2009 Kansas City Royals Repository.

[WilliamTheIrish]

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 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]


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[CaliforniaChief]

I'm optimistic, but I don't see any of those scenarios I've offered as being outlandish.

[MoreLemonPledge]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Damn, dude. You're an optimist.

With this defense and offense, I think .500 is about this team's ceiling. Soria will provide much help, assuming he's 100 percent, but Gordon is just another guy.

.500 may well win the division as poor as it is. I really feel that Gordon would have had his break out season if not for the injury. I still think he'll be better than what we've seen in the past.

[chiefqueen]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

True about the defense. And the timing of the demotion is questionable at best. Today's performance should have earned the kid another start. What it does say to me, however, is that the organization doesn't have much faith in Hochevar's stuff.

I'm calling BS on Moore's public endorsement of Hochevar that appeared in the Star a day or two back.

I think Hochever was sent down because KC has 2 off days in 5 days coming up (5/28 and 6/1) so KC does not need a #5 starter again until 6/5 (besides I shouldn't think those of you with 5/31 tix would complain, that's should now become a Grienke start).

By sending him down Luke can make a start in Omaha.

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by chiefqueen

I think Hochever was sent down because KC has 2 off days in 5 days coming up (5/28 and 6/1) so KC does not need a #5 starter again until 6/5 (besides I shouldn't think those of you with 5/31 tix would complain, that's should now become a Grienke start).

By sending him down Luke can make a start in Omaha.

I remember a quote about Luke following the Oakland game about how he wasn't making the physical adjustments? Seems like he didn't make them against Baltimore and against St. Louis he was still behind batters quite a bit. Didn't seem like he was making all of the physical adjustments all the way around or at least the way they have been asking him to.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Top of the rotation coming up and very real possibility to creep closer to the Tigers. These bats... ugh.... have got to start hitting. It's frustrating watching this kind of futility.

[teedubya]

Yay! We are at .500 now! woo hoo.

bleh.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by chiefqueen

I think Hochever was sent down because KC has 2 off days in 5 days coming up (5/28 and 6/1) so KC does not need a #5 starter again until 6/5 (besides I shouldn't think those of you with 5/31 tix would complain, that's should now become a Grienke start).

By sending him down Luke can make a start in Omaha.

And because he sucks.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Top of the rotation coming up and very real possibility to creep closer to the Tigers. These bats... ugh.... have got to start hitting. It's frustrating watching this kind of futility.

Hopefully Meche can go for more than 87 pitches...

[WilliamTheIrish]

Verlander vs Meche:

In his last 5 starts Verlander has 51 K's. His last start against Texas broke his string of double digit K's in 3 consecutive starts.

This game might be one of those 1:57 minute jobs the way the Royals are swinging the bats.


Tuesday night Zack against Edwin Jackson: JAckson is 4-2 2.55. This guy has always been a decent pitcher. This year he seems to have tamed that slider and it's been the difference. His BB/9 are down from almost 5 to just over 2. That'll make you a more effective pitcher right there.

FanGraphs write up on Jackson:

Jackson’s getting slightly more first pitch strikes and a bucket load more of hitters chasing him outside of the zone. Why? As it turns out, Jackson’s slider has experienced a metamorphosis in his short time spent in Detroit. Velocity has remained the same as the break has shifted. No longer is Jackson’s slider sweeping towards lefties, instead the break is far more subtle, and perhaps far more deceptive. Rather than breaking ~2 inches, it’s breaking 1, and the vertical movement is ‘down’ about an inch as well.

Whether Jackson has gained control over the pitch with this change – whatever the change may be, it’s the only one in his arsenal, because he’s no longer throwing his change-up very often – or simply a deceptive trick, it bears resemblance to another slider on the Tigers staff, Armando Galarraga. Whether this is a Galarraga hand-me-down or a Rick Knapp lesson, it seems to be working. We’ll see if it continues.

This series is going to make or break us for the next 4 weeks. Possibly the year. Soria is still 10 days out. And even then....

[WilliamTheIrish]

POsted on 05/04:

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

With those three games in Minnesota done, we stand a chance to make some real headway in the division.

17 of our next 25 games are AT HOME! Of those 17 home games 11 are against the AL Central.

Here's the breakdown:

CHISOX: 5

Detroit: 3

Cleveland: 3

Out of division home games:

Baltimore: 4

Seattle: 2

We enter the last week of May with a 22-22 record. Still have a good chance for a winning month of May. Been a good while since the franchise had btb winning months. The Royals are 10-11 for the month.

These next 6 against the Tigers and CHISOX are as big as May baseball gets. (Until the next 6)

[Pioli Zombie]

Royals baseball. Making May baseball matter again.
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[WilliamTheIrish]

Purchased my patriotic type hat this weekend. Saw these on line and had to have have it. It's a flat billed, Dontrelle Willis style, but still, it was too damn handsome a cap for me to turn down:

[WilliamTheIrish]

Got this one for my son.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

POsted on 05/04:



We enter the last week of May with a 22-22 record. Still have a good chance for a winning month of May. Been a good while since the franchise had btb winning months. The Royals are 10-11 for the month.

These next 6 against the Tigers and CHISOX are as big as May baseball gets. (Until the next 6)

We had better make contact today. Otherwise we stand to have 15 K's against Verlander. If you get some hits on him he gets rattled. And Meche has to have a solid 7-8 innings. None of this "my back is stiff" shit. These are the games here that matter. We can atually make up for a lot of our bad play over the last few weeks with a solid series against the Tigers and then the Chi-Sox.

[WilliamTheIrish]

The June schedule starts with a nine game road trip to Tampa (3) Toronto (3), and finishes in Cleveland (3). That's why it's imperative to go 4-2 in the last 6.

8-12 road record currently.