Twins fire much of coaching staff

[FDWxMan]

Ullger and Liddle supposedly had managerial potential, and Vavra was doing fine.

I have never heard this at all....Ullger was terrible as I remember during his stint as batting coach, and was an absolute dumpster fire as 3rd base coach (though the Twins have been incompetent at holding/sending runners from third as long as I can remember).

Maybe he was just a managerial option under the Gardy Scholarship Program.

Vavra, I don't have too much of a gripe with, though I am intrigued with some of the stuff said about Brunansky re: the improvement this year from Revere and Parmelee.

Morneau made some good points sticking up for Vavra in the Pioneer Press today as well.

[FDWxMan]

Totally agree. About the only rational explanation I can come up with is that this is a warning shot to Gardy...a way for the front office to say "shape up, or you're next".

I think that's exactly what it is.

I like the new sense of aggressiveness from the new Pohlads and rejuvenated Ryan...but there needs to be some philosophy chances when it comes to what kind of pitchers need to be drafted/traded for, and a different philosophical approach to what type of player should be in the middle infield.

[DistrictCyclone]

I have never heard this at all....Ullger was terrible as I remember during his stint as batting coach, and was an absolute dumpster fire as 3rd base coach (though the Twins have been incompetent at holding/sending runners from third as long as I can remember).

Maybe he was just a managerial option under the Gardy Scholarship Program.

That could be exactly it. Now that I think about it, most of this talk was before he got demoted to bench coach. It just seemed like he was always the one filling in for Gardy anytime he missed some games, and Dick and Bert were usually the ones talking him up.

It's pretty astonishing how many of these guys have been with the Twins organization for almost my entire lifetime; seems like a real good ole' boys club at times.