Was now the best time for the Minnesota Twins to make front office changes?

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz react to the news of the Minnesota Twins parting ways with former president of baseball and business operations Derek Falvey. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Let’s move on to the Minnesota Twins, who all of a sudden need a new president of baseball operations?

We got this news literally right now.

Yeah, this is a, this is a very strange time to have a transition of front office power, but the term mutually parted ways is being thrown around between the Twins and Derek Falvey, who has been there for quite some time, and they have obviously had a change in ownership, not in ownership, but in who the point person is, as they just changed Pohlad brothers, as opposed to actually selling the team like fans were hoping.

for whatever reason, it seems that the, the- t- right now is the time to move on.

Maybe Derek Falvey was not interested in pursuing or moving forward with the current leadership.

Maybe the current leadership was not interested in moving forward with him.

Jeremy Zoll, who has been their GM, will run baseball ops while their new, owner, not new owner, Tom Pohlad, instead of Joe Pohlad, you know, runs the other stuff and looks for, I guess, a new po-bo.

But this is extremely strange and only adds to a very strange time in the Minnesota Twins’ franchise history.

This is already a team that after trading away ten major leaguers at last year’s deadline, we just assumed that this off-season would be a continuation of that, and instead, they have done very little, and now they have moved on from Derek Falvey.

I am beyond perplexed, and I look forward to finding out more about the situation, but for now, we’ll move on to the rest of the American League Central- It just seems like- … and, see what happens.

It just seems like they’re in the middle here.

That’s the problem.

They’re in the middle, right?

Like, if they’re gonna sell, sell, and if you’re gonna sell, why did you Like, the guy who just sold is no longer in charge.

Is it the same vision?

Is it a different vision?

I understand making a pivot, but the, the Twins just seem a little bit directionless right now, and so they should find some direction.

Yeah, and we have statements from Tom Pohlad and Derek Falvey being like, “We’ve decided to move forward apart.”

Okay.

But as with a lot of the things with the Twins over the last year, it just leaves fans kind of stuck and wondering where this franchise is going.

So that is frustrating, and yeah, they, they need clarity, just as much as anybody right now.

Was now the best time for the Minnesota Twins to make front office changes?

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