Twins Daily's Community Awards: 2023 Season

[Brock Beauchamp]

We just witnessed the most successful Twins season since 2002. Let's congratulate the community members who gave us the best content over 162 games.

Image courtesy of Twins Daily & Brock Beauchamp

It's that time of year again: the Twins Daily community awards!

Before we start with specifics, we'd like to thank everyone who attended an event, commented, or even reacted to some of our content. Without the thousands of people supplementing our content with their insights and opinions, Twins Daily wouldn't be where it is today. Let's get into it.

Most Popular Post
In an unusual twist, the most popular post of the 2023 Twins season was found in a game recap from mid-April. Reliever Brent Headrick had recently been recalled from St Paul and pitched three innings, prompting @McGregor to give some personal insight about attending high school against Headrick and playing basketball against him. I love stuff like this; Twins Daily has such an enormous reach that personal stories about big-league players are not uncommon around these parts. Thank you to McGregor for helping make this site a place to share such stories!

We want to offer you this cool TC-branded dugout mug as a gift!

Most Popular Post Runner-Up
The Arraez-for-Lopez trade was a hot topic all summer as the two players helped lead their teams to postseason berths. As the season wound to a close, @Dman offered this level-headed take that put the first year of the deal into perspective. Thank you, Dman. You've been an excellent poster for years, and this is par for the course with you!

Most Popular Blog Post
Best and worst trades in history are always a fun thought experiment. User @Devlin Clark looks at the worst trade in Twins' history and concludes it was the Carlos Gomez trade. They do an excellent job of breaking down how the Hardy acquisition was good but was ultimately undone with the later trade to the Orioles. It's a pretty nice breakdown, but as a Brewers fan, I'll point out something Devlin missed: if you look at the trade tree, the Brewers later flipped Gomez for Josh Hader and Adrian Houser. No big deal, right?

Anyway, great blog post! We want to gift you this cool Joe Ryan rookie bobblehead. Thank you for the quality content; we hope to see more soon!

Most Popular Blog Post Runner-Up
I love it when new users break into these lists. And it's hard to get much newer than @Jonny Clubb, who only joined Twins Daily in September. In one of their first blog posts, they take the time to break down potential Twins postseason opponents and do a rather comprehensive job of laying the groundwork for October. Well done, and we hope to see more blogs from you in the coming offseason!

Most Prolific Posters
These are the people whose content has become as familiar to the Twins Daily community as the front page writings of Nick or Seth. During the 2023 season, long-time stalwarts @USAFChief and @stringer bell led the way in being the most popular users on Twins Daily. This number is achieved through system "points" awarded through every thread you create, comment you post, blog you write, or reaction you receive. Well done, you two, and thank you for all the great content you bring to the community every day!

It was a fun season that didn't end in a championship, but got more than one monkey off this fanbase's back. Now it's time to look forward to another Falvey offseason, and I'll see you all back here for the next series of awards in Spring Training!

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[Guest]

Yeah, OK, I don't mean to come off sounding bitter, but USAChief and stinger bell won awards for counting stats!! Anybody who wants to type endlessly could have done it won the Most Prolific Posters (MPP). But we here at TD need more than that and need a deeper dive. What was xMPP had the season  gone differently? My xMPP way surpassed both of these award winners if only I had posted!! And I could have posted but, I was afraid to get my rep points into the three digits. So, I guess if you don't care about overexposure their you go.

ACTUALLY, congrats to all the TD award winning posters for their great posts, which I interpret as being done for my enjoyment.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

18 minutes ago, Verified Member said:

Yeah, OK, I don't mean to come off sounding bitter, but USAChief and stinger bell won awards for counting stats!! Anybody who wants to type endlessly could have done it won the Most Prolific Posters (MPP). But we here at TD need more than that and need a deeper dive. What was xMPP had the season  gone differently? My xMPP way surpassed both of these award winners if only I had posted!! And I could have posted but, I was afraid to get my rep points into the three digits. So, I guess if you don't care about overexposure their you go.

ACTUALLY, congrats to all the TD award winning posters for their great posts, which I interpret as being done for my enjoyment.

xMPP+ has you at 157

[Dave Borton]

25 minutes ago, Verified Member said:

Yeah, OK, I don't mean to come off sounding bitter, but USAChief ...

ACTUALLY, congrats to all the TD award winning posters for their great posts, which I interpret as being done for my enjoyment.

I have to read USAChief's post because he DM'd me and said because he outranked me, I had to give him a R&R (read and rec) for every post. I guess my board name should read USAFSSgt (looooooong time ago).

I second @Verified Member post of thanks. I drifted over here because I got frustrated w/posts at a daily newspaper. The knowledge and civility here are remarkable.

Post on.

db

[Brock Beauchamp]

38 minutes ago, Verified Member said:

Yeah, OK, I don't mean to come off sounding bitter, but USAChief and stinger bell won awards for counting stats!! Anybody who wants to type endlessly could have done it won the Most Prolific Posters (MPP). But we here at TD need more than that and need a deeper dive. What was xMPP had the season  gone differently? My xMPP way surpassed both of these award winners if only I had posted!! And I could have posted but, I was afraid to get my rep points into the three digits. So, I guess if you don't care about overexposure their you go.

ACTUALLY, congrats to all the TD award winning posters for their great posts, which I interpret as being done for my enjoyment.

I just noticed your username is Verified Member.

[NeverSeenATwinsPlayoffWin]

51 minutes ago, Verified Member said:

Yeah, OK, I don't mean to come off sounding bitter, but USAChief and stinger bell won awards for counting stats!! Anybody who wants to type endlessly could have done it won the Most Prolific Posters (MPP). But we here at TD need more than that and need a deeper dive. What was xMPP had the season  gone differently? My xMPP way surpassed both of these award winners if only I had posted!! And I could have posted but, I was afraid to get my rep points into the three digits. So, I guess if you don't care about overexposure their you go.

ACTUALLY, congrats to all the TD award winning posters for their great posts, which I interpret as being done for my enjoyment.

I agree that counting stats like posts have no place in modern, analytical blogging. However, xMMP is faulty because it fails to account for the differences in blogger's free time. That's why I like to use xwMMP-FT+, which weights the different kinds of free time (bored on a Saturday, hanging out with friends, on the toilet, etc) based on how many posts a contributor should make in that type of free time. I can confirm that this year's recipients of the MMP award had very high xwMMP-FT+, which makes them unlikely regression candidates.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, NeverSeenATwinsPlayoffWin said:

I agree that counting stats like posts have no place in modern, analytical blogging. However, xMMP is faulty because it fails to account for the differences in blogger's free time. That's why I like to use xwMMP-FT+, which weights the different kinds of free time (bored on a Saturday, hanging out with friends, on the toilet, etc) based on how many posts a contributor should make in that type of free time. I can confirm that this year's recipients of the MMP award had very high xwMMP-FT+, which makes them unlikely regression candidates.

WEL SAID!!! It is insights like these that keep TD in the forefront of baseball fandom interaction, and allows John Bonnes to pay his rent and buy Arron Gleeman some Chinese take out.

[McGregor]

@Brock Beauchamp Thanks so much it is an honor to be a part of the forum! I didn't expect this at all as I have been a lurker for a long time and Brent getting called up finally prompted me to finally start posting. I am so thankful to have seen the Twins win their first playoff game since I was 7 years old. Looking forward to seeing what Brent does next year! Now we just need Falvey to bring another World Series to the Twin Cities.

The weight is lifted off our shoulders so I can say it with pride again: Go Twins! 

 

[Vanimal46]

On 10/27/2023 at 3:40 PM, NeverSeenATwinsPlayoffWin said:

I agree that counting stats like posts have no place in modern, analytical blogging. However, xMMP is faulty because it fails to account for the differences in blogger's free time. That's why I like to use xwMMP-FT+, which weights the different kinds of free time (bored on a Saturday, hanging out with friends, on the toilet, etc) based on how many posts a contributor should make in that type of free time. I can confirm that this year's recipients of the MMP award had very high xwMMP-FT+, which makes them unlikely regression candidates.

Are you a baseball reference BxwMMP-FT+, or FxwMMP-FT- type of person? There's only one clear answer. 

[Craig Arko]

1 hour ago, Vanimal46 said:

There's only one clear answer. 

42.

[USAFChief]

23 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Are you a baseball reference BxwMMP-FT+, or FxwMMP-FT- type of person? There's only one clear answer...

"Yes."