Forever Royal. (some reborn)

I won't paste in all the text, but CBS opens up its power rankings with us at #2 (behind the Cubs). Read it all at the link below.


<table class="powerranks"><tbody data-bind="foreach:rankLine"><tr class="mlbKC" data-bind="attr:{ 'class': dynamicCSSclass()}"><td data-bind="text: rankNumber" class="rankNumber">2</td> <td class="teamRankLogo">http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/mlb/logos/90x90/KC.png</td> <td data-bind="text: content" class="powerrankingcontent">As alluded to above, the projection systems that have already released figures for this season hate the Royals again. I'm not buying it. They are very similar to last season and we saw how dangerous they were.</td></tr></tbody></table>

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/2...tside-top-spot

That Twitter shit is awesome. Really really ****ing awesome. I normally don't buy into marketing, especially social media marketing, but that is really really well done from a business perspective.

Well done from the Royals. I feel like the Chiefs were just like "HEY GUYS, WE EXIST, TOO!"


...Is it baseball season yet?

Well, that pretty much sums up the franchise. They should use that as a slogan next year.

I got an e-mail about a Class Action Settlement involving MLB.TV...looks like a new option will be available for those of us "out of market" guys that we can just follow Royals games and get all their games for $85 for the season. Great deal!

Duncan, how does Law's list of prospects compare to yours?

Anyone care to share some of the R's player excerpts from said list?

I don't have the article up anymore, but as a general summary he had 2 Royals in his top 100. Mondesi around 70 and Zimmer around 85 I believe.

Said Mondesi had a throwaway year with the back injury and then an awful season at the plate. Defense and speed ML ready.

Kinda the same about Zimmer. Mentioned that IF he stays healthy, he's still ace potential with 3 above avg offerings. Had some late success last season, but probably be limited in innings again this year until he proves health for a longer period.

I haven't looked at Law's, but my top 20 (with August comments on the prospects) is in the OP.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Moutakas, royals avoid arbitration with 2-year, $14.3M deal</p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/697975132443250688">February 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Moustakas deal believed to be $5.6M and $8.7M. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a></p>&mdash; Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlannyMLB/status/697975306242678784">February 12, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Everybody is signed now. Time to get it on!

Oh **** yes!


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