{"id":175546,"date":"2025-09-28T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:22:07","slug":"minnesota-twins-owner-joe-pohlad-keeps-faith-amid-season-fire-sale-and-decision-to-keep-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175546\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins owner Joe Pohlad keeps faith amid season fire sale and decision to keep the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">It was 2007, the year after a magical Twins\u2019 season: Johan Santana\u2019s Cy Young award, Justin Morneau\u2019s MVP, Joe Mauer\u2019s batting title. For weeks, Pohlad trudged to the neighborhood coffee shop in Portland, Mass., returned to his place and switched on baseball. It brought peace. \u201cSomething about baseball,\u201d he said, \u201cfilled my cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">One day, feeling like a deadbeat, he called his older brother, Tom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">His brother voiced what later would seem obvious: \u201cWhy don\u2019t you consider moving home and working for the Twins?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">When he joined the team later that year, it wasn\u2019t as the anointed one. He met with then-team President Dave St. Peter to chart a path toward a broad understanding of the business. Employees got to know him as a person, not an owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cJoe never played that ownership card,\u201d St. Peter said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t want the fast track. He knew this was the long game.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t out of the movies where the owner dies, the son takes over and he was born on third base,\u201d said another childhood friend, Thomas Simmons. \u201cHe deeply cares about the Twins.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was 2007, the year after a magical Twins\u2019 season: Johan Santana\u2019s Cy Young award, Justin Morneau\u2019s MVP,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-175546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}