Brock Beauchamp

We're down to semantics at this point. It appears some had Bichette listed as a SS, others as a 2B. From MLB.com:

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1. Bichette was drafted as a shortstop. He played just 30 games at second base in the minors, with his last appearance there in 2019. 2. Lewis played five games at second base in the minors, with four of them coming in the AFL. I think it's fine that Lewis was worried about moving to second. I would be, too. I also think it's fair to look at Bichette, who basically hasn't played at second since he was nearly a teenager (20), and wonder why he was able to do it on literally the biggest stage ever, while Lewis could not do it on a much lesser stage.

He made a really nice play in the field, to boot.

You didn't, but welcome to Twins Daily anyway! 😄

Hardware acceleration was the most likely solution I found as well.

@Mike Sixel and @The Great Hambino, keep an eye out for the email popup, and let me know if the blinking is linked to its appearance in any way.

@Mike Sixel @The Great Hambino try disabling hardware acceleration, see if the problem disappears. Go to Settings > System. Toggle off Use hardware acceleration when available. Relaunch the browser when prompted.

@Mike Sixel are you on Chrome as well? Windows? I'm getting scattered reports of this happening, trying to find a common denominator. I do 90% of my work on Chrome for Mac, never seen this even once. Strange. Are you running any kind of ad blocker or plugin in Chrome?

Hello again, Twins fans! Twice a year, I sit down and find the most popular posts and blogs on Twins Daily, and their creators receive prizes for their contributions to the sprawling behemoth that is Twins Daily. While the 2025 Twins season was quite the disappointment, many of you stuck it out through a difficult summer of bad baseball. We look at the most popular posts and blogs created by our users. Let's dive into the most popular content of the 2025 MLB season. Most Popular Post Both our most popular post and the runner-up post came from the same topic in 2025: the day after deadline day. As Twins fans were reeling from an inexplicable deadline rush, fans clamored to figure out what was going on at 1 Twins Way. The most popular post of the entire season was @ashbury, and yet another of his generally level-headed takes on the deadline. For this well-liked post, you win an autographed bat from former Twin Kyle Lohse! Is this the bat Kyle used to bash in Twins manager Ron Gardenhire's door back in the mid-2000s? I'd like to think it is. Please private message @Brock Beauchamp with your address so I can ship this fun prize to you! Also, you have no idea how long it took me to find an autographed Kyle Lohse bat. Most Popular Post Runner-Up Coming from the same topic as the most popular post is @CarpetGuy's desire to see the Twins play more like the Milwaukee Brewers, a common refrain in Twins Territory after the Brew Crew annihilated the Twins in their mid-summer matchup. Thank you for your contribution, CarpetGuy! Most Popular Blog Post In early July, Twins fans were largely split on what course the team should take at the trade deadline. By the end of July, the answer was obvious. But on July 4, @LA VIkes Fan wrote up a convincing blog post that the team should be playing for 2026 and beyond, outlining the deadline they'd like to see the Twins take at the end of the month. For this well-liked post, you win this box of 1987 Topps cards! Please private message @Brock Beauchamp with your address so I can ship this fun prize to you! Most Popular Blog Post Runner-Up This is the shortest blog post to ever make this list, but it's a good one. While attending a high school baseball game in North Carolina, @tarheeltwinsfan met Luke Napleton, whom the Minnesota Twins had just signed. Napleton ended up playing 26 games across Single-A and High-A in 2025. Thanks for the entry on this nice little interaction with a ballplayer, tarheeltwinsfan! Most Prolific Poster We always like to hat-tip the poster who earned the most reputation points, which are given based on the number of posts, how many users liked that content, and other metrics. It's always fun to welcome a new face to this award, and in the 2025 season, it was @Patzky! Thanks for being such a great contributor to Twins Daily! Prolific Players Project Poster This is a new category and one I want to bring a lot of attention to, as the Players Project (as far as I know) is a feature entirely unique to Twins Daily. It's a wiki-style project that allows every Twins Daily user to create and edit pages for their favorite Twins players, past and present, and create a working repository of information, videos, and much more for every player to don a Twins uniform. @William Malone continues to be a Players Project machine, and for that they are now proud owners of this very cool Dave Winfield autographed baseball! William, private message @Brock Beauchamp and let me know your mailing address! Why Dave Winfield? Because William created the Dave Winfield page, naturally. That's all for this season, folks. Give a round of applause to all of those mentioned in this piece and here's to a successful offseason for the Twins! View full article

It's hard to predict how this offseason will unfold, as there is an increasing chance of (yet another) MLB lockout following the 2026 season. Will teams spend big this offseason, hoping to create surety in the face of an unknown collective bargaining agreement? Or will they be hesitant in hopes of a favorable outcome for ownership groups? No matter how it shakes out, teams will need to compete in the 2026 season, and they'll need to sign free agents this winter. DiamondCentric has compiled a complete list of free agents, sortable and searchable by pretty much any metric you need. Looking for a first baseman? A catcher? We have you covered. We offer two pages for your reference: one for position players, the other for pitchers. Free Agent Hitters In the 2025-2026 MLB Offseason Complete List Of 2025-2026 MLB Free Agent Hitters DiamondCentric.net Here is a complete list of free agent hitters in the 2025-2026 MLB offseason. Free Agent Pitchers In the 2025-2026 MLB Offseason Complete List Of 2025-2026 MLB Free Agent Pitchers DiamondCentric.net Here is a complete list of free agent pitchers in the 2025-2026 MLB offseason. View full rumor

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With Trey Yasavage's dominant performance in the postseason coming only 15 months after he was drafted, it raises the question of whether it's more common for draft picks to debut a calendar year after they were selected. Jamie and Jeremy break down the numbers to see if that is the case. View full video

It says a lot about this team that no one posted about it. More of the same in Twins Territory: empty statements, unfulfilled promises. Why *should* anyone care about this presser?

Funny you ask because in the latest Gleeman and the Geek Patreon episode, Aaron said what I said almost verbatim. I don’t have a direct source, but it’s widely understood that Baldelli wasn’t making that kind of decision given how the entire organization is structured.

Baldelli didn't choose his coaching staff, that's yet another mark against the front office.

At least the good thing about billionaire families is that they age like wine, each generation is smarter and more capable than the one before it.

Falvey hasn't been good, either. But he built a $160m payroll team that was slashed back to $130m the moment they had some success. It's hard to maintain a winner when you lose $30m in free agent money right in the middle of your big contention play. Now, Falvey also pivoted *horribly* when this happened (he didn't really do anything, like at all), but the initial problem comes from the top. I suspect the Twins, a very middle-of-the-road market, is going to have a much smaller payroll than Milwaukee next season, and that's embarrassing for the Twins. Fans shouldn't tolerate that kind of bottom-of-the-barrel ownership, they deserve better.

Rocco probably needed to go, but I can't work up any energy about this because the Pohlads are still here, and they're far and away the biggest problem right now.

Well, this is it. (W