The Minnesota Twins ousted longtime GM Terry Ryan (1994-2007 & 2011-2016) and brought Thad Levine in to fill the void. Levine was brought over from the Texas Rangers, where he had been serving as the assistant GM since 2005. He was tasked with rebuilding a Twins organization that was coming off of a franchise worst 59-103 record in 2016.
Levine didn’t have as active of an off-season as many Twins fans might have liked, but maintained that he had graded the roster to be much better than the 59 wins that they posted the season before his arrival.