Twins Announce GM Thad Levine Will Not Return for 2025

[Mike Sixel]

14 hours ago, Rigby said:

Mahle, Paddack, DeSclafani, Topa, Duarte, Dyson an Prielipp return their salutations....

Only one of those guys even matters or cost anything. 

[ashbury]

9 hours ago, Doctor Wu said:

I was under the impression that nearly all of the new-breed GMs had MBAs!

Falvey's LinkedIn page shows a mystery year after graduating from college, which (while I was digging into Chief's point, looking for hard evidence) may have coincided with a small business venture with a classmate that may or may not have panned out.  Falvey would surely mention an MBA in the education segment of a LinkedIn resume.

Chief is correct.  Still, Falvey gives off much of the vibes of an MBA holder.  Such a degree only matters when you're about 23-27 looking for a first or second job to put on your resume.  After that, experience and On the Job Training will matter more than school credentials anyway.  And that OJT may or may not be explicitly MBA-like.  I can attest that back in the heyday of Cray Research in the Twin Cities, they put their technical marketing specialists (i.e. people with tech backgrounds who were going into a marketing role) through many hours of training each year on aspects that would be covered in a good MBA program.  It is possible that the Cleveland front office does similar with their own rising in-house talent.  When my daughter was getting her MBA at Sloan we had conversations where I felt on very familiar ground to what she was telling us about her studies, and while I don't hold an MBA, I enjoyed the conversations, even if she was maybe humoring her old man a little.

Bottom line, Falvey might not be an MBA but he's very much the same "type" that every major league front office seems to gravitate toward.  Someone with an undergrad degree in Econ is a very different animal than Terry Ryan who preceded him.

 

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

On 10/5/2024 at 12:03 PM, Jocko87 said:

 

I feel like there is a major clue in this phasing, both for the future of Levine as we have seen but also for the plans for filling the position.

New school management trained MBAs don't say MY without a very good reason. It's drilled out of you in modern leadership training.

Falvey sounds like a guy unburdened by what has been, and what can be 🙂