Jeremy Zoll

Maybe finished the season a little bit on an upswing with some better series towards the end.

But just recently had the meeting of, you know, the key decision-makers, Derek Shelton, Jeremy Zoll, Tom Polled, kind of charting a, charting a path forward.

It seemed, you know, it kind of feels like a continuation of some of the messaging we've heard already, but also, you know, kind of Gives you a little bit of a lay of the land for where t- where they're hopefully headed in 2027.

Yeah, I mean, obviously there's a lockout that kind of hangs-

If Royce Lewis fits, he fits.

Um, if not, you know, um, you know, then they're in a position where they can move on.

Um, Tom Pollo and Jeremy Zoll struck a pretty optimistic tone, it felt like, when talking about the future going forward.

And obviously, like you said at the beginning of the segment, like the whole labor thing hangs over this.

But first, our top story today, the Minnesota Twins are right to stand behind Byron Buxton going into the off-season.

So again, as we break down that post-season presser from Tom Pollo, Jeremy Zoll, Derek Shelton, they all said a bevy of different things, um, that are all intriguing and just give you a little bit of a taste of as to where they're at.

A little temp gauge as to what the front office, the ownership, manager is thinking going into the off-season.

And there's a lot of talk about Byron Buxton, of course, throughout the press conference as well.

And here is a quote that Jeremy Zoll had at the press conference talking about Byron Buxton, which is, quote, "We need to get Buxton back through his rehab process," and he says, "But we want to...

Uh, but he wants to be here.

We want him here, and we're really excited about that future together." And look, I'm not gonna tell you Buxton had the best season ever.

But to me, the play is to keep Byron Buxton on the team.

I, I, I don't think you can necessarily look at a guy who wasn't in charge and then tag him with decisions that went wrong when he wasn't in charge.

It, it's a little bit like you look at the decisions Derek Falvey made when he was the Twins general manager or Twins president of baseball operations or whatever his technical title was, and th- they had sort of a similar situation in which Falvey left on the eve of the season and they hired his right-hand man, Jeremy Zoll, to be the, be the general manager of the Twins.

Yes, Zoll and Falvey obviously worked together, but Zoll is different than Falvey and might have his own ways of looking at things, and I think if you look at this season with the Twins, they did do things differently, and I think the same would be true for Hank Stebbins and Khaled El-Ahmad.

Obviously, they worked together.

I know everybody in this room wants me to define what meaningfully is, and I understand that that's a subjective word.

But I'm confident that Jeremy Zoll, if he has conviction about a move that's going to help us improve this roster and help us accomplish our goals, that this ownership, uh, group is prepared to support him with the financial resources he needs.'" Okay, go out and sign Tarik Skubal, uh, and some of the o- the other three top free agent players, pitchers on the market.

That would improve your team, but they're not gonna do that, KB.

I mean, at least that statement made a little bit more sense, you know? It, it wasn't guaranteeing anything, but it was saying, "We understand 100 million's not enough.

Minnesota Twins finished the season seventy-seven and eighty-five.

We did hear from General Manager Jeremy Zoll yesterday in regards to next year and dreaming of roster construction.

Here's Zoll talking about navigating a potential lockout and an unknown offseason and being prepared for all outcomes.

Yeah, I think as we...