Brock Beauchamp

There's time to think about it but they can back-date an IL stint only three days so the decision needs to come soon.

I suspect Maeda hits the IL after today.

Tough crowd in here. Did the Twins get swept? Seriously though, lighten up a bit. It's one game of 162 and the Twins just won the season series against the Yankees for the first time in 22 years. I drove into downtown and wasted two hours of my life at this dumpster fire of a game and I'm not half as mad as a bunch of people in this thread.

It’s 162 games. The team has a four run lead. The opponent doesn’t matter unless you make it matter. And I doubt the players do.

I hate Duran being used here.

One of the better, for sure. But he was a capable shortstop for a couple of years, too.

That was a hell of a play by Polo!

It's sad for Oakland - that team has some amazing history in the town - but frankly, my disappointment is tempered because it's a good personal opportunity for me. We'll almost certainly launch a Vegas site for the team.

Confidently? I don't have a ton of confidence in any specific player but some combination of Larnach, Miranda, Gallo, Kepler, Polanco should come back to life. Hell, maybe even Gordon. The Twins have so many options, which is why I'm not gnashing my teeth. Some of those guys will underperform but some won't.

I'm not concerned, at this point I'm mostly concerned about keeping players on the field. The core group here will hit if they stay even a little bit healthy. They likely won't be an elite offense but they should be middle of the pack at worst.

He has looked like a very different pitcher this season, which was badly needed if this bullpen expects to succeed. Duran, Lopez, and Jax as the bullpen core is really solid.

Set the bar with the lowest expectations possible. I like it.

Demigods cannot be injured.

I like this year's free agent signings and hope the front office is rewarded for making them. Still wish they traded Kepler, though. I didn't like Gallo and Kepler on the same roster and still don't.

I agree with a lot of this, we just differ on how much the offseason pivoted once Correa was signed. The Twins have rather limited trade options. Their farm system isn't great after they depleted it last deadline. They didn't have many expendable assets on the MLB team. They had a lot of money but nowhere good left to spend it.

Yeah, the last several moves changed everything... but to the front office's defense, they started altering some of their approaches late in the previous offseason. They stopped pursuing bad pitchers and instead pursued pitchers with injury concerns... and that didn't work out much better. But it was different. And it was a lot of the smaller moves that I really liked late in the offseason. I've been clamoring for a right-handed, glove-first fourth outfielder for... oh, about four years now. They finally went and got one. Kyle Farmer ended up being a much better move once Correa was signed. Solano again addressed right-handed concerns they had going into the season. For the first time, it felt like the front office was building a team instead of players that were signed because they were a "good deal", not because they were actually good or fit well within the team. They stopped signing flat-out bad pitchers on one-year deals. But all of this comes with issues, too. Their free agent track record is still quite bad. Their vaunted pitching pipeline looks better but still hasn't materialized. The one area I feel this team has done well is in trades and even that history is littered with more than a few clunkers. I'm still unsure of this front office but I'm far more bullish on them today than I was four months ago because they've stopped doing some of the things that drove me batty from 2018-2021.

Qualifying offers can be given to any player but only once in their career.

I was done with them because they had missed on every significant free agent at the time. Not most of them, all of them. Only through the completely unexpected absurdity of the Correa signing were they able to get back on track. It wasn't an emotional response, it was a response to "you have $50m to spend and literally no one worth spending it on". They get, at best, partial credit for Correa. Most of their other moves were good. And let's not pretend that this was the first offseason that looked dire. The offseason before that was... less than spectacular if I'm being generous. Some might have even called it "absolutely awful". They went out and got Correa and were sunk once again by bad pitching signings, a recurring theme of their administration. I wasn't looking at any single move, I was looking at their entire body of work. Which, at best, has been mixed.

Absolutely. They deserve credit for staying firm and not wavering but outside forces played a significant role, too.

Oh, all of this is true but they almost fell into the Correa deal through the weirdest situation I've seen in free agency. It definitely worked out for them but I also can't give them full credit for it. And the entire offseason really hinged around that move that was half patience, half dumb luck.

As much as I've railed on the front office over the past couple of years, they've been doing a hell of a lot right for the past six months, even if the way they get there is... unexpected.

Damn, this article photo highlights just how good the new home whites are.

That's largely why Diamond didn't pay the Twins. When they're fighting to keep paying teams with contracts that go for years past 2023, there's little incentive to pay the Twins and their expiring contract, who it seems have been pretty hostile with Diamond for the past couple of years (and for good reason).

The Michael A Taylor thing was incredible. Even my nine year old was screaming THAT’S NOT BYRON BUXTON

The scoreboard experience was really something to behold: