The Twins start to make moves in preparation for the 2025 season
The Past Week on Twinkie Town:
- As the Division Series is just getting started, the Twins have been busy making changes to the front office and coaching staff.
- Zach Koenig reflects on the 2024 season and whether this was the worst collapse in Twins history.
- Zach also reminds us that despite how terrible our season was, at least we aren’t White Sox fans.
- If you’re still looking for baseball talk, we still have game threads going for the playoffs.
Elsewhere in Twins Territory:
- The Twins announced a complete revamp of the hitting side of the coaching staff, firing David Popkins and three other coaches.
- As reported by many of the beat writers, the Twins announced that GM Thad Levine was not returning to the team. Dan Hayes at The Athletic had more regarding Levine leaving ($).
- Aaron Gleeman at The Athletic had a first look at the Twins’ 2025 payroll ($).
- This was a bit of a foregone conclusion, but as of now, the Twins will not be brought back onto Bally Sports next season.
- On the audio side, the Twins announced they are returning to Audacy and will be on the radio on 830 AM WCCO and 102.9 FM The Wolf.
In the World of Baseball:
- After a wacky wild card week, the division series are in full swing, with three AL Central representatives. Game 2 of the ALCS series is tonight, while in both NL series, the teams are knotted up 1-1.