2013 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread

[duncan_idaho]

Proposed 2013 Slogan: Tigers: They're what's for dinner
Actual 2013 Slogan: Come to Play
A better, more accurate, or alternative slogan: All in, no panic, we promise.

The 2013 season is closer than we realize. The Royals will feature a rebuilt rotation that likely includes 4 new starters. The most-watched prospects of 2012, Wil Myers and Jake Odorizzi are gone, the price required to rebuild the rotation.

The Royals still have Sal Perz, who has even more of a "star" look to him than a year ago. They still have Alcides Escobar, who was a little less SS jesus in 2012 but brought more at the plate. Billy Butler finally hit a number of home runs that matches his build and how hard he hits the ball. Alex Gordon did it again. Hosmer and Moose struggled.

Dayton Moore has pushed all his chips in and is riding on King/Jack suited, hoping it comes together, he gets some good luck, and he hits the nuts by the river card. There's potential, oh yes, there's potential. There's also risk.

Burning Questions for 2013:

1) Will the improve rotation be improved enough? Does James Shields pitch like a fringe No. 1 away from Tampa Bay? Does Ervin Santana pitch to his highest upside in his walk year? Can Jeremy Guthrie build on his strong performance as a Royal in 2012? Can Wade Davis bring his new mentality- and velocity - back to the rotation?
2) When will Luke Hochevar be shown the door?
3) Does Hosmer bounce back?
4) Can Moustakas hit for a whole season like he did in the first half of 2012?
5) Who regresses?
6) Who plays 2B?
7) Can Jeff Francoeur be at least replacement level, rather than epic horrible level?
8) Will Dayton Moore survive to see 2014?
9) Will Danny Duffy come back healthy? And if he does, is he the same, better or worse?
10) And the big one: Has KC added enough to run down the big-money Detroit Tigers?

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by thurman merman

A few hundred? Spring training? What?

4 tickets a game, which averages to about $17 a ticket. Not too bad I don't think.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

4 ?

Shields
Santana
Guthrie (maybe)

Who's the 4th?

Wade Davis is the 4th starter. I think he'll do just fine, but they really need him to start to justify the Myers trade.

[doomy3]

Former Royal Ryan Freel committed suicide today.

http://deadspin.com/5970824/report-f...cide-at-age-36

Former utility player Ryan Freel, who broke into the majors with Toronto in 2001 and played the majority of his eight-year career with the Cincinnati Reds, committed suicide today. First Coast News in Jacksonville has the first report:

First Coast News sports director Dan Hicken has learned that Ryan Freel, a Jacksonville native and former Major League Baseball has died at the age of 36. The cause of death is suicide.

Freel played baseball at Sandalwood and Englewood High School. He played for five different MLB teams from 2001-2009. He is most known for his six-year tenure with the Cincinnati Reds.

His career batting average was .268 he stole 143 bases in his career.

Since his retirement from professional baseball in 2009, Freel was a part of an organization on the First Coast called BLD Baseball which stands for Big League Development. Through this organization, Freel coached local youth baseball players.

Freel was named head baseball coach at St. Joseph Academy in June. He shows up in the Deadspin archives on a few occasions which you can see here.

We'll update this post as more information becomes available.

Ryan Freel, Former MLB Player From Jacksonville, Commits Suicide [First Coast News]

[Prison Bitch]

Jeez , if he could survive playing for the Royals, you'd think he'd survive everything else

[thurman merman]

Originally Posted by doomy3

Former Royal Ryan Freel committed suicide today.

http://deadspin.com/5970824/report-f...cide-at-age-36

Former utility player Ryan Freel, who broke into the majors with Toronto in 2001 and played the majority of his eight-year career with the Cincinnati Reds, committed suicide today. First Coast News in Jacksonville has the first report:

First Coast News sports director Dan Hicken has learned that Ryan Freel, a Jacksonville native and former Major League Baseball has died at the age of 36. The cause of death is suicide.

Freel played baseball at Sandalwood and Englewood High School. He played for five different MLB teams from 2001-2009. He is most known for his six-year tenure with the Cincinnati Reds.

His career batting average was .268 he stole 143 bases in his career.

Since his retirement from professional baseball in 2009, Freel was a part of an organization on the First Coast called BLD Baseball which stands for Big League Development. Through this organization, Freel coached local youth baseball players.

Freel was named head baseball coach at St. Joseph Academy in June. He shows up in the Deadspin archives on a few occasions which you can see here.

We'll update this post as more information becomes available.

Ryan Freel, Former MLB Player From Jacksonville, Commits Suicide [First Coast News]

RIP, Farney.

[alnorth]

The Royals have signed Endy Chavez to a minor league contract. He was somewhat OK in 2011 (helped by a high babip) and atrocious in 2012 (but he had a hilariously-low babip)

He's probably about what we could expect Frenchy to do, except a lot cheaper. Along with Xavier Nady and Willy Taveras (both also signed minor league contracts) we now have an entire grab-bag of awful-to-underwhelming outfielders in Omaha.

[CHENZ A!]

We got new BP hats. Yesssss.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by alnorth

The Royals have signed Endy Chavez to a minor league contract. He was somewhat OK in 2011 (helped by a high babip) and atrocious in 2012 (but he had a hilariously-low babip)

He's probably about what we could expect Frenchy to do, except a lot cheaper. Along with Xavier Nady and Willy Taveras (both also signed minor league contracts) we now have an entire grab-bag of awful-to-underwhelming outfielders in Omaha.

Chavez is at least a solid defender who can occasionally get on base. He's also been a complementary piece on a lot of winning teams. Solid signing.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by alnorth

The Royals have signed Endy Chavez to a minor league contract. He was somewhat OK in 2011 (helped by a high babip) and atrocious in 2012 (but he had a hilariously-low babip)

He's probably about what we could expect Frenchy to do, except a lot cheaper. Along with Xavier Nady and Willy Taveras (both also signed minor league contracts) we now have an entire grab-bag of awful-to-underwhelming outfielders in Omaha.

I'm ok with this.

[ChiefsandO'sfan]

Dionisio Soldevila ‏@dSoldevila

Miguel Tejada signed a 1.1 millon garanteed contract with the KC Royals.



http://ESPNDeportes.com reporter

[CJizzles]

How does Miguel Tejada fit in?

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by ChiefsandO'sfan

Dionisio Soldevila ‏@dSoldevila

Miguel Tejada signed a 1.1 millon garanteed contract with the KC Royals.



http://ESPNDeportes.com reporter

Is he back on roids?

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by ChiefsandO'sfan

Dionisio Soldevila ‏@dSoldevila

Miguel Tejada signed a 1.1 millon garanteed contract with the KC Royals.



http://ESPNDeportes.com reporter

lol. Maybe we'll squeeze something out of him at 2B, but he's BRV at this point, in all honesty.

[Ebolapox]

this is only about 10 years too late.

[CJizzles]

Anyone know what Jose Canseco is up to these days?!