Brian Dinkelman will be the second manager of the St. Paul Saints since minor league baseball reorganized in 2021.
The 42-year-old former major leaguer has managed in the Twins organization for seven seasons, all of them with winning records.
He replaces Toby Gardenhire, who joins new Twins manager Derek Shelton’s major league coaching staff.
Dinkelman played 23 games for the Twins in 2011. A utilityman, he played for eight seasons in the organization after being an eighth-round pick from McKendree University.
He has a 443-348 record as a minor league manager. He managed Class A Cedar Rapids (Iowa) for six seasons and was at Class AA Wichita last season.
Cedar Rapids had the best record (82-50) in minor league baseball in 2023, winning the Midwest League title, and Dinkelman was Baseball America’s minor league manager of the year.
Dinkelman started in the Twins system as a coach in 2015 in the Gulf Coast League. He was hitting coach for Cedar Rapids for three years before taking over as manager.
The Saints coaching staff will include pitching coaches Carlos Hernandez and Ryan Ricci, and hitting coaches Shawn Schlecter and CJ Baker.
