-440 career record. That’s heavily weighed down by the first three seasons in which no manager stood a chance of posting good results with such a poor roster. The Bucs stalled before they ever pulled out of the rebuild, however.
Pittsburgh especially struggled to develop young hitters. Highly-touted talents like Ke’Bryan Hayes, Henry Davis, Endy Rodríguez, Nick Gonzales and to a lesser extent Oneil Cruz did not click the way the organization needed. That’s not entirely the fault of any one coach or manager, of course, but Shelton came up as a hitting coordinator in Cleveland and spent parts of seven seasons as an MLB hitting coach with the Rays before getting the bench coach position in Minnesota.
Shelton’s experience working with a rebuilding roster should come in handy with the Twins. They’re amidst at least a retooling effort after trading Carlos Correa and essentially their entire bullpen at the deadline. The Pohlad family ownership group has pulled back spending since the Twins won 87 games and an AL Central title in 2023. They’re coming off a 70-92 showing that had them above only the White Sox in the American League. That resulted in them firing Baldelli after seven seasons. Any or all of Joe Ryan, Pablo López and Ryan Jeffers could be traded this offseason.
The Twins landed a couple upper level starting pitchers (Taj Bradley and Mick Abel) at the deadline, and they have some interesting young hitters to build around Byron Buxton. Maybe there’s a path back to competitiveness by 2027, but this is likely to be one of the worst teams in the AL next year. They need to overhaul the bullpen and have too many holes in the bottom half of the lineup to fix in an offseason that is likely to be more about which players they trade away than the ones they bring in.
Shelton was reportedly one of four finalists for the Minnesota job. Yankees hitting coach James Rowson (another former Twins staffer), Cubs bench coach Ryan Flaherty, and Padres special assistant Scott Servais were the others. There are now four teams still searching for a new skipper: the Padres, Braves, Rockies and Nationals.
Flaherty and Servais have each been floated as potential candidates for the San Diego position, which is expected to be filled by the end of the week. Rowson has only publicly been linked to the Twins position. Atlanta and Washington have played their searches close to the vest. (Baldelli is reportedly of interest to the Nats.) Colorado has yet to even get the process underway as they focus on hiring a new GM. It’s possible that any of the three other finalists gets a look from one of those teams.
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Poor guy.
Good luck with that loser. He cares more about whiskey and being a “yes” man than winning ball games. I really respect the Twins fanbase, but you guys could’ve done so much better.
Hence why he got hired. Seems like most teams now only want yes men in the dugout
Yes man and a Whiskey fan? Wait till you see the sell off this winter…..Yes man and whisky is the only way the Twins 2026 manager will make it through the season…
Sounds like from all the negative comments they would have been better off signing Blake Shelton.
They can’t afford Blake.
What about Gwen
Between the Nats hiring Blake Butera and the Twins hiring Derek Shelton, it feels like Blake Shelton is at least a bench coach by association.
TLR will be brought onboard as bench coach.
TLR must have heard about the whiskey
Exactly what I was going to say, the twins like Shelton because he was a proven yes man to Bob nutting, and Shelton is one of the managers of all time (for rebuilding)
I think manager interviews these days consist of two questions. 1) Will you follow orders from the front office? 2) If the front office tells you to do something you think is really, really stupid, will you still do it?
If the answer is yes to both you get hired.
I’d be yes man if it meant unlimited and copious whisky. Where do I sign up?
You know, I saw how he rewarded his players with a bottle of hooch. I told my wife that, to me that didn’t seem like a good idea, especially with young men who have to be their best on a daily basis. I do think that he promoted the alcohol too much. He gave Bednar a case a beer and Skenes a bottle of scotch. And I would bet my bottom dollar that Skenes is not a drinker.
Is this Shelton from the mountains? Adirondack? Sounds like a chip off the West Virginia / Rocky Top moonshine
He should be happy he’s getting another managerial job at all, much less this early.
Poor guy.
Poor fans.
Willing to bet the Pohlads are paying him a bottom 10 managerial salary too. He was probably one of two candidates who would take the lower salary offered for the position.
That’s it. We’re doomed.
Shelton was Nutting’s fall guy and now he’ll be the fall guy for the Pohlads.
So frustrating to be a Twins fan.
Who knows maybe the Pohlads will sell to a really good guy and Minnesota undergoes a reverse-padres transformation
But I feel like this is going to be a LOOONG rebuild like Oakland A’s or Washington nationals-long rebuild
Pittsburgh-Long.
Angel’s fans sympathize.
Saw plenty of Shelton when the Pirates faced the Cubs, and honestly he’s not a good manager. Should’ve stayed with Rocco…
Has a White Flag ever been flown at a Press Conference introducing a new manager before? I could see one flying here. I’m starting a ” Save Rocco” movement in Minnesota.
Why? Rocco isn’t any better they have the same profile
I doubt there was a huge line of candidates willing to relocate to Minnesota.
Putting the ha in minnehaha
Are you implying that two Dereks don’t make a right?
Might as well hire Derek Zoolander as the manager!
Just a warm body
That’s Sidney Sweeney
Yeah, I’ll go with Sidney to stay warm…
After that fire sale Shelton should feel like he’s still with the Buccos
He wanted to be Uncle Sheltie to his players here in Pittsburgh and the results spoke for themselves. Lack of hustle. Apathetic about continually losing. No regard for refining the fundamentals in all aspects of the game.
Don’t get me wrong, you can’t get blood from a stone and this franchise IS that stone. But you’d have thought perhaps pushing ideas like intensity, passion and professionalism might have been paramount on his to-do list. Nope
Good luck, Twins fans. Seems to be a nice enough guy, at least
I hate this for him. His career will be 2 jobs managing rebuilding teams
There are a few more teams that can use a guy used to losing. This won’t be his last team.
@Another: Rockies on line 1……………
Shelton isn’t exactly the disciplinarian either. He will overlook the obvious field mishaps created by players who are incapable of doing the right thing and they will get away from them
Like eating sunflower seeds and ignoring the plays on the field
Or a player who’s cellphone falls out of his pocket while attempting to get a ground ball
Nothing wrong will cell phones falling out of back pockets during a game
Or having a handful of sunflower seeds as you play 3rd base and ball has just been hit into right- center field gap. Or how about this memorable favorite: playing catcher and lobbing the ball back to the pitcher with a runner on base, allowing the runner to steal. That happened 2 or 3 times
The memories. It’s all about the memories.
Yea I was joking. Shelton wasn’t good in any way. Never held anyone accountable. The past few 5 to 6 years was a circus
you need to stay connected
Don’t forget the 1st baseman chasing the batter back home instead of merely stepping on first!…allowing a run to score & oh yes, the batter ended up on second base! A manager paying attention would’ve yelled “Step on first!”, but no. Just stood there scratching his beard. (Get used to seeing a lot of THAT!).
Or the time Rowdy Tellez stood at home plate admiring what he thought was home run then barely made it to 2nd base for a double
Shelton never disciplined his players and they rewarded him by stinking up the games
Let’s not forget that he changed daily lineups like most people change their underwear
You know, that was horrible, of course. Why did he never learn fundamentals in Little League? But that play ended that kid’s career
So Sheldon was playing catcher? Wow
I like the Twins and its really a shame to see them hire someone as incapable as Shelton.
There’s almost no chance he’s around for the next good Twins team so it doesn’t matter that much, but how can you possibly think he’s the guy
When the contract details come out, that may give us a hint as to why they thought he was their guy. I imagine the interview process was like an auction, in reverse.
“Who wants to manage the Twins for 100k? Do I hear 100k?”
Well, he certainly has experience managing teams with penny-pinching owners.
Good luck, Derek Shelton!
Another slappy gets hired.
Well that’s a shock.
Braves stand as the only team left that I could realistically see going with Bud Black.
Bud might be a little too old and he just went through 6 losing seasons of Rockies baseball
Anthopolous plays it quiet, but I haven’t seen Black connected to Atlanta.
I haven’t seen him connected either but the Rockies and Padres both fired him so they wouldn’t want him back nor do I think he wants to go back.
Why would Atlanta want him, though? I’m struggling to see it. I know, personally, I don’t. That’d be such an awful hire, based solely on name. If we’re doing that, I’d sooner have Jack Black, as that’d at least be something entertaining. Lol
Calm down. All I said was the Braves are the only team left that I could see hiring him. Because we already know the Padres and Rockies won’t, lmfao.
If the Braves were going to go with Black or another “older” manager they should probably just go with Walt Weiss
@Fernando: Black? No way. The Braves have a very analytically savvy FO. They won’t have any interest in hiring the ex manager of an organization that can’t even spell analytics.
I assume this decision was based on who would take the job the cheapest
I’m surprised Shelton was cheaper than Scott servais
Servais has a playoff appearance on his resume, probably marked up the price a little bit
Going back to his MIN roots. Let’s see if it’s a good fit for both sides
I’m so sorry, Twins fans.
We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert.
(Hey, he’s a Twins fan)
This is a joke, right??
He probably sold them on everything being the GM’s fault in PGH (a VALID argument, but…)
Twins fans, prepare yourselves for a lot of beard scratching, apathy toward defending his players & LOTS of bonehead in-game decisions! The road to 500 career losses is a certainty now.
Really going from bad to worse.
This is diseased for everyone involved.
Just move the franchise to Nashville already.
No.
Sell the team.
They can’t. Not until 2035 and even if they did the Twins franchise name and world series trophies stay in Minnesota. That was the deal they had to sign onto to get Target Field built.
Sorry, Twins fans. Look forward to undisciplined play with plenty of little league mistakes, incomprehensible lineup formation and bullpen use, and lack of concern as the losses pile up. I’m really shocked another team would hire him as manager – figured he would end up as someone’s assistant hitting coach or maybe A ball manager. Good luck!
Shelton’s managerial record: 306 W – 440 L (.410 winning percentage)
Baldelli: 527 W – 505 L (.511)
Now subtract both teams’ WARs during that time from both of those win totals.
Good luck with that.
So coaches a cheap team to a terrible record and now another cheap team thinks it will now be different? What’s the definition of insanity again?
Small market managers never leave the small market
No, i think the Twins know exactly what they are getting and it’s what they are expecting. Shelton is there to shepherd the team through the beginning fazes of a rebuild and will be replaced when the team is ready to contend again
He’s a yes man that proved he will put up with whatever comes his way. That’s exactly what they want.
Yikes, oh dear
Most of us saw this move being made the day after Baldelli got bounced.
Why the delay and the suspense??
Amazing how far you can go when you look the part.
Nice enough guy, but absolutely clueless.
lol why
Maybe a change of scenery is due for Shelton.
We Tiger fans say, “Thank you!”
Look at the bright side Twins fans, he’s never lost a game in the postseason as a big league manager.
🙂
That’s just savage lol
He was terrible in Pittsburgh. Horrible game manager and he just doesn’t know what to do with a bullpen. You won’t enjoy this. Sorry.
That’s all good. The Twins traded their bullpen so he won’t have to worry about doing anything with it.
I would think that Scott Service would be a better candidate.
Well can’t say I’m shocked. He was the bench couch for the 101-win 2019 Twins. Anything is possible. BUT what the FO and ownership have in mind will determine whether he gets a legitimate shot or just the caretaker for a tanking club. Best of luck and congrats Ben. I expect the worst from the FO and ownership….
Free Byron buxton now he doesn’t deserve to go through the Mike trout treatment
I would try to trade him even if he’s insane enough to want to stay
Byron Buxton made it out for a full MLB season this year. This guy hasn’t been on the field long enough to need to be freed.
2 seasons playing more than 110 games in a 9 year MLB career is insanity.
He has a full no trade clause for at least three more seasons, plus he doesn’t want to leave Minnesota.
Consider 2026 a lame duck season before the inevitable lockout that will lead to MLB changing its economic landscape. But thanks everyone for your echo chamber.
It’s amusing how some fans are very very insistent on a lockout. Like they’d rather focus on that than baseball.
Some of us are done watching all our good players leave/traded and being happy to maybe compete for a playoff spot for a few years every 15 years while a handful of teams horde the proven players and waltz into the playoffs as if they’re supposed to be there every year
Hey, the Dodgers just donated Conforto and Yates to the free agent pool.
They’re givers.
bingo. And this time around it’s not gonna be pretty as the collective bargaining agreement will be over. My understanding is that the other franchises are going to make a last stand in 2027. It’s salary cap or no deal, players be damned and honestly i don’t blame the owners (besides the few big spenders). They are in this mess to begin with because of the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, and a few others consistently outspending the mid to low teams by 5:1. That can’t continue if baseball wants to ever expand again.
Bottom feeding teams hurt the game more than the big spenders. Non competitive franchises make things lopsided.
And baseball will definitely continue to expand. The ratings this postseason are going through the roof. Two international teams playing in the world series? Toronto and the Dodgers both have many international players and fans. And Toronto is going to see a huge boost in it’s fan base after this world series performance, regardless of the outcome.
That benefits every MLB team in every way, including financially. It raises all franchise values, which in the end is the most important thing to many of them.
Was Tire World not hiring…
He probably took payment in local grocery store coupons.
Damn really wanted Punto!
Who cares. We losing every reason why we’ve been successful over the past 6yrs. Sell the damn team so new owners who actually give two sits will spend money to make money. Its a simple principle, spend money to make money.
The mets spent and where did they go ? They went home to their second job !
I was hoping Servais was gonna be manager.
Servais couldn’t get the job done in Seattle, but he may be better with a rebuilding team.
Spend money smart not Carolos Correa smart and get nothing in return.
His record, considering the Pirates teams he had, wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been.
LOL
Oh. You’re serious
Yes, his 2 100 loss seasons could have been worse
They could’ve. Those teams were pretty damn bad. Not advocating that he was good, just stipulating that perhaps he’s not as bad as advertised. Apparently he’s good enough to get hired yet again.
Considering that the team’s record improved the minute he was fired I’d say you might be wrong about that.
Inasmuch as he should have been fired two years before he was,and his bench coach did a much better job than he did,it shows that he did a fairly bad job.
Hopefully he learned some things in Pittsburgh,although his annual mantra of we just have to do better really never came to fruition.
And still no David Ross headlines. So weird.
“If he’s not good enough for Pittsburgh he’s good enough for us”
Good luck Minnesota. You just hired the biggest MORON to ever roam a dugout and call himself a manager.
Feels like more of the same.
Everyone has done a good job remembering how bad a manager he was in Pittsburgh. My pet peeve was him giving a day off to a hitter that was hot when you had very little offense. A 20 something player does not need a scheduled day off when he is playing well. Even Cutch who was his DH had made comments that he didn’t like not being in the lineup and he was one of the few decent hitters we had.
Cal Ripkin would never had broken the record if this guy was his manager.
No one mentioned the infamous john van meter and his sub .200 average and terrible defense that Shelton ran out there often to our dismay back in 2022
has the league run out of ex-A’s catchers to hire ?
Surprised Terry Steinbach never got to manage
In Ted Lasso, the show begins with an owner hiring a coach simply to tank the team. But they end up becoming close and assembling a winning team. Better hope Shelton makes good biscuits.
A+ Kept pirates young players from giving up during 100 loss seasons. Terrible game manager so will help lock up good draft lottery odds.
Just the most uninspiring option.
The Twins are already facing tough times, and now this? I feel awful for their fans.
The greatest player all time was Willie mays. Why? Turns out that babe Ruth is the Santa Claus of baseball. A made up story. I never did like Ruth.
I used to think ohtani was Ruth., I know trout was mantle. I know Lou Gehrig came back, (“the boy who knew to much” book.) I think Roger maris came back as Reid detmers. . Watch Reid win a cy young.
Say no to drugs
Im glad you said it before I did lol
Guy seems like a troll
Seems dumb
The recently fired Reds manager would’ve been a better choice. I hear this guy is all about looking the part, attention, and totally clueless. Not sure how he got this job, but should fit right in if that’s all it takes given where the organization is at. Eric Wedge who hasn’t managed in years would’ve at least given them a better chance. Shelton, who inspired at first, then figured him out. Yeah the team sucked. Act all mystique and yellowstone. I guess it’s for the rebuild. But the guy is obsessed with himself is what I’ve heard. Says he’s not the best, but were gonna try, then says he loves them. Then act all cool. I guess that was what it was all about for him. The interviews. Until it kinda got detached from reality. Then does the whole cool thing. That it was obnoxious. That’s what I’ve heard. Shouldn’t be that far from Baldelli. Who was toxic. Basically wouldn’t let stuff go. Was difficult. Only difference is this guy’s toxic, but but can sell it better. Both tough guys. But this guy’s nicer. I think Rocco’s was more genuine. More upset. This guy, no, you’ll just get oh kind of self depricating, act tough then sound soft, I love these guys, we arent the best. But were gonna try…. every day… gets old. With the strutting. Good luck!
He loves to make everything about himself. Shelton. Sadly. Not a great choice for the twins. He cultivated this sort of personality, that really turned people off. Can’t get enough of himself. And his self deprecating ways.
The conspiracy theories in baseball are starting to be as bad as the political ones…
Trust him guys. Bad theories you have as opinions. Must be conspiracies. Don’t be transparent just keep it simple. You heard him. No need to be absurd. Just have a smart opinion.
Oh good, he won’t be hosting on MLB Network Radio any more.
He’s the smartest guy in the room and he will tell you that. He’d make a great used car salesman.
Tin hat going on- they had to hire someone willing to accept a 1-year deal because Twins plan to support lockout in 2027.
Angels just did this I think for the same reason.
Could be wildly wrong, but that’s my initial thought.
Everyone thinks there will be a lockout over a salary cap but i have to believe even the owners realize a salary cap will never work in Baseball. In the NBA you have a salary cap and most teams have one absurdly high paid player ($40-50+ million), one middle paid ($20+ million), and the rest of the players on the team making $5 million or less. In the NFL you usually have a high paid QB taking up 50-70% of the team’s payroll and spread out the rest (why draft picks are so important in the NFL).
Baseball can’t operate under those systems because too many players already command average salaries in $15-25 million range. What MLB needs is a salary floor to force the cheap owners to spend, rather than pocket the revenue sharing money and cry poor
I think owners are more concerned about costs than competition, unfortunately. Our pastime is their business.
Oh come on, don’t give me that nonsense. Same ol’, same ol’ big market propaganda. Berating teams “pocketing revenue” as if the small markets are awash in cash somehow. I don’t care if small market owners DO pocket revenue sharing, big freaking deal, you think the big markets don’t “pocket” far in excess of the pittance small markets get in “revenue sharing”? If you don’t, then you’re every bit the fool big markets hope that you are. It’s pure shut-up money.
The problem isn’t the lack of a salary cap OR salary floor, it’s the disinterest among owners to genuinely share ALL revenue. It’s a league, after all, but a league evidently disinterested in competitive balance, unless it comes out of the players’ pockets. Players have no incentive for participating unless the owners get THEIR house in order, and that doesn’t mean penalizing the “poor” wealthy (small markets) through a salary floor while the big markets continue to spend, spend, spend AND make more money than the small markets can only dream of. Only those who subscribe to the absurd notion that the penny ante welfare cheats are a bigger problem than white collar fraudsters believe that nonsense.
Truly not trying to be a troll.
But that was comical.
Of course you think it’s comical, you’re a self-righteous, self-entitled fan of a team that has every advantage, why wouldn’t you think you have a god-given right to greatness? That’s how all wealthy people think. Shame you can’t will yourself to championships, eh?
Still, the Dodgers are the greatest nightmare to all small markets because they are generally operated smartly AND they can sweep any costly mistake under the rug in a way small markets can never do. It’s a dangerous combination. Fortunately, most well-heeled people get lazy and sloppy when they’re not forced to tend to the details the way those without the wherewithal are forced to do. I’m hoping the Dodgers overreact to their failure to overwhelm the league again this year by doing some stupid things, although I’m not holding my breath. We small market fans depend on big markets doing dumb things with their largess, but so far the Dodgers don’t seem to be so inclined. Maybe losing to the middling Jays will change that. Meanwhile, thanks for the few coins you toss in our cap, sir! We’ll try and sign a middle relief pitcher who can help us!
When the smallest market team, Milwaukee, can consistently make the playoffs, it shows being smart helps your team when you can’t outspend other teams.
I get that the Dodgers spend a lot, and they are smart, generally, with their acquisitions. But they develop high caliber players as well. I admire any team from any market that works hard at being competitive.
But when you have the Pirates of the world slow playing any possibility of success and paying one player for fan service? And it’s not like they are the only team doing it.
If spending equalled success, the Angels would have been in playoffs when they had Trout and Ohtani in their prime playing together. And yet Mike trout has 2 playoff games.
Can the the situation be adjusted to level things out? Yes.
They have a competitive balance threshold with tiers at the top. Create a bottom for those teams receiving shared revenue. Reduce the about received according to their payroll.
Also change revenue sharing money. Currently it can go towards anything baseball related, which means nothing to a good accountant. How about making it go towards the 40 man roster instead?
These are billionaires. They won’t change what they do unless you hit them in the wallet. You don’t need caps and floors. You need incentives that hurt when you don’t try.
@another Dodgers Fan
Ah, I see, t’s all a matter of incentives and disincentives, speaking like the lord of the manor tut-tutting the spending habits of the hired help.
Please, as loathsome as the Pirates owner may be (and aren’t all the wealthy unctuous?) their main problem is incompetence, and that’s their business. Making them spend more isn’t going to improve THAT.
You completely mis-diagnose the circumstances with your incentives-disincentives claptrap. You act like the Dodgers are “noble” somehow because they develop well along with being able to buy everything they want. Well, la-di-da, aren’t they to be congratulated!
The truth is, the fixed cost to create an organization that develops well is the same across ALL markets; so when astute small markets manage to put a culture and personnel together to match the Dodgers, guess what, it’s damn expensive to do that, and then KEEP their people year after year from being poached by the deep pockets in New York, Chicago, Boston, and LA.
And after smaller markets commit to the difficult and costly job of creating and excellent organization that is somewhat capable of competing with the large markets, there’s not much left over past those fixed costs for much discretionary spending on things like, well, major league payroll that you guys don’t think twice about. While we have to buy groceries; you get nights on the town. AND fund your retirement account as well. So, yeah, when you insist we’re not spending our money well, it’s kind of insulting.
Don’t act like all baseball owners are equal except in one way: they operate their teams like businesses. Small markets operate their accounting no differently than big markets do, and if you actually believe their creative accounting is more elaborate than the big markets is, then you’re willfully ignorant.
Expecting small market owners to actually spend a greater % of their revenue on baseball operations than the big markets do is not only unrealistic, it’s an extraordinarily poor read on human behavior, especially the wealthy. Why should the solid small market operators in Cleveland or Milwaukee and the lousy owners in Pittsburgh and Miami be forced to spend money on baseball operations at higher rates that the incompetent Angels or competent Dodgers do? It makes zero sense and isn’t going to happen.
If you have a league, all revenues should be pooled, period. If you dispute that model, then you have no standing to enforce disincentives on those who have less than you do. Big markets will ALWAYS have advantages in attracting players that small markets will never possess and we get that; what’s insulting is being told this isn’t true by the good-looking rich kids with their BMW’s and MBAs who tell us we just have to work harder and invest money we don’t have more wisely. Riiiiiight.
So basically you want the larger market teams and players to limit themselves because crappy owners can’t handle their business? Yeah ok.
The Dodgers for all intent and purposes are the Rays with more spending. That doesn’t stop the Rays from being a successful franchise that makes the playoffs consistently.
OMG. Just another clueless fan of a big market team who doesn’t get it (and really doesn’t care to). No different than the rich kid who doesn’t understand why all kids don’t have what he has.
I get it. I just don’t see it the way you do.
Naturally. Those who have it all the advantages rarely do.
*have all the advantages
It appears that neither of us have the advantage over autocorrect.
The Twins gain is sports media’s loss. Shelton has been terrific doing shows on MLB Network Radio — especially when working with Steve Phillips.
Doing terrific shows on mlb network doesn’t make a MORON a good manager!
Shelton is a solid hitting coach, but he’s overmatched as manager. He has no idea how to handle a pitching staff.
If he was a solid hitting coach why did the Pirates finish at the bottom of the ML’s in hitting?
He stunk as a manager and he got this job because the Twins are rebuilding and will be selling their best players this year.
He also got it because they knew him and he came cheap.
Just bought Clint Hurdle’s book, Mendoza. Full of his witticisms and lessons learned. Not a difficult read. Highly recommend
Thanks young man.
And I am glad that you can now keep your identity so Paul does not have to wonder who you are!
I’m surprised.
Suddenly things don’t seem as grim for the White Socks
Sheltie is a great guy and a very good manager. I just hope they give him more to work with than they did in Pittsburgh…
VERY GOOD MANAGER lol you must of been out of the country while he mismanaged the pirates.
Good luck. Derek.
I give him a pass for the first 2-3 years in Pittsburgh as the farm system was being remade.
After that, he brought nothing to the able. His specialty is supposed to be hitting and the Pirates were on the worst offensive squads in baseball during his 6 years.
I would much rather have Rocco!
I’m really sorry. The reality is nobody good wants to deal with their directionless ownership.
Derek is Rocco 2.0
The cheap option. Another loser to oversee a losing franchise. What a joke.
This might be the worst hire I’ve ever seen
What trust and respect did he earn from his players? Because Pittsburgh gave up on him to the point of they should have fired him at the end of last year. The fact that the Pirates who know they are bad couldn’t stomach his crap anymore speaks volumes. My prayers are with the Twins you guys don’t deserve this.
Depends on their goal. If they are angling to be in the lottery for #1 pick, then Shelton is a good hire.
Brewers went 10-3 vs Pirates this year, so we’ll miss Shelton. At least Nutting is still the owner.
Solid hire. A true baseball man and a leader in the community
That is good news for the rest of the Central.
Good luck with that. As bad as the pirates team has been, Shelton mis-managed them so hard its amazing they got 60 wins.
This was the only name on the list of candidates I was actively cheering against. I knew it would be him, it was the most Twin thing to do. Fire everyone including the owners.