Kauffman Stadium outfield has saved a few runs tonight

Nice pitch


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Either we were lucky that inning, to me it appeared that Staumont was all over the place, Salvy setting low, Josh hits him high, etc. or that was some great salesmanship by Saly!

3 Hit Nick

Santana has been a huge disappointment.

Damn, would have been nice to get a run there!

Not really, he's an aging veteran, still producing, more than O'Hearn or anybody we had to start the season.

I guess if you're comparing him to a jag like O'hearn he's been decent.

BENNI!!!

He's out

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Nice series win

Perty throw Benni

Damn!

PBJ

What a bang bang play! Winners!

DRAMATIC

So after getting abused by the Cards, the Royals turn around and sweep the Astros. Baseball.

That was awesome

Not quite. Took the series though. It's a 4 game series.

You are looking at this from a point of now, not of when the season hasn't started yet! We didn't have a serious candidate for 1st base and only had kids in the Minors that were were no where close to being in the lineup this year!

Whine a little more, but foe now he's filling the position well with what he's doing at first base and in the dugout with his veteran leadership!

We might have been lucky he was called out! That play was so damn close it's hard to overturn it!

D’oh! :doh!:

Sweep their asses tomorrow. **** the Houston Astro’s!

Of course. The Royals always turn it on in mid August when the stakes are low and 20 games out.

There is a reason for this too, it's not what some think that they don't want to win early!

Why is that idiot Baker wearing a mask?


Our chad manager doesn’t.

Fixed.

Fixed.

That .225 batting average is fantastic

Who uses BA as a barometer anymore?

I guess I'm a dinosaur, but I like the 4th batter in the lineup to have a decent batting average. If you like ops, that isn't great either.

The Royals are still a bad team. They showed that against the Cardinals. None of the rest of the season should change how we feel about the staff, the front office or the players. We know they are all largely losers.

He's the 2nd best bat on the team. He hasn't been terrible, but he hasn't been good.

Who doesn't think this?

Losers or a Bad team - No!

Average team - Yes!

Call it like it is, the Royals have some talent to build on with an aging catcher ( looks like we have that in the minors too ), especially the young pitching. With the upcoming crew in the minors, they are closer to competing than most people here give them credit for.

Our biggest hurdle IMHO is Matheny! I do not like his lineups, who he has on his roster nor how he handles the pen! I do believe that he will keep us from reaching anything more than a few playoff appearances.

MJ Melendez 31 jacks tied for MiLB high with Griffin Conine. Son of our old friend Jeff Conine, who is the assistant coach at Florida Internatiobal.


The head coach: MJ’s dad, Mervy.

Let's try this again.

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Until he breaks a nail and is out for the season.

Nicky Lopez, home run hitter.

MOAR POWER NICKY!!!

Oh dear Mondi. Let's just call it a season, buddy.

Nicky Lopez is dominating the Houston Astros.

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Live look in at Nicky Lopez taking out the Astros
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Looking forward to that Nicky Lopez statue in the outfield concourse

This is 2014-15 level defense by the Royals today

Nicky says **** you BWillie

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If Nicky had won the game they would have had to retire his number right there.

Alturdo

Smart move, bringing in Davis here Matheny.

I'm not quite sure what they're waiting for with Davis (in terms of DFA'ing him) It seems like there are a lot of arms in Omaha that could be up instead, but maybe the Royals have them working on something. Idk. It's not like a recent thing. Davis has been so ineffective since 2018 that this is actually his best season in 4 years.

I loved you Wade Davis. Still do actually. But it’s time to put you out to pasture. Thanks for some awesome ends of some awesome games.
Good night sweet prince.

OPS

Whit - .704 :shake:
Nicky - .701
Ryan O - .688

It got the game over which was fine with me.

Batting average is down across MLB. Santana's ranks on this year's Royals:

BB: 1st (more than twice as many as any other player on the team)
OBP: 2nd
OPS: 2nd
HR: 2nd
R: 2nd
RBI: 2nd

Find better things to complain about. Carlos Santana is not even close to the biggest problem with this team.

Question for all the smart baseball people here…Duncan, PB, not BWillie, etc. Is Nicky Lopez “a piece” for a World Series team? I know nothing about advanced analytics, but the eye test to me seems like he’d be a great middle infielder and #9 hitter on a championship team.

Why does DM insist on keeping Wade Davis on this roster? Why give Matheny the option to use him in a high leverage situation? Those two need to kill themselves ASAP

He has put together a passable season, as in he could be a big league player. I mean he's still below average OPS overall. He does get on base, and he plays good enough Defense. But this is his first taste of success. I'd want to see consistency or improvement before I make that statement.

If he’s an plus-plus defender at 2B who gets on base at a .350 slip, you’re basically talking about a 2B version of Escobar who actually is more valuable offensively.

Yeah, I could see him working as a MI on a contender.

The key is if he can hit enough to make pitchers work him carefully. He has done that this year, which lets his plate discipline play up.

Can any of you tell me how Davis has pitched since coming off the IL?

From what I can determine he’s pitched in 4 games in July and 8 games in August and given up earned runs in 2 of them.

2 earned runs on 8/13 vs the Cards and 2 earned runs today (8/19) vs the Astros.

Obviously he hasn’t been perfect, but he sure as heck hasn’t been horrible.

Neither is N. Lopez

But, but, but, they are a BAD TEAM!

Losers !


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Let's not let the naysayers know this one either.

Royals are 3rd this year in come from behind wins in MLB!

I never said he was the biggest problem on the team. I said he's been a disappointment, and he has been.

A few random notes:

Jeison Guzman played CF last night in NWA. Not sure if he's been doing that already or if this is new. Will be interesting to see if this was a one-off deal or if they are trying to re-position him. He becomes a bit more interesting if he could develop into a strong defensive CF.

Heasley seems to have adjusted to AA and has turned in a pretty impressive August thus far. He's one of those guys that could make the team in bullpen next year out of ST and see quick success at max effort in shorter clips.

Junis moved from Arizona to Omaha and pitched last night.

Question: Is there a place where the rookie ball teams list their scoreboard and box scores?

Guzman has been playing some Of all season. Think that started in the extended ST last year.

Each minor league affiliate has a website. You can get to stats and box scores there.

Dairon Blanco is also worth watching. He’s a CF and just got moved to Omaha. He’s an older guy - 28 - from Cuba.

He plays good D and put up an 800+ OPs at AA with 32 bags.

He's still a ****ing pussy.

Yet a WAR generating pussy.

BWILLIES UPDATED MiLB PROSPECT RANKINGS

1. Vinnie mofuggin Pasquantino
2. Bob Witt the II
3. Adley Rutschman
4. Ashe Russell
5. Wander Franco
6. Tim Tebow
7. MJ Melendez

I'm not ****ing joking about Vinnie.

Alot of us figured this was coming, which is still baffling to me why they didn't move him. Dayton will probably think to himself, next year he's going to bounce back and we can move him then. An aging speedster is kind of scary. His defense already has declined for some reason. He's stealing bases so efficiently, still though.

Compared to last year, he has been a welcomed surprise! His defense has been stellar and his hitting is only getting better! When Witt comes up, our middle infield is set!

Jump on the train, the kids from the farm is coming, more pitching is coming.

Now if we could only get us a good manager I would feel good about them. As for now, it's a wait and see
approach.

They didn't move him because teams didn't offer enough in return. Same as it has been the past few years. Moving a player that good and that cheap for organizational depth just doesn't make much sense. You need at least one big-ticket item in return, and no one has ever offered it.

Merrifield's D has drastically ticked up this year, though. He has played a really excellent 2B (the eye test backs that up, too). So I'm not sure where you're getting the "declining" defense comment from. His defensive value dropped as a slightly below average CF/RF, but he's still a plus 2B.

Looking at his advanced batting profile, the biggest concern is that he is hitting a higher number of ground balls and those ground balls have come at the expense of his line drive rate. Which has dampened his BA. His exit velocity and barrel rates (big indicators) are right in line with how Merrifield performed when he hit for higher averages with more pop. He's never been a big exit velocity guy.

The biggest issue is the launch angle/groundball rate. It hasn't seen a drastic change. That's not something I'd tie to physical decline.

He's still on pace to be a 4-win player at 2B, though, because of the defense and baserunning.

Game this afternoon, KC @ CHC... Keller 7-12 5.62 vs. Davies 6-9 5.00...:ZZZ:

I stopped watching Royals games about two months ago. My great Ballys Sports app always automatically signs me out usually after a week. Finally just said the hell with it. Also didn't want to be depressed all summer. He had a rough first couple of months. Glad to hear he's turned it around defensively.

When will you stop posting?

LilWillie won’t ever stop posting.

Don't worry, I probably don't have more than 10 more years to live if family history is accurate.

10 more years???

https://i.ibb.co/BsdCyp4/ezgif-com-gif-maker-7.gif

LMAO

Watching the Royals game they are showing the Blue Angels flying around Chicago. This weekend is the annual Air and Water Show in there. Four years ago my girlfriend and I went to Chicago to a Cubs game (just to check Wrigley off the list) and it happened to be that same weekend. We sat at the very top of the stadium and had fun watching the jets fly around the skyscrapers and then they'd pass over the ballpark and rile the crowd up. Singing Go Cubs Go after they won was a lot of fun.

I highly recommend to anyone (Cubs fan or not) who has never been to take in a day game at Wrigley. We stayed in a hotel about a mile from the stadium so we walked to and from. It being a beautiful day that day didn't hurt. I count it as one of the best days of my life.

And when they call it the friendly confines...that's not just a name.

Every year it takes me by surprise and for a moment think we’re under attack.

I’ll be at the game tomorrow but there is a chance of rain in the forecast right around game time.

We were watching the game and I kept hearing roaring in the background, this low ominous rumble coming from downtown, so I turned and looked out the back of the stadium and could see an F-14 just weaving in and out of the skyscrapers, going out over the lake and then back. We spent as much time watching the jets after that as we did the game.

It was such a cool experience.

I snapped this pic one year from the roof of our old condo about a mile south of Wrigley.

https://i.imgur.com/XQ7RgFT.jpg?1

I really wanted to go today but decided to chance potential rain tomorrow to see anyone other than Keller pitch. Tickets are super cheap right now.