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.

[Shogun]

i love the A's right field guys, classy bunch

[Kyle DeLexus]

I'm turning into a huge Frenchy fan. He made things fun last year, I see why Dayton had a man crush on him all those years.

[Shogun]

Really to me hes quietly a top 3 guy on this team, he gets his hits and plays good defense and sets a good example to our young guys, just imho

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Jeff Francoeur is awesome.

Quick background, late last year a group of total die-hard Oakland fans in right field were holding a "bacon tuesday" celebration where they cook up and eat bacon while heckling the opposing right field. Frenchy was game and interacted with them, and at the end of game they saved a plate of bacon for him. The day after that he threw a baseball with a $100 bill rubber-banded to it to them, saying bacon and beer was on him.

Flash-forward to yesterday, the 2nd annual bacon tuesday, where they gave Frenchy a T-shirt commemorating the event. Then today:

Gotta love this guy! Definetly a Royal i would love to meet

[cabletech94]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Gotta love this guy! Definetly a Royal i would love to meet

sooooooo, are you gonna be there friday?

[DeezNutz]

I'll eat some shit here. Thought the signing of Frenchy would be a disaster, but it hasn't been. Not anywhere close.

Plus, he seems like one hell of a cool guy.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

I love Frenchman. Glad he's on our side.

[KCUnited]

You can't make this stuff up.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...020037455.html

Jonathan Broxton's errant pitch and Jonny Gomes' ribcage made history on Wednesday.

In what was literally the wildest ending to a baseball game in almost 50 years, the Kansas City closer hit Oakland rookie Yoenis Cespedes to load the bases in the bottom of the 12th inning. Broxton then plunked Gomes just a few moments later for a walkoff hit-by-pitch, a blown save and a 5-4 A's victory at Oakland Coliseum. It was the first time in 46 years that a game ended with two straight batters being hit with pitches.

"It started out good but I just didn't have it,'' said Broxton, who began the inning with a strikeout before getting into trouble with two traditional walks. ''One was a sinker and one was a four-seam fastball.''

It's not often that a baseball game ends with just one person being hit by a baseball, of course. The Baseball Reference Play Index counts only 56 previous instances since 1948 that a game ended with a hit by pitch. Of those 56, only one ended with a pitcher hitting two straight batters. That game happened on Sept. 2, 1966 when Baltimore's Stu Miller hit Chicago's Al Weis and Tommie Agee to hand the White Sox a win.

The history making doesn't end there, though, because it would seem that Gomes has a knack for sacrificing his body for the greater good. Gomes also won a game as a member of the Washington Nationals last August after being hit by Brad Lidge, then a member of the Phillies. Wednesday's assault makes him the only player since at least 1948 to win two games by being hit with a pitch.

''Been there, done that,'' Gomes told reporters after the game. "You can hit me four times if we win."

And here we thought two small teammates fitting into one pair of Broxton's pants would be the season's most embarrassing moment for the former Dodgers reliever.

The small pizza-eating crowd at the Coliseum celebrated the extra innings win, but they probably weren't the only ones left with warm fuzzies. Though Broxton will likely get a few more chances to retain the Royals closer role, those fantasy owners holding onto Greg Holland have to feel a little more hopeful. The setup reliever pitched two perfect innings on Wednesday, striking out three batters and, perhaps more importantly, hitting none.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

You can't make this stuff up.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...020037455.html

Jonathan Broxton's errant pitch and Jonny Gomes' ribcage made history on Wednesday.

In what was literally the wildest ending to a baseball game in almost 50 years, the Kansas City closer hit Oakland rookie Yoenis Cespedes to load the bases in the bottom of the 12th inning. Broxton then plunked Gomes just a few moments later for a walkoff hit-by-pitch, a blown save and a 5-4 A's victory at Oakland Coliseum. It was the first time in 46 years that a game ended with two straight batters being hit with pitches.

"It started out good but I just didn't have it,'' said Broxton, who began the inning with a strikeout before getting into trouble with two traditional walks. ''One was a sinker and one was a four-seam fastball.''

It's not often that a baseball game ends with just one person being hit by a baseball, of course. The Baseball Reference Play Index counts only 56 previous instances since 1948 that a game ended with a hit by pitch. Of those 56, only one ended with a pitcher hitting two straight batters. That game happened on Sept. 2, 1966 when Baltimore's Stu Miller hit Chicago's Al Weis and Tommie Agee to hand the White Sox a win.

The history making doesn't end there, though, because it would seem that Gomes has a knack for sacrificing his body for the greater good. Gomes also won a game as a member of the Washington Nationals last August after being hit by Brad Lidge, then a member of the Phillies. Wednesday's assault makes him the only player since at least 1948 to win two games by being hit with a pitch.

''Been there, done that,'' Gomes told reporters after the game. "You can hit me four times if we win."

And here we thought two small teammates fitting into one pair of Broxton's pants would be the season's most embarrassing moment for the former Dodgers reliever.

The small pizza-eating crowd at the Coliseum celebrated the extra innings win, but they probably weren't the only ones left with warm fuzzies. Though Broxton will likely get a few more chances to retain the Royals closer role, those fantasy owners holding onto Greg Holland have to feel a little more hopeful. The setup reliever pitched two perfect innings on Wednesday, striking out three batters and, perhaps more importantly, hitting none.

If it can be done we can do it.

[gblowfish]

Meanwhile, in Baltimore, three years of playing for the O's is starting to wear on Robert Andino!

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Meanwhile, in Baltimore, three years of playing for the O's is starting to wear on Robert Andino!

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Meanwhile, in Baltimore, three years of playing for the O's is starting to wear on Robert Andino!

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

You can't make this stuff up.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...020037455.html

Jonathan Broxton's errant pitch and Jonny Gomes' ribcage made history on Wednesday.

In what was literally the wildest ending to a baseball game in almost 50 years, the Kansas City closer hit Oakland rookie Yoenis Cespedes to load the bases in the bottom of the 12th inning. Broxton then plunked Gomes just a few moments later for a walkoff hit-by-pitch, a blown save and a 5-4 A's victory at Oakland Coliseum. It was the first time in 46 years that a game ended with two straight batters being hit with pitches.

"It started out good but I just didn't have it,'' said Broxton, who began the inning with a strikeout before getting into trouble with two traditional walks. ''One was a sinker and one was a four-seam fastball.''

It's not often that a baseball game ends with just one person being hit by a baseball, of course. The Baseball Reference Play Index counts only 56 previous instances since 1948 that a game ended with a hit by pitch. Of those 56, only one ended with a pitcher hitting two straight batters. That game happened on Sept. 2, 1966 when Baltimore's Stu Miller hit Chicago's Al Weis and Tommie Agee to hand the White Sox a win.

The history making doesn't end there, though, because it would seem that Gomes has a knack for sacrificing his body for the greater good. Gomes also won a game as a member of the Washington Nationals last August after being hit by Brad Lidge, then a member of the Phillies. Wednesday's assault makes him the only player since at least 1948 to win two games by being hit with a pitch.

''Been there, done that,'' Gomes told reporters after the game. "You can hit me four times if we win."

And here we thought two small teammates fitting into one pair of Broxton's pants would be the season's most embarrassing moment for the former Dodgers reliever.

The small pizza-eating crowd at the Coliseum celebrated the extra innings win, but they probably weren't the only ones left with warm fuzzies. Though Broxton will likely get a few more chances to retain the Royals closer role, those fantasy owners holding onto Greg Holland have to feel a little more hopeful. The setup reliever pitched two perfect innings on Wednesday, striking out three batters and, perhaps more importantly, hitting none.

I love how the A's all started celebrating with Gomes as if he actually did something to win the game.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by thurman merman

I love how the A's all started celebrating with Gomes as if he actually did something to win the game.

After witnessing David Dejesus leap out of the way of a slow curve, I would have congratulated Gomes as well.

[RockChalk]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

After witnessing David Dejesus leap out of the way of a slow curve, I would have congratulated Gomes as well.

Where is he by the way? Hurt?