The Twins have eliminated four of the five jobs on their pro scouting staff Justin Houston Jersey , reports . Ken Compton, John Manuel, Keith Stohr and Jose Marzan will not have their contracts renewed at the end of the current season. That will leave Wesley Wright as the clubs lone remaining pro scout. As Hayes mentions in the article, cutting down on pro scouts is a league-wide trend. He uses the Cubs as an example, linking to from Sahadev Sharma and Patrick Mooney of The Athletic detailing that clubs move to more analytics and le s reliance on traditional scouting. Hayes writes that the Twins, like the Cubs, have been relying more on video in recent years with far le s travel for in-person scouting. However, even in that example, the Cubs dropped their pro scouting department to seven employees. Thats more than the five the Twins had this year, before dropping down to just one individual going forward. The decision to rely more on analytics and le s on scouting is one that is often debated in baseball circles, going back at least to the Moneyball days and surely even beyond that. However, Hayes says the Twins scaling back the department is about cutting costs, which is potentially ominous for the clubs future. Money has been hovering around the Twins in many ways recently. The clubs regional sports network deal with Diamond Sports Group, now known as Main Street Sports, was not renewed after 2024. That left Major League Baseball in charge of the clubs broadcasting in 2025. Those league-run arrangements are believed to give clubs le s revenue than a healthy RSN agreement. Regardle s, the club came into 2025 hoping to contend and they did so for a while. The Twins were in the playoff race for the early months of the current season but fell out of the race as the trade deadline approached. Many expected that the club would trade impending free agents with the goal of contending again in 2026 but the sell-off ended up being more notable than anticipated. In addition to the impending free agents, they also sold controllable players like and . From a financial point of view, the most notable trade was the one sending to the Astros. Though the Twins ate some money in the swap, they moved the majority of his contract off the long-term books. He was owed approximately $103.4MM through 2028 at the time of that trade, with the Twins staying on the hook for $33MM of that. There were more marginal financial notes as well. For instance, the Twins included in the deal sending to the Tigers, which was seemingly to save them the roughly $2MM still owed to Dobnak. A couple of weeks after the deadline was another notable development. The Pohlad family, which had been pursuing a sale of the franchise, decided to take the club off the market. They were looking for about $1.7 billion, though reportedly were carrying over $425MM in debt. They didnt seem to find anyone willing to meet their asking price and instead sold minority stakes to a pair of new parties. The infusion of cash from selling those stakes to the new partners will reportedly help pay down the debt somewhat, though its unclear to what degree. Hayes notes that the new owners havent yet been officially approved by Major League Baseball. Going into the winter, its not confirmed which direction the club will go for the 2026 season. They did target a lot of MLB-ready talent at the deadline, including players like , , and . That arguably points to the club hoping to remain relevant next year but the continued penny pinching doesnt bode well. If further cost-cutting is a priority, that presumably increases the chances of players like or being made available this winter. Lpez is making $21.5MM annually through 2027. Trading him could be big savings for the Twins but would still have plenty of appeal for other clubs. Ryan is even more of a bargain as hes still in his arbitration years. He is making just $3MM this year and will be owed a raise in the two coming campaigns before hes slated to reach free agency after 2027. Players like , , and are also in their arb years and could be candidates for cost-cutting moves if thats the road the Twins go down. is the clubs other significant salary commitment, next to Lpez, though he has a no-trade clause and has said he would like to remain a . Photo courtesy of Brad Rempel, Imagn Images Jordan Davis Jersey