Reporters Growing Frustrated with MN Twins Propaganda President

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The Minnesota Twins’ 2025 season is over and, after finishing 70-92 and missing the playoffs for the second-straight year, the organization is in complete disarray entering the offseason.

If you are trying to write a book on how NOT to operate a professional sports franchise, look no further than the Pohlad family, and their top ranking front office executive at 1 Twins Way.

After cutting tens of millions in payroll following their 2023 playoff run, the Minnesota Twins have been horrendous on the field the past two seasons, resulting in desks and lockers being cleared out throughout the organization the two-plus offseasons since.

Players have been traded, executives and coaches fired. The latest fall guy victim was manager Rocco Baldelli, who was canned at the start of this week.

All of this has been going on amid a 10-month waffling by Pohlad ownership on whether or not to sell the MLB franchise they have owned for more than 40 years, before they ultimately chose to retain control. The craziest part of the past couple years of Twins existence, however, has been the crowning of Derek Falvey.

Somehow, through this slow-motion train crash, the organization’s head decisionmaker has found a way to — not only keep his job — but receive a massive promotion, going from president of baseball operations, to president of both baseball and business ops, a dual title that makes him one of the most powerful executives in all of baseball.

Minnesota Twins media growing sick and tired of Derek Falvey

But during his annual season-ending press conference with reporters, Mr. Almighty Twins President was a man of VERY few answers. And that left a frustrated Aaron Gleeman (The Athletic) and his media colleagues without any sense of direction on the team’s offseason.

Like a lot of things happening with the MN Twins recently, his group sit-down with Falvey did not sit well with Gleeman, a longtime Twins fan-turned team media member (The Athletic).

So on Wednesday’s subscriber-only Patreon episode of Gleeman and the Geek (a podcast he co-hosts with John Bonnes of Twins Daily) Gleeman voiced his Falvey displeasure for about 1.5 hours of the nearly 2-hour show. And it was like music to the ears of a depressed Minnesota Twins fan.

“[Derek Falvey] couldn’t even answer a question about what traits they are looking for in a manager, which is the easiest tee’d up question a person could ever get! What do you say? ‘We want someone who’s a good leader, we want someone who is going to shake things up. We want someone who is going to lean on fundamentals and aggressiveness and situational hitting.

I’ve never hired a manager and I could give you a 20-minute speech that would satiate that question and come across well. And instead, they were like, ‘yeah I’m not comfortable even saying the traits we’re looking for. What do you mean you’re not [comfortable]?… A stork did not drop this situation on the Twins’ doorstep yesterday morning.”

Aaron Gleeman – Gleeman and the Geek Podcast

Normally, you’d expect one of the highest-ranking league executives in baseball — and one who is supposedly running the entire Twins show — to have answers about standard offseason questions for a team very much in flux.

Topics that include who will be the team’s next manager; what the plan for payroll is next season and beyond; or what the future might look like in general, given everything that has happened in recent months. But instead, the got long-winded wordy answers that took up tons of time but revealed absolutely nothing… a Falvey specialty.

Is Falvey bluffing or is he really in the dark like us?

Clearly, even reporters at this point are left to wonder if the Minnesota Twins’ president really is playing dumb or if he actually has no idea what the plan is for an organization he supposedly is in charge of? Because lately, Falvey sounds more like a confused messenger boy than he does a decision-maker.

No matter whether his ignorance is a bluff, or Derek Falvey really is in the dark, neither is a good look for someone who supposedly has as much power as he does. But to the local media’s credit, they are growing just as tired of his 500-1000 bullshit answers.

Gleeman, specifically, might lose his mind if forced to take in one more pile of bullshit from the Minnesota Twins’ Propaganda President.

Gleeman: “You won’t even say you’re going to be competitive, or you won’t even say the payroll is going to be similar or it’s going to drop. You’re just leaving everyone in the dark. And guess what? When you come off back-to-back seasons like this, and you’ve been owned by the Pohlads for four decades, when you leave people in the dark, they go to a dark place in the dark.”

“It’s just jarring to ask straightforward question after straightforward question, and to have someone either say ‘I don’t know’, when they know. What do you mean you don’t know? I’d rather they just said, ‘no comment’.”

“One time, I would like a real answer from someone [inside the Twins organization]. Maybe [this] is the case with all teams. I don’t know all teams. I don’t care about all teams. I don’t deal with all teams. I deal with the Minnesota Twins.”

Bonnes: “Either you legitimately don’t know, in which case the question becomes, ‘what is going on above you that you have no idea what is going on?’. You’re in charge of this organization and you have no idea? To me that is the biggest takeaway from this. To me, it feels like there is something going on up there.

Gleeman and the Geek Podcast

There was an obvious vibe of increased frustration that consistently stems back to the MN Twins’ Propaganda President speaking in tongues for an ownership group that seemingly has no clue what it is doing or where its own organization is going.

The couple of minutes from this episode of Gleeman and the Geek that I clipped and posted on X is only a small fraction of the annoyance portrayed by these Minnesota Twins insiders. show that you can listen to in this article, via X.

That’s why, if you are a Twins fan looking for paid content that the Pohlads and their PR department would absolutely NOT approve of, Gleeman and the Geek’s Patreon is a great spot to find it.

FWIW: I’ve never spoken with either man in my life so this is not an ad for their paid podcast. I’m just here to bring good content to MN sports fans.

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