Top 25 Most-Viewed Twins Daily Articles of 2024 (Part 1: 21-25)

[Seth Stohs]

With 2024 coming to a close, it's time to look back at the most-viewed articles on this site. Do you have your favorites? 

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2024 was a year filled with ups and downs. Twins fans were excited coming into the year after the team ended its playoff losing streaks. Then we heard about payroll being cut. Then came the Joe Pohlad "right sizing" comments came out during spring training. But over a stretch from mid-April until mid-August, the Twins had one of the top records in baseball. Carlos Correa had returned to All-Star form, but his plantar fasciitis returned and he missed two months. Byron Buxton missed a month. Several young, immensely talented hitters just stopped hitting. The team found themselves falling from second place to fourth place in the division. 

While the Twins haven't had a lot of news (other than the Pohlad family announcing they are looking into selling the organization, the Ishbia Brothers are contemplating a purchase, and the Twins got Mickey Gasper from the Red Sox for Jovani Moran), Twins Daily has continued to pump out multiple articles every day. 

365 days. That's a lot of articles, but today we'll start talking about the 25 most-viewed articles at Twins Daily in 2024. 

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#25: Twins Make Seven Roster Cuts as Spring Training Ends
Ted Schwerzler 
March 26 

The Opening Day roster is a huge deal for players and for fans. Sure, roster changes sometimes start on Day 2, but lining up on the baseline on Opening Day is pretty special. Just a couple of days before Opening Day, the Twins set their 26-man roster by sending seven players to minor-league camp. All seven were not on the 40-man roster, so none were surprises. Veteran relievers Matt Bowman and Jeff Brigham were sent down. So was catcher Brian O’Keefe, who the Twins released before Opening Day. Former Twins utility player Niko Goodrum was back in the organization. He didn’t make the Opening Day roster and was traded to the Rays 40-man roster shortly after this. Twins prospects Chris Williams, Michael Helman and Anthony Prato also stayed with the big-league club throughout all of spring training. Helman made his debut in September. 

#24: Royce Lewis Has Run Out of Gas 
Nick Nelson 
September 9 

In mid-June, Royce Lewis was quoted as telling hitting coach David Popkins, “Hey, I don’t do that slump thing. That’s not a real thing for me.” As you know, he proceeded to slump most of the final two months of the season. Much was made of the quote, and it obviously is easy to make a meme around it. The rest of his quote is just as important. He continued by saying, “I understand that that’s a thing, baseball, you’re going to go into a slump or whatever, but for me, I don’t have that mindset. It’s a new day.” In other words, he knows there are slumps and they will happen to everyone, but he keeps telling himself that each day is a new day and what has happened in the past doesn’t need to affect today. After dominating through his first 40 games of the season, his numbers certainly regressed in the second half. 

#23: The Writing Seems to be on the Wall for Alex Kirilloff
Eric Blonigen 
August 18 

The Twins top pick in the 2016 draft, Alex Kirilloff was deemed a natural-born hitter. When healthy, he showed a solid approach, used the whole field and showed real power potential. Unfortunately, in the minor leagues and in the big leagues, he missed significant time for a variety of reasons. Wrist injuries were frequent and frustrating. Again, when he played pain-free, he showed what he was capable of. However, he’d slump, not say anything and really struggle. Then we would find out he’s been playing hurt. The same happened in 2024. When the Twins optioned him to Triple-A, he let them know about his back pain. Fans started questioning whether he could ever stay healthy, and some even questioned his will to play. (which is never fair) Less than two months later, we learned just how serious his back pain was when he retired from baseball. He needed a back surgery that will hopefully allow him to live a normal, pain-free life with his family. However, he will not be able to play baseball again. 

#22: Carlos Correa Trade Buzz is Heating Up
Nick Nelson
November 9 

Carlos Correa has a full no-trade clause in his contract, but that certainly won’t stop teams from calling up Derek Falvey and asking about the Twins All Star shortstop. It only makes sense. Some of the big market teams are looking for a third baseman, and that is something that Correa could do. He’s had plantar fasciitis that have cost him two or three months the past two seasons. Other teams are aware of the Pohlad’s comments on lowering payroll. Correa is owed $128 million over the next four seasons. He also has four option years beyond that where his salaries drop from $25M to $20M to $15M and $10M. I would guess the odds of a Correa trade are pretty low, but the Twins should take the calls and see what teams are willing to offer. 

#21: Core or Out the Door: Twins Trade Candidates
Cody Christie
November 3 

At the conclusion of the season, Cody posted a two-part series on 10 top Twins players. For each, he basically asked if the player is part of a long-term core or if the player is potential trade candidate. The group of five players includes arguably the top five players on the team. Do you agree with his assessment on how likely each is to be traded?   

Over the coming days, you'll be able to see what the Top 20 most-viewed articles at Twins Daily in 2024.  What were some of your favorites of the year? 

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[Cory Engelhardt]

Any chance for a 4,000 page coffee table book that is just the comments from the Brian Dozier trade thread years ago? :)

[Mike Sixel]

Always a good day when Seth posts!

[Blyleven2011]

Thanks Seth for the end of the year twins daily roundup on articles ...

Could you please add the number of viewers for each  ???

Doing a survey  ...

Thanks and happy new year ...

[Richie the Rally Goat]

7 hours ago, Cory Engelhardt said:

Any chance for a 4,000 page coffee table book that is just the comments from the Brian Dozier trade thread years ago? :)

That would be some very small font