Brock Beauchamp

Really nice article @Cody Christie. Covered all the bases.

Also, Fubo now streams Bally Sports North and it's a WAY better service than DirecTV Stream.

The Bally Sports app does not broadcast Twins games. The Twins have not agreed with Bally to allow it. I wish they would do so just for this season but given how badly Bally has screwed over the Twins in recent years, I can't entirely fault the club for telling them to get lost.

As I've been saying for quite awhile, Twins fans don't have it that bad. The Pohlads are fine. They're not great, but they're also not Bob Nutting.

Thank you! I spend wayyyyyy too much time thinking up the absolute stupidest prizes I can imagine. I've literally spent a year trying to work out how to create a hilariously terrifying prize. Hopefully I'll get there in 2024.

Please realize this is a juggling act that never ends. In 2022, Twins Daily (for the first time) had over 2,000,000 users drop by and visit. That's an enormous number and it's largely due to the how diverse and comprehensive our coverage is through news, forums, blogs, videos, rumors, etc. Twins Daily is one of the biggest baseball sites on the internet now. It's mind-blowing how a site for a single mid-market team grew this large and juggling the needs of a disparate user base is always a struggle. There's too much content to structure in an organized way. When the site launched, we hoped to run 5-7 stories a week. Right now, we're averaging 5-7 articles a day. We used to have front page news threads in the Twins forum. It completely broke the Twins forum and that's when we were running half the stories we are now. Users stopped generating threads because they'd be pushed out of sight within a few hours by the continual onslaught of front page news threads. We're all about community here so that didn't fly. We value those user-generated conversations and therefore moved news threads to a separate forum to give users more breathing space to create and discuss their own content. In short, when you have 2,000,000 users visiting in a year, there's no perfect way to coordinate that much content. It's going to be chaotic, it's going to be messy, and it's not going to work perfectly for literally anyone who uses the site. You might want to explore this tool a bit. It's super-customizable and pretty cool if you drill down into it. https://twinsdaily.com/discover/unread/

Oh no.

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While Minnesota may be forever mired in winter, the crack of the bat is being heard in Ft Myers. Baseball is back, and it’s time to hand out our offseason community awards. Image courtesy of Brock Beauchamp A few times a year, we hit the pause button and take a moment to talk about and reward our most popular community members and the contributions they bring to Twins Daily. During what was (far and away) the wildest Twins off-season of my lifetime, the community exploded with content. You wrote 123 blogs from when the Astros hoisted a trophy through the day the Twins took that field in their first split-squad games in Florida. 123 blogs. Incredible. Let’s take a look at some of the other numbers: During the off-season, 424 people registered to comment on Twins Daily Over that time, 806 unique people contributed content to the site Users started 1,045 topics In those topics, you wrote 26,948 posts In those posts, you awarded 55,357 reactions to other users All of those are record numbers. Every single one. Mind-blowing. Our most prolific poster was @chpettit19, with @Mike Sixel coming in a close second. Thanks to both of you for your continued quality contributions to the community! Let’s get to the awards, shall we? Most Popular Post The Luis Arraez trade was almost certainly the most controversial of the winter, and @Puckett34’s thoughtful take on the advantages and difficulties of losing a fan-favorite player was the most popular post of the off-season. This award usually goes out to someone who swoops in with the snark, so seeing it go to a serious post is a bit of a surprise. Well done, Puckett34! We award you a thoughtful and heartfelt prize for your thoughtful and heartfelt take on the trade: a laser-etched wood photo frame of Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger holding an autographed Nick Punto baseball card. Honorary Mention Losing Carlos Correa to the Mets was the low point of the Twins' off-season. In the thread detailing his surprise signing (not-signing) with the other New York team, @Nashvilletwin wrote what many of us were feeling; baseball is broken, and MLB seems not to care. Unsurprisingly, this post was wildly popular with the Twins Daily community, earning it the second most popular post of the offseason! Most Popular Blog Entry From the fan perspective, manager Rocco Baldelli is the most controversial person in the Twins dugout. Where much of the fanbase blames Baldelli for baseball ills that transcend what happens in Target Field, @Nick Hanzlik takes the opposite approach by suggesting Baldelli is the perfect manager for today’s game. Some people agreed, which is why it’s the most popular blog entry of the Twins Daily off-season! Congratulations, Nick, and for your efforts, you shall be awarded this (not at all garish) limited edition Spring Training 2023 Minnesota Twins bobblehead! Honorary Mention Want a surefire way to create conversation? Take Mount Rushmore, add your local sports team, and fire off some opinions. That’s exactly what @Luke Thompson did in writing up a blog about the four players on the Twins’ Mount Rushmore, earning the second most popular blog of the off-season! As I mentioned earlier, Twins Daily broke every record over the off-season: more users, more comments, more blogs, and more everything. And a big reason for that is the users mentioned above and all of you who comment daily on the site and add your thoughts, insights, and opinions on the Minnesota Twins. That’s why Twins Daily is the best place to talk Twins baseball. And now it’s time to start watching some baseball and our Minnesota Twins! View full article

This piece is actually by John Bonnes FTR. There was an error in the last piece and I had to re-post his content so the audio would work.

Who is this @Ted Wiedmann person and why wasn't he writing for this site a long time ago? 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 Outstanding work!

Twins Daily is a partner with FOCO products and earns products for any affiliate purchases you make, 100% of which is returned to our users in gift form. Any support you provide is support of the Twins Daily community itself! To celebrate the return of baseball, FOCO is releasing a Spring Training Bobblehead Collection that features commemorative team bobbleheads, mascots, and some of the game’s best players from the Grapefruit and Cactus Spring training leagues. The commemorative player bobbleheads in the collection feature spring training league logos across the body and head. They all stand atop a plate themed base with various thematic elements from the league that they play in. The player and mascot bobbleheads are also on a base with various thematic elements from the league they play in and their names are displayed in front. The commemorative generic players will retail for $75, the mascots for $70, and the athletes for $80. All of the bobbleheads in the collection are limited to 144 units and stand at 8" tall. These unique bobbles will only be available for a limited time so check them out! FOCO Spring Training Bobblehead Collection

John will be down there for close to a month, I believe, but won't be covering the team the entire time. Nick, Seth, and Parker will also rotate in and out over the next six-ish weeks.

In general, optimally I want to see zero left-handed bats in the lineup against a lefty starter unless they're Mauer-level. And with Taylor and Farmer on the same roster, I'll be very disappointed to see Farmer on the bench and Gallo/Kepler in the outfield against a lefty.

There aren't many left-handed starters but the Twins will still face a lefty starter ~40 times in 2023. Do we really want Kepler and Gallo starting those games? I sure don't, give me Kyle Farmer every time.

Who should start in the OF against left-handed pitching, though?

The team wasn’t overrated, they just didn’t have any good healthy players left by the time they reached the postseason.

There are no winners here but Olive Garden is far and away the least offensive option listed.

Javy Baez at every position because good lord that would be entertaining.

About six months ago, my wife had the idea "let's go to Applebees and only order appetizers!" Neither one of us had been in an Applebees in over a decade. It was a terrible experience. Terrible. If you find yourself looking across the strip mall longingly at an Olive Garden, you know you've made some truly bad decisions with your life.

I bought a bunch of SRO tickets last year and basically sat wherever I wanted at every game. I'd sit in a spot for an inning or two and then move on to another spot. An usher spoke me to about it once or twice but never asked me to move. As for parking, the little grey dot (next to Cradle Club title) on 2nd Ave in this image is an entry point to Ramp B.

It's the middle of winter. No one is expected to use their brain in February.