Molitor on front office: ‘It’s a change, but it’s working’

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — With the late start to the offseason for the new front office, the Twins have been using the Winter Meetings as their own mini-organizational meetings to further analyze their roster.

Twins manager Paul Molitor has been at the Winter Meetings all week as a result, and he said he’s meshed well with chief baseball officer Derek Falvey and general manager Thad Levine. He’s been able to voice his opinion to the new front office on several topics, including the final coaching staff hire, which is expected to come soon and be a coach familiar with analytics.

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“It’s a change, but it’s working,” Molitor said of the new front office. “I feel my opinion has been heard and listened to. Not a lot of action yet, but we’re working on things.”

One change Molitor wouldn’t like to see, however, is trading second baseman Brian Dozier, who is coming off a 42-homer season. Dozier was at the Winter Meetings on Monday, and Molitor said he’d like to see Dozier stay.

“I certainly hope that,” Molitor said. “We all know what Brian has done, the way his career has trended, you know, kind of reaching an all-time high in a lot of ways last year. So he’s a huge part of what we do, right-handed bat with …

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