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2013 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=267564)

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Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 9805142)

I notice that a lot of Missouri fans have dispensed their two cents about Bob Davis.

With that said, I can not exactly refute any of the criticisms. :)

Bob is especially calm and collected doing KU Basketball games.

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Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 9805962)

Don't the Royals own the longest current playoff drought in the MLB?

Damn, it feels good to be a fan of two the shittiest Franchises in Professional Sports.......

Yes, I believe its the longest in all of Pro Sports right now?

Anyways, this is why I gave up my MLBtv subscription. The Royals are ok I guess, a little better overall than last year...but ultimately, still not good enough. I'll stand by my prediction of
79 or 80 wins. I just don't have it im me anymore to follow this loser franchise every single game. its too bad....the people of KC deserve better.
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Originally Posted by Dartgod (Post 9805897)

I believe he hit 2 last year. I was like :eek:

EDIT: Just checked the stats. It was only one last year. He has 4 in his MLB career.

Billy is a one tool player. He needs to be at 200-210lbs with more muscle to be able to really turn his one tool(average) into maybe two and a half (hitting 30HRs and not being a liability on the basepaths).

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Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 9805962)

Don't the Royals own the longest current playoff drought in the MLB?

Yeah it sucks but we had a few years under current baseball rules where we would have made the playoffs, 1989 for one. I believe we had the 2nd or 3rd best record in baseball, yet didn't make the playoffs since the A's were in our division. 1994 we would have made the playoffs and done some damage with the pitching staff we had, damn strike.

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Originally Posted by Tytanium (Post 9806447)

He's going to lose his abilities a lot quicker then normal dudes given his body type. I wonder if he's ever hired one of those dudes that work with athletes physically during their offseason. He needs to.

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Originally Posted by stonedstooge (Post 9806454)

If Pablo Sandoval can do it, Billy can do it. He needs to stop binge eating and chugging bbq sauce and hit the ****ing squat rack next offseason.

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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 9805879)

I think the bigger issue was in relying on Maloof and David to help the young hitters that are crucial to KC's success.

Hosmer again looks like the superstar in waiting we all saw in 2011. It's hard to argue with the way he's been hitting the ball, especially the past 4 weeks. He has a .900+ OPS in the past 6 weeks (since June 1)

Moustakas also has taken a big step forward. He's a .750+ OPS guy in the past 4 weeks. He's needs to expand that out over a larger sample size, but that's significant and encouraging improvement. The last time he got hot, it lasted about 3 weeks

The Royals need one of those two guys to be a star and the other to be at least an average hitter at his position. Things are moving in that direction.

Escobar and Butler have regressed. I'm confident Butler will rebound and end up with an OPS in his usual range.

Escobar is a better hitter than he's shown - he got pull happy early - but he shouldn't be hitting 2nd. He should be hitting 8th or 9th. With his D - even with the errors - they don't need him to be a star bat if they hit him in an appropriate lineup spot.

IMO it is not the Butler has regressed as a hitter but if you defend him correctly you make him nothing more than a .260 singles hitter which is happening this year. Play your outfielders 5-10 ft in front of the warning track so that you can keep him to a single on any ball falling in front of you. Plus you are now close enough to track that a higher percentage of ball hit to the wall or warning track become outs instead of doubles. Also put an infielder behind 2nd base as most of his ground ball that make it out of infield go thru there. The only thing I would change in defending Butler is to back up my infielders another 5-10 feet when possible.

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Originally Posted by stonedstooge (Post 9806454)

I kinda want to Royals to move him before he hits 30 (in 2016) b/c I think a lot of one-hop line drives hit to center and right will become outfield force outs as he ages.

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Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry (Post 9806453)

That's swell and all, but we have been asleep for the better part of 2 decades worth of baseball. I'm sick of this shit.

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 9806192)

This is right on the money.

This team isn't good enough as it is now. Wake me up at the trade deadline and I'll tell you where we'll finish.

After disappointingly splitting the series with the Yanks, we've gotta make something happen with this series vs Cleveland. Really would be get to finish at or above .500 by the break.

The hatred on this board for Billy Butler continues to astound me.

He's struggling right now MOSTLY because he has expanded his strike zone quite a bit. Probably out of frustration in not seeing many pitches to hit. (And even in his "struggles", is still putting up a decent OPS and being a consistent run producer)

Expand your strike zone, you swing at worse pitches. Swing at worse pitches, and you make weaker contact.

The behind 2B shift is a good move but secondary to what's going on above, IMO.

The Royals control Butler for two more seasons at extremely reasonable prices. They would owe him $20.5 million over the next two years, or $10.25 million/year. That's a well-below market value deal for a hitter of his pedigree.

You're talking about one of the 2-3 best DHs in the game (trailing David Ortiz but right there with Victor Martinez, whose numbers are practically identical to Billy's).

He's 114th out of 145 qualifiers in slugging. As a freaking DH. Quit making excuses for the fatboy, he's sucked royally this year.

Escobar out of 2-hole, hitting 7th tonite.

Gordon 7, Hosmer 3, Butler DH, Perez 2, Moustakas 5, Lough 9, Escobar 6, Johnson 4, Dyson 8.

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru (Post 9807515)

Escobar out of 2-hole, hitting 7th tonite.

Gordon 7, Hosmer 3, Butler DH, Perez 2, Moustakas 5, Lough 9, Escobar 6, Johnson 4, Dyson 8.

Sub in Giavotella for Johnson, and that's pretty much how I'd draw it up.