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The Twins seem to have winnowed down their candidates for manager to a group of four. Dan Hayes and Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic report that they're still considering Derek Shelton, James Rowson, Ryan Flaherty, and Scott Servais. While Hayes and Ghiroli leave open the possibility the Twins could broaden the field, that seems to be a long shot. All four of those coaches had been tied to the Twins' search, though it hadn't been previously reported that Servais and Flaherty had formally interviewed.

The Twins gutted their roster at the trade deadline, fired their manager after the season and still haven't divulged any information on their new limited partners who bought a heavy share of the club. To call morale "low" among fans would be an egregious understatement, and the looming offseason doesn't offer much reason for optimism. Guaranteed Contracts Other Financial Commitments $30MM owed to Astros through 2028 as part of Carlos Correa trade ($10MM annually)

The Pohlad family decided to maintain its controlling stake in the Minnesota Twins when new investors emerged and gave the club a chance to pay down a significant amount of the team's $500MM debt. That's according to two members of the Pohlad family, executive chair Joe Pohlad and his brother Tom, who spoke to Bill Lukitsch of the Minnesota Star Tribune.

As Hayes mentions in the article, cutting down on pro scouts is a league-wide trend. He uses the Cubs as an example, linking to a November 2024 article from Sahadev Sharma and Patrick Mooney of The Athletic detailing that club's move to more analytics and less reliance on traditional scouting. Hayes writes that the Twins, like the Cubs, have been relying more on video in recent years with far less travel for in-person scouting.

After finishing last week on a high note, the Twins decided to take that momentum and promptly lose six straight games, including four to the bottom-dwelling Chicago White Sox. Thankfully, it's mathematically impossible for the Twins to have their first 100-loss season since 2016, but they are well on their way to their worst season since that year. The Past Week on Twinkie Town: Elsewhere in Twins Territory: In the World of Baseball:

Ryan Jeffers left Friday night's game with a head injury, and the diagnosis has now gotten worse. What was originally called just a head contusion has turned worse for Ryan Jeffers. He now has a full-blown concussion and is being placed on the injured list. It was unlikely that Jeffers would have reached a new career-high in games played this season. He sits at 114 with the team having just 20 to go.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Andrew Benintendi went 4 for 5 with two homers and five RBIs as the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 12-3 on Tuesday night. Kyle Teel and Lenyn Sosa also homered and Brooks Baldwin had three hits for the White Sox, who have won three in a row. Davis Martin (6-9) won his third straight decision, giving up three runs on six hits in six innings.

It was back in 2021 that actor Kevin Costner famously emerged from the cornstalks at a specially constructed diamond at the "Field of Dreams" movie site and led the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees into the stadium for what turned out to be one of Major League Baseball's most memorable events. A year later, the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs visited Dyersville for another MLB matchup near the iconic field where the 1989 movie was filmed.

Maybe taking out some frustration on his batting helmet on Thursday is what Royce Lewis needed to get back on track? One day later, Lewis hit the sixth grand slam of his career - and his first since September 2023 - as part of a huge individual effort that helped lead the Twins over the White Sox, 9-7, in Friday night's series opener in Chicago.