How Many Wins for the 2013 Kansas City Royals?
 

Poll Forthcoming...

In 2012, the Royals finished with the 23rd best record in the majors (30 teams) with 72 wins, 90 losses.

AL Central winners, Detroit finished the regular season with a record of 88-79, and they were the only division winner with less than 90 wins. The World Champion San Francisco Giants won 94 games in the regular season.

The 2013 Royals will field a very similar team offensively with what appears to be a much improved starting rotation. How many wins will this team get in 2013?

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103 bitches!!!!


Going to the playoffs PBJ

It's so hard to even guess when the games actually get meaningful. I picked the 75-84.

ill say 84.

<74 no pitching.

:spock:

Actually, we have some pitching depth for the first time in a long time.

86-76 2nd place in the Central

It would be easy to get excited about this team and predict them to win the Division. If they keep playing like they have been- it is definately a posibility. Can we hope they will keep batting .334 as a team- and play some of the best defense in baseball?? To me the Biggest difference is this year they Expect to win- last year they just Hoped to win. They have confidence and a swagger this year that I havnt seen in a Long time. They are having fun and all seem to really like coming to work and being around each other.

I will predict 85-77- 2nd in the division. That would be a Huge improvement but I think they can do it based on what they have been showing us so far.

I predict 86 wins, hopefully good for 2nd in the division

People...Think.

Hochevar and Chen are still pitching for this club.

I don't think they'll crack 81 win mark. (.500)

95+ I think Billy Butler goes beastmode this year. Pitching stays good. Alex Gordon is an Elite player this year. Alex Gordon All-Star and Golden glove. Sal Perez makes that step to being the best catcher in the game.

Hochevar is a long reliever at best and Chen may get traded before this week is out.

My initial thought was 80-85 wins so I went with 75-84. I'd be surprised if they were in the 70's though.

Having a healthy Sal Perez all year will make a Huge difference! :thumb:

I think he will be a star very soon if he doesnt get hurt.

85 wins and 2nd in the Central!

I'm predicting 87 wins this year.

The key guys are Hosmer, Santana, and Guthrie. If those guys play closer to their ceiling, I think we'll be right there with the Tigers. If not, we're probably sub .500 and looking for a new manager.

Actually the best thing for Hoch is to just let him gas it for a couple innings. Anything after a few innings is way too much and he's a ticking time bomb

Barring injuries, I'll go with 85 wins. Knocking on the door to the playoffs. If this team performs above their heads, they could take the division.

...good thing he's a reliever, then? :rolleyes:

doing better from "really historically sucking" is still "sucking"

82

Didn't we ask this already? I say 74. They won't be over .500.

I have the short-term memory of a three year old.

100

*I know this is ridiculous but the Royals are my only shot to have a decent KC team this year.

Shooting for .500 this year again. Last time the Royals were over .500, 2003.

You all are some gutless cowards.


:D

put me down for 90

132, but I'll accept 81 :)

If we have a few things break our way, we could win 90+.

88

84 wins.

83

I don't think you can underestimate just how bad the starting pitching was last year.
I mean, you can look at overall stats, but they don't really tell the story. There was like 50% of the games in which the team had no chance to win by like the 3rd inning.
I think this team wins 90 this year and really pushes Detroit. This, of course, hinges on the team staying relatively healthy-which we are due to do, and the young players all improving steadily.

My prediction for the Royals is 89-73.

3rd place in the AL Central.

LOL at 85+. I cant get my hopes up for this team. Every time I "think this is the year", they let me down. I say 66 wins. Doesn't matter though, baseball sucks.

This is so true. Look at the rotations from 2012-2013 side by side and you're blown away.

Last year, Mendoza was probably the best starter on the team. Now, he's 5th. And a solid 5th.

In fact, our starting rotation gives us a chance to win every night. And with Paulino and Duffy coming back, we're just that much stronger up front.

:spock: worse than last yr?

87

I pick 75 every year. Hopefully for once I'm pleasantly surprised.

I voted for the 85-94 option, although I do not think they will get above 90 wins. I see them somewhere between 80 and 90 wins.

Every time I think they're going to be better than the previous year they're worse. trying to reverse the mojo.

We will not crack .500.

The real question is, which players will prove themselves worthy of being traded to a real team?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What the hell? No Gaz option?

Unfortunately, this. :(

83

Lame.

The contract extensions of Zack Greinke, Alex Gordon, Billy Butler, Joakim Soria, Alcides Escobar, Sal Perez say hi.

The "we're a farm team" b.s. really needs to get flushed by this fanbase. The Royals aren't going to go out and spend like a big-market team, but they also have done a GREAT job of signing their best young players to good-value extensions since Moore became the GM.

Anything less than 81 is abject failure.

96 on the nose

How come 10-20 is not a poll option ???

LMAO

73-89 and out of any playoff discussion by the end of April.

Can you explain the value of Francoeur's contract to a naive novice please?

Royals win again- 19 runs in the last two games- Wow!!

.500 plus would be tremendous. Just keep me interested thru the summer and I'll be ecstatic.

reasons to be pessimistic
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- Rotation may not deliver as expected
- Hosmer, Moose may not show improvement
- Could be a bad season for injuries
- Escobar, Perez may Slump
- Yost wont leave the lineups alone
- 2012 Frenchy returns

reasons to be optimistic
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- Rotation alone could get us 20 more wins over last year
- Hosmer, Moose, Getz show marked improvement/consistency
- Escobar remains hot
- 2011 Frenchy returns
- Perez lives up to the hype
- Pen may be even stronger than last year
- Yost will not get in the way of a good thing
- Billay has a 30+ home run year

Royals will be close to another 100 loss season that is what they do almost every year.

They won't have one of those 11 games losing streaks like last year that destroyed them. So I am predicting an 82 win season and a solid 2nd place finish in their division.

You do realize we haven't lost 100 games in almost 10 years, right?

Depends how long Hochevar sticks around.

True...but they have been solidly in the 90 loss club. They have only been above 80 wins once in 20 years. Think about that....

Yeah, that's certainly a disheartening stat. Thing is, it's generally been a pitching problem for this team. Over the last 2+ decades, we have had NO pitching depth - NONE. This is one of the best lineups we have had since the early 90's pitching staff that won 84+ games.

Like I mentioned earlier:
86-76 2nd in the Central

85-94

For the first time in my life (besides the 03 fluke) the Royals have a chance to be relevant. Don't crush my dreams you bastards.

I'm predicting 85 wins and falling just short of the 2nd wild card.

I just left Vegas on Monday and the oddsmakers have them at 10/1 to win the American League :eek:

162!!!!

What ROFL you don't know the Royals very well do you?
This is the losses in the last 10 years starting with 2012.
90
91
95
97
87
93
100 - 2006
106 - 2005
104 - 2004
79
100 -2002

That is 4 seasons over 100 lossses and 5 more with in 10 including 2 within 5.
So you have had 1 season in that same time frame where you were over .500.

I'm going 86 and getting one of the Wild Cards.

I would think post season or Dayton Moore is Done here.

Thought this might be worth revisiting....

This was the whole point in starting the thread originally now wasn't it?

I never think long-term

I'm going to be damn close, but I hope I'm short by 3 wins :)

Sweep the Rangers this weekend, and things could get really interesting.

Texas is 2-8 in their last 10 games. If they got swept in KC that would be utter devastation for the Rangers. I'm pretty sure fans would be clamoring for Wash to get the boot. All this while the As play moneyball.

Well, looks like we're gonna overshoot my original guesstimate.

This one's looking good.