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So, Moustakas is having a great spring. Is there any reason to think this is an indicator of performance during the regular season, or should it just be disregarded? He had a pretty good spring last year, IIRC. I guess it's better than him playing poorly.

I'm glad to see him slugging...how's he look in terms of physical conditioning?

For position players, that is the only value of spring. If you are doing poorly, then thats a reason to be concerned, but success has to be disregarded. A position player can't win spring, they can only lose.

For pitchers, you usually can't even do that much because they are often working on pitches and not necessarily trying to get anyone out. It might be somewhat useful if a pitcher is fighting for a job in the last couple weeks, if you know the pitcher is probably doing his best to win a job then spring isn't completely worthless.

He better have a breakout year. Him and Hosmer both.

It's the only way the Royals are going to have a real chance to compete for a playoff spot.

Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm a huge Royals fan, but don't really know shit about the intricacies of baseball. I'm rooting for him to breakout like CoMo said, and am trying hard to prevent myself from becoming even cautiously optimistic about his performance thus far in spring.

When Bethuine hosts Baseball Tonight it irritates me every time I hear him say it.

I guess you held 'em to a FG the other day...Pretty stout defense.

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So Shields won't talk extension when season starts, better get to moving on it Dayton.

We are not re-signing Shields, unless he really struggles this season. He's going to get a 9-digit contract, and unlike Santana the QO won't have much of an impact.

I would think if we are going to put a mega package together, we need to start worrying about getting Hosmer on a long term deal. Maybe even Moose, only because it would have to be a team friendly deal due to his production at this point.

I don't want them to go the way of Beltran.

Updated this roster sheet. I assume Bueno will take Hoch's active spot, no idea who will take the 40-man spot.

I don't think so. The Royals have had plenty of guys on offense produce gaudy numbers in the past, only to fall off the cliff completely during the regular season. Spring training means nothing to me, good or bad.

A bad spring means more to me than a good spring does.

I'm not putting too much stock in what Moustakas is doing, but like al said, you'd rather see him going well than going poorly.

I was a little encouraged by his HR yesterday. He was facing a guy who's had some success against lefties in the majors - at a pretty good level - and was able to stay back and punish a hanging breaking ball.

Last year, that would have been a pop-up to SS.

So that's a good sign.