On the heels of a dramatic late-season collapse last year, Derek Falvey sat in a room full of reporters and reaffirmed his faith in manager Rocco Baldelli.

“Rocco is my manager,” Falvey, now the team’s president of baseball and business operations, said on Sept. 29, 2024. “I believe in his process. I believe in him. I believe in the partnership I have with him.”

One year to the day, Falvey delivered the news to Baldelli that that partnership was no more.

Following conversations with ownership Monday morning, Falvey had a nearly two-hour conversation with Baldelli in which he told the manager that the Twins were headed in a different direction after seven seasons.

“It’s incumbent upon me as the head of this to talk with ownership about what the right direction is going forward,” Falvey

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