Thanks for coming back to Twins Daily.
And thank you for using your professional background to explain the Correa signing in a new way.
After thinking about the Pohalds announcing their intent to sell the team, I will add something more. My best guess as to what is happening.
If the purpose of the Correa signing was to win games, it has failed. That much is pretty clear to me. The 2024 team is coming off a historic collapse that might have been warded off by Correa’s supposed clubhouse leadership qualities, had they existed. The team’s record in the past three seasons with Correa is worse than the three seasons preceding those. What is the outlook for the next three seasons ahead? So poor, apparently, that the owner has chosen to sell the team. Obviously, television revenues would have something to do with forecasts. How much? Not sure.
The Pohlad seems to have responded to the failures negotiating television revenue by rolling them into the failures on the field. Falvey was reassigned to do St. Peter’s job, and St. Peter reassigned to do something else entirely. More personnel moves would be expected from any new buyer. Owners like the Pohlads will stay out of the way when everything is going ok. The need for the Pohlads to intervene by selling their majority ownership signals something is not right. My gut says there are other things we can’t quantify, like the future of downtown’s post-Covid or the recent emergence of the new mega contracts. But, the bottom line is winning, and the overall picture is clear.
Why would smart billionaire baseball owners get involved in day to day operations if everything is running well? They wouldn’t. How would “Minnesota nice” billionaires from the Midwest fire the people running this organization, then? They sell the team.
Cheers to a better 2025!