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- Updated: July 19, 2016
DETROIT — Paul Molitor, who has been told by Twins owner and CEO Jim Pohlad that he will remain the team’s manager into the 2017 campaign, said it can be difficult trying to make things happen amid the team’s struggles, given his tendency to press in trying to create offense.
“You look for it, but you don’t want to force it,” Molitor said.
Molitor said he is always thinking ahead as to which combinations of players he’d like to hit and run, which players he wants to give the steal sign, or which lineups he’d like to try to spark the offense. But lately, not much has worked.
While it has been difficult for Molitor to stand pat with a struggling offense, he has been pleased with catcher Kurt Suzuki’s recent …
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