I was thinking about this whole mess this AM on the way to work.

Baseball teams are built up the middle. Look at our middle. Our starting catcher goes down a week before the season starts. We lose our CF four games into the season. Our 2B of the future doesn't make it out of spring training.

Pitching? Lose your closer to Tommy John. Lose Paulino, who was a decent #3 or #4 guy. Your best starter is Chen? Seriously? Chen is a #5 at best for 3/4ths of major league teams. Hoch continues to under-perform. Duffy is sitll a pup.

Your "future guys" Hoz, Moose and Alice, all hitting under .230. Team can't get a hit with men in scoring position to save their asses.

This is just a typical Royals team. They'll suck until they're about 20 games out, then start to play well enough to give us hope for next year.

The elusive "Next Year."

Same as it ever was.

But we have the All-Star game

Moose has started hitting a little, his average is up to .269, so we'll give him a pass. Hoz, Alice and Frenchy still sucking it though.

Hoz has more than enough talent and brains... you pretty much know he'll get it going. Alex has more than enough talent, you wonder about the brains. Frenchy has a nice smile... but also talent, brains I'm unsure of.

Maybe Hoz will freak and sign a long term deal now.

I doubt it. You can see how unlucky he's been getting. A lot of ropes hit right at someone.

How's our All Star Chances looking?

Pretty bleak.

At this point, Escobar and Butler are the only ones who deserve even a brief look:

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Hoz is hitting the ball hard, he is just hitting into some bad luck. Like the outfielder falling down and landing in his glove. That shit only happens to the Royals.

If they they both it made we'd double our usual participation.

:)

Maybe with the game in KC Washington will throw us a bone. Heh.

How big is one error?

Since the Escobar 9th inning error in Oakland:

-Jonathan Broxton becomes first pitcher in 46 years to hit 2 batters to end a game.
-Worst home start in franchise history.
-Royals have a triple play turned on them in an inning Yuni Betancourt draws a walk.

Staggering.

Next up... with two outs and two strikes, Getz hits a game tying grand slam in the bottom of the 9th today (over the fence, into the fountains)... Royals lose on a balk with a guy on 3rd in the 19th inning. Excuse is that Maier isn't really a pitcher.

If this play continues to mid-may, Yost will be fired. He has to be. There has to be some change to shake things up. Its not like you can send Hos, Alice and Frenchy down.

If Frenchy continues his current trajectory, you trade him for a bag of balls, bench him, or outright release him.

.246/.295/.333
OPS+ 73 (seventy-****ing-three!!!)

He's been a giant ball of shit thus far this season, and he can shove all the free pizzas he wants up his unproductive ass. Nice guy? Absolutely. Shit player this year? Absolutely. He must pull out of it.

Well Myers is getting closer to getting ready so we don't have to put up with Frenchy too much longer.

Myers is batting .298 with 4 homers so far in Northwest Arkansas.

As a point of comparison, when Frenchy was run out of NY, his OPS+ was 80.