Brock Beauchamp

No, it's not unreasonable. I'm only saying that the Pohlads are middle of the pack in this regard. They spend right in line with their market size. Could they do better? Sure! Do I get upset they don't punch above their weight class? Not really.

And before we praise San Diego too much, I lived there while they were fighting over Petco. It wasn't awesome. For Petco to be built, they had to level the downtown arts district full of amazing people who gave life to the downtown area. So all the area that Petco consumes and all those high-rise condominiums that exist around it came at the expense of the people who made San Diego such an awesome place to live. It's not really a formula to be emulated or trumpeted.

Absolutely, sure, fine. I'm all on board with cities owning franchises but it's also wildly out of the perspective of reality.

I don't know but you also need to realize 28 teams are asking the same question. Literally the only two owners in baseball who are throwing caution to the wind are Cohen and Siedler. Would it be fun to be a Padres fan right now? YES, because I'm an actual Padres fan (went to high school in SD). It's wildly fun! I love it! But I'm also pragmatic enough to realize the Padres are an outlier. If every team behaved that way, it only sets the bar further for teams to operate in a financially viable way. And objectively speaking, the Pohlads are middle of the pack. They're fine. They're not amazingly delightful but they're fine.

I've kinda lost track of the 40-man... is there a pressing need to open a spot?

I don't see them moving Celestino to the 60-day for a potential six week injury.

The easiest way to contextualize the schedule change is the following: The less-unbalanced schedule means the Twins replace about 20 games against .450 winning percentage teams with 20 games against .500 winning percentage teams. What's that worth? One more loss? Two, maybe? It's not much and could literally end up being nothing.

Yep, that's why I even mentioned Miller. IMO, he's the only guy with a legit shot at SS in the foreseeable future.

Maybe Miller but more likely someone not yet in the org.

As for being "cheap", I follow a lot of baseball. The Pohlads are 100% mediocre, middle of the pack owners. They're neither great nor awful. In an offseason that saw the Twins bring back Correa, I don't feel I have a lot to complain about. Are they as good as, say, Milwaukee? I'd argue no but realize there's a huge contingent of Brewers fans that hate Attanasio for being "cheap" despite the Brewers having a payroll $10-15m less than the Twins in a vastly smaller market. On the other hand, the Pohlads are miles better than the Nuttings and Ricketts of the world, who are just awful.

San Diego isn't doing it with TV revenue. Their TV contract isn't very good. They're doing it by: Siedler is a crazy person in a delightful way He bought up a ton of real estate around Petco and then developed the hell out of it Why do you think San Diego is 60% the size of Minneapolis? The San Diego and Twin Cities markets are damned near identical in population size.

If anything has changed in the past 35 years, it's that people who like to complain have platforms to do so and they will absolutely exercise that right as often as possible. I mean, people are livid about the pitch clock, even though it actually returns baseball to how it felt 40 years ago. The same people hollering about the pitch clock are the same people who dislike how baseball has changed in the past several decades. In short, people are stupid and we should not listen to them. The new M logo is fine. I'm not in love with it but it's fine. I'm not sure why I should even care much about it.

I think it looks really good on this hoodie.

I mean, it's just a sans serif "M". It doesn't even really look like Miami's logo, it's just the same letter.

I'm coming around on the M logo. I wish the star was more visible on the hat, I feel that's the weakest part of the design. Overall, I like the designs. I LOVE the new home jerseys, both the standard white and the Twin Cities versions.

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.

We will, we just need the writers down there this year to scout things out post-hurricane.

PM me your address!

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.

Huh, the sidebar is acting oddly. I'll add it to my bug list. A bunch of content is missing from it.