MINNEAPOLIS - The Pohlad family's decision to not sell the Twins comes after a rocky stretch for the team, and chairman Joe Pohlad told the Minnesota Star Tribune that they understand fans might be skeptical at the turn of events.

"And I would say to those fans: It's my job and this new ownership group's new job to do everything we can to set this organization up for success, hopefully in the short- and long-term both," Pohlad said, in his first interview since announcing the change of course. "I look forward to it."

Rather than selling the team as a whole, Pohlad said his family will instead take on two new groups of partners but retain control of the baseball franchise that his grandfather, Carl Pohlad, bought in 1984.

"I don't think we could have imagined a better outcome than where

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