Andy MacPhail was 33 when the Twins officially announced a baseball reorganization in November 1986. MacPhail was set to become the general manager, but the announcement was delayed until Andy was able to convince owner Carl Pohlad that Tom Kelly, then 36, should be retained as manager.
Kelly had been the interim for the final 23 games of the 1986 season.
MacPhail brought in Bob Gebhard, then 43 and with much experience in player evaluation, as a right-hand man.
Ralph Houk, 67 and a longtime manager and then general manager, came in as a consultant. This was done to mollify Pohlad's concern about the youth of the MacPhail-Kelly combination.
The Twins will announce the hiring of Derek Falvey as president of baseball on Monday or Tuesday. He turned 33 on March 19. The title is different (MacPhail was general manager), but the duties are the same: take charge of the baseball department.
There is such disgust with the 2016 Twins, the losingest team in the history of the Minnesota franchise, that those in the public still interested seem to be expecting immediate change from Falvey.
If key people from Terry Ryan's baseball operation such as Rob Antony, Mike Radcliff, Brad Steil and Deron Johnson aren't gone very early, the nothing-has-changed crowd will commence bellowing.
It's hard to say what type of circle of trusted people a 33-year-old who worked for two other men in Cleveland could be bringing on for key jobs on short notice.
