2010 Kansas City Royals Repository thread

[SPchief]

All Royals All The Time!

After consultation with others who peruse the game threads we decided to create this as a repository for all things Royals. Minor league news, AL (ahem) Central (thanks Vonne) news and anything Royals can be found here.

alnorth, me and atleast 5 others will continue the game threads as usual. But if you locate something of interest.. ANYTHING.. deals on apparel, best ways in/out of the stadium, giveaways, great stories from this season or from seasons gone by, rumors, trades, anything.... feel free to post it here.

If a big story breaks, you can still start a thread about it. There is merely an all inclusive thread that will make a easy for us all to keep up with all things Royals.


Welcome! "Grab a Brew... don't cost nuthin"...[spills beer on feet]

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by tk13

All this fawning over our minor league system makes me nervous. I don't know why. It seems to divide into two camps, people who are firmly positive and waiting for it. Then another group of people totally mocking it and saying we've heard this before. Which is and isn't true, obviously. We've had some good prospects before, but not quite like this. And it's not like just a bunch of Royals homers... you've got baseball people from all over the map who would normally mock the Royals talking about how this is the mother lode of a farm system. It would be an unbelievable accomplishment for all of these guys to bust. I guess that goes along with what those guys in the podcast say... that the Royals might have to try pretty hard to screw this up.

This makes me giddy, just to think about it. Bring it on!

[eazyb81]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Nice chunk of Royals talk from a baseball prospectus podcast recently. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/ar...rticleid=12497

Skip to the 47-minute mark, a few minutes of some non-Royals fans trying to figure out if this is the best minor league system to have ever existed in recent memory, a few minutes of Washington prospects (who cares) then they bring in a Royals fan (Rany) to go back to talking about the Royals for a half hour.

I keep thinking about the hype this system will get if a greinke trade goes through and we add Martin Perez, Jurickson Profar, etc to our list. I think some would start to really think this could be the best farm system on paper since the minor leagues became a real focus.

[Bambi]

I heard Moustakas is fatter than Butler.

That can't be good.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by tk13

All this fawning over our minor league system makes me nervous. I don't know why. It seems to divide into two camps, people who are firmly positive and waiting for it. Then another group of people totally mocking it and saying we've heard this before. Which is and isn't true, obviously. We've had some good prospects before, but not quite like this. And it's not like just a bunch of Royals homers... you've got baseball people from all over the map who would normally mock the Royals talking about how this is the mother lode of a farm system. It would be an unbelievable accomplishment for all of these guys to bust. I guess that goes along with what those guys in the podcast say... that the Royals might have to try pretty hard to screw this up.

I'm definitely more in the "positive" camp than anything else, but there have also been just enough hiccups to reinforce the viewpoint of the pessimists: Moose sucked ass in '09, Montgomery has had recurring injury problems, Hosmer, literally, couldn't see when we drafted him, Crow has been disastrous, etc.

Sheer numbers should be in our favor, though.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

I'm definitely more in the "positive" camp than anything else, but there have also been just enough hiccups to reinforce the viewpoint of the pessimists: Moose sucked ass in '09, Montgomery has had recurring injury problems, Hosmer, literally, couldn't see when we drafted him, Crow has been disastrous, etc.

Sheer numbers should be in our favor, though.

Aaron Crow is like in his late 20's. He should have been pitching in the majors years ago.


bust

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

Aaron Crow is like in his late 20's. He should have been pitching in the majors years ago.


bust

He's 24.

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

He's 24.

pwned.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

He's 24.

Like oops.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

He's 24.

with a 5.93 ERA in single A.

awesome

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

with a 5.93 ERA in single A.

awesome

Ummm, I know what his ERA was. I also know he's 24.

awesom(er)

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Ummm, I know what his ERA was. I also know he's 24.

awesom(er)

Point is a 24 year old with a era of 6 on a single A team being listed as our 9th best prospect doesn't inspire much hope.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

Point is a 24 year old with a era of 6 on a single A team being listed as our 9th best prospect doesn't inspire much hope.

Really? Compare him to the 9th best prospect of any/all MLB farms.


I have time.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

Point is a 24 year old with a era of 6 on a single A team being listed as our 9th best prospect doesn't inspire much hope.

First, I hated that pick at the time b/c I wouldn't touch a bitch who sat out a year. That said:

There are a number of reasons why ERA at the minor league level might not mean shit. 1.) working on a specific pitch 2.) working on mechanics

Crow's stuff is, by almost all accounts, superior to Hochevar's, so it will be up to the coaching staff, like the slider coach, to get him to perform.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

First, I hated that pick at the time b/c I wouldn't touch a bitch who sat out a year. That said:

There are a number of reasons why ERA at the minor league level might not mean shit. 1.) working on a specific pitch 2.) working on mechanics

Crow's stuff is, by almost all accounts, superior to Hochevar's, so it will be up to the coaching staff, like the slider coach, to get him to perform.

What could they possibly know? He's in his late 20's.

That's all that matters.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

First, I hated that pick at the time b/c I wouldn't touch a bitch who sat out a year. That said:

There are a number of reasons why ERA at the minor league level might not mean shit. 1.) working on a specific pitch 2.) working on mechanics

Crow's stuff is, by almost all accounts, superior to Hochevar's, so it will be up to the coaching staff, like the slider coach, to get him to perform.

The way the internet is these days has brought about 1000% the attention by fans to the baseball draft. Not that these first round picks are always going to work out but teams need to realize they are going to get bombed by fans when they pick based on signability.

Not saying that Crow was a signability pick (I would have to look at the guys selected adjacent to him)....

But I agree. I groaned when they picked him.