2012 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread

[alnorth]

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:

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.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by sedated

Someone on 810 called this perfectly. Can’t remember who, who goes on the Border Patrol every week? Said he would trade Paulino yesterday, guy is a serious injury waiting to happen, max effort guy.

Likely Rany, but I didn't hear it. He does have an injury history, they pulled up his year by year innings pitched the other day and it was somewhat low. Likely why Colorado let him go.

[Jerm]

Gotta trade for a starter now right? Even if Odorizzi is called up I would think...

[sedated]

Originally Posted by ChiefsandO'sfan

but tearing an elbow ligament while rehabbing a groin injury is some pretty awful luck.

Royals fans should be used to it by now.

I'm expecting Butler to overdose on nerve tonic or get stuck in a portal to another dimension.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by sedated

Someone on 810 called this perfectly. Can’t remember who, who goes on the Border Patrol every week? Said he would trade Paulino yesterday, guy is a serious injury waiting to happen, max effort guy.

They were talking about a shoulder, not his UCL. Most likely that source is complete hogwash. You don't trade a guy just because they have to get Tommy John

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by sedated

Royals fans should be used to it by now.

I'm expecting Butler to overdose on nerve tonic or get stuck in a portal to another dimension.

Couldn't help but think of this:

[mr. tegu]

Gross!!!!

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

If it weren't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all... gloom, dispare and agony on meeeeee......

/Hee Haw

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

They were talking about a shoulder, not his UCL. Most likely that source is complete hogwash. You don't trade a guy just because they have to get Tommy John

A potential shoulder is worse than an elbow.

[Codered]

Kansas City is the place pitchers come to die.

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

Originally Posted by sedated

Someone on 810 called this perfectly. Can’t remember who, who goes on the Border Patrol every week? Said he would trade Paulino yesterday, guy is a serious injury waiting to happen, max effort guy.

Some of Paulino's struggles have been because of injuries. He didn't appear in the Majors in 2008 because of a pinched nerve in his throwing shoulder. He missed part of 2009 with a right groin strain. Last year was interrupted by right shoulder problems, first diagnosed as tendinitis and later found to be a rotator cuff strain.

http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/news...s_col&c_id=col Seems to get hurt alot.

[KCUnited]

Paulino's last rehab start:

Felipe Paulino (groin) allowed three runs on four hits and two walks over three innings Wednesday in a rehab start for Double-A Northwest Arkansas.

[Canofbier]

Damn. I got all excited about Perez getting back, only to find out that Paulino is scratched. OUR TIME

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

A potential shoulder is worse than an elbow.

Right, and this isn't a shoulder injury.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

Right, and this isn't a shoulder injury.

But that was the premise of the trade discussion, known shoulder issue, is pitching well, deal him at the height of his value.

[Al Bundy]

Yet guys like Kyle Davies managed to go injury free....