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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The Padres have a glut of talented infielders and their situation only grew more complicated with the signing of Xander Boegarts earlier in the offseason. Unsurprisingly, reports are now emerging that they're taking calls on young shortstop Ha-Seong Kim. The return on Kim would likely be significant. He's 27 years old and under team control through the 2026 season. In only 267 games played, Kim has accumulated 7.1 bWAR, including 5.1 in 2022 alone. Kim was a standout player in the KBO (Korean Baseball Organization), where he played nearly 900 games while posting an .866 OPS. The Padres signed him out of the KBO only two years ago and it's not a stretch to suggest he may not be happy with a bench role given his MLB production thus far. What would it take to trade for Kim? View full rumor
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    More information about "Padres Open to Dealing Shortstop Ha-Seong Kim"
    The Padres have a glut of talented infielders and their situation only grew more complicated with the signing of Xander Boegarts earlier in the offseason. Unsurprisingly, reports are now emerging that they're taking calls on young shortstop Ha-Seong Kim. The return on Kim would likely be significant. He's 27 years old and under team control through the 2026 season. In only 267 games played, Kim has accumulated 7.1 bWAR, including 5.1 in 2022 alone. Kim was a standout player in the KBO (Korean Baseball Organization), where he played nearly 900 games while posting an .866 OPS. The Padres signed him out of the KBO only two years ago and it's not a stretch to suggest he may not be happy with a bench role given his MLB production thus far. What would it take to trade for Kim?
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to Twins Daily! Also LOL at that username.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm also disappointed in the Brewers for their free agent moves... Except for what you called "a very nice trade", which is more commonly referred to as "highway robbery". Milwaukee pulled off the trade of the offseason with that move. Their free agency action has been wildly disappointing but... hell, they really pulled off something else by snagging Contreras AND Payamps for... Ruiz. Are you kidding me?
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I disagree with that, as my problems with the front office mostly stem from procedure, not budget. But to each their own.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Except I didn't actually say any of that. If you go back and read what I wrote, it started with "I'm done with this front office". In no way did I imply everyone should be done with this front office, much less the entire Twins franchise (which are two wildly different things, really). I was venting my personal frustration at the way this front office approaches offseasons and lots of other things. I didn't attack the front office, I just stated I don't like how they operate a lot of the time and that has led to me being apathetic toward the franchise right now. Surely you see the difference between me stating an opinion and me telling someone else - a stranger, mind you - how to be a fan.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    This is kind of how I fan, too. I've spent substantial portions of my life in Minnesota, Wisconsin, San Diego, and Los Angeles. My first team is the Twins. My second is probably the Brewers. Third is the Padres. I was once an Angels fan but having watched that franchise waste Trout and Ohtani for so long, I can't really stomach them anymore. If they returned to not being so wildly incompetent, I may lightly cheer for them again. But notice that none of these fandoms really conflict with one another. I'm not much of a Dodgers fan other than "Vin Scully" because it's hard to cheer on the Padres and Dodgers. That, to me, feels wrong. Others may feel differently and that's fine, too. Fan how you want to fan. Just don't step on my toes with your personal preferences. In the end, I just kinda like baseball. I'll randomly flip on a Pirates/Marlins game because it's so much fun to watch Oneil Cruz play short.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Hah, fair enough. Honestly, I'm just really bored today and am not actually angry about any of this.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    It was probably me the other time, too. Honestly, it's just a slow day and I'm having a laugh over someone challenging a stranger's fandom on the internet because "reasons". It is, on its face, completely absurd.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ve spent the past two decades building, maintaining, and growing websites centered around the Minnesota Twins. Not all of us have the free time to be a super fan like you.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ll write up a registration quiz that involves Byron Buxton, everybody’s grandmas, and the trolley dilemma.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Gotta love gatekeeping fandoms. It’s obviously an excellent use of your time and efforts.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, okay. It's not as if I've lived in something like five states and formed bonds with various teams along the way. I'm pretty sure I'm comfortable fanning the way I want to fan and you go ahead and do it the way you want to do it. News flash: I also want to start a Padres site because I lived in San Diego for almost ten years at the height of Tony Gwynn's greatness and the 98 World Series, which kinda revived my baseball fandom after the strike. Shame on me, I guess.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    You mean the title that clearly states "Preview"?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    No, it's worse than that. I'm apathetic toward the franchise. Maybe that changes by opening day but given the fact I now have a Brewers site to run, I have a new-found excuse to not really care that much about the Twins. But finding a way to retain Correa's services would likely go a long way toward making me care about the team again.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm so exhausted by this situation and this offseason that I'm not even sure I care anymore.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    There weren't many/any "good" contracts handed out this offseason. But those are the realities of free agency and if a team is going to improve, they need to play in the same water as everyone else. Just pretending the baseball landscape didn't change is the one thing the Twins absolutely cannot do and that's exactly what they did this offseason.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to Twins Daily!
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I’m not whining about anything, I was merely replying to your inane comment by pointing out that lots of people do lots of work so you have a place to shoot the breeze.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I have mountains of data that contradict basically everything you’ve said here. Your personal experiences and preferences are not universal.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    You coming here to shoot the breeze is definitely equivalent to me spending tens of thousands of hours over the past decade building out this platform and managing content.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Sorry, we’re going to figure out a better way to call that out in the future. https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/caretakers/how-the-twins-may-have-contributed-to-jorge-lópezs-no-good-very-bad-stretch-exclusive-r13417/
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    You’re absolutely right about the unapologetic part. Parker and Trueblood spend a ton of time researching and writing these pieces and deserve compensation for their effort.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    The fact all ALC teams' fans are annoyed speaks to the aspect of this offseason where roughly eight teams "won" and 22 teams "lost". Almost all the significant free agents went to a handful of teams while everybody else got nothing, or close to it.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I chose the next 2-3 years but I don't even blame the front office for making some of their decisions. But they've stacked bad luck - massive injuries in 2022 leading to a drain of the farm system - on top of bad decisions - not using free agency to fill holes this offseason leading to more trades coming - to kneecap the farm system, and I don't think it's going to get better for awhile. That in itself may sink this front office over the next couple of seasons.
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