As Derek Falvey began his last media availability as a member of the Minnesota Twins organization — a Zoom call with a gaggle of reporters — midday Friday, he couldn’t help but think back to his first in November 2016. Falvey, then 33, remembers nervously sitting at a table alongside owner Jim Pohlad and general manager Thad Levine and team president Dave St. Peter when late newspaper columnist Sid Hartman, then in his mid-90s, set down his old-time recorder. Falvey then remembers Hartman asking a question that essentially amounted to “What makes you such a genius?” Only time would tell. Falvey had just been coming off a run as the then-Cleveland Indians assistant general...
