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You guys were bitching about acquiring him for a 1 year injury prone closer, and now you are complaining you traded away a rental in a season that ended 18 games out of a playoff spot? |
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1. Mondesi - they have an off-season program/plan for him that he has committed to (this is the first time for the royals to design a plan). They determined he has a sprinter-body w/ "quick-twitch fibers", similar to Tyreek Hill. The difference is Hill maxes out once a week vs. multiple games a week. He also is spending a week w/ Tosar in Florida before arriving in Surprise by January. 2. Infield - No decisions made on configuration of the infield. Will be decided March 31 is the current answer. Also, Picollo is beside himself that Lopez was not a Rawlings finalist. 3. Benintendi - seems fairly uncertain as to whether he will be with the Royals long term via an extension (or next year, if you read between the lines), despite the fact they will tender him. 4. Witt Jr. - It will be hard not to have him make the team out of ST if he plays like last Spring, given his past season in the minors. 5. Young Pitchers - they're formulating the off-season plan for each of them, but the key focus is promoting health. This part was interesting. He implied that the front office is involved in regulating Matheny and Eldred's use of the young arms...pulling them back if they felt they needed a break (in the case of Singer and Hernandez, specifically mentioned). Moore said, "We initiated it. And they understood it. And I felt that was an important growing time for us.” 6. Free agents/trades - ideally they'd like to get a top of the rotation starter, but that it would be unlikely to be a free agent. More likely a trade that could hurt. More likely, they role with what they have, "be very disciplined with our young players" and supplement by resigning a guy like Santana (who is said to have been huge in mentoring and helping Hernandez development this season) and going all in on building a "really really strong and powerful and elite championship-caliber bullpen,” Moore said. |
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Fortunately for us the Padres helped us not resign Eric Hosmer. |
Pratto, Melendez, and Witt all need to be part of the next window. All bring elite defense and terrific offensive potential. Rather than trade for a front of the rotation guy, they need to shell out for one. If you are going to trade for anything, make it an elite centerfielder and lock down the middle of the defense for the window.
With those pieces in place, you can readily and more cheaply augment the roster for any final push scenarios. |
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I was all for trading him and was glad they did, just putting that out there. |
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I was all for trading him and was glad they did, just putting that out there. |
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The Royals are apparently among the teams expected to make an offer for this guy: https://www.prospectslive.com/prospe...g-out-of-japan Contract expectations are in the 3-4 year/20-30M range. Would be an exciting add and high potential for their RF spot… |
And looking at this upcoming 2022 draft class, the Royals will have a great shot to land a nice talent at #9. The class is deep with college hitters, prep bats, and prep arms.
Notably, there are a bunch of college hitters with good power and speed. My crush is LSU SS/3B Jacob Berry, but there are 3-4 other college bars with similar profiles to him. Also, Andruw Jones’ kid is in this draft. 6-3, toolsy, may be fit in CF or SS. |
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If we didn't have Vinny and Pratto coming up, I would have said roll with the punches with Soler and keep him. Guys that hit 50 HRs don't grow on trees. And guys that don't have an elite hit tool are more prone to huge slumps. We've even seen guys like Bryce Harper go through long periods of famine. I wasn't as hard on Soler as most were here, except for his fielding. His fielding is truly terrible (in the OF) |
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ohtani, Darvish.. Nomo, Ichiro and ShinSoo Choo are exceptional ones.<br>KOR/JPN players are relatively weak in power & fragile with small body frame for 162 gms in a season.<br>What happened to Mac Suzuki, Yabuta and Royals 1st-ever KOR-born draftee C JinHo Shin?? 🙄🧐🥴🤔 <a href="https://t.co/d65PXY1bdV">https://t.co/d65PXY1bdV</a></p>— Sungwoo Lee (@Koreanfan_KC) <a href="https://twitter.com/Koreanfan_KC/status/1455547932938174472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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He's built like the Cardinals' Tyler O'Neill. Pretty classic RF profile. |
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