It definitely makes me feel less crazy for spending the past 6 years talking about how talented he is.

He's one of the rare prospects who has a high ceiling/high floor. If he can't hit so what? He's a slick fielding SS. That's a 1-2 WAR player no matter what. So he becomes an Alcides, that's fine. But he **could** become a Brandon Crawford or Addison Russell.


Come to think of it, most of the core of our Champ teams had that same mix. Cain,Sal,Hoz,Moose,Gordon,Alcides - all high ceiling/high floor. Mostly with defense but in the case of Gordon + Sal, it was their bat that was supposedly the max tool (and not their gloves, which turned out wrong - but that meant they were perennial AS talents)


Now? Lots of mid ceiling/low floors. Dozier, OHearn, Soler, Boni, Cuthbert, on and on. If their bats don't pan out they're worthless. If their bats are actually BAD, you get negative WAR dudes. Not sure how to reverse this.

Wait, wasn’t salvy’s bat the biggest shock and defense a guarantee?

Lopez leaves the 5th with some sort of injury.

Good question for Duncan

I think his bat was pretty advanced, and they were playing Myers at C until they moved him to advance him faster

Sal hit like 327 his first cup of coffee in 2010 or 2011. His defense then went into hyperdrive

Mondesi is playing like a star. Just hit another absolute bomb. He has the chance to be a legit 5 tool guy. He's about to post 10 HR/30 SB in half a season.

Thats how i remember it

Walk off grand slam. Holy crap. That was something.

Walk off Salvy salami

That was some vintage Royals magic right there.

5 run ninth. Keep this momentum going into 2019.

And Denny of course barely registered a pulse.

Look, I get that in the grand scheme the result is meaningless, but c’mon

Meanwhile, the group of prospects in Lexington won a Class A ball championship tonight.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">After taking the lead in the 9th, <a href="https://twitter.com/LexingtonLegend?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LexingtonLegend</a> win their first South Atlantic League title since 2001! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> �� <a href="https://t.co/yBPHSrFixb">https://t.co/yBPHSrFixb</a> <a href="https://t.co/hM4w6EBBmk">pic.twitter.com/hM4w6EBBmk</a></p>&mdash; Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiLB/status/1040806949514825729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Haven't watched a single game all season, I was at a bar eying the game. It looked like they won the world series. It was actually pretty sad.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Salvy walks it off with a GRAND SLAM! <a href="https://t.co/63Xsa0hT8B">pic.twitter.com/63Xsa0hT8B</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1040807708763537413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Cool view of Salvy and the crowd watching it go. Also what the hell is Brett Phillips doing?