Twins CEO Dave St. Peter Steps Down; Derek Falvey, Jeremy Zoll Promoted

Extra main organizational adjustments are underway for the Twins. After basic supervisor Thad Levine stepped down earlier within the offseason and chairman Joe Pohlad introduced his intent to discover a sale of the franchise, president and CEO Dave St. Peter introduced that he’s stepping down after 22 years and transferring into an advisory function. Derek Falvey will assume a lot of St. Peter’s duties and now maintain the title of each president of baseball and enterprise operations. Falvey, who’s been operating Minnesota’s baseball operations since 2016, may have a brand new basic supervisor working alongside him as effectively. The Twins promoted assistant GM Jeremy Zoll to the GM function that was vacated when Levine left the group.

“It is a troublesome determination as a result of this [team] has been my life,” St. Peter tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Phil Miller. “This has been my journey. I’ve given every part I’ve to this group and have been proud to do it. … I really feel really convicted that Derek is the suitable successor, and I wish to help him in each method and set him up for achievement, hopefully, over the lengthy haul. The transfer is necessary as a result of it alerts, I’m hoping, to the broader group and to our companions that there’s stability and continuity.”

Falvey was initially employed away from Cleveland, the place he’d been an assistant basic supervisor. The Twins initially tabbed him with the seldom-used “chief baseball officer” title earlier than selling him to president of baseball operations and lengthening him in 2022. St. Peter tells Miller that Falvey has been making ready for a shift of this kind for years, taking part in discussions and conferences relating to the workforce’s enterprise, media and partnerships for a while.

Equally, Falvey defined to Miller how Zoll, 34, has been taking over a bigger function in baseball operations through the years. Per Falvey, Zoll ran level on quite a few free-agent and commerce negotiations, together with Minnesota’s acquisition of right-hander Sonny Grey again in 2022. A product of Pennsylvania’s Haverford Faculty, Zoll has been working in baseball ops for greater than a decade. He labored with the Reds and Blue Jays earlier than becoming a member of the Angels as their director of advance scouting in 2014 after which transferring onto the Dodgers, the place he held the title assistant director of participant growth. Falvey employed Zoll because the Twins’ director of minor league operations in 2017, and he was elevated to assistant basic supervisor two years later.

“I’ve at all times tried to throw myself at no matter alternative was in entrance of me to one of the best of my means,” Zoll tells Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com. “When this all lastly got here to move, it’s in an actual method a validation of lots of onerous work and having the ability to know that so many individuals round me have been in a position to assist accomplish lots of successes to place me on this place.”

Modifications atop the organizational hierarchy are solely a part of the story in a transitional time for the Twins group. Along with entrance workplace shuffles and the looming potential of a sale, Minnesota dismissed 4 members of supervisor Rocco Baldelli’s teaching employees and severed ties with Diamond Sports activities Group/Bally Sports activities, turning broadcast rights instantly over to Main League Baseball. The Twins (re)employed Matt Borgschulte away from the Orioles to function their hitting coach however nonetheless have a number of vacancies to fill. Given the truth that Falvey’s function is rising and Levine’s title has been stuffed internally, it’s additionally doable there’ll be some extra hirings within the baseball operations division to assist shoulder a number of the workload there.