The Minnesota Twins will hire former Pittsburgh Pirates manager -- and old friend -- Derek Shelton to fill that same role, the New York Post reports.

Shelton, 55, managed the Pirates for parts of six seasons before being let go in early May of this year after a 12-26 start to the 2025 season. With the Pirates, Shelton went 306-440 (.410) with two last-place finishes and two fourth-place finishes in his four full seasons on the job. He previously served as the bench coach for the Twins under Paul Molitor in 2018 and Rocco Baldelli in 2019.

Shelton took over a team deep in a rebuilding phase -- a phase that still hasn't yielded much in the way of wins at the big-league level -- and the team showed incremental improvement on his watch until they stalled out in 2024 and for the early w

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