Not blaming last night on that. I'm saying that this team could have a much better bullpen if Matheny didn't run the same 3-4 guys out there constantly until they obliterated their arms.

Buddy Bell was right

so Scotty and Josh are pitching in the bigs with obliterated arms? Shouldnt Chapmans arm be obliterated?
I dont follow

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I mean, wow.

Ryan O'Hearn went 2-4 with a HR tonight. He's now hitting .302 with a .911 OPS for your playoff bound Baltimore Orioles.

The banning of the shift was always gonna help him out but wow.

He has only 49 total AB's this season. If anything, Baltimore knows that less is always more with O'Hearn. The Royals seemed to already try to give him extensive starting time (in RF, no less) after a pinch hit HR and then get rewarded with some atrocious AB's for a week.

I'll be really surprised if he keeps this up with a month of 4+ AB's. But hey, I'm sure he's motivated to make Royals shitposters like me eat shit on this.

Yeah, but he's only played in 20 games and has had 58 plate appearances. It was also only his 3rd HR of the season. Let's see him do this over 50 games. Also his hard hit% is 44.7% which is the 2nd lowest of his career. His line drive% is 15.8% and his career avg is 22.6%. It's not like he's hitting the shit out of the ball or anything. He is pulling and going opposite field more and hitting it to center less. He's just been lucky and that'll run out and he will suck like usual.

There are guys on the Royals that aren't very well liked or look like they are good for much of anything that would do fine as a bottom 3 roster guy on a good team.

The problem the Royals have is they have way to many bottom of the roster types, so of course when they are given bigger roles they get exposed and you can't win that way.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/rank...100-prospects/

New top 100 prospects...Gavin Cross falls out which gives the Royals exactly 0 top 100 prospects.

He’s been bad-bad this year, though he did have shot spurt last week.

Nick Loftin was pretty awesome in May. I think he’s going to be a solid big-league player.

Bronze Mahomes leads the Royals to their first above .500 finish in two and a half decades reads 2043 headline.

I noticed something the other day...

The Reds are 28-33 after literally trading away anything and everything that had any value roughly 2 years ago...

They're young guys in a "lets see what we got year" are producing, what is the difference, are they just better at development?

Lyles gives up another homer which isn't a shocker. 3 runs given up after having 2 outs. That stings.