Dave St. Peter Confirms: Twins Still Have No Idea What Their TV Plan Is

The Minnesota Twins have done an awful job at drawing fans this season. If they have executed on anything, it has been in alienating those that have consumed them most. With a television future heavily in flux, there doesn’t appear to be a set plan for 2025 either.

Minnesota Twins 2025 broadcast remains a mystery

Last offseason the Minnesota Twins kicked things off by telling fans they would drastically decrease payroll. They followed that up with statements suggesting broadcast availability growing, and blackouts coming to an end. Of course, they only actually followed through on one of those realities. This season the Twins were off the air for three months in their largest market. With the postseason quickly approaching, they haven’t yet figured things out for 2025 either. Twins president Dave St. Peter recently spoke with Front Office Sports about the situation.

“We’ve been on this merry-go-round for two full seasons now. We’re undecided at this point for 2025. We’re reviewing and exploring different options. We’re very interested in finding ways to accelerate an expansion of our reach.”

Dave St. Peter on the television situation

If St. Peter’s comments strike fans as disconcerting, that would be more than fair. Last offseason it was St. Peter who paraded new analyst Cory Provus around promising that blackouts would end. Instead, the Twins took until February to do a deal with a company facing bankruptcy and fans wound up losing with less accessibility and watered down spending.

The Twins will almost certainly be paid less in rights fees for 2025 than they were this season, and the initial outcome was already a $30 million decrease in payroll. The Pohlad family has failed to invest at multiple points this season, and less money coming in probably doesn’t make that better.

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What Minnesota does for 2025 remains to be seen, but Dave St. Peter’s public comments continue to be poorly executed.

Apathy may set in for Minnesota Twins fans

The Twins turned off plenty of fans before playing a game this season. Then they took the product off the air. They haven’t bolstered the roster at several key points, and anything but a sustained postseason run could thwart future interest.

The #MNTwins average attendance from 2001-09 at The Metrdome – 25,884

The #MNTwins average attendance in 2024, at Target Field, coming off the most successful season in 30 years – 24,090

Pohlad's reaping what they sowed. https://t.co/54BJZp75Ca

— Ted (@tlschwerz) August 22, 2024

Minnesota came into the year with a strong core, and several exciting young players. The front office has largely been hamstrung in their efforts to build depth around that group and it’s rearing an ugly head down the stretch. Plenty of Twins fans have tuned out due to accessibility issues as a whole, and the ballpark hasn’t seen an uptick in gate figures that typically follows a strong season.

St. Peter told Front Office Sports he is “hopeful we make a decision by sometime early in the fall.” That would be substantially better than the timeline they followed a year ago, and also provide some clarity for the baseball operations department.

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Twins fans should be expecting easily accessible ways to watch their team. They should also feel a level of care and commitment in said team by those making the decisions.