All Things 2024-25 Minnesota Twins Off-Season Thread

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Breakin' The Plane said:
The Twins have a new GM. Jeremy Zoll has been promoted from Assistant GM to GM, Falvey moves up to President, Dave St. Peter (maybe his choice, maybe nudged aside) moves on to an adivsory role.
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more details: from the Strib:

35 years after he joined the team as an intern, Twins President Dave St. Peter announced Tuesday morning that he is stepping back from the chief executive role he has held since 2002.

St. Peter will remain with the Twins as a strategic advisor to his successor — current President of Baseball Operations Derek Falvey, who will become the team’s chief executive over both baseball and business. There are only two other executives in the sport (Toronto’s Mark Shapiro and Tampa Bay’s Matt Silverman) who are believed to hold similar roles.

And to help build the roster, one of Falvey’s top lieutenants, Jeremy Zoll, has been promoted to general manager.

“There are many decisions made, more than [people] realize on a daily basis, that I don’t make, that the likes of Jeremy and other directors and assistant GMs and VPs and others make,” said Falvey...... “Key roster decisions, trades, those are still going to involve Joe Pohlad, me, Jeremy, Dave.”

Zoll now inherits the title most recently held by Thad Levine, who left the organization in October, but perhaps with a somewhat broader role, given Falvey’s new responsibilities.

“A number of the most recent trades we’ve made, from start to finish, [Zoll] was the lead negotiator,” Falvey said, citing the Twins’ acquisition of Sonny Gray in 2022 as an example. “It’s clear to me that agents have a tremendous amount of respect for Jeremy. … He’s gotten so many reps with agents and other teams, that’ll be one of the easier aspects of this transition.”

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a lot of layers to this. the timing is interesting. moving Falvey into more of a business role, and apparently giving Zoll more of a role on the baseball side. all while the team is up for sale, and no guarantee that the new owners will want to keep the same people in the front office - or keep them in the same roles. as noted in the article, there are only 2 other teams where the same person oversees both baseball and business operations.
 


Update on the Ray's situation. Estimate to fix is $55M. Would be ready by 2026 season. Definitely will be playing home games elsewhere in 2025. Where, still to be determined. All the spring training facilities in the area have Class A League games so would have to work around that. Going to be interesting and somewhat messy.
 

TNGophfan said:
Update on the Ray's situation. Estimate to fix is $55M. Would be ready by 2026 season. Definitely will be playing home games elsewhere in 2025. Where, still to be determined. All the spring training facilities in the area have Class A League games so would have to work around that. Going to be interesting and somewhat messy.
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I've been to the Yankees facility, right next to the Bucs stadium. Pretty nice.

Not sure how the feel about doing a Division rival a solid.
 


56 million for a Band-Aid is going to be a tough pill to swallow, but there's really no way around it. They aren't breaking ground on their new stadium until a year from now, so they are really stuck.
 












GophersInIowa said:
I wasn't chubby enough to play 1st.
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I blame the original Bad News Bears for this, but the move for coaches in my day was to put the fat guy at catcher. It's fine for slow pitch softball, but once stealing comes into the rules, you don't want someone who isn't nimble and mobile back there, especially when the pitcher isn't exactly painting corners.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
I blame the original Bad News Bears for this, but the move for coaches in my day was to put the fat guy at catcher. It's fine for slow pitch softball, but once stealing comes into the rules, you don't want someone who isn't nimble and mobile back there, especially when the pitcher isn't exactly painting corners.
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That was general move but our chubby kid was too scared of getting hit by foul balls so he was a terrible catcher. Ironically, the smallest guy on the team ended up being the best catcher.
 



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