[Gleeman] BREAKING: Twins announce they’ve “mutually agreed to part ways” with team president Derek Falvey.

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  1. BAD MAN GONE BAD MAN GONE

    However Pohlads still running things. So dont expect much to change

    I have two thoughts

    1. Is this due to the business side?

    2. Does this mean tear down is incoming?

    I was joking when i said the 77-85 projection would hurt him after he talked about using the 82 win projection. But the timing is SO strange. End of the offseason? Just doesnt help.

    We have hired a manager, installed coaching staff and signed players under Falvey’s regime. They are all sitting ducks now

    My guess is its due to the business side. Baseball is failing, sales and revenue is down and the two are intrinsically linked. Falvey is failing. Had to go. But its Pohlads that have caused that failure

    Edit: Zoll is in charge. Everything stays the same ffs. That to me, alongside Pohlad taking over the business side says its clearly a business related issue

  5. Quite shocked at this. Falvey followed orders from the owners. Glad to see it but I don’t have much hope for anyone coming in under these owners

  7. “We’ve fired everyone we believe to be at fault, who could possibly be to blame??”

  9. Doesn’t matter. The issues plaguing the Twins are systemically coming from the top. Until the Pohlads leave this is just noise.

  10. Did not see that coming at all. While I was sorta wanting to move on from him anyways, it’s hard to trust anything the Pohlads decided could possibly be good for the team.

  11. I’m legitimately surprised. I’ve been wanting this to happen, but the timing of it is strange. We’re what, 2 weeks away from spring training?

  13. Probably because of his big spending spree bringing in …checks notes…Taylor Roger’s and Victor Caratini?

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    On one hand i want to celebrate like i just got acquitted. on the other, given the timing it just means there is another slug being put in place.

    Just hoping this is the first stone of the house cleaning. then we can have a lockout, pohlads can sell after that and maybe, just maybe the twins can go back to being an MLB franchise again.

  21. Heard from an inside source they are going with an AI President of Baseball Operations.

  22. not surprised.

    he hasn’t been doing well, and new owners often want to change things.

    in particular, him owning both roles seems strange. the communication side / fan relationship is poor. and despite being a bad team there are things you can do.

    also, his trades from last season don’t seem to have worked out.

    just an all around mess.

  24. Yes, he was hampered by ownership.

    But let’s not forget that Falvey consistently had the highest payroll in the division (before the deadline selloff) and got meh results at best. Plenty of GMs have done more with less.

  25. I’ve been a Falvey defender because I think a lot of his shortcomings can be directly tied back to the Pohlads fucking him over. Was he perfect, no, but he did a lot of good things for this franchise. It might be time to move on, but I have very little faith in the Pohlads selecting a good, modern mind to replace him and keep progressing

  26. Seems odd to have Falvey run the entire offseason and then peace-out.

    Build the next team then leave before anything plays out on the field.

  29. Wow. I did not see that coming – especially after his “promotion” to head of baseball and business last year.

    As long as the Pohlad’s control the purse strings, I don’t see any miracles, but I’m certainly not sorry about this either.

    The approach to the trade deadline last year, along with the approach to the off-season this year, makes it clear that Falvey’s approach wasn’t to win now, it wasn’t to win in the future, it was to hold onto just enough assets, like Ryan and Lopez, to be just mediocre enough to plausibly claim they are still trying to compete if all the fallen prospects they’ve aquired magically turn their careers around. They won’t or can’t put a real team on the field surrounding their assets, but they also won’t make the hard decision to say if we only have a $105M payroll, we can’t actually compete and it’s time to rebuild.

  30. Tom Pohlad saying the right things, personally calling season ticket holders, and firing the manager and POBO that some fans have wanted gone for a while. He’s clearly trying to win us back, but I don’t think he realizes just how deep of a hole they’ve dug themselves.

  33. What?! Now?! After free agency and hiring the coaching staff?! Lmao

    Wonder if he quit or something. Maybe Tom ordered him to cut payroll by another $50M

  36. How annoying. Who the hell let’s go of their team president/ GM at basically the start of February? How come everything this team does is so dysfunctional? Kidding, it’s obviously the incompetent fucks at the top.

    Timing aside I’m fine with moving on from Falvey, but I still think half his negatives come from being screwed by ownership. I also have zero confidence in the Pohlads to find a strong replacement.

  37. Throughout his tenure the implicit deal between ownership and Falvey seemed to be “we [Ownership] know we have put you in a lot of difficult situations with payroll limits, but if you put on a brave face and take the incoming fire we’ll reward you with bumps up the chain.”

    I shudder to think what changed to cause this to breakdown and now end.

  39. I just like, don’t care at all. I wish I did.

    With the Pohlads still around nothing is ever going to change for the better.

    Nothing else really matters until they’re gone.

  43. He did exactly what the Pohlad’s wanted by gutting payroll and hiring Shelton and they still let him go lol. The issue with franchises like the Twins and Browns/Jets in the NFL are the biggest issues start at the very top and those people won’t get out of the way and just hire competent people to run their organizations and back TF off. If there’s a master plan here, I’m lost as to what it is.

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