*** Official 2019 Kansas City Royals Repository ***

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Get the offseason thread out of here. It's on!

Opening day roster:

Catchers (2): Cam Gallagher, Martin Maldonado

Infielders (7): Hunter Dozier, Lucas Duda, Whit Merrifield, Adalberto Mondesi, Ryan O’Hearn, Chris Owings, Frank Schwindel

Outfielders (4): Alex Gordon, Terrance Gore, Billy Hamilton, Jorge Soler

Starting pitchers (3): Jakob Junis, Brad Keller, Jorge Lopez

Relief pitchers (9): Scott Barlow, Brad Boxberger, Jake Diekman, Chris Ellis, Tim Hill, Ian Kennedy, Kevin McCarthy, Wily Peralta, Kyle Zimmer

Injured list: Danny Duffy, Brian Flynn, Jesse Hahn, Salvador Perez

Suspended: Eric Skoglund

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by petegz28

Starling with a complete and totally idiotic move and now we pay for it

pete, there's 2 out. Duda (and really, most anyone) is toast in a rundown. Why not TRY to score from 3rd there? Bubba maybe could have timed it a little better, but it's still a longshot play where you're hoping for perfect timing or maybe a bad throw.
Anyway, if Bubba stays put, Duda is 99.9% surely out anyway.

/end of lesson

[kstater]

Shut up Pete


Hey it’s 2015 all over again


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[siberian khatru]

This game’s going nowhere, but Bubba has had quite a night in the field — two excellent catches and a laser throw home to nab Lindor.

[siberian khatru]

Flanagan:

More on Bubba Starling from Statcast: The velo on his throw home for the outfield assist was 100.7 mph. That's the hardest-thrown outfield assist in MLB this season.

[tk13]

You put him, Gordon and Phillips in the same outfield, that's quite the group.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by OKchiefs

David Glass is about to benefit from a new TV contract and he's being a cheap mother****er. What's new...

You're such a ****ing reerun. People that bitch about David Glass being cheap have no ****ing clue about what they are talking about. For having one of the smallest markets in the league and will spend if Dayton can field a competitive team. Here's the payroll rank and record by year since 2013.

2013 - $84 mil/21st/86-77
2014 - $98 mil/18th/89-73
2015 - $126 mil/13th/95-67
2016 - $141 mil/14th/81-81
2017 - $148 mil/13th/80-82
2018 - $130 mil/20th/58-104
2019 - $101 mil/23th/39-66


$130 million out of his pocket for 104 loss season. Why in the **** would you expect Glass to spend more money? Glass has been a good owner and gets a bad rap.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Flanagan:



More on Bubba Starling from Statcast: The velo on his throw home for the outfield assist was 100.7 mph. That's the hardest-thrown outfield assist in MLB this season.

Wow

[dallaschiefsfan]

Originally Posted by tk13

You put him, Gordon and Phillips in the same outfield, that's quite the group.

And it doesn't take too much of a dip if it's Whit, Starling and Phillips...

[dallaschiefsfan]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

This game’s going nowhere, but Bubba has had quite a night in the field — two excellent catches and a laser throw home to nab Lindor.

Was nice to finally see a display of his vaunted defense in an MLB game.

[Sure-Oz]

Can I hope Starling becomes David Dejesus with defense

[Sure-Oz]

@RoyalsFarm: Good morning. Hearing Nick Heath is on his way to AAA Omaha this morning. We’ll let you know if we hear any other corresponding moves in the mean time. Could be a precursor to a Billy Hamilton trade, theoretically.


@MLBPipeline: Time for our midseason re-rank!
#MLB's Top 100 prospects
All 30 teams' Top 30 prospects
Top 10s by position
2019 #MLBDraft picks & J2 signings

Have at it: https://atmlb.com/2yhya9X https://twitter.com/MLBPipeline/stat...504000/photo/1

9. Bobby Witt Jr.
56. Brady Singer
76. Daniel Lynch

[dlphg9]

Damn Bobby Witt in top 10 already that seems crazy to me. Is that typical?

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Damn Bobby Witt in top 10 already that seems crazy to me. Is that typical?

Scouts love him.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Flanagan:

More on Bubba Starling from Statcast: The velo on his throw home for the outfield assist was 100.7 mph. That's the hardest-thrown outfield assist in MLB this season.

I don't really see how this is actually possible. I would have thought it would be difficult for any player to throw higher than 92-93 mph unless training specifically as a pitcher. But perhaps being able to crow hop and running forward helps more than I think.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I don't really see how this is actually possible. I would have thought it would be difficult for any player to throw higher than 92-93 mph unless training specifically as a pitcher. But perhaps being able to crow hop and running forward helps more than I think.

It does.

And another outfielder hit 100+ in the past couple days iirc