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2022 – The Twins remained hopeful following the season that manager Rocco Baldelli’s entire coaching staff would return for the ‘23 season. They will supplement the group with the promotion of Derek Shomon to assistant hitting coach, where he’ll work alongside incumbent hitting coaches David Popkins and Rudy Hernandez. That promotion coincides with a series of other promotions on the player development side, highlighted by farm director Alex Hassan’s promotion to vice president of hitting development and procurement following three seasons in his previous role. Assistant director of player development Drew MacPhail will become the Twins’ new director of player development. Frankie Padulo, who had been working on Baldelli’s staff as run creation coordinator, will transition out of the dugout and into the front office as the new assistant director of player development. His counterpart, run prevention coordinator Colby Suggs, had been promoted to bullpen coach midway through the ‘22 season. Senior manager of Minor League operations Brian Maloney was promoted to director of Minor League and high performance operations, while senior manager of international administration and education Amanda Daley was also promoted to director of player education.
2018 – News broke late in the afternoon that Joe Mauer had announced his retirement from baseball. “Well played” Joe Mauer, thank you for the memories. Minnesota Twins fans will miss you.
2011 – Former Twins catcher Wilson Ramos, age 24, and now a member of the Washington Nationals was abducted by gun-men in front of his home in his native Venezuela. The kidnapping ordeal of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos ended after two days when Venezuelan police commandos swooped in to rescue him in a flurry of gunfire and arrested five alleged abductors on November 11th. Although shaken, Ramos was unhurt in the incident.
