I agree.

2003 was a team at its peak with no future. Unfortunately, that peak wasn’t very high.

This team is on the ascent with some VERY exciting talent on the way. We don’t have a Beltran, who is on the way out, leading our team.

Metrics on Kauffman Stadium.

Red is high & Blue is low.

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I knew the K was low in HR’s but the walks & strikeouts surprised me. I knew the K would be high in doubles & triples but singles surprised me.

Thanks for posting that interesting figure.

Growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I remember reading that players around the league, both pitchers and batters, liked Royals Stadium a lot. It would typically do well in annual player votes for favorite places to play. For batters, they felt that they could see the ball well there, given the nice dark background that the clean centerfield wall and grass terrace provided. Maybe that nice background makes it so that batters are more apt to put the ball in play before either striking out or drawing a walk. The size of the foul territory at the K has always seemed like a good balance between the interests of the pitchers and batters, too. That might have something to do with differences from ballpark to ballpark in whether a plate appearance ends in a K or BB versus a ball being put in play.

The trajectory Lynch has taken as a prospect is pretty freaking insane. Hell a couple of years ago I believe most were saying he could be a serviceable back of the rotation type, then last year people started talking about him being a mid rotation guy, and now someone actually said "he has ace upside". If Lynch can put it all together, along with Singer who is showing TOR stuff, Bubic who held his own as a 22 yr old that never pitched above A+, and Jackson Kowar who has shown alot of promise, then we may look back at that 2018 draft as one of the best we've ever had.

It's just insane to think of how shit our drafting of pitchers was when we were going with high school guys. I don't ever give Dayton credit, but I commend him for completely changing his drafting strategy.

Would be interesting to digitize the wall. Make it static and light during away ab. Then dark and solid during our ab.

Singer just can’t find his command so far

**** he might have some real damage.

One of the wilder double plays you’ll see and you hope Brady didn’t just **** up his foot.

Feel like a bruise is really dodging a bullet here. That shot off of his foot looked nasty.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Report from the Royals on Brady Singer is left heel contusion. He’s listed as day to day</p>&mdash; Joel Goldberg (@goldbergkc) <a href="https://twitter.com/goldbergkc/status/1388306610687258624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yeah, that was a hard shot.

Buxton’s stat line.

Wow.

Wondered why he only went 2 innings.

He was about done anyway, he threw about 40 pitches in the 2nd inning.

Lets go... rally mf's

105.5 MPH line drive off the foot.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Royals SP Brady Singer exited the game after taking a line drive off his foot. <a href="https://t.co/TX9nnR9YkK">pic.twitter.com/TX9nnR9YkK</a></p>&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1388299271297015813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>