Brock Beauchamp

Let's pretend that last series didn't happen. The Pirates are mostly competent nowadays, should be an interesting series.

I hate late start times on a getaway day.

In general, I agree with the idea of what you're posting here but not the reality because you're using Kepler as the baseline. Kepler is bad against lefties but not awful. He also provides quality defense and pretty solid PAs against pitchers on both sides of the rubber. Swap out Kepler for Wallner or Larnach, though. Swapping in Margot for 2-3 PAs sees a significant improvement in both hitting and defense. With that said, I probably would have cut Margot before Julien (though it's close enough that I won't criticize their move too much, either). But that has a lot to do with Margot not playing center field, which is the insurance I wanted to see when they rostered Margot.

In the Twins' case, a short-side platoon makes sense in the outfield. The problem is that Margot is bad against righties and just okay against lefties. If his splits were more extreme, it'd be easier to swallow his lack of performance against righties because you'd be replacing really bad LHP performance from Kepler/Larnach/Wallner/etc with really good performance.

And this is the crux of the matter. The Twins have a decent farm system and it's hard to find those 20-year-old superstars... but they kinda had one in Royce Lewis and he keeps blowing up his body. The Twins have absolutely zero control over that. The first time Lewis blew up, it was the offseason and he slipped on ice. I complained vocally about playing him in center without more experience so I do partially blame them for the second injury. But it was the first injury that prevented him from debuting at a much younger age, which is the point we're talking about here. Couple that with how the Twins draft in the first few rounds and it's no surprise that their only young superstar was the guy they took 1-1 in the draft. Maybe Walker Jenkins has a shot to be that guy but he missed the first two months of this season so that's unlikely as well.

Well, here we go again.

There is a minor controversy but no one I've seen is seriously pushing for Chourio to be demoted. The Brewers offense is rolling and giving Jackson some playing time still seems like a good idea.

Okay, listen. I run multiple baseball sites for multiple teams. The stuff you're comparing here is apples and oranges. First, the Twins tend to draft top-heavily on college athletes. That basically eliminates any draftee debuting before age 22-23. Second, Lewis literally blew up his leg just when the Twins were thinking he could become a key piece in the coming year. Third, Lewis still debuted as a 22-year-old after blowing up aforementioned leg. Every once in awhile, a team gets a Jackson Chourio and that player is literally MLB-worthy as a teenager. It doesn't happen often. When it does, huzzah! That's amazing! But for the bulk of MLB players, especially on a team that goes top-heavy in drafting collegiate players, it's not going to happen often. Are the Twins good right now? Yes. Do they have good players on the farm? Yes. So what exactly is the problem here?

Charles (Chili) Davis had a long and illustrious career in Major League Baseball; drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 11th round of the 1977 MLB Draft, he debuted in 1981 and played with the Giants through the 1987 season. He moved to Anaheim and played with the California Angels for two years before landing at the part we care about, the 1991 Minnesota Twins. Davis, coming off a solid 1990 season with California (114 OPS+), signed a two-year, $4.5 million deal with Minnesota in January of 1991. The Twins, coming off a last-place finish in 1990 but maintaining some pieces from the core of the championship-winning 1987 squad along with some promising farmhands, signed Davis (along with Jack Morris) in an attempt to return to relevancy. Davis did all the Twins asked of him and more, posting a 141 OPS+ with 29 home runs in the 1991 season. He switch-hit in the middle of the resurgent Twins lineup, leading the team in several categories on his way to a 3.3 rWAR as the primary designated hitter. In the postseason, Davis was just as crucial to the Twins success as he had been during the regular season. In the ALCS, he went 5-for-17 with two doubles against the Toronto Blue Jays and then 4-for-18 with two home runs against the Atlanta Braves in the World Series. In game two of the World Series, his two-run home run pushed the Twins to a narrow 3-2 victory over the Braves. Davis stayed with the Twins in 1992 and continued his productive ways, posting a 130 OPS+ over 529 plate appearances. Many of the balls he saw fly over the fence in 1991 became outs or doubles in 1992, as his home run count dropped from 29 in 1991 to just 12 in 1992. He recovered value by raising his batting average by roughly 20 points and raising his on-base percentage to a near-elite .386 that season. 1993 saw Davis return to the California Angels where he struggled for one year. Move the calendar to 1994 and Davis resumed smashing the ball, posting a 148 OPS+ in 1994 and a 146 OPS+ in 1995. Davis continued his career with the Angels, made a brief stop in Kansas City with the Royals, and landed in New York as a roleplayer for the re-emerging Yankees teams of the late-90s. Chili Davis retired after the 1999 season. View full player

LOL at everything about that "double".

narrator: we did not see this

Oh hey, so MLB didn’t totally screw up the Roku thing. If you have MLB.tv, the game is not blacked out in-market.

Great win last night, let's do it again.

I recently changed the blog feature system so that the most recent blog is promoted around the site until it is replaced by another blog. All of the user blogs should be shared on our social channels as well so they're definitely getting eyeballs. I haven't checked in recently but most blogs have at least a couple of hundred readers per entry. Some spike up into the thousands.

I'm looking to beef up our caretaker content across all three sites and I'm looking to some of the independent statheads from FanGraphs, BP, etc. to fill this need. So while we likely couldn't get an FG staffer, some of their freelance peeps are definitely on my radar. Whose stuff are you reading consistently and think they might make a good addition to Twins Daily?

Ken Rosenthal in his recent roundup for The Athletic, mentioned that it's likely the Miami Marlins will be looking to deal pitchers at this trade deadline. They already moved Luis Arraez to the San Diego Padres early in the season and with new President of Baseball Operations Peter Bendix tasked with rebuilding a painfully depleted Marlins farm system, it's likely he will use the trade deadline to build out the farm system. Three names mentioned are starting pitchers Jesus Luzardo and Braxton Garrett while reliever Tanner Scott is also likely to be dealt. Scott is on an expiring contract this season but starters Luzardo (free agent after 2026 season) and Garrett (free agent after 2028 season) are long-term pieces that would require a hefty prospect price. While it's questionable whether the Twins will be in the starter market at the trade deadline, their volatile bullpen performance could make Scott an appealing trade pickup. View full rumor

Please do!

By the way, we encourage people to share stuff like this whenever they come across it. We also allow self-promotion when it's relevant. If it's interesting to Twins fans in pretty much any capacity, it's worth a share on TD.

The project is open to all players who played at any level with the Minnesota Twins. That way if someone is friends with or related to a Twins minor leaguer - past or present - they can create a page for that player.

The biggest upside to cutting the cord is fluidity of services. You can cancel Fubo in two minutes and move to YouTube TV. No contracts, no obligations, just month-to-month service.

Seth Lugo is 8-1? What in tarnation is happening here? BTW, another win please.

There's absolutely no reason to "let this go". It's crappy, it's destructive, and it's entirely the making of a bunch of billionaires who want more money from us.