O'Hearn with a solid shot.

I’m at the NWA Naturals game and don’t know a single players name... Either they have that bad of a team or I’m way out of touch.

The text updates suggest that we still haven't found the right 25.

Live at Baltimore @ Toronto

Jesus, does Baltimore suck.

And to think we wanted to draft Dylan Bundy - he’s trash.

Best part of the game easily is staring out and viewing their shitty 1985 AL East & 2015 AL East Championship Banners.

**** them
**** Donaldson
and **** Canada

Is the stadium experience at least decent? I keep thinking about catching a game some time when I go to MO to visit Mom.

Yeah, it’s a good experience. Would recommend.

Eliminated from playoff contention.

Is it still a huge PITA to take a bus or Uber (uber after the game being the problem) to Kaufmann? Asking for a friend who's visiting.

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Great stadium experience if winning isn’t important to you.

Royals HOF is a must see.

At that point, I’m just looking for a diversion during a 7 hour drive.

Dozier has about another month of MLB time. He's so bad it's surprising. He ought to be able to at least be serviceable vs LH but he's been actually worse, a 59wRC+ vs a 62 wRC+ vd RH. And he's got absolutely zero pop vs LH, an ISO of .054. By comparison Alshittys has a .080 ISO.


Oh, and happy 27th tomorrow Hunter. Sorry to be a dick to you. I'll PayPal you a bus ticket to Omaha for your big day

Since this is the only baseball thread around, here's an article about baseballs and humidity....

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/meet...w-chase-field/

We can do it! Bobby Witt Jr here we come.

The All-Tank Line Up starting Sept 1

Shut Salvy down. Put Gordon on DL for something that happens to old people. Don't think they can get away with putting Whit on the DL so here goes. Send Mondesi to A+ to focus or something. Shut Duffy and Junis down. Keep Goodwin on DL for rest of the year.

C - Drew Butera
1B - Whit Merrifield (his worst position)
2B - Rosell Herrera
SS - Alcides Escobar
3B - Hunter Dozier
RF - Jorge Bonifacio
CF - Phillips
LF - Bubba Starling
DH - Ohern
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back up catcher - Gallagher
utility - Burns
4 OF - Orlando

Put Jorge Lopez (who is going to be the next Brandon Maurer just watch) in set up role, Close with Brandon Maurer.

So if the Royals end up last, is that setting them up for a great prospect?
or is this the Chiefs drafting Eric Fischer again?

He will be great like Zimmer or Starling

:D

Is Zimmer back throwing again?

Y'all hire Mike Matheny yet?

He's really good, fellas. I swear you'll love him. He's a leader of men and the Cardinals are simply experiencing a 6 week long dead cat bounce after getting rid of him.

He'll have things ironed right out for ya...

I'm sure they'll draft some high school kid who throws 100 mph with zero control.

This team shouldn’t settle for anything less than Bobby Witt. However, it’s Kansas City. Baltimore will take Witt who will turn around to be a Garciaparra clone, and we will take a pitcher who will someday retire with a 4.80 ERA.

can't get here soon enough

https://www.mlb.com/royals/news/2019...ts/c-291189904

I can't wait to go into next season with another bottom 5-7 farm system and continuing to hang on to tradable assets for absolutely no discernable reason whatsoever. Oh, and I'm excited as can be about watching other teams add the top international talent while we come up empty year after year.

The next meaningful contribution to this thread will be your first.

Witt is not a slam dunk #1. He’s not Harper. He’s not David Price or Strasbourg. He’s not the guy that, a year out, he’d have to lose a limb to not go first overall.

Adley Ruschmann is a quality candidate for the top overall pick, too (as he has the potential to be a switch-hitting Buster Posey and has a reasonable floor of Matt Winters).

There’s a big difference in terms of success when drafting in the first 3 overall picks and drafting at 4-10.

Moore’s top 3 picks:
Moustakas (2)
Hosmer (3)

4-10:
Colon (5)
Starling (5)
Zimmer (5)
Dozier (8 - but for all intents and purposes, they took Manaea at this slot)

Some of those picks though are Moore being a dumbass, Christian Colon over Chris Sale, Bubba Starling over Lindor, etc etc.

That’s true. Even radio idiots were crapping all over the pick of Colon. I think everyone knew that was a garbage pick.

How’s it every year you guys are in the playoff race?

I look at your roster & it amazes me. I have several Card fans as friends & most had written the season off at the all-star break. I know the interim manager is a hero to them but will they actually hire him as the full-time manager?

I think we could have had either Chris Sale or George Springer that year, iirc.

I think Springer was the Starling year so yea Springer and Lindor went after him.

Motion to not bring up the fact the Royals took Colon over Sale.. All in favor say 'aye'

That’s not just Moore. It’s easy to say,
In hindsight, he’s a dumbass who blew this pick or that pick. But most GMs have historically had a much lower success rate outside the top /3 picks. Bust rate is astronomically higher from 4+.

when Sale goes 13th overall, it’s not just moore passing on him at 4. He had major question marks, which is why 8 additional teams passed on him.

The whole point of the post was that the odds are better in general picking top 3, which KC will. And Moore’s draft record reflects the general trend.

It's shocking that the Royals are this bad, yet there's another team just as bad if not worse.

Hopefully the O's go on a 10 game winning streak.

Why does it surprise you for a small market team?

Well, at least they put a crooked number on the board.

That's true, but I can't recall anyone liking the Colon pick.

Idk about that, I've got the BB America prospect guide right here. He was like 60th on their top 100 in 2011 and they praised him as "best college bat" and "more than held his own at the plate" in his short debut

Said he'd be a mainstay at 2B, would lose value if he gained weight and went to 3rd, but unlikely due to Moose. So plenty of experts thought he'd be a Whit toe or, really, a Omar Infante

That about sums up the season right there. Make the third out at home on a pointless aggressive baserunning play with the tying run about to come to the plate.

Gaaaack!!!

I honestly don't follow the baseball draft, so I don't know much. I simply remember people on the radio, on here, etc. hating the pick and wishing the Royals had somehow drafted Machado. Other than that, I think there was at least one person here beating the Sale drum, but those people are far more plugged-in than me.

That was ****ing stupid.

I'm sorry I ever doubted Whit Merrifield. What a ****ing stud. Every one always told him he was a AAAA. He told them to eat shit.

+.800 OPS now

JFC we go 3-7 they go 2-8. How can they be that ****ing bad?

That is some gawdawful baseball. In the modern era, the 2018 combo of BAL and KC will go down as one of the worst. Pathetic.

Because Orioles

This could be more exciting to follow than the 2014 Wild Card race.

So Jim Bowden did an article ranking the farm systems and we apparently came in at 29. We still have very little talent, but we're not THAT bad.

That might your most positive post I have seen.

Trade him at the winter meetings

We absolutely should, but I don't know if Moore has the balls to do so.

I'd also say we should trade Duffy, but his crappy season and being overpaid probably guarantees we're stuck with him.

I still don't care what Jim Bowden thinks. He never likes anything the Royals do. Maybe he should do a list of best teams at skimming signing bonus money. That's a list that would have some merit.

I think Whit will be traded. If he's not it's because there wasn't a decent offer for him. There is zero reason to trade him for a couple of lottery tickets when we have him under control for several years.
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It really depends how he is rating the systems. Basically every well thought of Royals prospect is in single A and there are some places that don't rate those guys that highly because they can easily crater. If he is valuing guys close to the majors that would explain that ranking.

Well obviously, but I see no reason why a competent GM can't pull off a decent return. Whit is under team control for what, another 4 years? He hits for high AVG/OBP. He isn't a power hitter, but I think in a different ballpark he can be a 15-20 HR a year 2B. He steals bases at a high rate. If Moore can't get a decent return for that it's on him.

I’m actually at the game tonight

Why?

https://media.giphy.com/media/zjQrmdlR9ZCM/giphy.gif

Colon was suppose to be the next Plácido Polanco.

Because I now live 25 minutes from Tropicana Field and haven’t seen the Royals in a decade.

Ah. Well enjoy.

Do the YMCA dance until the camera focuses on you, so we know it's really you.

Nah, I’m starting the wave.

Lots of Royals fans here, BTW.

Phillips is something else in CF

Are you saying we should flip to the game? Are we losing (again)?

Edit: Who's on the bump for us? Asking for a friend...

Duffy on the bump. We are losing 2-1. I would not recommend watching on TV.

:thumb: A show about the Air Force's Spooky is on the Smithsonian channel, I'd hate to miss it for (another) loss..

Just took a 3-2 lead, but you know how this will turn out. Gunships are more exciting.

I'm not always an Air Force fan, but the Wart Hogs and Spookies are hard not to be in awe of.

Another night, another fitting way to end a game in painful fashion.

Well earned loss. Keep losing.

Why can't we be so lucky to have an illegal immigrant murder and dump you into a cornfield?

That was pretty uncool.

What happened? This time...

We gained 1/2 game on the idle O's.
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The funny thing is you know whether we take first or second worst - we'll pick some shlub and the Orioles will pick another Machado/Sale. Then we'll commiserate about it for the next decade.

But we'll always have 14/15 and no one can take that away. Right Steve Young?

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0116...ungsb1_576.jpg

With 2 outs and the bases loaded in a tied ballgame, Royals reliever Brian Flynn got the Rays Kevin Kiermauer to hit a hard-hit grounder to first-baseman Ryan O'Hearn, who made a nice play to glove the ball, but he then got up and threw low and a little bit away from the plate to Salvy Perez, who was trying to get the force play at home and so was not able to keep the ball from clanging off his catcher's mitt while he stretched to catch the errant throw. So Rays win on a walk-off error.

And certain members will give excuses for Dayton Moore no matter what about how the job is hard and the draft is a crapshoot.

Ugh. A very Royals way to lose....

Welp, maybe it's a blessing if we get to pick #1...

Nice article in the athletic about newberry.

He won the World Series