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04-27-2014, 03:42 PM | #106 |
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04-27-2014, 03:45 PM | #107 |
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hate that he's still batting between hos and gordo
at least switch him with Salvy
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04-27-2014, 03:57 PM | #108 |
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04-27-2014, 04:12 PM | #109 |
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Ned needs to get him the F*** out of the 4 spot.
Just a true waste of a bat there (for the time being). Currently there's almost zero production coming from that spot...the spot that's supposed to move runners in to score....which is the main problem this Royals team has offensively. But it won't happen anytime soon I'm afraid. We have Ned Yost...a softy small ball manager who's afraid to hurt someone's feelings w/ his blind loyalty to players who just aboslutely suck.
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04-27-2014, 04:48 PM | #110 |
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I'm still here. Still think we couldn't get the same production out of that platoon and use the $8m in savings elsewhere? Let's use last year's numbers:
Butler: 582ab 62r 168h 27d 0t 15hr 82rbi 0sb 79/102 .289 .787 OPS In just over 1/2 the AB, that platoon didn't produce all that differently and they are CHEAP. They also play the field and they don't clog the bases. |
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04-27-2014, 06:06 PM | #111 |
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Billay Butter is going to go Oh for April in the HR dept. Sad sad sad for a full time DH.
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04-27-2014, 06:38 PM | #113 |
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My problem with Bummly Butler.
No power for a Dh, for a fatass or for his lineup spot, especially this year. He basically doubles as a slap hitter right now. At least when he was good he was going to get you a double or put you in a double play. Now it is just double plays, weak grounders and wasted at bats. I think that is what infuriates me the most. Some of his at bats piss me off. At least eat up pitches. This ****er gets out in one or two pitches a lot it seems. And his speed, holy shit. He might be the slowest person in the league. Maybe in all of baseball counting the minors. How the **** is someone that slow? He hit a grounder one game I was at, he was flaying around and bustling like a track star for the top half of his body, bottom half? yeah, his ass barely made it 45ft before being thrown out. Anyone else would of made a close play at the plate. He looks way slower than years previous. I think he is just collecting a pay check now. Everyone rides on his laurels of past seasons, well it started getting worse last year. And has been a huge disappointment this year. Which you know we might tolerate. But if you are trying to get in the playoffs and win. His at bats at this rate are not going to help. Maybe something can change, but right now. That is not the same player from a couple years ago. Bat him 9th until he gets his average up past escobar and has more HRs than him. |
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He looks way ****ing off. He's definitely pressing as he's reaching for balls out of the zone frequently, especially today. The pitches he should be crushing he's getting on top of and he's not even close to looking like he's about to find it at the plate.
I'm at the worried stage now after defending him to start the year.
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Dude has 0 plate discipline and isn't even hitting hard outs. It's one thing to say "dude knocked the piss out of the ball, just right at someone" but you can't even say that about him save maybe twice in the last 7 games and not much more than that for the entire season.
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04-27-2014, 08:18 PM | #117 |
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But he grimaces with each plate appearance failure because the stupid bat didn't lift the ball and send it over the fence, in this organization that's all you need to do.
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04-27-2014, 10:03 PM | #118 |
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This really should be a 'The Royals offense hate thread'...cause no one except Omar Infante is doing much.
Butler is sucking, Gordon, HOS, MOOSE, Perez, aren't even consistent. Butler is concerning but he has been a pretty good player, and probably the best hitter the past 5 years. What happend to Gordons power? The 40+ doubles days are over now? |
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I say give Butler a couple days off or sit him once or twice a week and let Maxwell DH.
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04-27-2014, 10:37 PM | #120 |
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