He would look good in the middle of our lineup

Dozier is somehow an awful defender at 3B. I’m not sure why or what happened, but he’s bad-bad-bad over there.

So we have to move him to the outfield, where he's probably just as bad. Next, we have to put someone on 3rd and our only options suck. So due to the cheap ass Royals paying a guy, who doesn't deserve it, $6 mil/yr and that guy sucking shit offensively and defensively we now have an additional shit stick clogging up the ML roster.

All because the idiot gave him that contract, where there were NO JUSTIFICATION to do so at the time.

I’m secretly hoping Sherman just out of the blue sacks Dayton’s ass the day after the season ends.

And while we're on the subject of scathing these jokers at 1 Royal way, I'm going to call out Matheny out on this specific situation.

Why in the actual **** do you want to burn Barlow and Brentz, on a game that was clearly out of reach?

That just makes no sense at all.

This is one of the issues with him. He chases every win. It’s why he kills bullpen arms.

Then, as I been saying, he needs to go. He's not the guy we need to be leading this team.

I really do not want to see Barlow, Staumount, and Brentz's arms get ruined, because of this selfish prick's mindset.

Moore isn’t going to get rid of Matheny because he’s a bible thumper.

Moore got rid of arguably more devout Bible thumper Trey Hillman.

But, this came after intense pressure, multiple mistakes from Hillman, and enough criticism about the false start pushes to contention and the extended time the rebuild was taking, which was starting to create heat for Dayton himself.

And that issue pretty much alone should keep him from being the manager of any ball club. He is going to blow our 3 best bullpen arms out just so we can get 60 wins.

What also pisses me off is that Greg Holland with damn near a 6 ERA and a 1.500 WHIP is 3rd in bullpen appearances and has the most saves on the team (7).

Mike Matheny was the absolute worst possible choice to manage this team at this time with all the young arms and young guys. I'm hoping Sherman has the nuts to shit can DM and Mike, but I'm really doubting it. At the very least he needs to force DMs hand and have him fire Matheny, because he's going to ruin arms and not give young guys the opportunity.

Because one guy hadn't pitched since 8/11 when he threw 12 pitches to 3 batters, and the other since 8/10 when he threw 9 pitches to 3 batters. They pitch one inning. They aren't "burned." They'll be available tomorrow and probably the next day if "needed."

If they were always saved for games where we're leading in the 7th, they would hardly ever pitch.

The Royals now have the #3 farm system in baseball according to Baseball America.

:arrow:GO CHIEFS!:arrow:

Why the **** do you keep posting this in random threads?

This is why Dayton is not getting fired. Our farm system is doing well and is at least on the rise. Our top prospects are flat killing it, seems like the revamp of the hitting development in the minors has paid off. Obviously several talented young pitchers. On top of that the teams are actually playing well. Omaha's in first place. Quad Cities is completely dominating high-A and NW Arkansas at AA has a winning record and leads their league in run differential.

While the player development get A grades for turning around Pratto and Melendez, Erick Pena has been the disappointment in the system, hitting .190/.295/.352 with a 33.6% strikeout rate in the Arizona Complex League.

The good news is that he has an 11.5% walk rate, and development isn't linear. He's still only 18, but worth noting that 18-year-olds like Hedbert Perez, Reginald Preciado and Aeverson Arteaga are having their way with the league.

Yup.

If anything, "Promote" him a level, let someone else handle the GM duties.

Where did their mid-season top 100 prospect list have our guys?

3. Bobby Witt Jr.
26. Daniel Lynch
68. Nick Pratto
71. Jackson Kowar
94. MJ Melendez

You mean like what the Cardinals did with Mozeliak.

Holland to the DL. That is now the second bullpen arm (after Zimmer) since Flanny’s tweet to watch the DL for bullpen arms in the second half due to Matheny’s pen management.

Yeah Holland looked gassed. Brentz and Barlow are probably the next ones to watch. Particularly Barlow since we've already put a ton of miles on his arm the last 3 years.

It'll be curious to watch for pitcher injuries anyway because of the short season last year.

Flip Melendez for Pratto and Kowar for Lynch.

Nice to see our minor league system rebound offensively. Sure, McConnell and some guys have been disappointing (mental issues I think) but alot to be excited about moving forward.

My new hero is Vinnie Pasquantino or whatever. Guy doesn't K, seems to have a good hit tool and above-avg power. May project as just AAAA guy but you never know. I love guys that can just hit a baseball without whiffing all the time and still have some power.

Which is why I was for trading Barlow, as much as I like him. They're gonna burn him out before he can contribute to a competitive team.

Maybe they'll shop him in the offseason. But they're more likely to hold on to him until he's a smoking wreck and has no value.

I ignored the Royals all weekend, and my weekend was much better for it.

Baseball America has us rated #3 now, huh? Well, there goes any chance of Moore leaving anytime soon.

Hopefully he is smart enough to cut bait with Matheny and his staff (yeah, I already know he won't).

Maybe Sherman will step in at some point and overrule? Doubtful, but that's all we have to hold on to at this point.

Sad to see a lot of good young talent go to waste.

Interesting comments by Matheny. Says scar tissue from prior injury was causing "pain when swings from the left side". So Matheny isn't saying he's injured, just saying that he is in pain. Interesting to me he chose to phrase it that way unless they are frustrated with him.

Sounds like Mondesi asked to go to RH only, but the team wanted him to stick it out. Then he developed the opposite side injury from compensating.

This gives a lot of context to Moore's comments from a couple of weeks ago. Basically the Royals believe he can play this out, seeing that it's a scar tissue issue and not from a deeper underlying cause, while Mondesi doesn't believe he can.

Brady McConnell. I read the prospects rankings today and said “McConnell is a waste. 2M on this guy”


Then I read his story. I got it wrong.

Someone has to do something about that “woooooooooohoooooooooo” fan at the games. So flipping’ annoying…..

If this is the case that he can't play through this pain, then I don't even know what to do at this point. If it's pain caused by scar tissue, then nothing can be done, can it?

Maybe Mondesi doesn't trust the Royals medical team and thinks he's worse than he is? Doesn't want to mess himself up permanently to play for a bottom feeder with no chance of a post season?

Could be that.

Or maybe Mondi is just ‘soft’ and doesn’t have that old school mentality. If that be the case, nothing you can really do about that besides either coddle them or move on when their contract is up.

Generally speaking, I side with the players on these issues. The whole ‘they know their body better than anyone, etc.’ But when you consider Mondi’s body of work with the Royals since 2016, you gotta wonder if maybe Mondi just isn’t cut out to be an everyday major leaguer. Some guys aren’t, no matter how talented they may be.

It is what it is.

Oblique injury has to suck donkey balls in baseball. No really good way to heal that other than rest and then working out to prevent it.

His shoulder injury is one that just kept coming on in 2018 and 2019, which a shoulder does that. I'll vouch for that I've had shoulder injuries problems since high school. You think it heals, then you **** it up again. That's a bitch injury unless you just completely go under the knife. Tatis with the Padres is dealing with the same shit.

I mentioned it the other day,but nobody seems to know who it is,here at least.

Salvy is the ****ing man!

Im convinced Perez could hit .300 every year if he was okay with hittinh 15 HR.

Shove that one in your trash can.

Remember NDA me of a good old fashioned R’s win!!!! Woooooooooooooooooh!!!!

Tatis was playing RF the other day to give him a break from SS with his shoulder...yet the Royals don't think OF is easier..right.

Salvador MVPerez . . . . . . . . . . at least for the Royals this year.

Another thing that really bugs me is that Dayton had his thumb up his ass in regards to trading Carlos Santana. The Royals will play him next year even if he has a sub .650 OPS and he just jams everything up for Pratto and Melendez.

Slamtana is playing some ball tonight

Nice throw and tag at the plate.

Benny manned up for that AB

Lynch pitching great..six great innings so far

Yep, looking good in the 7th too. But Damn that was an awesome play by Lopez!

Royals are going to benefit for some time on both of them.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In his last five starts Daniel Lynch has a 2.35 ERA across 30.2 innings.<br><br>The five offenses he&#39;s faced in that stretch rank 1st, 2nd, 8th, 17th and 19th in MLB in OPS.</p>&mdash; Josh Vernier (@JoshVernier610) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshVernier610/status/1427816572530352132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Damn impressive performance by Lynch against the Astros powerful lineup!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We don&#39;t talk enough about how fortunate we are that A.J. Preller won a bidding war over Dayton Moore for Eric Hosmer.<br><br>Hosmer has a combined 2.6 bWAR in his entire Padres career, while earning $21 million a season. And the Royals used their compensation pick on...Daniel Lynch.</p>&mdash; Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/1427818479739187201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Shove that up your trash can part II!!!!!

Lynch seems to have figured it out..if only some others could follow suit.

Suck it, Stros!

Know the Royals aren’t going anywhere this year, but it’s nice beating the Cheaters.

Fraud champion.

I'm excited about what Lynch has been doing lately!

It's why the reactions to him and Kowar have been way too premature. They always had electric stuff and it's clear Lynch's "regression" after being sent back down was also an overreaction by twitter people looking at the box score as its clear he solely working on mechanics (results were secondary).

But, I think the criticisms of Singer's stubbornness and regression and the questions about Bubic's viability in the rotation (may be better as a long reliever) are valid, as a point of comparison.

AL Central color analyst Jack Morris in hot water.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jack Morris apologies before Shohei Otani&#39;s at-bat in the ninth inning. <a href="https://t.co/WdCjfyfSvX">pic.twitter.com/WdCjfyfSvX</a></p>&mdash; Spencer Wheelock (@SpencerWheelock) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerWheelock/status/1427825326684622848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Eh,he just chanelled his inner Elmer Fudd .

I was about to post something similar. Not to take Metheny's side as he is wearing thin on me. It's obvious some here though aren't paying attention and just looking for things to bitch about. Cool the heels a bit and just let things play out.

That was idiotic of Morris and he may get canned over it or over his total dude apology (I’m sorry if you got offended) but let’s just talk about how bad the actual impression was. My God that was awful. It barely counts as mocking an Asian person due to how blatantly old Midwestern white guy it was. If you’re gonna go down for something like that, at least make it worthwhile.

Was he trying to imitate Elmer Fudd or an old Asian guy? I can’t even tell because he was so bad at it.

Lynch appears to have figured out his earlier problems (7IP, 4 hits, 1 run), now if we could get Kowar to do the same. :thumb:

More encouraging news from the No. 3-ranked farm system:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nick Loftin last 50 gm .291/.360/.490<br>last 20 gm .337/.392/.584 w 14 xbh</p>&mdash; Royals Academy (@ClintScoles) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClintScoles/status/1427974833137229829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's at high-A Quad Cities, BTW

He would be smart to hang his hat on a poor Elmer Fudd impression

Throw in Singer too.

Driving around over lunch yesterday I listened to an interview with him. Basically said when he went down on rehab, he threw his changeup a bunch and got a lot of groundballs / swing & misses. Said he became real comfortable with it throwing against AAA guys. Then said that he refuses to throw it up here because he's trying to be competitive and unless he has his best two pitches that night, he's not going to waste time throwing his third (changeup) pitch. What I took away from the interview is that he's a ****ing moron and DM/Matheny are stupid for letting him get away with that mindset.

If he's comfortable in AAA, then let him pitch in Omaha the rest of the season so he can get real comfy with his changeup while riding busses everywhere. Everything I hear out of his mouth makes him sound like a 16 year old boy who thinks he has everything figured out.

If they can get Keller back along with Singer too. This pitching staff could be pretty good.

Yeah, that’s on brand for him.

He’s a very strong-willed/stubborn guy. Everyone else from that draft class is willing to tinker and improve (and has).

Singer vs Greinke tonight....interesting matchup

A future hall of famer vs a future hall of famer ‘in his own mind’

Best thing is for Singer to continue to get bombed and to realize his shit does in fact stink.

ZG is really a magician out there... throwing 79 to 90 mph

Hopefully Singer is taking notes

Of course Singer comes up with his best start of the season

I guess he got suspended and has to go to Bias training

Looking good so far!

Singer had good night until the 8th. Ump ****ed him on a check swing call though.

7th, but yea, that check call could have helped him out of that inning. Even the two of the 3 hits that inning were good pitches. That's the way it goes sometimes!

Damn Dozier! That's a Dong Gong Long!

That was some vintage Hunter Dozier right there.

Yeah I just saw that. Wonder if he’ll come back?