Ranys latest...long but heres a highlight:


http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/



Everyone obsesses about the Super-Two Deadline, but the more important deadline has already passed. Every one of the Royals’ vaunted prospects who are in the minors today are now guaranteed to be under club control through 2017. If Montgomery were called up tomorrow, the Royals would get almost seven full seasons out of him. He might get arbitration a year early, and in a best/worst case scenario that could cost the Royals more than $10 million. (That’s what it cost the Giants when Tim Lincecum qualified for arbitration prior to the 2010 season – after he had just won back-to-back Cy Young Awards.)

But if the Royals maintain their hot start, and the front office decides to go for it, and they deem Montgomery or Moustakas or any of a half-dozen other guys are ready…they shouldn’t hold back. If the future is now, then The Future Is Now.

Rookiest bullpen in history?

Everyone obsesses about the Super-Two Deadline LMAO

Danny Clinkscale must have been reading the game thread last night. He was searching for a mediocre pitcher from the recent past, and Mac Suzuki was the first name that came to mind.

I'm going to show this article to my grandmother in hopes that it will calm her down. She's obsessed with the Super Two Deadline. Don't even get me started on her infatuation with the upcoming rule change for kickoffs in the NFL.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...gi?id=95e46fa5

2011 Omaha Storm Chasers

2011 > Class AAA > 2011 Pacific Coast League (American - North)
Overall: 7-7
Scored 68 runs, Allowed 61 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 8-6

Affiliation: Kansas City Royals-AL
Manager: n/a
Represented: Omaha, NE
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 2010
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Team Batting
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Rk Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB

1 Gregor Blanco* 27 12 41 34 6 7 3 0 0 2 5 1 7 10 .206 .341 .294 .636 10 2 0 0 0 0

2 Lorenzo Cain 25 6 25 21 1 4 1 0 0 1 2 0 4 4 .190 .320 .238 .558 5 0 0 0 0 0

3 Irving Falu# 28 8 29 27 1 7 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 5 .259 .250 .333 .583 9 2 0 1 1 0

4 Johnny Giavotella 23 14 60 53 5 16 1 1 0 9 1 0 5 7 .302 .362 .358 .721 19 1 0 2 0 0

5 Eric Hosmer* 21 14 61 53 12 22 4 0 1 8 0 0 8 8 .415 .492 .547 1.039 29 1 0 0 0 0

6 David Lough* 25 13 58 53 11 17 3 2 2 7 0 1 2 8 .321 .333 .566 .899 30 0 0 1 2 0

7 Luke May 26 7 22 19 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 8 .053 .182 .053 .234 1 0 0 0 0 0

8 Mike Moustakas* 22 13 57 51 10 12 1 0 2 8 0 0 5 10 .235 .304 .373 .676 19 0 0 1 0 0

9 Paulo Orlando 25 12 46 40 3 9 1 0 0 6 2 1 4 9 .225 .295 .250 .545 10 3 0 2 0 0

10 Manuel Pina 24 8 31 23 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 5 .130 .310 .130 .441 3 1 1 2 0 0

11 Clint Robinson* 26 13 56 47 10 19 5 0 4 11 0 0 8 8 .404 .500 .766 1.266 36 2 1 0 0 1

12 Lance Zawadzki# 26 10 46 42 5 5 1 1 1 5 3 0 4 9 .119 .196 .262 .458 11 1 0 0 0 0

12 Players 24.5 14 532 463 68 122 20 5 10 62
13 3 55 91 .263 .342 .393 .735 182 13 2 9 3 1

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Team Pitching
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Rk Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB

1 Jesse Chavez 27 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 1 0 0 1 9.1 8 0 0 0 3 1 7 0 0 1 36 1.179 7.7 0.0 2.9 6.8 2.33

2 Louis Coleman 25 0 1 .000 3.86 6 0 5 0 0 2 7.0 4 4 3 0 4 0 16 0 0 1 30 1.143 5.1 0.0 5.1 20.6 4.00

3 Danny Duffy* 22 0 0 1.86 2 2 0 0 0 0 9.2 8 3 2 1 2 0 11 1 0 0 39 1.034 7.4 0.9 1.9 10.2 5.50

4 Blaine Hardy* 24 0 0 1.80 4 0 1 0 0 0 5.0 5 2 1 0 5 0 5 1 0 0 26 2.000 9.0 0.0 9.0 9.0 1.00

5 Greg Holland 25 0 0 3.00 4 0 3 0 0 1 6.0 4 2 2 1 4 0 6 0 0 0 25 1.333 6.0 1.5 6.0 9.0 1.50

6 Vin Mazzaro 24 0 0 9.82 2 2 0 0 0 0 7.1 10 8 8 1 10 0 7 1 0 2 42 2.727 12.3 1.2 12.3 8.6 0.70

7 Luis Mendoza 27 0 0 2.89 5 0 1 0 0 0 9.1 7 5 3 1 6 1 5 1 0 1 39 1.393 6.8 1.0 5.8 4.8 0.83

8 Mike Montgomery* 21 1 1 .500 3.00 3 3 0 0 0 0 15.0 10 6 5 0 10 0 14 1 0 2 64 1.333 6.0 0.0 6.0 8.4 1.40

9 Kevin Pucetas 26 2 0 1.000 2.57 3 2 0 0 0 0 14.0 11 5 4 2 3 0 12 0 0 1 55 1.000 7.1 1.3 1.9 7.7 4.00

10 Steven Shell 28 1 2 .333 9.35 5 0 3 0 0 0 8.2 16 10 9 3 2 0 9 0 0 0 43 2.077 16.6 3.1 2.1 9.3 4.50

11 Jeff Suppan 36 1 2 .333 6.91 3 3 0 0 0 0 14.1 18 11 11 3 5 0 4 1 0 0 65 1.605 11.3 1.9 3.1 2.5 0.80

12 Everett Teaford* 27 1 1 .500 3.27 3 2 0 0 0 0 11.0 7 5 4 2 3 0 11 0 0 0 43 0.909 5.7 1.6 2.5 9.0 3.67

13 Blake Wood 25 0 0 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 5.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 15 0.400 3.6 0.0 0.0 10.8

13 Players 26.1 7 7 .500 3.85 14 14 14 0 0 4 121.2 110 61 52 14 57 2 113 6 0 8 522 1.373 8.1 1.0 4.2 8.4 1.98

I think its a bit inaccurate for Rany to say they obsess over the Super-Two deadline. More like a lot of people obsess over that deadline because they incorrectly think its the point when they get an extra year out of the prospect. It isn't, that deadline is around 2-3 weeks into the season. The Super Two deadline is merely about a little extra money in the 3rd year.

I'm excited to see this guy. Last I checked he had 16 strikeouts in 7 innings this season.

sweet, updated.

There's another thing to keep in mind: our 40-man roster has had 39 on it for a while. We've kept a spot open for 3 weeks for Jason Kendall to return.

So, if you are optimistic, you could perhaps speculate that Jason Kendall is done.

My first reaction was that's pretty old for a rookie. But he was drafted at 23, so that's not his fault. What can you do?

That'd be great news.

In other baseball news, today Bud Selig all but declared that we'll definitely have 10-team playoffs in 2012. MLB will still have the fewest % of teams in the playoffs of any major sport.

Each league gets a second wild card, and the two wild cards will play either a 3-game or a 1-game playoff.

I like it, I've never been one of those guys shaking their fist at more playoff teams, as long as it doesn't get out of hand. Also, this would make winning the division a little more important, since the division winners would basically all get a bye.

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Im all for it. Gives the little guys a better chance to sneak in the playoffs and knock of the bastard Yankees/Phillies/Red Sox types. Also this will make pitching and defense all the more important in a short series when bats (ie Rangers) can go cold. Something the Royals should have a lot of the next decade.

http://www.bottomlinecom.com/kcnews/...tedfordui.html

04-21-2011
'HAD A DIP WITH ALCOHOL'
FORMER ROYAL BRIAN MCRAE GETS THIRD DUI
Former Kansas City Royal outfielder Brian McRae, 43, was arrested for DUI for the third time Thursday morning on I-435 in Overland Park, KS, around 3 a.m.
According to Justin Kendall at The Pitch, McRae, a part owner of Kanas City radio sports talk station WHB-810, McRae tried to explain what happened via a Tweet today:
"Made a Bad Choice of Speeding 88 in a 65 and having a dip with alcohol (Kahlua) mixed in. I didn't blow and was charged with DUI."
Kendall noted, "Not sure that's helping his case."
A local attorney agrees.
"If I were his attorney and he Tweeted that I would want to choke the living shit out of him," was the way one local attorney responded when told of the Tweet. "He admitted he had alcohol which doesn't help his case."
McRae was convicted of DUI in 1994, but cleared of a second DUI charge in 2004, according to the Kansas City Star.
He played for the Royals from 1990 to 1994 and four other teams until retiring in 1999.
WHB has not discussed his arrest on the air today.

Didn't realize Brian had a major thing for the sauce