Twins sale still likely, but not before Opening Day expectation

There is still the belief that the Twins “will be sold, despite some outside rumblings that the club ... is not getting the offers the family seeks,” though it may take “as long as another six months before a new owner assumes control,” according to La Velle Neal III of the MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE. The Twins in January indicated that they “hoped that a new owner would be identified by Opening Day.” The sales process “began in earnest in January under the assumption that franchise sales normally take around six months to complete.” A source said that the Twins “still believe a sale could be completed within that six-month time frame.” However, Neal wrote that sounds “more ambitious to me with each passing day.” Chicago-area billionaire Justin Ishbia has been the “only known suitor for the Twins,” but he moved on to the White Sox after it was learned that he and his brother, Mat, owned some shares of that club. Sources said that there “remains interest in the club from within and outside of the Twin Cities.” (MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 3/12).