Credit where do Derek Shelton could have made quite the scene yesterday in Minneapolis.

He did precisely the opposite.

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that you found this. Shelton was introduced as the Twins' 15th manager in the press conference at Target Field.

I'm going to admit, I watched the video of the entire thing, and not just to see if he would eventually say something about Pittsburgh or what happened here.

And he did, and I'll get to that in a moment.

But just to see how he'd carry himself with some of the similar type questions at a similar

point in his tenure, meaning he just started there, and how he'd respond to things about

rebuilding, because the twins, I mean, you talk about gutting,

a roster.

I don't know that anybody's ever topped what the twins just did.

A lot of it sounded familiar, and a lot of it, I'm going to be honest with you, I kind of felt bad for some of the reporters in the room because they're asking stuff, and this is

totally understandable, that anybody who'd been here for any amount of time, whether it's covering

this team or just being around this team, the pirates, would have been able to just jump in

and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, this is not your guy for fundamentals, okay?

This isn't the one.

But go right ahead and ask him that anyway.

Now, he fielded that and other stuff predictably well.

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