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Left Coast Bias

Matt Wallner hit by pitch

Matt Wallner was hit in the face by a pitch in this afternoon's game versus Mesa.  Looked like his lower jaw.  I happened to be taking photos during that plate appearance - it's a bit out of focus and blurry but I can't help uploading and posting it anyway.  Matt was able to make his way to the training room at the far end of the ballpark under his own power, so I'm hopeful that he escaped serious injury.
ashbury

ashbury in 2021

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Cory Engelhardt's Blog

2022 Offseason Blueprint: Trades for Flaherty, Manaea

I wanted to create a blueprint that would be interesting. I hope you enjoy it! My goal was to have a flexible team (in terms of roster/lineup) and add a good amount of high end pitching via trade and free agency. Let me know what you think. 1) Extend Byron Buxton. He is your cornerstone, and I don't see a way we trade him and are better for it, short or long term. 7/110 with incentives. I'll put him at 15 million for 2022 2) Sign Chris Taylor, 4/60. Opening day ss, but can play anywher
A Look Back

2022 Off-Season Moves by terrydactyls

Welcome to the terrydactyls 2022 off-season moves.  My decisions had a couple of assumptions. 1. Buxton is extended at a base of $15M a year plus incentives. 2. A trade is made with the Miami Marlins.  The Twins trade Kepler, Arraez, Garver, and Wood Richardson in exchange for Sandy Alcantera and Richard Bleier (LHRP).  This seemingly lopsided trade was necessary to balance the trade on baseballtradesimulator.com.  If the trade can be completed with less assets moving to Miami, that's
terrydactyls

terrydactyls in Twins Baseball

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Battle Your Tail Off

Introducing the Head 2 Head Debate Forum!

Several months ago, user @mikelink45 contacted me via private message and asked "why don't we have a debate forum on Twins Daily?" I didn't have a good answer to that question, as the idea of such a thing had never crossed my mind. Roll forward to today and we're excited to announce the Head 2 Head Debate Forum! The premise is simple: two Twins Daily users - names obscured to prevent bias in voting - square off on a single topic over the course of a week and the Twins Daily community v
Brock Beauchamp

Brock Beauchamp in Twins Daily

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Left Coast Bias

Your 2021 Scottsdale Scorpions!

I'm in Scottsdale for 3 days in the late-autumn sun.  Well, no sun tonight, but it was a nice evening for a ballgame despite a sparse crowd of under a thousand, with the always convivial baseball fan Mrs Ash attending with me at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick tonight, where we witnessed the Rafters at home defeat "our" Scottsdale Scorpions 3-2.  Two Twins prospects were in the starting lineup, Andrew Bechtold playing third base and Michael Helman in left field.  Bechtold showed a willin
ashbury

ashbury in 2021

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Mahlk

Checking in on the Twins 2021 Draft Class: Part 2

As you know, the MLB draft is vital to team success. Although the impact might not be seen immediately like in the NFL or NBA, the draft is still how great teams are built. If you haven't checked out Part 1 yet, I encourage you do so if you want to read about our first 11 picks of the 2021 draft. Without a further ado, let's hear about our new draftees!     Round 11, Pick 339: Brandon Birdsell, RHP, Texas Tech   Did not sign   Round 12, Pick 369: Kyler Fedko, O
Andrew Mahlke

Andrew Mahlke in Draft

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Greg Allen

My 2022 Blueprint using TD Spreadsheet

Here’s my Twins 2022 roster. Like Nick’s plan, there are moving parts where Donaldson DHs a decent amount and Miranda plays 3B, 1B, DH. Kirilloff takes over for Max Kepler in RF. Kepler just hasn’t been able to change from an ineffective pull first approach. I see Kirilloff as a hitter who can use more of the field and still blossom into a very fine hitter. Hopefully the second-half Sano shows up next year. I’m optimistic about that. I chose Iglesias as the SS for good D and his .271 a
Greglw3

Greglw3 in Greg Allen’s Blog

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Mahlk

Checking in on the Twins 2021 Draft Class: Part 1

The MLB draft is not nearly as popular as the NFL or NBA drafts. In 2021, 12.6 million people tuned in to watch Roger Goodell announce the first round of draft picks. Over the last 10 years, the NBA draft has had between 2 and 4 million viewers. The MLB however, had barely over 1 million viewers in 2021. However, the MLB draft remains very important.   Since 1965 (when the first MLB draft was held), 9 of the Twins top 13 players in terms of WAR were drafted by the Twins. These players
Andrew Mahlke

Andrew Mahlke in Draft

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Blog Sconnie

Sconnie’s 2022 Twins Off-Season Plan

In this scenario the new CBA adopts universal DH. Because of the higher demand for DH, Cruz out price’s the Twins budget. This also makes Sano’s 9 mil and some change contract valuable in trade. Twins trade Sano and his full salary to an NL team for prospects. 130 is a hard budget, no wiggle, including prospects called up and mid-season trades. 2020 and 2021 were challenging for cash flow with much fewer in-person attendees at Target Field. There’s only 1.7 available, it’ll be snug. If some
Levi Hansen

Who Is Or Isn't a Part of Next Year's Team (Hitter's Edition)

This post will be about what hitters I believe will be a part of the 2022 Twins team that hopes to rebound after a 2021 disappointment of a season. There’s some rumors that the Twins might rebuild next year. I don’t think that will be or should be the case because the Twins have some money to spend.  The first player I’ll talk about is Luis Arraez. I believe that Luis stays on the MLB team next year. There have been some rumors that Luis gets traded in the offseason for some pitching that t
Lev's Musings

A 21-22 Offseason Idea

Full transparency: This is not a team intending to compete in 2022.  This team is loading up for 2023. Trades and Extensions: Sign Byron Buxton to a 7 year, 119M contract with incentives Trade with Florida Marlins - Mitch Garver for SP Sixto Sanchez  Trade with New York Mets - Josh Donaldson (plus 14M spread over two years) for RP Jose Butto Let Colome walk.  Release Austidillo, Refsnyder, Minaya, and Cave. Free Agency:  Sign Corey Seager a 5 year 27M contract
TheLeviathan

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Mahlk

What should the Twins offer Byron Buxton?

Back in March, Matthew Trueblood wrote an excellent article on Twins Daily about what a potential Byron Buxton extension would look like. Now, obviously this was before Buxton’s phenomenal (injury plagued, but still phenomenal) 2021 campaign. After the season Buxton had, his value for a future extension skyrocketed. With Byron Buxton up until about 2019, the main question was always: “Will he be able to hit major league pitching?”. He always played phenomenal defense, ran the bases ridiculo
Andrew Mahlke

Andrew Mahlke in Buxton

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Off The Baggy

Which Free Agent Starter Fits the Twins?

After unloading Jose Berrios at the trade deadline, watching Kenta Maeda go under the knife, and seeing Michael Pineda hit free agency, the Twins starting rotation is bare. Who is the top choice to bolster it?  As of right now you’d have to bank on either Bailey Ober or Joe Ryan being the Opening Day starter in 2022 for Rocco Baldelli. Both showed well in their rookie seasons, but if that’s the top of the rotation, there’s cause for concern in the year ahead. Minnesota failed tremendously o
Off The Baggy

Did Nick Gordon Do Enough?

This upcoming season the Minnesota Twins have plenty to decide when it comes to their middle infield. They need a shortstop, and while that could be Jorge Polanco, I’d advise them looking elsewhere. Where, though, does that leave rookie Nick Gordon? Playing in 73 games and getting exactly 200 plate appearances, Gordon found himself getting a good amount of run for Rocco Baldelli’s squad. There should have been more opportunity had Andrelton Simmons not clogged things for the entirety of the
A Blog to Be Named Later

Non-tendering Taylor Rogers Would Be a Huge Mistake

I'm seeing a lot of discussion suggesting the Twins may consider non-tendering Taylor Rogers. There's no debate about Rogers's ability or performance, but the concern seems to be whether or not he's worth his projected ~$7MM salary in his final year of arbitration (per MLBTradeRumors). I believe Rogers is worth it and then some. It's not close. Non-tendering Taylor Rogers would be a huge mistake. Below are the 22 free agent contracts offered to relief pitchers in the last three offseas
AChase

AChase in 2021-22 Offseason

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Greg Allen

The greatest Twins game of them all! The very special 1977 Minnesota Twins.

I wanted to relay my experience about what I consider to be the greatest Twins regular season game of them all. I was 21 and listened to the game from Toledo, Ohio on WMAQ in Chicago. I kept score and had the scoresheet for many years after! Harry Carey announced and possibly Jimmy Piersall. The game took place June 26, 1977 with what I consider to be the most talented Twins team ever with the Great tactician/strategist Gene Mauch as manager and his nephew, Roy Smalley playing SS.  The
Greglw3

Greglw3 in Greg Allen’s Blog

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Blog beckmt

My plan for the 2022 Twins (first edition)

1.  Extend Buxton.  If we could get the base done (13  -15 million range), I would urge Jim Pohlad to step and and ok the incentives to make it work.   I am guessing this may be up to  10 million a year.  With Buxton's WAR return, this should be done.  Second issue is that most articles I have read from links on other sites, want Buxton for decent but underwhelming returns, That would be a major mistake.  2.  Donaldson will not bring enough back in a trade, and the Twins would have to eat a
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beckmt in Blogs

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cHawk’s Blog

ALCS/NLCS Predictions!!!

Welp, I was 1 for 2 on my Wild Card picks and 2 for 4 on my Division Series picks. Let’s do the Championship Series’ now. Once again, take these with a grain of salt. ALCS (C as in ”Cheaters”): Boston Red Sox vs. Houston Astros If you told me at the beginning of the year that the Red Sox would make the ALCS I would’ve laughed at you. Yet here they are. This matchup looks like a pretty good one. Both teams have great lineups that both hit for a high average and score a lot of
cHawk

cHawk in Non-Twins Stuff

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Shallow Thoughts - bean5302

Josh Donaldson Crushed Baseballs in 2021

Many people are down on Donaldson thanks to his good, but not exactly great performance at the plate this year compared with his $21MM payday over 2021 and still guaranteed for the next two seasons. The expectation is his legs have all but given up with him coasting into his mid 30s on a big contract as another aging star fading out. The thing is, his batted ball data says Donaldson was absolutely getting the shaft. Donaldson is actually having a career year in terms of the metrics. He’s annihil
bean5302

bean5302 in Twins Players

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bronald3030

offseason

This is my first effort and it will not be long. What a difference a year makes. Last off season we couldn't wait for the year to begin. Most of us viewed the roster to be solid and the pitching to be ok. We mostly thought that the pitching coaching staff could piece together a good bullpen with the additions that were made. We know how that went. We had fun spending money on the players we thought would make us contenders on the Twins Daily work sheet. Expectation was high that this could be th
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bronald3030 in Qffseason

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Notes From The Neds

Let Me Talk About Catchers

The Minnesota Twins have four catchers in the conversation for the 2022 season that I can see - even if some of those conversations aren’t going to be very long. Let’s start with what I consider one of those quick ones.    Willians Astudillo  La Tortuga is a folk hero, and we love him. Everyone loves our relief pitching, chubby base-running, helmet losing backup-backup-backup catcher. But at this point, keeping him on the 40 man is pretty much just keeping someone else with more v
the_neds

the_neds in 2022 Musings

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A Look Back

40 Man Roster and the Rule 5 Draft

Here is one person's thoughts on how to handle the 40 Man roster and the upcoming Rule 5 draft.  I obtained the current roster from MLB.com and the Rule 5 eligibles from a Twins Daily article. There are currently 42 names on the active roster including the 60-day IL and pending free agents.  From this list, I would drop the following: Charlie Barnes Alex Colome Ralph Garza, Jr Griffen Jax  Michael Pineda Devin Smeltzer  Lewis Thorpe  Williams Astudill
terrydactyls

terrydactyls in Twins Baseball

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Off The Baggy

Twins Arbitration Decisions Loom

Today Major League Baseball Trade Rumors put out their numbers for projected arbitration salaries. While they aren’t going to be spot on, the website is often seen as the gold standard in this space. Minnesota has some big names to decide on.   The most notable eligible player here is also the one guy deserving of a long term extension. Byron Buxton will at worst be tendered a new deal, and his projected $7.3 million would be a steal. So too would a new long-term extension with Mi
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