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The Minnesota Twins haven’t made a habit of loading up on All-Star players in recent seasons. Byron Buxton and Joe Ryan both earned the honor last summer.
This summer Major League Baseball will host the midsummer classic in Philadelphia . It remains to be seen who will be tabbed as worthy from the Twins roster. It’s already been determined that skipper Derek Shelton will be there though.
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Derek Shelton will represent Minnesota Twins at All-Star Game
Last season Derek Shelton was working for the Pittsburgh Pirates until he wasn’t. Fired 38 games in , he landed work on MLB Network, but was well-respected amongst his peers. More evidence of that came on Sunday when it was revealed that Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider asked Shelton to be part of his All-Star Game staff.
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“The 2026 All-Star Game is still three months away but the Twins already have someone headed to Philadelphia. As manager of the American League squad, John Schneider gets to add a manager from another team to his All-Star staff, and he has asked Derek Shelton to be that person. Shelton says it is a huge honor. The two were both part of the Blue Jays organization back in 2017 and have had a great relationship ever since. Shelton says for someone to think of you in that high regard professionally is such a huge honor.”
It’s not the first time that Shelton has been named to an All-Star Game staff. He was part of the group Rob Thompson (Philadelphia) assembled in 2023 as well. The MN Twins skipper is new to his current organization as the head honcho, but he was a familiar hire having been part of the dugout staff previously.
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Although Shelton did lose his job with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he took a terrible team through two 100-plus loss seasons and had them flirting with competence in the form of two-straight 76-win campaigns.
Through 15 games, Shelton has the Minnesota Twins owning an 8-7 record. Expectations are not high for this iteration of the club, but it’d be difficult to have substantial negative takeaways thus far. With Shelton coaching the American League All-Star’s, he’ll be hoping to have multiple players from his squad along for the ride.
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