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As season nears end, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli not focusing on job status
Baldelli prioritizes player development amid a 40% roster turnover and a season split by a trade deadline sell-off, with the Twins missing playoffs four of five years, officials said.
- During the Twins' final weekend, Rocco Baldelli, Minnesota Twins manager, is not discussing his job and is focusing on players, meeting with many individually amid speculation about his future.
- After a heavy roster shake-up, the team traded nearly 40% of the major-league roster, forcing Baldelli to guide the rebuilt clubhouse through the deadline sell-off.
- Rocco Baldelli, who has led the club for seven seasons, has missed the playoffs in four of the past five years, while the Twins are one of five MLB teams to exceed 90 losses this year.
- Christian Vázquez returned on Tuesday, getting on base four times and will enter free agency after his three-year, $30 million contract ends, while Derek Falvey and Jeremy Zoll remain in Philadelphia with no public comment on Baldelli's status for next year.
- Baldelli said this season felt like two seasons in one and tested him in new ways, adding there is a winter of work ahead but he hasn't started offseason planning.
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As season nears end, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli not focusing on job status
PHILADELPHIA — As the season nears it end, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli has no interest in talking about his future. Baldelli has led the Twins for the past seven seasons, but the team has now missed the playoffs in four of its past five seasons and questions have arisen about his job status. The Athletic reported in June that the Twins had picked up Baldelli’s contract option for next season, though neither the team nor Baldelli commented on th…
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