Yeah, he's filled in nicely, does his job. Potentially naming something after the guy though is Royals Marketing going...well, going full Royals Marketing.

Royals and Jayhawks brethren....go for it!!!

done

They signed the Gasparini kid. $1.3 million.

Intriguing prospect. Sounds like competition is his biggest question mark, but he has shined in international competition against legit pitching.

If he sticks at SS, could be a big-time type (switch hitter, 15-20 HR pop, good speed).

The international scouting has REALLY picked it up of late. Most of the best talent in the system (Ventura, Calixte, Cuthbert, Bonifacio, Almonte) is from that source.

'Cause I got friends in Lough places,
Where the Whiskey drowns,
And the Beer chases my blues away,
But I'll be okay,

What's the deal with this? Royals' international scouting has been outstanding, but our home scouting and drafting leave a lot to be desired...

I don't think it's a scouting issue as much as it's a development issue. Hitters and pitchers have stalled at AAA and AA.

That's to be expected - AA is the biggest jump in talent in the minors - but not at the level the Royals have seen recently.

Bubba Starling was not a scouting issue, for example. He was a consensus top 5 pick and was even linked to the Mariners at No. 2 leading up to that draft. The talent was there. Development has not gone well.

You can't fault them much for the injuries to Duffy and Lamb. That's going to happen. The stalled development of first Mike Montgomery and then CHris Dwyer is concerning, too.

Really, the only guys the Royals have taken early who WEREN'T worth their draft slot were Christian Colon and Hunter Dozier. DOzier was done with a specific plan in place, and we saw how that worked out (sean Manaea). Colon was a panic pick in a draft that was viewed as very up-in-the-air after the top 3 guys.

That's really the only high pick the Royals have made that I really disagreed with (Colon). They should have stuck with Chris Sale at that point. But who knows... in the Royals' system, Sale might have turned into a LH version of Aaron Crow.

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Now is that six games, or six starts in his case?

The Tigers better hope that Anibal Sanchez is truly healthy when he returns. If his shoulder problems linger throughout the season (one of the questions lingering before his signing was his injury history), the Tigers could be in trouble.

Games. Likely 1 start.

Whatever Porcello has done, I'm sure Scherzer and Verlander were involved in too. Better suspend them just to be sure.

Sanchez got hit on the leg with a comebacker yesterday and was pulled from his rehab start. He was supposed to be activated after his start but now will probably have to make at least 1 more.

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ss...ed_six_ga.html

Plunking Ben Zobrist, evidently.

Neither, really.

It's an extra day or two of rest. He'll appeal, make his start, drop his appeal the day after and serve his 6 games. 4 of those games would've been rest days anyway and if they have an off-day in there, they can shuffle the rotation up to where nobody even misses a start.

To truly force a missed start, a SP needs to be suspended 8-10 games.