{"id":666627,"date":"2026-04-06T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:08:17","slug":"tom-pohlad-heading-business-operations-for-minnesota-twins-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666627\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pohlad heading business operations for Minnesota Twins this season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twins controlling owner Tom Pohlad<\/a> is going to \u201coversee the team\u2019s business operations throughout the 2026 season,\u201d according to Bobby Nightengale of the MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE. Derek Falvey had a dual role overseeing baseball and business operations before he departed the organization in January<\/a>. Pohlad planned to hire someone to replace Falvey\u2019s role as the president of baseball operations, but he \u201cdecided he wanted that responsibility.\u201d Dave St. Peter previously served in the role for 22 years before transitioning into a strategic adviser role early last year. The most \u201cpressing concern is attracting fans\u201d to Target Field amid \u201cwidespread frustration with how the Pohlads have run the club.\u201d The Twins drew 1.769 million fans to their 80 home games last year, their lowest total in 25 years, excluding the COVID-affected seasons of 2020 and \u201921. This year, the Twins lowered the price of their get-in-the-door Twins Pass by $75 and started a $2 pregame beers promotion for Fridays and Saturdays. Pohlad said, \u201cI\u2019m not na\u00efve to what the most important thing here is, which is winning baseball games. We can sell all the $2 beers we want. We can have all the concerts we want. But people want to see a winner.\u201d The Twins entered the season with a payroll around $105M, their lowest Opening Day figure since 2017. It ranks 22nd out of the 30 teams in the major leagues (MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 4\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n

POWER DELAY: Nightengale in a separate piece noted a power outage hit Target Field on Saturday at 1:52pm CT, \u201cabout 30 minutes before the Twins planned to begin their pregame festivities,\u201d which delayed the home opener by 57 minutes. The outage \u201cshut down most stadium operations,\u201d and most cashless concession stands \u201chad to close because there was no way to pay, unless a vendor had a portable handheld device.\u201d Fans who had yet to enter the stadium \u201chad to wait outside the gates in the rain and 38-degree temperatures because ticket scanners didn\u2019t work.\u201d Xcel Energy \u201cblamed the outage on \u2018equipment failure along the main power line that serves the stadium\u2019\u201d (MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 4\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twins controlling owner Tom Pohlad is going to \u201coversee the team\u2019s business operations throughout the 2026 season,\u201d according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,9600,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-666627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-twins","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116358630990420207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}