“We’ll have a new process by then with our new limited partners involved,” he added.
The Twins will enter the offseason with a lower baseline payroll and trade speculation is certain to hover over starters López and Joe Ryan.
The Twins carried a team-record $164 million payroll during 2023, when they ended a 21-year drought without winning a playoff series, but they haven’t ranked in the top half of the league in payroll since 2011.
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