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. Following conversations with ownership on 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. Now, the fate of the whole coaching staff beyond Baldelli is up in the air. Baldelli, the first manager Falvey hired, got the job in late October, and now the search for his replacement is underway.