Twins Promote Three Front-Office Stalwarts to Assistant GM Roles

[Matthew Trueblood]

The name of the game is landing smart people to build and operate your baseball team—but as soon as you do so, the name of the game becomes keeping them. So, from time to time, you have to rename their games. The Twins promoted Josh Kalk, Alex Hassan, and Sean Johnson to assistant general manager roles Tuesday, in a move that partially backfills the promotion of Jeremy Zoll to GM in November. Zoll replaced the outgoing Thad Levine in that job, but still (of course) answers to president of baseball and business operations Derek Falvey.

In Johnson (scouting), Kalk (data and analytics) and Hassan (player development), the team not-so-coincidentally inflated the titles of three people who had taken on chief roles within the three major departments that make up most front offices. Giving them this bump affirms the team's satisfaction with the jobs they've each done, and it shields the team a bit from the risk of losing any of them to another organization. All three were already so established and accomplished with the club, though, that it's hard to envision them leaving for anything short of a GM job elsewhere. That's still possible, but surely not imminent, and now, the three are all incrementally more prominent in their places with the team as they look toward 2025. It's not a true restructuring; it's just a good way to give some essential baseball personnel their due.

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[bean5302]

Padding resume's while they get the chance.

[jctwins]

You're sure it's not Assistant To the General Manager?

[ashbury]

Here's what's on the Twins' official site at the moment.

Senior Vice President, General Manager: Jeremy Zoll
Vice President, Assistant General Manager: Daniel Adler
Vice President, Hitting Development & Acquisitions: Alex Hassan
Vice President, Amateur Scouting: Sean Johnson
Vice President, Baseball Operations Strategy & Innovation: Josh Kalk

I assume some new wording will be in place shortly.  But already having VP in their titles makes for a relatively small actual change, and with no one jumping in the hierarchy.

[DJL44]

4 hours ago, bean5302 said:

Padding resume's while they get the chance.

It should improve their severance package when the new owner fires everyone.