The Twins Daily Caretaker Fund

Well, we built that community. All of us. Over the past ten years, we’ve accumulated over 100 million page views on the site and are the premier location to talk Twins baseball. We have extremely active forums, the best news page in the Twins world, and user blogs that fill every niche of the baseball spectrum. Dozens of writers have used the TD platform to find and grow their audiences. In the past year, we even added video to our stable of ever-growing Twins content.

So what comes next? Caretaking.

You all care about this site. The next step is caring for it. All of this expanding content with our community managers, video creators, and all that Twins Daily brings to the world requires so many people to dedicate themselves – always in their “free time” – to provide that content to Twins Territory.

We’re asking you to caretake this site so it can remain the premier Twins news site on the internet long into the future.

What is caretaking, you ask?

Caretaking is subscribing to the site and allowing us a consistent fund from which to distribute to all our content creators. From this fund, 100% of which will be reinvested into our writers, videographers, community managers, and the other people who make Twins Daily a place you want to visit every single day.

One hundred percent. That’s our promise.

Your subscription will go entirely back into making Twins Daily even better than it is today. Have you been enjoying our latest features like the prospect tracker? We have a lot more planned but we need your support to enlist more time from the creators you enjoy every day.

Why do we need additional funding? Because this site has grown enormously over the past year. We've hired outside development help to assist Brock Beauchamp in making the site bigger and better, as the site is becoming too large for one person to manage. The prospect tracker alone was over 100 hours of development work to implement, never mind the recurring upkeep every week to keep it current. In the coming months, we plan to move to a distributed server to keep the site up and running during peak traffic times like the draft and trade deadline, which means our hosting costs will nearly double overnight.

And there are our content creators. While we already revenue share everything we do with our creators who make that content, it's simply not as much as they deserve. Most of the caretaking fund will go directly into their pockets, which will allow them to write more often and focus on longer, higher-quality content. That means an even better Twins Daily for everyone.

One of the most important things we want to get across here is that if you do not join the caretaker community, your site experience at Twins Daily will not be affected in any way. This is not a paywall of any kind, but rather a completely optional way to show your support for the site and contribute to its long-term health.

With that said, there will be perks to signing up and hopping aboard. This is what we can offer for your caretaking:

- Icons and recognition of your support in your Twins Daily account

- Gifts of the Offseason Handbook and other publications

- At the Gold Caretaker tier, ad-free browsing of Twins Daily

- Whatever else we can think of, we’re open to suggestions. After all, this is your site and we are only stewards of it.

On behalf of all Twins Daily, we know this is a big ask but we hope that, at this point, you trust us and know that we stand by our word. And our mission, 100% of the time, is about building a bigger and better Twins Territory. Help us achieve that goal today.

Become a Twins Daily Caretaker