ALL HAIL ZOLL

 The Twins have had a couple of bits of significant news filter out today. The first is that Dave St. Peter, longtime president of the business side of the Twins organization, is stepping aside after over 20 years in the role/ Derek Falvey's portfolio will expand to include this role as well as the president of Baseball Operations title that he's always had.

In more baseball focused news, the Twins also promoted Jeremy Zoll to the role of General Manager. While you try not to get a complex about the fact that he was born in 1990, and what exactly have you been doing with your life, he is a veteran of the organization, starting as the farm director in 2018, and has been involved in trade negotiations, such as the Sonny Gray success, and the Jorge Polanco extremely mixed bag. 

Zoll has a history in player development, but not really in scouting, to go along with that bit of history with trade negotiations. If I were to read into the immediate future, based on this history, the Twins are expecting to base their success on building from within, rather than via players outside of the organization, but that isn't exactly news at this stage, is it?

The other shoe that dropped was St. Peter stepping aside. He's only 57, so this wasn't a retirement. If I had to guess, it has to do with his long time employers stepping away from the team he has worked for for so long, and seeing now as a perfect time to explore something else, or perhaps to continue his work with the Pohlads in a different venture. 

That it is happening now for one of two reasons. One, the Twins went to the General Manager meetings without a general manager, and were embarrassed, or two, St. Peter wants to start the countdown. I wonder then if that means the Pohlads are making progress on a sale. There were some rumors that Glen Taylor might be a suitor, and maybe, just to pull at every string, this might be related to the ongoing arbitration over the sale of the Timberwolves. 

Regardless of what falls out of this, the first major shoe has dropped in the Twins offseason that will have many such instances. Zoll is the GM now. All hail Zoll.