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08-02-2018 02:45 PM |
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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
(Post 13656481)
Bitching is a bit of an overstatement. But it's fair to ask why this team is losing so many games. I've argued they should be winning more based on their talent. That's debateable but it's what I think.
Consider how awful this division is. All the teams suck. Cleveland even sucks. An ugly -6 under .500 against non division). If we were in the West or the AL Beast, holy hell we'd be challenging 119 losses. I
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What talent? For all the luck the Royals had in assembling their World Series team with so many journeymen and guys available for cheap because they had injuries, they're having just as much bad luck in trying to re-stock those pieces since 2016.
Well, I mean, there have been numerous Dayton whiffs that made this glorious farm system that was the talk of baseball around 2012 actually not all that great, but a bunch of it actually is bad luck, not just bad scouting. Since the World Series, it appears only one high-profile guy from within the minors has been approaching his potential (Mondesi) and only one guy has been a lucky against-all-odds success that nobody saw coming (Merrifield).
And of course, consider some of the other horrific luck-- namely Ventura's passing and Gordon's unprecedentedly awful and sudden drop in batting performance in spite of receiving a contract many people considered to be a hometown bargain.
There are some intriguing pieces here and there who have put together nice stretches of great baseball, but they're too inconsistent to trust going forward as focal points of a baseball team who can one day get back to the playoffs.
At the end of the day, the talent left, the mean regression finally took place, and we're stuck with leftovers of a bad era of drafting. That's why we're this bad. |
