MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The next manager of the Minnesota Twins will inherit an uncertain outlook for next season, with an in-flux ownership group yet to determine what the payroll will be and the front office thus unable to promise whether certain players will remain on the roster.

President Derek Falvey, after the firing of manager Rocco Baldelli on the heels of a fourth absence from the postseason in five years, said the Twins don’t know what level of spending on player salaries will be approved by chairman Joe Pohlad and his partners.

One reason for that is the two investment groups who are in the process of completing their minority stakes in the franchise will have input on that number. The other is that the Twins haven’t started postseason evaluations and wouldn’t normally have done

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