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2012 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread
2012 Slogan: Our Time
A better, more accurate 2012 Slogan: It is Finally Next Year (from Great Expectations) An alternative slogan if you don't like that one: Someone has to win this crappy division (from alnorth) With the beginning of a new year, it is time for the 2012 version of the Royals Repository Thread. We've got Hosmer, we've got a 2011-dominating Gordon, we've got Moose, we've got hopefully a killer bullpen, we've got a stereotypical slow slugging DH, we've got easily one of the best defensive shortstops in the AL, we've got a promising catcher in Salvador Perez. Hell, we've got offense and promising prospects galore. We do not have starting pitching. Oh yeah, we've also got this: ![]() Get ready for, (as of January 2012 anyway), one of the most confusing puzzles of a baseball season in recent Royals history. Will they suck? Maybe, I don't know. Will we be given a year of 0.500 baseball? Possibly, I don't know. Will they win the division and go to the playoffs for the first time in 27 years? For the first time in a long time, it could happen, I don't know. 92 losses, 92 wins, or anything in between would not surprise a lot of us. Everything goes here except Gameday threads and really big news. If a giant story breaks, the Royals achieve some awesome milestone, or we sign/lose a highly significant player/coach/mascot/whatever, then it might also deserve its own thread. This being Chiefs Planet, please do not clutter the board with new threads about trivial Royals news or you will only annoy those who come here for just Chiefs football. If you aren't sure and its not a Gameday thread, it goes here. What sort of stuff often goes here? SPchief explained it well, so I'll just copy that: Quote:
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For what it's worth, I expect Myers to be a much better player than Kila. But you never know. I thought Eric Hosmer would hit a lot more than .232 last year too. |
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I sure hope so. His delivery doesn't look strained or violent, which helps.
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Shields has a lot more innings piled up, but he's also never had major arm trouble like Sanchez. And is built like a workhorse pitcher (6-4, 220 guys tend to be able to handle workloads a lot better than someone built like, say, Kris Medlen or Tim Lincecum). I mentioned it a few pages back. an additional two years at, say, $30-35 million. Very fair market price (possibly even a little under what he'd get as a FA).
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If Shields is the kind of pitcher that the Royals clearly think he's going to be for them in the Central, then a two-year extension is very much worth pursuing.
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That's why I'm still high on him. If 2012 had been his rookie year, I'd be concerned. But he's already shown that he can hit in the bigs. Soph slumps happen. Now, if he sucks hard in 2013, I'm gonna be nervous. |
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James Shields is built like a big horse and we're only talking early/mid 30's, if he's willing to talk extension the day after he got traded away from his teammates and from the only team he's ever played for, great.
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Everything I'm reading is that he's excited to be "the man" in this rotation. He should bring all those intangible qualities that Jeffy Ballgame was supposed to bring, with the performance to back them up. That kind of chemistry stuff does matter to a contending team.
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Another positive for Shields:
His repertoire leans heavily on fastball/changeup/curve. The changeup and curve are much less risky pitches to throw, long-term. Sliders are the pitches that seem to shred the most arms...
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He throws his changeup more than almost anybody, and its his out pitch. He's got one of the best slow pitches in baseball. So, his innings might be less stressful than most.
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I'd be all for dumping Frenchy, but no one is going to take him for his salary. We're basically stuck with that salary. Even if we deal him, we will either have to take on a similar salary in what we get in return, or we will have to pay a large portion of his salary for any team to make a trade... |
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The yep monster just belched out 38 yeps. /FAX
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