Twins reportedly hiring former Pirates manager Derek Shelton as next skipper Jack Baer October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM 0 Derek Shelton's managerial career will continue in the Twin Cities.
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Jack Baer October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Derek Shelton's managerial career will continue in the Twin Cities.
The Minnesota Twins are hiring the former Pittsburgh Pirates manager as their next skipper, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The move sends the 55-year-old Shelton back to the dugout where he was bench coach in 2018 and 2019 before he took the Pirates job.
Shelton will replace his old boss, Rocco Baldelli, who was fired last month after leading the Twins to a 70-92 record in 2025. Baldelli had been in charge of the Minnesota dugout for seven seasons, leading the club to three division titles.
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This season saw the Twins fully embrace a rebuild, trading away one-third of their active roster at the deadline. They're hardly expected to be better next season, meaning Shelton will be tasked with leading them all the way from one end of a rebuilding cycle to the other.
He should at least have some help coming from the minor leagues. MLB Pipeline ranked the Minnesota farm system as the second-best in the league during the season.
In Shelton, the Twins are getting a veteran manager who was never able to get one of MLB's most infamously stingy teams off the ground. The Pirates never finished higher than fourth in the NL Central in Shelton's five full seasons and topped out at 76-78 in 2023 and '24.
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