The New York Mets are hiring Derek Falvey to a front-office role, ending his nine-year run as president of baseball operations for the Minnesota Twins. The exact title is not yet public, but the structure is clear: Falvey will report to David Stearns, who has held the Mets' president of baseball operations title since October 2023. Two former top-of-house executives now share a reporting line, and the person who outranks them spent $1.2 billion buying the Los Angeles Dodgers' rotation in consecutive winters.
Falvey, 41, ran Minnesota's front office from 2016 through the end of the 2024 season, when the Twins declined to renew his contract after three consecutive playoff exits without a postseason win. His Twins teams went 700-740 overall, made the playoffs four times, and lost 18 straight postseason games across those appearances. The Minnesota payroll ranked 18th in baseball in 2024, down from 12th in 2023. Falvey's replacement, Dave St. Peter, had been team president on the business side since 2002. The phone calls between Flushing and Falvey started before Thanksgiving.
The hire gives Stearns a deputy with GM-level experience in a market where the owner has shown he will spend past the point of institutional memory. Cohen has committed roughly $1.47 billion in major-league payroll since buying the Mets in 2020, including Juan Soto's $765 million deal signed in December. Falvey's Minnesota tenure included six trades involving players making eight figures annually—Edouard Julien for Jorge Polanco, José Berríos for Austin Martin, and four others that moved controllable talent for short-term pitching. The Mets' current strategy is the inverse: Stearns has added $511 million in long-term commitments this offseason alone, with Soto, Clay Holmes ($63 million), and Frankie Montas ($34 million) arriving on multi-year guarantees. Falvey's job will be implementation, not strategy, but his Rolodex includes every agent who worked Minnesota's mid-market sweet spot and every analytics vendor who pitched the Twins when budgets were tight.
The organizational chart now shows Stearns at the top, followed by Falvey and general manager Zack Scott, who has held his title since 2021 and spent the 2022 season on administrative leave following a DWI arrest that resulted in a conditional discharge. Scott's contract runs through 2026. Falvey's arrival creates a three-headed structure where two people have already run their own front offices and one is rebuilding credibility. The internal question is whether Falvey absorbs Scott's GM duties in practice, or whether Scott remains the point person for trades and free-agent negotiations while Falvey handles the infrastructure: amateur scouting, player development, medical staff, international operations. The Mets' 2025 Draft is 89 days away. Their Dominican academy in Boca Chica has been under renovation since 2023. Someone needs to decide which college seniors to slot into the $9.2 million bonus pool, and that someone now has Minnesota's farm system on his résumé.
Watch for Falvey to bring at least one Minnesota executive with him, likely in amateur scouting or player development. The Twins' front office employed 37 people with baseball-ops titles as of Opening Day 2024; 11 of them were hired directly by Falvey. His closest lieutenant, assistant GM Daniel Adler, remains in Minnesota as of now, but Adler's contract details are not public. Also watch the Mets' approach to the international signing period, which opens in January 2026. Falvey oversaw Minnesota's $5.1 million pool in the 2024 class, which signed 14 players and allocated $1.8 million to shortstop Jelfry Marte. The Mets' pool will exceed $7 million if they decline to trade allocation money, and Cohen has not hesitated to move cash across ledgers when the target is young.
The Mets now employ two executives who have already answered to ownership groups, managed payrolls in nine figures, and fired managers mid-season. Stearns did it in Milwaukee; Falvey did it in Minneapolis. The difference is the owner's checkbook and the owner's tolerance for losing in October.
The takeaway
Mets add second ex-GM to front office as Stearns builds depth ahead of **$9.2M** Draft pool and **$7M**-plus international class.
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