White Sox suck because new manager, Royals suck because of old one

evidently Singers new grip slider wasnt working

A ton? No.

But it's more of a factor than you seem to think.

Honestly, I think the most important managerial factor is in how they handle the clubhouse. Balancing PT, managing personalities and morale, having a good plan for keeping the team organized and etc.

Tactical decisions are more of "does he do a bunch of stupid shit that exposes his players to injury or failure" factor. I don't think a great tactical manager is worth much. A bad tactical manager, one who overuses his best bullpen arms, or who consistently leaves his starters in too long, etc. can do a lot more damage than a genius tactical guy can do good.

All 7 runs scored with two outs. Both walks and hit by batter scored. Then previous two innings - Royals had a runner on third twice and couldn't score. That is how you lose ballgames.

I brought up Duncan because there was no evidence Grifol ever really did anything with the Royals. Duncan was the first to whistleblow about the strange approach Grifol was having our players take at the plate in 2014's Spring Training (while he was our hitting coach). Grifol was the one who disastrously had our players switch their approach by "being aggressive with low pitches" to start the 2014 season until he resigned mid-year due to the Royals amazingly hitting no homers and into ground ball outs at an alarming rate to start the year.

He then was our catching coach for a while -- he was the one who got Salvy to do that "whipping/poke motion" to try to frame pitchers that helped result in Salvy to be among the worst in the league at framing pitches.

And beyond that, he was just always sort of around -- sort of in roles epitomized by this gif (Salvy seemed to like him, tho, FWIW).

https://media.tenor.com/_R6JzZGUtZQA...-interview.gif

We haven't had much to cheer about. But hey -- watching the White Sox quit is always fun no matter what year it is (did they really blow their window with nothing to show for it other than a pitstop by Tony La Russa?)

I'd rather not compete for top 3-5 picks with the rest of the division

The cavalry to the rescue!

Keep playing Pratto in the outfield, lets see what he has got

Meanwhile up in the Quad Cities....
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That’s a grand slam for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> prospect Cayden Wallace. <br>- HR 3 on the year. <br>- 21 RBI on the year. <br>His OPS is now .955 and he’s hitting .300. <br><br>Absolutely unreal. <a href="https://t.co/Hz3pn5UiDq">pic.twitter.com/Hz3pn5UiDq</a></p>&mdash; Preston Farr (@preston_b_farr) <a href="https://twitter.com/preston_b_farr/status/1652774039755296768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Im just about ready for road trip to Omaha

Thank God for the A's

The stench from these guys....is something awful.

Twins -1.5 was the easiest money of my life. Might as well profit off these bums.

A's come in this weekend and White Sox next week - 1.800.6ROYALS!!!!

7 wins does suck, but the schedule lightens up or something so May is gonna be a good month!!