Brock Beauchamp

Rogers’ fate should be tied to the fates of Berríos and Buxton. If one goes, all three should go. Maximize your return or try to compete in 2022.

Rogers pitched pretty well in 2020 if you look at his more advanced metrics, he just ran into a healthy dose of bad luck and small sample sizes can blow that kind of thing out of proportion. He wasn’t as dominant as previous seasons but there was solid evidence he’d rebound nicely, just as he’s done this season.

The payroll aspect helps the Twins more than it hurts, I suspect. 1. Outside of Donaldson, all of the Twins’ best trade chips are either cost-controlled or cheap for their performance level. 2. The Twins are likely in a position to absorb some or all of a player’s salary if the other team cannot, which will give them negotiating power to demand a higher return.

Pro tip: never listen to Chief.

By the way, some of you may have noticed your achievements aren't appearing yet... that's because I didn't realize the system needed to rebuild ALL 1.1 MILLION POSTS AND ARTICLES before they'd appear. So yeah, gonna be a few hours before the system can process all those pieces of content. At the very latest, all of this should be wrapped up by the afternoon of July 4th.

Welcome to the brief rundown of Twins Daily’s newest feature, achievements! I’ve been waiting a *really* long time to roll this feature out to users and have spent a rather unhealthy amount of time developing it for the site. I hope you enjoy experiencing it as much as I enjoyed making it. Achievements, or awards, or gamification… you’ve probably run into it before in other avenues of your digital life. Achievements are most common (and were largely born out of) the console video game world, beginning on the Xbox platform in the mid-2000s. Basically, it boils down to this: do stuff, get (sometimes silly) awards and badges for doing it. Over the past month, I’ve designed over 60 custom badges that you can be awarded for performing sometimes mundane, other times complex, tasks across the Twins Daily platform. Comment on a post, get a badge. Write a blog post, get a badge. Vote on a poll, get a badge… you get the point. Do some of these tasks multiple times and sometimes (many times) you’ll get additional badges. If you visit your user profile page, you’ll see it now looks different, with achievements being prominently displayed near the top. With over 60 badges available right now, some of you older, veteran Twins Daily users will start accumulating achievements the moment you begin participating in various aspects of the site, as many (as many as possible, but not all) of the achievements are back-dated to the time you began using the site. So explore the site, try completing some random tasks like post a status update, and see if you get a badge for doing it! As you "achieve" new things, on top of badges, you will also be awarded points. Once you hit certain milestones in points, you raise in rank (out of 14 ranks in total). In the image above, my rank is "draft eligible", the third rank you will achieve. Here is a sampling of a few of the badges you can be awarded right now: Some achievements will be won seemingly at random but I assure you, there is a specific set of items that awarded you the badge (and sometimes, those items need to be completed in a specific order). And some badges will be awarded manually for “exceptional” things done on the site. Those will be the hardest to collect and the rarest achievements available on Twins Daily. And if anyone manages to get them all or one of the *really* difficult-to-uncover achievements, Twins Daily may have some special prizes available to users who can accomplish those rarest of feats on the site…

You didn’t miss anything. Really.

Multiple Twins over the years have been accused and/or convicted of domestic violence so if Donaldson is anyone’s “least liked” Twin, perhaps it’s time to log off this baseball forum and perform some personal reflection on one’s life choices.

He can be a bit of a loudmouth and a lot of a red ass but overall, he irritates me at roughly the same rate he makes me chuckle. So no, he’s not even close to the most unlikable Twin.

He also had no control, which makes me suspect he couldn't grip said ball for *whatever* reason... who knows? What could make someone suddenly lose the ability to grip a baseball?

Nice list. I really like the bite-sized snippets and length of the list to catch up on these guys mid-season. A tip, though… if you include a feature image on each blog post, you’re more likely to get clicks from users browsing the site. The featured image field is just below the content field on the editing page, I believe.

I’m really happy for Gibson but it’s hard to say the Twins gave up on him too early when he was absolutely terrible last season. The Twins didn’t have the luxury of entering 2020 with a reclamation project that had a good chance to be (and was) really bad at baseball.

Lynn was a one-year rental that was traded years ago and Gibson left via free agency over 18 months ago so it's a bit late to be hollering about them leaving the team.

@Squirrel @ashbury This should be fixed now, let me know if you continue to see those kinds of ads.

I think it might take a little more than that (probably a sixth season) but that’s a very reasonable starting point.

@Squirrel Thanks. I started seeing those a couple of days ago but didn’t know if it was widespread or not. I’ll contact the ad provider this week about it. I don’t mind if those pop up on *extremely* rare occasions but I’ve seen them often enough to aggravate me.

This is a reasonable offer in 2008.

I’ve been waiting all season to use this quote except the team refuses to, you know, win any games.

It's an interesting battle for me... do you pay a guy long-term who works so hard and stays on the field, or are you still worried about his lack of size and how that will impact him as he ages? I tend to lean toward the former but the latter still lingers in the back of my mind.