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2009 Kansas City Royals Repository.
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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 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] Courtesy of ari: Quote:
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05-06-2009, 05:02 PM | #151 | |
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Looking ahead to the weekend:
The Angels are hanging tough in AL West. 11-13 without Vlad or John Lackey (who is scheduled for one more rehab start before rejoining the team). Torii Hunter is off to a flying start (8 HR's). Mike Napoli has 4 and an OPS 1.165. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...tnerId=rss_mlb Quote:
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05-06-2009, 05:44 PM | #152 |
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I think the Angels series is going to be a good one. I like our pitching matchups as they're pretty dinged up. However, the Angels are starting to heat up following an understandable funk in the wake of Nick Adenhart's passing.
I'm encouraged by our offensive production as of late, particularly in our ability to play back from behind. Again, the key for me is Kyle Davies. Lost in the excitement of yesterday's win was another very poor performance by Davies. I'm telling you we're going to need him to step up if we're going to win the division. I expect Bannister to be fine, Hochevar to step in...but Davies is the wild card. |
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05-06-2009, 05:47 PM | #153 |
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baseball prospectus regularly runs a simulation of "the rest of the season" to determine postseason odds. They do this mostly a couple different ways, playing out the season 1 million times each way to get the odds.
One way is to throw out preseason PECOTA projections and only use this season's data. This obviously leads to weird skewed results early in the year, but gradually becomes more useful than PECOTA in the last month or so. Under that method, the Royals are (obviously) very likely to go to the playoffs, behind only the Dodgers and Blue Jays (LOL). Royals (43% division, 10% wild card, 53% playoffs) Tigers (29% division, 10% wild card, 39% playoffs) Indians (12% division, 6% wild card, 17% playoffs) Twins (9% division, 4% wild card, 14% playoffs) White Sox (7% division, 4% wild card, 10% playoffs) The second method is to run the rest of the season with the PECOTA projections, which is more useful in the beginning of the year when teams are getting off to a good or bad start but would probably regress or improve. Under that method, the Royals still have a decent shot, since we are 5 over .500 and PECOTA didnt think we'd be a bad team. Tigers (41% division, 2% wild card, 44% playoffs) Royals (22% division, 2% wild card, 25% playoffs) Indians (17% division, 2% wild card, 19% playoffs) Twins (11% division, 1% wild card, 12% playoffs) White Sox (8% division, 1% wild card, 9% playoffs)
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05-06-2009, 09:49 PM | #155 |
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I enjoy that graph, alnorth.
Early afternoon game tomorrow, al. You gonna start the thread? |
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05-06-2009, 09:56 PM | #156 |
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Jarod Washburn vs Brian Bannister tomorrow. Another get away game that starts at 1:10pm. Perfect day to watch the boys continue the streak.
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05-06-2009, 10:03 PM | #157 |
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IN this streak the Royals have raised the team BA almost 30 points. From .238 to .265. Butler is up near .270 and even Mitch Maier with 2 hits tonight got his BA up above .200.
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05-06-2009, 10:28 PM | #158 |
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Streaks: W5
Last 10: 8-2 Home: 10-6 Road: 7-5 Runs Scored: 139 Runs Against: 109 |
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05-06-2009, 10:31 PM | #159 |
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More good stuff...
The Royals have a winning record against each of the divisions in the AL. East: 4-3 Central: 10-7 West: 3-1
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It's easy to get excited, I'm really excited how our offense is coming around, we're actually taking walks. I'm gonna wait before getting too hyped up on the playoff train. But if we keep playing like this we will be in the mix.
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05-06-2009, 10:39 PM | #161 |
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i think royals fans will start to really like maier. he plays hard, and i think he will get better at the plate. especially with seitzer. he's done a great job with this lineup. seitzer is the reason i don't think we should send avilles down to AAA. let kevin work with him some more. its his best shot to get better.
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P W L ERA
Z Greinke 6 0 0.4 J Soria 1 0 1.17 J Wright 0 0 1.45 R Tejeda 0 0 1.69 B Bannister 2 0 1.96 J Cruz 2 0 2.19 G Meche 2 2 4.14 D Waechter 0 0 4.5 R Mahay 1 0 5.19 K Davies 2 1 5.88 S Ponson 1 4 5.91 K Farnsworth 0 3 7.56 H Ramirez 0 1 7.71 |
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05-06-2009, 11:23 PM | #164 |
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From the Whowouldathunkit file: The Royals are 11-3 when Willie Bloomquist is in the lineup...
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