Brock Beauchamp

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I sent this to yeszir as part of my pitch so I thought I'd share it with all of you as well. I'm using Twins Daily because that's our "flagship" site and all new features run through that site first. In the coming year, here are the features you can expect to see added to the site with roughly half of them coming with the relaunch of the site in the next few weeks. Front page news: News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. User blogs available to any user of the site, a great way to engage the community and find new content creators for our paid roles on the front page: News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. blogs/ The forums are absolutely critical to a community and we offer incentives I’ve never seen anywhere else. Every moderator receives a year-end holiday gift for being such an important part of our site. And twice a year, I give out prizes to the most popular comments and user blogs. We try really hard to let the community know we appreciate them CHOOSING to spend their time with us. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. forums/ Videos. Another way we can get some content creators paid is through video. It’s a loss-leader for us but an important part of trying to distribute funds to people who help keep the site packed with content. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. videos/ The draft tracker. We keep this page updated so, at a glance, users can keep track of draft picks. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. minnesota-twins-draft-picks/2024/ Rumors. Another channel we use to get our content creators paid with quick-hit pieces aimed to start conversations and keep people engaged. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. minnesota-twins-free-agents-trade-rumors/ Prospect rankings. This is an internal voting process with 50% of the vote going to writers and the other 50% going to the community. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. minnesota-twins-top-prospect-rankings/ Prospect voting. This happens to be open right now, we’re doing the post-draft voting so you can see what it looks like in action. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. prospect-voting Guides and resources. This is a section dedicated to “evergreen” content that Sox fans can refer to as needed. A guide to Fenway, minor league affiliates, gift-giving guides, etc. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. minnesota-twins-guides-resources/ Rosters. Just another resource for users that is updated nightly. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. active-roster/ The Players Project. This is quite new and will be a big focus of mine this winter. It’s a wiki-style repository of useful information on players past and present. Just click on a player to see what that entails, it’s easier to just show you than explain. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. minnesota-twins-players-project/ Offseason blueprint. This is available to all users to build their own roster, explain their reasoning, and then it automatically posts to the forums to encourage discussion. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. payroll-blueprint Offseason handbook. Every offseason we write up a guide to the team and what to expect as we head into winter. News - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM Home of the latest Minnesota Twins news, forum discussion, and blogs. files/file/28-2024-twins-daily-offseason-handbook-trade-proposals/

I've asked myself that question a few times and I think the answer is still a resounding "no". BUT the upside here is that because the Twins and Sox play ST in the same city, it streamlines us having on-site ST coverage.

That's one of the goals, for sure. Our premise for the site is that we take this legacy community and add a bunch of modern features to it: analysis, news, video, loads of interactive features, and essentially try to wrap a protective bubble around a community that has existed for 20 years. From the community side of things, not a lot will change in how the forums are structured and managed. As a long-time forum owner, the proliferation and dominance of Reddit, Twitter/X, and Facebook has ruined so many independent sites and it makes me sad. So much of the personality and fun of the early 2000s internet has been chipped away and if I can preserve small pieces of it here and there, I consider that a success.

Part of building out the site will be extensive use of social media. And we're starting those out from scratch so if you could give these pages a like/follow, it's really appreciated! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/talksox X:

Hi everybody! I'm super-excited to be here and nurture this community into the future. A few things about me: I'm part of a group of five who founded Twins Daily 12 years ago. We all had our own individual sites (I founded mine in the mid-2000s) and combined them into one of the first team-specific supersites around. Over the years as the Twins floundered in the postseason, I found myself wanting to explore other fandoms and apply our knowledge of baseball sites to other fanbases. Personally, I've lived all over the country and at one point or another, became fond of several other teams (Brewers, Padres, and Angels based on where I've lived). So a couple of years ago, we found a Brewers community much like this one and over the course of a year, turned it into Brewer Fanatic. We have extensive tools to focus on user interactivity (which I'll talk about more in time), along with videos, news/analysis articles, user blogs, and a bunch of other cool stuff. At my heart, I'm a baseball fan and don't follow other sports much (I dabble in basketball but that's about it). As a career web developer, my baseball fandom and technical knowledge has allowed me to focus our platform specifically on baseball and nothing else. While my other business partners play around with sites focusing on other sports, I just do baseball. And I'm crazy-excited to explore the Sox fandom and see what new things we can bring to the experience. If you have questions, please ask away! This is a collaborative experience. We chose Talk Sox because of the community; there are plenty of baseball communities out there I won't touch with a ten foot pole because they're toxic. You all seem like a good bunch of people and when it comes to the direction of the community, all of you have a voice in how things are managed.

I like that baseball is thinking up ways to return starting pitchers to prominence but I don't know if this gets them closer to that happening. The real problem - at least IMO - is max effort all the time and I don't know how to fix that problem.

Thanks! Do you listen to any Sox podcasts that focus more on the MLB team?

Hi all, I'm wondering who you're listening to and why. I tend to skew toward analytics in my baseball discussion but if you're listening to a Red Sox pod, please mention it here and what you like about it. Thanks!

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Thanks! I don't agree with a lot of the ideas in that article but it's certainly an interesting read.

I'm trying to do some research into the Sox blogosphere and I'm wondering who you're reading. My preference is toward the analytical side of the game but I'm open to any recommendations you might have. Thanks!

It's super weird to me that James is railing on modern analytics. Like, what did you expect to happen? I don't blame modern analytics for the state of baseball; the game is constantly changing and MLB needs to adjust their rules to compensate for those changes. 2022 was a good start but I feel there's more work to be done to get pitchers to return to length, reduce max effort all the time, etc. But I personally have absolutely no idea how to effectively change those things.

What are peoples' thoughts on Breslow thus far? How much of the Sox's (somewhat surprising) first half are you attributing to him?