ORLANDO — The Twins are planning on hanging onto their stars at this time. Now, the question for the remainder of the offseason is how they can best build around them and bring the team back to a competitive level.

This, Twins president of baseball and business operations Derek Falvey had maintained all along, was his hope, though he admitted he didn’t always know if it was path the team would take.

Given the team’s financial situation and on the heels of last July’s sell off, rumors had swirled about starting pitchers Joe Ryan and Pablo López. Even Byron Buxton, who holds a no-trade clause, had been the subject of speculation, with a report suggesting he might waive it if the team was headed into a rebuild. López and Buxton are the team’s highest-paid players and if rebuilding was the p

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