{"id":164420,"date":"2025-09-18T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164420\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:48:10","slug":"minnesota-twins-slash-most-of-their-pro-scouting-department-dismissing-four-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/164420\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins slash most of their pro scouting department, dismissing four scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twins<\/a> slashed most of their pro scouting staff Tuesday, dismissing four pro scouts, sources confirmed to the Minnesota Star Tribune. <\/p>\n

Joining the group of teams that have devalued pro scouts in recent years, cutting travel budgets and relying heavily on video-based scouting, the Twins eliminated the positions of pro scouts Ken Compton, John Manuel, Jos\u00e9 Marz\u00e1n and Keith Stohr. <\/p>\n

The internal downsizing in the pro scouting department leaves the Twins with two pro scouts: Jason Hahn, who is based in Arizona, and Wesley Wright, a pro scout who received the title of pro personnel coordinator last year. The Twins listed 12 pro scouts in their media guide during the 2023 season. <\/p>\n

The latest dismissals come after the Pohlad family announced<\/a> it was no longer exploring a sale of the club. There will be two minor investment groups added to the ownership structure. Both remain unidentified as they await Major League Baseball\u2019s approval, which will help pay down the team\u2019s reported $400 million debt<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Twins hired Compton as one of their pro scouts after the 2006 season, and he was honored by the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation in 2019. Stohr joined the Twins in 2017 after he was an advance scout for the Chicago Cubs, and Manuel, a former editor-in-chief at Baseball America, spent eight seasons inside the organization. Marz\u00e1n started as a minor league coach with the Twins in 1992 before he shifted into scouting. <\/p>\n

In a separate restructuring, the Twins parted with three of their international scouts in Venezuela last Friday. <\/p>\n

Byron Buxton<\/a> recorded his 500th plate appearance of the season in the first inning against the Yankees on Wednesday. It\u2019s the second time he has reached that benchmark during his 11-season career. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a big number because that means you\u2019ve been on the field and you\u2019ve been in the lineup,\u201d said Buxton, who entered Wednesday with single-season career highs in runs (90), hits (121), homers (31), RBI (76) and walks (39). \u201cI\u2019ve been in the lineup, been able to post up every day, not DHing and in center. That\u2019s a positive for me.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins slashed most of their pro scouting staff Tuesday, dismissing four pro scouts, sources confirmed to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-164420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}