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MINNEAPOLIS -- Hitting coach Tom Brunansky and first base coach Butch Davis will not be back with the Minnesota Twins next season. Ted Williams Jersey .The team announced Tuesday that Brunansky and Davis would not be offered new contracts. Pitching coach Neil Allen, third base coach Gene Glynn, bullpen coach Eddie Guardado, assistant hitting coach Rudy Hernandez and bench coach Joe Vavra will return in 2017 under third-year manager Paul Molitor.Minnesota was a major league-worst 59-103 last season, the franchises most losses since the original Washington Senators went 50-104 in 1949.Brunansky, a regular on the 1987 World Series champion Twins, returned to the organization in 2010 as a minor league hitting instructor. He became batting coach for the Twins in 2013.Young hitters had mixed results during Brunanskys four years, but the Twins were at least in the middle of the pack in the majors in runs scored the last two seasons and ranked seventh in 2014.Davis spent two years in his role with the Twins.The entire staff was in limbo for the last month, until new chief baseball officer Derek Falvey was clear of his prior duty with Clevelands front office and able to officially begin with the Twins this week. Allen, Glynn, Guardado and Hernandez were hired on the major league staff with Molitor before the 2015 season. Vavra has been in Minnesotas dugout since 2006, when he started as hitting coach.Allen served a six-week suspension this summer after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Twins pitchers finished next-to-last in the majors with a 5.08 ERA. Phillips Valdez Jersey .S. hockey team after paying his dues as an NHL general manager for more than three decades and giving up a lot of his free time to help USA Hockey. Harold Baines Jersey . Badenhop was 2-3 with a 3.47 ERA in 63 relief appearances for Milwaukee this season. He is 18-20 in his career with three saves and a 3. https:///...-jersey-rangers.html . Rob Manfred, baseballs chief operating officer, testified last week during the grievance filed by the players union to overturn Rodriguezs 211-game suspension. A person familiar with the hearing, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Manfred testified the sport wasnt concerned whether Bosch distributed performance-enhancing drugs to minors because MLBs interest was his relationship with players under investigation. Pop N Scotch has been back in Queensland for more than five months but a lack of options in his home state has prompted trainer Liam Birchley to send the unpredictable stayer to Sydney.Birchley admits Pop N Scotch is a long shot to win Saturdays Listed Christmas Cup (2400m) at Randwick.But the Eagle Farm trainer is hoping the horse can show shades of the form which has brought three seconds in the Queensland Cup.Theres no races up here past 2200 metres, Birchley said.A lack of options was also the catalyst for the Victorian interlude in Pop N Scotchs career.While Eagle Farm was being redeveloped Birchley took Pop N Scotch to Victoria late last year where he performed well in a strong form race at Geelong and after another three starts he stayed for an unsuccessful stint with Darren Weir.He returned to Birchley earlier in the year for an agonising third defeat in a Queensland Cup and was sent to the paddock for a speell. Zack Granite Jersey. Birchley said his second-up run in his current preparation over 2200m was encouraging but a subsequent disappointment over the same distance at Eagle Farm on December 3 showed signs he needed further.Some days with him you dont know what youre going to get unfortunately, Birchley said.Trainer Peter Robl has veteran Iggi Pop in the race after a gutsy third in the Listed ATC Cup (2000m) at Rosehill on December 3.He was terrific. All his runs this time in have been great, Robl said.The eight-year-old hasnt won since the Queensland Cup in July 2014, when he consigned Pop N Scotch to one of his three runner-up finishes in the race.Robl said the 2400m and getting in with the minimum 54kgs would work in Iggi Pops favour.Hes going as good as hes gone while Ive had him, Robl said. ' ' '