In a major change to the club’s top-level operations, the Twins announced Friday that they had “mutually agreed to part ways” with Derek Falvey, the team’s president of baseball and business operations.

The Minnesota Twins find themselves in an expected place with spring training rapidly approaching.

After all those years of speaking for a living, Dick Bremer thinks of himself as a listener. On summer evenings, he will tune in to hear a familiar voice amid familiar sounds. He never tires of the crack of the bat and the hum of the crowd,

The Twins started stealing bases at a much higher level in the final two months of last season.