Brock Beauchamp

It has been fascinating to me how quickly Pittsburgh elevated to "pitching gurus" and plunged to "hot mess" over the course of 3-4 years, tops.

Have there been any reports on who the Twins might be targeting at 61?

The last thing I EVER want is for my favorite team's draft coordinators to draft as if their job is immediately on the line. Woof, that would lead to some truly terrible outcomes given how the MLB draft works and the timeline it operates on.

Failures of past front offices should have little to no bearing on the actions of the current front office.

As a long time forum resident/owner, I've lost track of how many Joe Bensons there have been over the past 20 years (ie. players that were released to great internet outrage, only to amount to absolutely nothing in MLB, if they ever even got there).

Game length: 2:23 Seeing that in the box brings a tear to my eye.

It would be quite an unexpected bonus for him to string together a few starts and actually get traded for something non-worthless.

It was actually one of the better baseball games I’ve seen all year. Fast paced, crisp, and engaging.

Damn, this is some outstanding work. Well done.

That also surprised me in your blog entry. I took a moment to go "wait wut".

"Who I want to see help" and "who is going to help" are two different questions given the number of MiLB pitching injuries we're seeing right now.

You consider trading them because you don’t believe the Twins can compete in 2022 and both players are free agents after that season. If you can’t compete in 2022, it’d be downright foolish *not* to trade them, frankly.

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.