***KC Royals vs Baltimore Orioles- July 25th, 2013***

[lewdog]

I get married, have sex for the first time and the Royals win my first game back from vacation! What could be better? How about two wins in a row against Baltimore, which should rank high on your list of shittiest cities in America. I mean, have you seen The Wire? They made a whole TV show about the shittiness of that city.

Starting Pitchers
Baltimore: Gonzalez (8-3, 3.34 ERA)
Kansas City: Guthrie (9-7, 4.41 ERA)

Baltimore
1.N. McLouth, LF
2.M. Machado, 3B
3.N. Markakis, RF
4.A. Jones, CF
5.C. Davis, 1B
6.M. Wieters, C
7.J. Hardy, SS
8.H. Urrutia, DH
9.B. Roberts, 2B


Kansas City
1 A. Gordon, LF
2 E. Hosmer, 1B
3 B. Butler, DH
4 S. Perez, C
5 D. Lough, RF
6 M. Moustakas, 3B
7 A. Escobar, SS
8 C. Getz, 2B
9 J. Dyson, CF

[DeezNutz]

Nevermind:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...bi03&year=&t=b

[tk13]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Can you link that, please? I was actually tinkering with BR, but it looked like the format had changed a bit.

Butler is, without question, the best pure hitter on the team. Bashing him is damn near a baseball litmus test.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ear=&t=b#clutc

No problem, it is a sea of info to wade through. It's under the splits tab. He actually has a higher OPS when the game is within 1 run than any other run differential... and 6 of his 9 homers have come in 1-run games. 5 of them when the game was tied. His "Late & Close" OPS is like 50 or 60 points higher.

[Coach]

BURN!

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Buck never hit more than 18 for us. He never played more than 118 games.

Had 15 at the break in '07. Finished that year with 18, and I don't believe he had any major problems, if any, with injury. Sharing time with Olivo.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Can you link that, please? I was actually tinkering with BR, but it looked like the format had changed a bit.

Butler is, without question, the best pure hitter on the team. Bashing him is damn near a baseball litmus test.

I just think the issue is, that he's playing DH, and that he isn't your prototypical DH, that should be generating power/hitting homeruns as most DH's in the AL are capable of.

It's like, the only + Billy has is hitting. Other than that, everything else is below average/negatives.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Yuni and Buck could each hit more HRs than anyone on our team. Buck drove in three runs tonight. He's going to hit 20 while playing 125 games.

Yeah, I'll still take Salvy over John Buck and his .675 OPS.

[Coach]

Smoked Davis.

Holie Shit.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by tk13

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ear=&t=b#clutc

No problem, it is a sea of info to wade through. It's under the splits tab. He actually has a higher OPS when the game is within 1 run than any other run differential... and 6 of his 9 homers have come in 1-run games. 5 of them when the game was tied. His "Late & Close" OPS is like 50 or 60 points higher.

Thanks, dude. I was thinking it was under "advanced hitting." My bad, and thanks for the efforts.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

Yeah, I'll still take Salvy over John Buck and his .675 OPS.

This x infinity.

[Saul Good]

Golden Sombrero for Davis...

[siberian khatru]

Good Herrera

[Mizzou_8541]

Golden sombrero for Davis? 4 k's for him?

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

Yeah, I'll still take Salvy over John Buck and his .675 OPS.

So will I. Wouldn't be a bad second catcher, though.

[lewdog]

Steroid boy ain't got shit on us! Except more homers and wins.

[SPchief]

Davis has been owned for the most part this series