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Falvey and Degree of Difficulty

Since Falvey and the Twins have parted ways, a narrative is starting to be shared that Falvey wanted out and that the job is no longer the one he signed up for in 2016 and that the degree of difficulty had gone up. Listening to the most recent episode of Gleeman and the Geek the guys said: “From Falvey’s perspective, the parameters of his job have kept getting worse and worse the past 3 years” The frustrating thing about this is while the payroll has decreased since 2023 and that has

jharaldson in Falvey

February 11

Diversity

Twins Leadership Diversity

There are many rumors going around about the Twins managerial search right now. Will they go with a previous Twins coach like Shelton? Will they go back to the Twin’s Way and look to Punto? Will they go outside the org and get a fresh view with someone like Vázquez? With all these options and more, one thing that should be on Falvey’s mind around this is that the Twins are in some fairly poor company regarding diversity in their Manager and General Managers. Here are some comps: Current

jharaldson in Diversity

October 20, 2025

Business of Baseball

What Ever Happened to 50% of Revenue for Payroll?

Joe Pohald recently stated that he and his family are “just trying to right-size our business.” when he was asked about the $120M payroll for 2024, which is ranked 20 out of the 30 teams. When I think of the term “right-sizing”, I think of the promise that was made when we approved and funded the stadium for the Twins. The promise that the Pohlad family made in an 08/13/2008 Star Tribune article called “TWIN CITIES SPORTS OWNERS: the pohlads, minnesota twins BAND OF BROTHERS EXTENDS A LEGACY”

jharaldson in Business of Baseball

February 21, 2024

TV Contract

Future of Twins TV

As we end 2023, the Twins find themselves at a crossroads regarding local TV revenue. They have no current plan to replace the $55 million that BSN paid them last year. This is leading to an expected drop in payroll as revealed by management at an end of year press gathering. Where we go from here is an open question. Will the Twins play it safe, let the MLB handle for them, or do something truly innovative and adventurous? To figure this out we need to look at the options and the money beh

jharaldson in TV Contract

December 6, 2023

Buxton

Buxton Injury Vagueness

Everyone knows that Byron Buxton is struggling with some sort of knee injury. Some folks are happy with the Twins current plan of playing him at DH, some want him at CF regardless of injury, and some just want more information about the injury because whatever the Twins are doing it doesn’t seem to be working. I am in the last group and I am personally growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of information coming from the team and derision from the media. If you don’t agree with some

jharaldson in Buxton

June 26, 2023

Spring Training

Live BP vs. Spring Training Games

There has been a lot made lately of the fact that Byron Buxton has not played an inning in the field or taken a single in-game AB. If you listen to our players or beat writers you would think that the games are almost unneeded in Spring Training. Carlos Correa got a late start to Spring games on March 1 and commented that they were not super important. Do-Hyoung Park posts random short videos of Buxton hitting home runs off of Twins returning from injury like Winder and quotes from Falvey say

jharaldson in Spring Training

March 14, 2023

Business of Baseball

1994 Strike Revisited

As this lockout stretches on I have been thinking back to the last time this happened. The year was 1994 and Friends had just premiered on NBC, OJ Simpson captured all of our interest while slowly evading police in his white Bronco, and the MLB and MLBPA buzzkilled my fall by killing baseball and the World Series. I thought it might be fun to take the issues that were being discussed during that work stoppage and see in hindsight who had it right. Drug Testing In 1994 the owners sub

jharaldson in Business of Baseball

February 25, 2022

Twins Analytics Infrastructure

This Twins have had a bit of a tortured history with analytics. In 2010 Rob Antony did an interview with TwinsDaily’s own Parker Hageman and revealed some interesting facts about the Twins and Sabermetrics. Antony stated this about their analytics department, “we're probably one of the last, if not the last, team to address it with a person dedicated solely to that.”. He went on further to fail to understand some fairly basic concepts about Sabermetrics. He thought FIP was “first strike in i

jharaldson

January 25, 2018

New Approach on Signing Yu Darvish

It is no secret that this offseason has been particularly slow. Judd Zulgad and Phil Mackey had a conversation about it this week on their radio show because the lack of news was taking the excitement out of the offseason. ESPN has set up a free agency tracker and only 2 of the top 10 free agents have signed and only 7 of the top 20 overall. The 4 top pitchers in this market are unsigned as well (Darvish, Arrieta, Cobb, Lynn). This glut of unsigned talent this late in the offseason leaves teams

jharaldson

January 12, 2018