Brock Beauchamp

“Let’s cut Miguel Sano…” *audience cheers* ”… some slack” *audience boos*

This is a long-term goal across the site but the kind of thing that will probably take an entire offseason of planning to implement. At some point, I want the system to automatically link to a player page if someone types their full name.

New to the site, we've added both the active roster and the 40-man roster pages! These pages will update nightly so they'll always be up-to-date with the current state of the big league club, adding yet another long-term feature I've wanted to see on our baseball sites basically forever. There isn't a lot to say about these pages other than they feature the standard set of player info: name, position, handedness, DoB, etc. To find these pages, use the hamburger menu at the top right of every page (the three horizontal lines), click "Twins Resources", and then you'll be presented the options for both the roster pages and the team schedule for the season. As always, if you have suggestions for new features you'd like to see added or improvements to current features, please comment below!

This is a really bad idea not based in reality. If memory serves, the past three Buxton injuries have happened either at the plate or on the basepaths. So we're trading a platinum glove just to keep him off the field?

It has been a long, dreary winter full of boredom followed by even more boredom followed by two weeks of the most fun Twins fans had in an offseason since the Butch Huskey signing. And now it’s time to award those posters who make the Twins Daily community so awesome. It’s Twins Daily Community Awards time! If you’re unfamiliar with our community awards, it’s something we organized last year to recognize the top participants in the Twins Daily community. We award two prizes: most popular post and most popular blog entry. We also recognize some of our most prolific posters and contributors but award them nothing for it. We don’t want to inflate anyone’s ego, after all. Our prizes have a theme for the first time: “Johan Santana visited the Big Apple, and all we got was this lousy t-shirt.” Enjoy, Twins fans! Top Posts of the 2022 Offseason goes to… Honorable Mention: @Sielk and their comment in the topic Twins Acquire RHP Sonny Gray from Reds for Chase Petty. After months of hearing Twins fans scream about pitching, sielk offers the quite-reasonable opinion, “wait… so they went and got pitching, and you’re still complaining?” I feel you, sielk. I feel you. The Top Post and Prize Winner: @4twinsJA and their comment in the topic FO's tentativeness is killing the team. During the more-than-mildly-concerning period of the offseason when the front office seemed to want to do nothing, 4twinsJA went the tried and true route that always plays up in the Twins Daily community... taking a swipe at Jake Cave. This is a textbook comment, but its excellent execution puts it over the top. For that the comment wins the ultimate prize: a ticket stub from game one of the 2004 ALDS in Yankee Stadium, more colloquially known in Minnesota as “the last ****ing time the ****ing Twins won a ****ing postseason game.” Blog Entry of the 2022 Offseason goes to… Honorable Mention: @cjm0926 and their blog entry A Different Idea For Twins Catching. Writing this entry in early November, cjm0926 had a crazy idea… trade your catchers! All of them. Ultimately, the Twins front office got halfway there, trading Mitch Garver to the Rangers in a shocking move. This entry deservedly gained a lot of traction with our users, as illustrated by its popularity and honorable mention in the blog entry category. The Top Blog Entry and Prize Winner: @Doc Munson, long-time Twins Daily stalwart, takes home the prize for their entry. What are we waiting on to complete our roster? After a flurry of moves followed by radio silence, Doc wasn’t the only Twins fan left scratching their head. Why haven’t we seen more pitching acquisitions? Are we really going to take such half-measures? In the wake of this offseason, what stands out the most was Doc’s now-humorous idea to overpay Trevor Story on a one-year contract… check and mate, Doc. As a token of our appreciation for this wildly popular blog entry, I present to you yet another Johan Santana visited the Big Apple, and all we got was this lousy t-shirt prize: a ticket stub from Johan’s no-hitter in a Mets uniform, something he never did in a Twins uniform. *weeps silently for a moment* After further consideration, these prizes suck. Most Popular Topic of the 2022 Offseason… @MMMordabito wins the no-prize for the topic T-Mobile to offer Free MLB.TV again in 2022. This is a rarity in the Twins Daily awards category, as it’s only Twins-adjacent but highly informative. Personally, the free MLB.tv is half the reason why I’m with T-Mobile to this day. Thanks for the topic, and keep it coming! Most Read Blog Entry of the 2022 Offseason… @Doc Munson must have spent the offseason ‘roiding up because they’re flat-out dominating the blogs with yet another entry, Post Lock out Moves: Potential Twins Trades. This entry examined some potential trades the Twins could have executed post-lockout, bringing over 1,800 readers to check out what Doc had to say on the subject. Well done yet again, Doc! Prolific Posters of the 2022 Offseason… We have a new postmaster for the 2022 offseason! In a surprising out-of-nowhere appearance, @mikelink45 brings home the no-prize with 1,514 reputation points over the offseason! But, as always, laying in wait with a second-place finish is the ever-present @Mike Sixel with 1,283 reputation points… Watch out, Mike, uh… Mike… is coming for you. Wait, what? That’s all we have for today; thanks to everyone who makes this site such a great place to hang out every day of the year, even through multiple years of difficult baseball. It means a lot to us that you’ve stuck with Twins Daily through a pandemic, a shortened season, no-attendance games, and a lockout. Without all of you doing your thing daily, Twins Daily would be a shell of its current self. We’ll see you mid-season, and let me tell you, that prize is incredible, so get typing, you fools… View full article

Are you suggesting we put the entire site behind a paywall? I'm sorry but that's a kiss of death to the forums and blog section.

I’m far from sure I like Paddack but I’m also ready to walk away from Larnach so I’m not sure what to think of this until details emerge.

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Oh, I know, I was just being sarcastic in return. I don't have anything against Archer - in fact, I probably like him the best out of the remaining/recently signed options, including Pineda - but there were lots of better options that went off the table months ago and we don't need to beat that dead horse again. I still firmly believe more significant gains should have been made earlier, even if they weren't super-splashy.

I think it’s pretty safe to say Tampa won that trade.

I don’t really care for this deal but another pitcher was mandatory and I guess Archer is as good as anyone else available.

I mean sure, if people want one.

Some of you may start seeing rumblings about this site and wonder to yourself "why does this look so similar to Twins Daily?" Well, it looks like Twins Daily because, mostly at the request of me personally as a former Wisconsin resident, I wanted to buy a Brewers forum and build it out as we've done with Twins Daily. Since living in Milwaukee for a year just before returning to the Twin Cities in 2010, I've followed the Brewers pretty closely and am quite a fan of the current front office and team. https://brewerfanatic.com/ So that's a thing we're doing now. It has been pretty fun bringing a bunch of new features to a different fanbase and we're really excited to give Brewers fans an all-in-one-stop site to enjoy their fandom, just as we've all built here at Twins Daily. So if you're a Brewers fan, head on over, create an account, and join the discussion. The forums are well-established and one of the best Brewers resources on the internet, there's a lot to take in.

If she hasn't graduated college yet, she's close to doing so.

Imagine if someone went to sleep a week ago and woke up this morning to look at the projected lineup:

Yes, the writers get ad revenue from their story page views. It's how we've been doing things for the past several years but even as we've maximized ad revenue, it still isn't enough, as the maintenance of the site is growing faster than our ad revenue. As for the borders, I toned those down last night. They looked great in the test environment but as more people signed up, the page became a bit overwhelming.

Traffic has been a lot higher than normal this week. It's one of the reasons we mentioned a distributed server coming soon. It's necessary, but expensive.

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