*****Official 2025 Royals Season Repository Thread*****

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

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Man Dayton had some all time stinkers for draft picks.

Asa Lacy, Pratto, mozzicato,

Whatever happened to those guys??

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Asa Lacy, Pratto, mozzicato,

Whatever happened to those guys??

You know those guys who skate around at Sonic and bring you your food?

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

23 strikeouts in in 56 ABs is like really ****ing bad. Dude has a .286 SLG. Man Dayton had some all time stinkers for draft picks.

But he’s a man of faith!

I think we can bury our hopes his struggles were just the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever thing.

Dude just sucks.

Going Asa Lacy/Mozzicato/Gavin across back-to-back-to-back is rough. Even land one of those and it helps this team a lot.

[GloryDayz]

To think, the Chiefs tied themselves to this shitshow on a vote for new stadiums...

Hey Johnson County, let's hope y'all have the magic to make them winners.

[Bowser]

Clay County and NKC are starting to think the old bowling alley area would make a fantastic high rise parking garage for Chicken n Pickle.

[Mosbonian]

I get there is a lot of the season left...but this team just doesn't show a sign of life.

I could see Witt and Pasquatino picking up at some point but the rest of the lineup seems lost.

I will still watch until they play themselves out of contention...but after that i will watch from afar and focus on the Chiefs.

[tk13]

Was listening to Petro and Rany's podcast tonight, and while they can be pessimistic sometimes, they did make a good point and concede there might not have been a great answer to these offensive problems.

The Royals wanted Santander and he's barely hitting over .200 and is on pace for 15 HR. Bellinger had a .500 OPS coming into today hitting between Judge and Goldschmidt. Joc Pederson is 3-55 and hitting worse than Melendez. Maybe some of them will turn it around but if they don't you have an extra $20-30 million hole in your lineup.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by tk13

Was listening to Petro and Rany's podcast tonight, and as negative as they can be, they did make a good point and concede there might not have been a great answer to these offensive problems.

They really wanted Santander and he's barely hitting over .200 and is on pace for 15 HR. Bellinger had a .500 OPS coming into today hitting between Judge and Goldschmidt. Joc Pederson is 3-55 and hitting worse than Melendez. Maybe some of them will turn it around but if they don't you have an extra $20-30 million hole in your lineup.

There wasn't a realistic upgrade out there really. They did finally get a guy for the lead off spot so that Bobby should have someone on when he's up, but India's been in a slump.

Hell it seems like everyone is trying to have career worst years besides Bobby and Maikel. If Salvy, Vinnie, Massey, and India all didn't look like absolute ass, then with Maikel's emergence and India playing like he had previously this offense wouldn't be the worst in the league and would be more than good enough.

JJ couldn't have expected the offense would be this bad.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

There wasn't a realistic upgrade out there really. They did finally get a guy for the lead off spot so that Bobby should have someone on when he's up, but India's been in a slump.

Hell it seems like everyone is trying to have career worst years besides Bobby and Maikel. If Salvy, Vinnie, Massey, and India all didn't look like absolute ass, then with Maikel's emergence and India playing like he had previously this offense wouldn't be the worst in the league and would be more than good enough.

JJ couldn't have expected the offense would be this bad.

Even Renfroe, he's always been a slow starter and including his best years his April numbers have been terrible, but he's been exceptionally bad this year.

[farmerchief]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

There wasn't a realistic upgrade out there really. They did finally get a guy for the lead off spot so that Bobby should have someone on when he's up, but India's been in a slump.

Hell it seems like everyone is trying to have career worst years besides Bobby and Maikel. If Salvy, Vinnie, Massey, and India all didn't look like absolute ass, then with Maikel's emergence and India playing like he had previously this offense wouldn't be the worst in the league and would be more than good enough.

JJ couldn't have expected the offense would be this bad.

Seems like we have no "contact" hitters, players willing and capable of just putting the ball in play. Looks like a majority of the lineup is swinging for the fences, and we only have a few, that rightly have those kind of expectations? Last year, if I remember was the same problem early, then they finally started making better swings when the Royals made their runs.
Maybe a new hitting coach is in order?

[dlphg9]

I think Peyton Wilson is due for a promotion. The kids in his 3rd season at AA and seems to have figured it out there.

.444 BA and 1.360 OPS in 14 games.

[ChiefsCountry]

Tyler O'Neil, who I have been banging the table for the last couple of seasons, would have been a semi upgrade. But he is also injury prone.

On the rumored trade possibilities from the offseason, Alec Bohm has been complete ass as well. Angels wouldn't budge on Taylor Ward, whose bat has been okay but is ass on defense.

I'm surprised they didn't kick the tires more on Harrison Bader. His defense would play at Kauffman. But pretty weak bat traditionally.

[duncan_idaho]

Yeah, it was a tough market.

Luis Rengifo is someone they were also heavily connected to, and he has struggled early as well.

If they can get Marsh healthy, that's probably where I would go as far as a trade. Would hurt their SP depth, which sucks, but if they could flip Marsh for a decent bat that can play a corner, it probably is worth it - especially if that bat comes with some control.

Marsh would seem like an overpay for Rengifo, but Rengifo might also make some sense.

[dlphg9]

Man, looks like Bubic is finally rounding into form. He might just end up being a really good #2 starter. If he had a bit more power, then he ends up being an ace and probably has a chance to be better than Ragans.

The Royals really need to extend him this off season. I think last year is his last year he is under control and I'd hate for him to get away.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Man, looks like Bubic is finally rounding into form. He might just end up being a really good #2 starter. If he had a bit more power, then he ends up being an ace and probably has a chance to be better than Ragans.

The Royals really need to extend him this off season. I think last year is his last year he is under control and I'd hate for him to get away.

Bubic has one more year of team control after this season (entered the year with 4+ years of service time). If he can stay healthy the whole year and holds his velocity at a full starter’s workload, I’m on board with an extension of some sort.

The sweeper he added has given him the second pitch against lefties he had at times struggled with, and the change is still fantastic.