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Twins Fire Manager Rocco Baldelli After Disappointing 2025 Season

The search for a new manager begins now.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 29, 2025

Here’s Why All MLB Execs Dress the Same

From a distance, it can be difficult to distinguish one baseball front office executive from another, but that may be for a reason.

Sports Illustrated · Nov 29, 2023

La Velle E. Neal III: Jhoan Duran gives Twins 'game is over'

During a 2019 appearance at the State Fair, Derek Falvey, Twins president of baseball operations, explained how difficult it is to develop quality starting pitching.

Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2023

Twins bullpen has quiet winter, will rely on last season’s upgrades

It was a minor transaction that probably went unnoticed by all but the most hyper-aware Twins fans. Less than three weeks after trading a teenage pitcher for little-known righthander A.J. Alexy, the Twins on Monday lost him to the White Sox on waivers.

Tribune News Service · Jan 31, 2023

Jim Souhan: How Falvey, Twins kept the door open for Carlos Correa

The Twins have rarely competed for top talent on the free-agent market. The signing of Carlos Correa to a franchise-record contract could alter perceptions of the franchise, and if that happens, it will be due mostly to the Correa deal, a long-running, sharp-winding negotiation that required chief baseball officer Derek…

Tribune News Service · Jan 30, 2023

‘My heart was here.’ Carlos Correa describes twisting road that led back to Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS — Saying "all that matters is what I do from this point forward," Carlos Correa rejoined the Twins, passing the team's physical exams after two other teams balked at giving the 28-year-old shortstop long-term deals.

Tribune News Service · Jan 11, 2023

Jim Souhan: After losing Correa, Twins must now focus on trades

MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Falvey was sitting next to his wife on his couch at home on Tuesday night when he received a text from agent Scott Boras. Carlos Correa, Boras' client, was signing with the San Francisco Giants for 13 years and $350 million.

Tribune News Service · Dec 15, 2022

Jim Souhan: New Twins boss Joe Pohlad talks change, expectations and thick skin

For 15 years, Joe Pohlad has worked in a variety of departments for the Minnesota Twins, from baseball operations to marketing. Now he's in charge of all of them.

Tribune News Service · Nov 29, 2022

Chip Scoggins: There was so much promise, but look at Miguel Sano now

MINNEAPOLIS — The transaction happened within a vortex of trade deadline frenzy, so subtle that it escaped without much notice or emotion.

Tribune News Service · Aug 7, 2022

La Velle E. Neal III: Trades address needs. Now it’s time for Rocco to win the division.

If the 2022 Twins were a house, it would have a solid foundation but some chipped paint, a dishwasher on the fritz and a need for fresh carpeting.

Tribune News Service · Aug 4, 2022