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Originally Posted by Mecca
I mean they shouldn't be "this" bad they do a ton of boneheaded things that don't make any sense but no matter what changes today they're gonna be pretty bad.
I think it's a bigger indictment of all of the fails they are experiencing with guys recently drafted.
Do they need a housecleaning? Yes
Do they need to start over? Yes
Should that involve maybe trading some guys people don't think are tradeable? yes
I don't personally think ownership has the stomach to literally tear it all down personally.
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I've said this in the past but I think it's just 100% true - your pitching will determine your floor and your offense your ceiling.
Hit all you want but if you can't pitch, your floor is still in the cellar somewhere. And the Royals just can't pitch. So they've seen a little bit of progress among their position players but it doesn't matter because the pitching simply can't support anything.
And sooner or later the hitters/fielders start pressing and that falls apart as well.
You've gotta have a decent foundation of a starting staff. You look at the Guardians - those guys are a DISASTER on offense. And they don't field terribly well either. But I think they're gonna have a far easier path to relevance because they have a ton of pitching. They have guys like Gavin Williams who simply don't have a spot in the majors and Gavin Williams would be the Royals best pitching prospect since...shit - Greinke?
The problem for KC is that pitching is expensive to acquire, extremely difficult to develop and fragile as all get out. All you can do is throw insane numbers at it and hope you get a 25% hit rate and then 1/2 of those guys manage to stay healthy. So 1 of every 8 guys who look pretty good in AA may actually pan out into something meaningful long-term.
Y'all have...uh...40 of those guys? 32? Do you even have
eight?
It looks like tough sledding for quite awhile in KC...