Also, I'm sure he had crazy home/away splits last year that no one outside of the minor league followers talked about. People are always the next coming or busts. Usually, things are more complicated with developing kids.

That's why I'm pretty good with keeping him. If you trade him, you'd better get a couple of solid prospects PLUS the equivalent of the compensatory picks. I just don't see that happening.

In a completely unrelated note, Jake Peavy might be done for the season and will miss his scheduled start Sunday against the Royals.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ml...ory?id=5360884

If you watched the game last night, Guillen pulled up lame on a double play ball he hit to short late in the game. He basically hopped to first, he looked like he hurt a quad or a groin pretty bad.

This in today's RotoWorld:

"Jose Guillen is day-to-day after leaving Tuesday's game against the Mariners with a quad injury.

Guillen pulled up lame while legging out a groundball during the eighth inning. Royals manager Ned Yost said that there was apparently no tear in his quad, but that he would be re-evaluated Wednesday."

This could really hamper his trade value. And, they may DL him and bring up somebody like Kila or Gordon.

We'll see what happens. Surprised there hasn't been anything on this on the KC Star to Royals website.

Did they mention periphery stats at all?

Moustakas has been a little lucky at home and a little unlucky on the road. He has a strong (20 percent) line drive factor (typically, hitters bat 120 points above their LDP with normalized luck) and an abnormally low BABIP (.264). Conversely, his BABIP at NW Arkansas is abnormally high (.416).

He also has shaved his strikeout ratio considerably, and his BB:K is pretty solid for a power hitter (25:41). He's on pace for 50-55 BBs and 90Ks. By comparison, he year he was at AA, even with the ridiculous numbers put up, Gordon still Kd 113 times (in 576 ABs).

And as for the park factor... NWA is not the best hitter's park in the Texas League, but it isn't the worst. The Texas League is the best hitter's league, park wise, in minor league baseball, so park factor in that league really shouldn't factor much into a NWA player's home-road splits.

Royals_Report

#Royals calling Jose Guillen's injury a grade-one strain to the left quadriceps/hip flexor. Say he could play Friday after open date.

I think they had boddicker as a guest on the border patrol, he said it concerned him a bit but other than that they didnt say much. SSJ still believes in gordon

http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/2010/...decisions.html

regarding the trade deadline

I've seen a lot of people dip into home/road splits for Moustakas, but none I have heard have mentioned or talked about the the stuff I brought up; mainly, that he has been unlucky on the road, lucky at home, and plays in home ballpark that is neutral for its league.

You start looking at sabermetrics, you have to look at ALL of them, in my opinion.

BABIP and LDP are important and tied together (guys with higher LDPs have higher BABIP, surprise!) Home-road splits and park factors are important, too.

When a guy plays in a ballpark that is neutral for his league and has such drastic home-road splits, he's either: 1) REally unlucky away from home; 2) Really struggling with the style of travel minor leaguers deal with.

Looks like No. 1 to me...

@Greg_Schaum Not trying to steal anyones thunder as I did not break any of this but u asked, Merrifeld and Chapman signed, Moose 2 AAA next week #Royals less than a minute ago via web

Was about to post this but i was too busy chomping on my apple jacks

If they named it "Apple Jacks" then shouldn't it taste like real apples?

@brokenbatsingle Kendall is a type B! RT @mlbtraderumors Elias Rankings Update http://bit.ly/azcrqQ half a minute ago via web

LMAO

It's like apples laced with crack, kind've like the crack fries from OK Joes

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