Biggest question/problem would be how you handled it on days when your SP gave you two or three. Would blow out your pen.

But yeah, limiting SPs to two times through the order could work, as long as you have two long relief types you can rely upon, and as long as the back of your pen is deep.

Thanks. Just trying to think outside the box as the next trend in baseball.

Detroit signs Saltalamachia

W/ Royals = New life & a WS ring.
W/ Athletics = Getting paid for the work he did as a Royal.

I think it's coming. The data on guys going through the lineup a third time is just too compelling for something like that to NOT happen (just like the data was too compelling to NOT use a dedicated relief ace, who was more than just a failed starter, instead of letting your tired SP throw another inning or two).

It's tough to construct with a five-man rotation/25-man roster, though.

So your SP is never giving you more than six, and a lot of times only 4-5. That means you need to have four guys in your pen you can trust to throw single innings that are leveraged, and three guys you can roll out for 2-3 innings at a time (who can then pitch again two days later).

That's a tough thing to make work on a consistent basis.

I think we will see expanded rosters in baseball in a future CBA.

I'm admittedly not a huge fan of thinking that strategy will work. You get about 800 IP out of your starters if you go 5 IP a game. You need about 600-700 IP out of your bullpen then. You can do it but you need a real deep pitching staff. People already get nervous when we bring in our 5th, 6th, 7th relievers. You really need to lean on them in this scenario.

@Joelsherman1: #Royals have not given up on re-signing Alex Gordon. Still waiting for OF market to fully define.

I am very pleased to see Young resigned. I figured he would get a two year contract similar to what Chen was resigned for after his first few one year deals he was on here.

Kazmir has Jason Vargas written all over him. Good year 1, then most likely shit afterwards.

Entirely different players/upsides, though.

And you run that risk with any free agent, especially pitchers, because you're for the most part signing older guys.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/royalsreview">@royalsreview</a> Chris Young is on my flight from Dallas to KC as we speak. Maybe the rumors are true!</p>&mdash; Greg Hunsucker (@GregHunsucker) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregHunsucker/status/673690726245371904">December 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Royals pursuing Scott Kazmir, close to deal for Chris Young

I guess I don't understand why we can't develop any starting pitching. Yes we gave up some to get Shields and Cueto/Zo but man....where are the starters? And they don't have to be premium arms like Zimmer or Almonte. Surely there's a Jesse Chavez somewhere (like, once in KC!). Or Liam Hendricks who I wanted to see kept in AAA not released.


Cameron has Kazmir 3/48 and the crowd has 3/42. I'll just assume it'll come in ~50. That's a helluva price to pay for not developing any starters.

Rany has proposed a deal for Shelby Miller centering around Mondesi. Thoughts?