Minnesota Twins Reportedly Plan to Promote Derek Falvey

Last week, the Minnesota Twins fired let general manager Thad Levine walk away after his contract expired. They won’t tell you this, but he (pretty much) did, in a 1v1 interview he did with Darren “Doogie” Wolfson (KSTP), in which Doogie says that, had the Twins made the playoffs, “there was a scenario where [Levine] isn’t necessarily a former Twins employee”. If Levine was ready to walk away, why would missing the playoffs matter toward his 2025 employment? It wouldn’t. But, I digress. It doesn’t matter. Thad Levine had to go (apparently). Somebody did, after such a disastrous collapse, right…? That must have been the Pohlads’ thinking. And if ownership was looking for a fall guy, President Dave St. Peter was never going to be it. He’s been with the organization since 1990. If fumbling the TV situation as poorly as he and the Twins have isn’t going to get him fired, then nothing will. Some thought president of baseball operations Derek Falvey and/or manager Rocco Baldelli might be in trouble, but they never