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On pace for 49 wins.ROFL Seriously though, I'm guess 60-102 |
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It's getting seriously difficult to maintain any sort of interest. They are lifeless and the lineup is punch less. Gordon had shown signs of life and now is reverting to 2017 form. Players are coming up injured and starting pitching is terrible.
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I love Baseball, so I’ll keep watching. I obviously didn’t see this kind of collapse coming. Still surprised they’re this bad.
Still see the positives in Merrifield and Herrera and Moustakas developing max trade value for themselves, Soler emerging, Junis, Jason Adam, Brad Keller. I’m excited to see Mondesi later this year, and possibly Staumont and Lovelady. And to see what happens in the draft. They’ve been connected a lot recently to Jordyn Adams, a dynamic athlete with a football commitment to North Carolina (WR). He’s a crazy athlete win Buxton/Trout like physical skills. |
When's the earliest we can put Kennedy on an iceberg and send him out to sea?
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But, it would be an expensive iceberg before Oct 2020. |
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At least Gordon is batting .275. |
Can anyone point to many moves by Moore that have worked out in recent years? It seems to me that anytime he does something, the exact opposite turns out to have been a better choice.
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Trading for Jorge Soler Development of Whit Merrifield Development of Jake Junis Trading for cash for Brad Keller as a Rule 5 pick. Salvador Perez is still on a very team friendly contract and will be for this year and the next 3 years. |
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- Giving away Jose Martinez for nothing. -Not trading Duffy - Signing Gordon and Kennedy - Horrible in the draft I really hope I'm wrong, but despite having 4 top 40 picks I have absolutely no faith in any substance coming from this draft. I also have little faith in getting any substantial return at the trade deadline. |
Kennedy’s winning percentage with the Royals is .378. That would be 61-101 for a season. I’m not able to see what KC’s winning percentage is in games that he has started, but I’d imagine it is a little higher. He seams to be really bad early. Did he really only face 4 batters last year after throwing 60 pitches?
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This is Neds last year
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Anderson regressed in 2004, pitching poorly throughout the season. His record was 6–12 with a career high 5.64 ERA in 166 innings.
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I'll take one ring over all the successful seasons the Indians have had over the past 2-3 decades. |
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It was still a good trade despite what the team is now without them. That's also not to mention Ventura dying which there was no way to plan for. |
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Getting caught with a fly ball heavy staff when MLB juiced the ball at the same time as everyone started adjusting his swing for additional loft was a pretty brutal confluence of events. It definitely hurt Kennedy, and he’s not the only one. Quote:
Moore hasn’t been as good in the draft as he needs to be to keep waves rolling in to KC, but he also has enough success to be considered better than “horrible.” He has performed well with large bonus pools, or when he has the flexibility to overpay slot for some key players. That’s the situation this year. They also have done very well in the past 2 drafts. Pratto, Melendez, Lee, Tillo, Zuber, Gigliotti, Lopez, etc. Trading Danny Duffy is a lot harder in real life than in MlB the Show. If they had found a package that was valuable enough to move him, they would have. Offers were lackluster for him over the winter. When you trade an established player with years of control left at reasonable prices, you have to get enough value back to mitigate the risk of giving them up. Jose Martinez was a mistake. Gordon and Kennedy are mistakes in hindsight, though the Kennedy deal was questioned widely when it happened. Gordon’s was not. Both of those were attempts to maximize contention window in 16 and 17. Kennedy paid off expectations in 16, though the rest of the team did not. It’s easy to critique the Gordon deal in hindsight but intellectually dishonest to act like it looked like a bad deal when completed. |
And as for deadline returns ... they’ll get some useful pieces but will need more of a scouting win type to really make it pay off.
Teams just don’t pay for rentals like they used to. Prospects are too valued now. Herrera should fetch a fringe 100 prospect type. That can boom into much more, quickly. Seuly Matias is a great example of that type of guy. He made one top 100 coming into this year and is almost assuredly going to be on all of them next time around. |
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I bet this weekend we start seeing the Blue Spring's Yankees fans once again.
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By how much will the Yanks outscore the Royals this weekend? 10? 15? 20? 25?
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I haven't been this embarrassed by a team since I was a fan of the Chiefs.
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You spelled Johnson County wrong. |
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On July 20, 2012, Guthrie was traded to the Royals for left-handed starter Jonathan Sánchez. 2012 through 2014, Guthrie may have been the best starting pitcher the Royals had. |
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Context makes it easier to understand. He was in an independent league in 2014. 2015, he has a great season at Omaha and hit for a high average, but without a lot of power. He was a 6-6 guy who can only play an adequate 1B and who had not shown the power expected of a 1B. He started the 2016 season in Kansas City’s system and had a large drop off (.298/.356/.433) before they traded him. He got to St. Louis, changed his swing to get more loft on the ball, started hitting juices baseballs full time, and maybe found some juice himself. (Classic profile of a guy who dopes to make sure his career doesn’t end). It still was a mistake - this organization is too biased against players who don’t fit the classic ball player mold - but is not like they traded him off the .384 season he had in 2015. He backed it up with 150 ABs of AAAA-looking “meh” in 2016 before the deal. |
Mahomes throwing out the first pitch tonight.
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Duda is .256/.317/.398/.716 and the Royals are paying him $3.5 million. Cuthbert is .194/.282/.301/.583 Almonte is .205/.256/.342/.599 Hell, even Orlando is bad as .191/.224/.234/.459 All that, while Martinez is slashing .304/.382.459/.842, and is only making a paltry $560,400. Sometimes it's just frustrating to see that some players who does well in the minors, doesn't get rewarded (like Martinez) as they should have (like Whit Merrifield, who I been pounding the table on for quite some time). The Royals could have easily able to cut payroll, and still get equal or better performance, instead of signing Lucas Duda. And they're too biased on trying to get power hitters, whereas they need to start finding players who has a high contact rate and can utilize the whole field. |
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I think the bias is in trying to get guys who are too much of a classic mold more than anything else. It was a mistake, no doubt. They didn’t get much for him and didn’t HAVE to move him. Just was providing a little context. |
Dayton is a dipshit who lucked into a WS
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His core was definitely a product of his scouting and plan of action, however. Now, whether he can adjust to the modern rules of the game remains to be seen, and with his performance so far, the leash needs to be shortening. |
The GM that helped fast track us to a WS title was Scott Pioli.
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I don’t think they “have” to trade Merrifield. Return would have to be very strong. But he IS 29 and likely to be in a decline phase by 2021, when the team would be getting some of its promising next wave to the majors. Still, though, if Soler can maintain this and Mondesi develops into a dynamic talent, Merrifield, Mondesi, Soler, and Perez might be something you can build around before 2021. |
Do we have a prayer of getting a serviceable pitching staff (starting and bullpen) in the next two years? I worry about when the lone bright spots on the team like Merrifield and Soler won't be around
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Sure. Duffy gets healthy, Junis continues to pitch at this level, Skoglund or Foster Griffin is a serviceable #5... and you’re a decent portion of the way there. That’s a rotation light on top end talent, though. Bullpen future is bright, I think. Lovelady, Staumont, Adam, Hill is interesting. |
Lots of its in your statements Duncan. I also don't think Perez and Duffy will be as good by 2021.
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Duffy said bury me a Royal, so let's bury him.
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Pitchers can be up and down from year to year... look at Herrera this year. Duffy can bounce back. He's completely cratered his value though... which sucks because he's our most valuable trade piece. Even after the game tonight he almost acted like he should go to the bullpen.
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I do think if you trade him you have to get a legit, legit return... not one of these things we're probably going to do with Moose where you trade for someone's 15th best prospect. Otherwise you're better off hanging on to him and selling a few jerseys and giving the fans a favorite player to come to the park and see. At this rate he might have his number out there between the 10 and 20 on the HOF someday. |
Also, pay attention to what the Rays are doing. They started Sergio Romo today, the relief pitcher. He pitched the 1st inning against the top of the Angels lineup, struck them all out, then turned the game over to the "starter" for the 2nd inning. It worked so well they're going to do it again today, so Romo will start two days in a row. It guarantees one of your best relievers faces the big bats on top of the order.
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I just watched the video of his post game that is on the Royals site. Pretty good. Talks about the “phantom DL stint”. Lol. So many on CP were just flat convinced that he was injured. No, he’s not physically injured. He’s just a really shitty starting pitcher right now. He should be relegated to the pen until he gets his head right. It wouldn’t be the first time the Royals had to do this with Duffy.
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Prayers can involve ifs. |
So the Braves are in 1st place and need a 3rd baseman. Let's make it happen, GMDM.
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The best outfield in Royals history https://www.royalsreview.com/2018/5/...royals-history
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They do have a 3B prospect sitting at AAA right now. That might be Dayton's biggest obstacle depending on what the Braves are thinking about him. |
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I'm not looking to get people all over my ass with this post either since I'm sure it will be very unpopular |
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Every single starter for the Royals not named Jake Junis ****ing sucks.
This Staff is ****ing pathetic |
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