US EditionPublished • loading... • Updated
What did Derek Falvey accomplish during his nine-year Twins tenure?
Falvey modernized the Twins’ baseball operations, leading to three division titles and four playoff appearances amid organizational challenges, ownership changes, and payroll cuts.
- On Tuesday, Derek Falvey, president of baseball operations, left the Minnesota Twins after nine years by mutual agreement with the Twins' executive chair.
- Ownership slashed payroll by about $30 million and executed a 2025 selloff of 10 major-leaguers, constraining roster building ahead of spring training.
- Falvey made several high-profile roster moves, including signing Josh Donaldson and acquiring pitchers Sonny Gray and Pablo López, amid mixed on-field results.
- Jeremy Zoll will take over baseball-operations responsibilities as spring training approaches, with pitchers and catchers due Feb. 12 and a payroll again expected near $100 million.
- Falvey reflected on his tenure, saying `I’ll always regret not doing more` but also `I made it better and I leave it better than I found it`, highlighting a mixed legacy amid fan morale.
Insights by Ground AI
17 Articles
17 Articles
Pioneer Press+15 Reposted by 15 other sources
What did Derek Falvey accomplish during his nine-year Twins tenure?
As Derek Falvey began his last media availability as a member of the Minnesota Twins organization — a Zoom call with a gaggle of reporters — midday Friday, he couldn’t help but think back to his first in November 2016. Falvey, then 33, remembers nervously sitting at a table alongside owner Jim Pohlad and general manager Thad Levine and team president Dave St. Peter when late newspaper columnist Sid Hartman, then in his mid-90s, set down his old-…
·Saint Paul, United States
Read Full Article
Coverage Details
Total News Sources17
Leaning Left0Leaning Right8Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Right
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources lean Right
67% Right
C 33%
R 67%
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
