Brock Beauchamp

Would you call him up today?

SAT SUN MON TUE WED TOT Taylor Rogers 0 8 0 0 12 20 Kendry Rojas 0 0 0 0 35 35 Justin Topa 10 0 0 17 17 44 Garrett Acton 0 29 0 0 0 29 Eric Orze 15 0 0 0 11 26 Cole Sands 12 0 0 23 0 35 Anthony Banda 0 0 0 18 0 18 Andrew Morris 0 47 0 0 0 47

How you feelin' about this team right now?

The stoppable force meets the movable object. THU FRI SAT SUN MON TOT Taylor Rogers 0 0 0 8 0 8 Kody Funderburk 0 8 10 0 0 18 Justin Topa 0 11 10 0 0 21 Garrett Acton 0 0 0 29 0 29 Eric Orze 0 0 15 0 0 15 Cole Sands 0 20 12 0 0 32 Anthony Banda 0 0 0 0 0 0 Andrew Morris 0 0 0 47 0 47

Yesterday was a great example of why this bullpen is going to be a problem this season. A couple of close losses, but hardly the end of the world. The Twins still look competitive. TUE WED THU FRI SAT TOT Taylor Rogers 22 0 0 0 0 22 Kody Funderburk 0 14 0 8 10 32 Justin Topa 0 13 0 11 10 34 Garrett Acton 0 0 0 0 0 0 Eric Orze 0 12 0 0 15 27 Cole Sands 15 0 0 20 12 47 Anthony Banda 0 24 0 0 0 24 Andrew Morris 0 0 0 0 0 0

In no way am I advocating to spend just to spend, but there were a dozen acceptable bullpen arms available for between $5m and $15m on one-year contracts. That could have done wonders for this team over the first half of the season (I think they're able to patch together more young arms as the season progresses).

My issue with last deadline - and 90% of my issues with the team, really - involve ownership. Sure, you can make a baseball case for trading the entire bullpen and trading Carlos Correa. But from an immediate competitive standpoint, money needs to be spent afterward to rebuild what was lost. Ownership has and continues to refuse to do that. The Twins are playing well, and that's really fun, but let's not fool ourselves. This bullpen is not built for 162.

Sweet Lou and Ol Gregg take a victory lap after the Twins' competitive start and give a thorough rundown player-by-player performance. They also play Higher or Lower than Carlos Correa?, Gregg's broken thumb, and cheap pohlad versus the fans. Listen using Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twins-off-daily-podcast/id1741266056 Listen using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4tb78XlurcPTYYSsARdbD7 Listen using iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-the-twins-off-daily-podcas-167548600/ Listen using Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/nvclbt0w Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twinsdaily View full article

Last year, we changed the ad frequency, and actually lowered it... but over time, it felt like that somehow meant *more* ads in the forums. When I received multiple page loads of ad-post-ad-post-ad, that was enough. So we've locked in ad frequency and no longer allow the ads to "fill" at a percentage rate. Now it's every 4-5 posts, no more than that, ever. As always, if you have issues with ads, or want to voice a concern, please speak up.

If Bradley and Abel are legit starters, it was a success. If more comes down the pipe in time, it becomes a resounding success. While the Twins traded *a lot* of players, they were almost exclusively expiring contracts or bullpen arms. The loss of an entire bullpen hurts for one, maybe one and a half seasons, but the upside on the return is so much more than that.

Eight in MLB.

Sorry C Gangster, starting the thread tomorrow, need to be out of the house all morning. Hey, this team is... fun? How'd that happen? Whatever, I'll take it. FRI SAT SUN MON TUE TOT Taylor Rogers 30 0 0 0 22 52 Kody Funderburk 0 17 0 0 0 17 Justin Topa 12 0 12 0 0 24 Garrett Acton 0 0 0 33 0 33 Eric Orze 0 0 0 23 0 23 Cole Sands 0 22 0 0 15 37 Anthony Banda 36 0 0 0 0 36 Andrew Morris 0 0 67 0 0 67

THU FRI SAT SUN MON TOT Taylor Rogers 0 30 0 0 0 30 Kody Funderburk 0 0 17 0 0 17 Justin Topa 0 12 0 12 0 24 Garrett Acton 35 0 0 0 33 68 Eric Orze 14 0 0 0 23 37 Cole Sands 0 0 22 0 0 22 Anthony Banda 0 36 0 0 0 36 Andrew Morris 0 0 0 67 0 67

Nick Nelson and Sweet Lou Hennessy dive into the past week of Twins baseball, where the club mopped the Detroit Tigers in a four-game series, and then took two of three from the reigning American League Champion Toronto Blue Jays. Listen using Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twins-off-daily-podcast/id1741266056 Listen using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4tb78XlurcPTYYSsARdbD7 Listen using iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-the-twins-off-daily-podcas-167548600/ Listen using Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/nvclbt0w Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twinsdaily View full article