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Hello and welcome to episode 2434 of Effectively Wild

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I'm a rally of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

From po-bos to no-boast. Derek Falvey, out as both president

of baseball operations and president of business operations at the test. So we knew you chewed too much,

you bit off too much. You can't do both of those jobs. It's an affront against front offices.

And chewing. Yeah, that too. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, uh, you're just, you're daring to be

smited, smitten smited. I don't know. But if you, you take on those two jobs, I don't actually

know what happened here. It doesn't seem like

anyone does as we report. It doesn't seem like it. No. More will come out probably. But it's odd

timing for sure to have him out what, like 10 days before pitchers and catchers report. They've had a

whole offseason to part ways if they were going to

part ways and i know there's been a lot of upheaval with the twins and new minority owners

and the we are going to sell and no we're not going to sell and then there's a a new control person

there's a new polad in charge. So perhaps meet meet the new bus,

same as the old bus. I guess not the same, but still, same family, probably too close for

comfort for Twins fans. So maybe it had to do with all of that. Maybe there's history with him

and Tom Pollad or maybe he got frustrated with another kind of inactive offseason for the twins.

They're pitching this as a mutual parting of ways.

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