What a throw by Waters!

Perfect throw by Waters and perfect tag by BWJ! Bam bam.

yessir..great win

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> are boring into one of their two preferred stadium sites: Downtown&#39;s East Village and property in North Kansas City. <a href="https://t.co/aab6UhmXDz">https://t.co/aab6UhmXDz</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Business Journal (@KCBizJournal) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCBizJournal/status/1692627752459849730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also in attendance was <a href="https://twitter.com/Bwitt36?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Bwitt36</a>, who pitched in Wrigley Field just once in his 16-year career. The date? Aug. 18, 1998: 25 years ago to the day. Scoreless inning, struck out Sammy Sosa to finish it.<br><br>Baseball. <a href="https://t.co/vnfgpO2Fq0">https://t.co/vnfgpO2Fq0</a></p>&mdash; Ian Kraft (@Krafty_3) <a href="https://twitter.com/Krafty_3/status/1692654894631584172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cole Ragans currently leads the entire Major Leagues with 33 strikeouts in the month of August.</p>&mdash; Dave Holtzman (@DHoltzy) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHoltzy/status/1692630177589948890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

yeah, Wrigley is special to the Bob

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Over the last 20 games (since July 28), the <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Royals</a> offense ranks among the American League leaders with:<br><br>210 H (1st)<br>345 TB (1st)<br>32 SB (1st)<br>.300 AVG (1st)<br>.492 SLG (1st)<br>.831 OPS (1st)<br>5.75 R/G (T-1st)<br>29 HR (T-2nd)<br>70 XBH (T-2nd)</p>&mdash; Nick Kappel (@NickKappel) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKappel/status/1692899213183479959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

So will ownership invest?

If they trade Perez in the offseason what will our payroll be next year? Would have to be all-time low like 25M lol

Whatever special juice Freddy found, glad he did. What a season he is having.

For the record, I would never trade Salvy, and especially not if you view the window as open next year.

The entire forty man is going to be pre-arb or arb. Outside of Lyles, Perez, and Dozier dead money.

The young core is performing, which should indicate that it's time to invest. If ownership isn't willing to spend next year, then I have a hard time believing that they ever will push their chips in to win. That is going to make the team hard to support.

Not all of us are old.

Thank you.

The only way they trade Salvy is if he wants to be traded, so I'd have absolutely no issue if they did trade him. They'd have to get something back though that makes it worth it and would probably have to eat some of his contract to do that. They should be able to go in on a couple of decent free agent pitchers and make some trades to get some pitching back. If they can do this right they could set next year up to be pretty competitive.

mini comeback going on

Damn, Witt's all the way up to .282 now. Impressive after the pos start he got.