Absolutely false.

That depends on what they do with the bottom 2 starters. They are sticking with Wade Davies all year, even with his 6 ERA. A second starter who gives up games in the first 5 innings means we have to win all of the top 3's starts. And we dont have the offense to do that.

Perfect recipe for a .500 team.

I missed this original quote. Can someone explain who said this and the context? I assume is was Maloof or the other former hitting coach explaining why we don't hit home runs?

Detroit only won 88 games last year, and Verlander isn't close to the same pitcher, their bullpen has holes, their defense isn't great, and their only elite elite offensive player is basically Cabrera. There's nothing saying Hosmer and Butler and Gordon couldn't have big second halves either. Detroit's certainly the favorite though, no doubt. I hate the idea of giving up, just hate it. I think it's soft. It would fit our culture of losing though.

Speaking of offense, Ibanez has two more homers tonight. Amazing. 24 HR.

He's a ****ing idiot. Don't call him out on it.

As Sam Mellinger says, Royals fans come by their skepticism and cynicism honestly.

It's absolutely true.

Your two most valuable players are Shields and Gordon, and there is no way that I'd trade Taveras for them, because I'm taking on 18 million in salary and Taveras has six years of cost control left.

Shouldn't you be off fashioning a hangman's noose or mixing up a vat of bleach and ammonia in an unventilated room?

Well I don't disagree with that. But still, three days ago this team was one game under .500 and had the best record in baseball over the last month, or whatever that stat was.

Definitely think we need to pull something out of the fire here this weekend though. Going into the break 6 games under .500 would be bad.

This. No reason to trust this franchise at all.

Detroit is an elite offensive team with terrible, terrible defense and a horrific bullpen. People look at their counting stats and think they're some kind of juggernaut. They're not

LMAO Maybe you forgot just how "valuable" prospects are. Wil Myers wasn't enough to fetch James Shields. And Wil Myers was a higher rated prospect than Tavares. Furthermore, Salvador Perez is worth more than your entire farm system. And we have more years of cost control with him.

I think that Detroit lacks an elite closer, and they're this piece away from running away and hiding from the division.

The Tigers are 2nd in MLB in runs scored, and 12th in runs allowed (only 20 more runs than the Royals).

KC doesn't score enough runs, in my view, to be taken seriously. And I believe we're going to see a staff (with Guthrie relying upon magic and a shit back end of the rotation) start to normalize. This is reality to me, not being soft.

That's the dumbest ****ing post in a thread of dumb ****ing posts.

Salvador Perez and his 3.8 WAR projection aren't worth Taveras alone.


Your terrible GM is not a barometer of good trades. The same guy who traded away two years of Greinke's service to Doug Melvin for Alcides Escobar and Lorenzo Cain when Melvin got Jean Segura for two months of Greinke probably shouldn't be judging Wil Myers' value.

Your dumbass would kill for Taveras, Wacha, Kolten Wong, and Carlos Martinez. That's not to mention the wave of rookies that have just come up from that farm system: Rosenthal, Siegrist, Matt Adams, and Shelby Miller.

Christ, Shelby Miller has been better than any Royals player this year.