Editing Paul Molitor (section)

==Coaching and managerial career==
===Early career===
After retiring as a player, Molitor remained with the Twins as a bench coach for three seasons. He was considered a leading candidate to manage the team when [[Tom Kelly (baseball)|Tom Kelly]] retired after 2001, but he declined in part because the Twins were still being targeted for potential [[2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan|contraction]]. Molitor was a hitting coach with the Mariners in 2004. He then spent the 2005 to 2013 seasons in the Twins organization as a minor league baserunning and fielding instructor. Molitor joined the Twins coaching staff in 2014 to oversee baserunning, bunting, infield instruction, and positioning.<ref name="Bollinger">{{cite web|last1=Bollinger|first1=Rhett|title=Hall of Famer Paul Molitor preparing for role as Twin coach|url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/66545260/hall-of-famer-paul-molitor-preparing-for-role-as-twin-coach/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305040016/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/66545260/hall-of-famer-paul-molitor-preparing-for-role-as-twin-coach|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 5, 2016|website=[[MLB.com]]|date=January 13, 2014}}</ref>

===Minnesota Twins===
The Twins hired Molitor to fill their manager vacancy for the [[2015 Minnesota Twins season|2015 season]], and introduced him in a press conference on November 4, 2014.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/11821148/paul-molitor-introduced-new-manager-minnesota-twins | title=Molitor: Twins 'where I'm supposed to be'| date=2014-11-04}}</ref>
At the end of the [[2017 Minnesota Twins season|2017 season]], the Twins announced that Molitor would receive a three-year contract extension through 2020. Molitor was rewarded for his efforts in leading the Twins back to the postseason after losing 103 games the season prior, the first team in history to achieve this feat, by being named [[Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award|American League Manager of the Year]] in November 2017. He became only the second person to be elected to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] as a player and win the Manager of the Year Award behind [[Frank Robinson]], who was named AL Manager of the Year in 1989 while managing the [[Baltimore Orioles]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mlb.com/news/torey-lovullo-paul-molitor-win-manager-honors-c261897234 | title=Torey Lovullo, Paul Molitor win manager honors| website=[[MLB.com]]}}</ref>
On October 2, 2018, the Twins fired Molitor as manager, but expressed that they had interest in having him continue to maintain a role with the team in some capacity. He finished with a record of 305 wins and 343 losses in 648 games.<ref name="managerial record">{{cite web |title=Paul Molitor |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/molitpa01.shtml |website=Baseball Reference |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=October 2, 2018}}</ref> Molitor later rejoined the Twins as a special assistant, with roving instructor duties for the team's minor league affiliates.<ref>{{cite news |last=KSTP Sports |date=July 20, 2021 |title=Q&A: Paul Molitor is back working for the Twins |url=https://kstp.com/minnesota-sports/paul-molitor-back-working-for-twins-as-special-assistant/6177869/ |work=KSTP TV |location=Saint Paul, MN}}</ref>

===Managerial record===

{{updated|games played on September 30, 2018}}

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!rowspan="2"|Team!!rowspan="2"|From!!rowspan="2"|To!!colspan="4"|Regular season record!!colspan="4"|Post–season record
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!{{Tooltip|G|Games managed}}!!{{Tooltip|W|Games won}}!!{{Tooltip|L|Games lost}}!!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}}!!{{Tooltip|G|Games managed}}!!{{Tooltip|W|Games won}}!!{{Tooltip|L|Games lost}}!!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}}
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|[[Minnesota Twins]]||[[2015 Minnesota Twins season|2015]]||[[2018 Minnesota Twins season|2018]]
|648|||{{WinLossPct|305|343}}
|1||{{WinLossPct|0|1}}
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!colspan="3"| Total
!648!!{{WinLossPct|305|343}}
!1!!{{WinLossPct|0|1}}
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!colspan="11"|{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}:<ref name="managerial record"/>
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