***Official 2023 Royals Season Repository Thread***

[ChiefsCountry]

2023 – A new beginning for the Royals. Matt Quatraro era begins. A year to see which of our young players will make up the core going forward. Can Bobby Witt Jr become a superstar SS or will go to the hot corner? Will Brady Singer take the next step forward? Will Salvy be Salvy? Will Big Vin or Pratto take first base? Will they find a position for MJ? Who else emerges from the youth movement? Not to mention the development of the new downtown stadium.

Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Jordan Lyles, RHP
Ryan Yarbrough, LHP
Josh Taylor, LHP
Aroldis Chapman, LHP

Top 10 Prospects from Baseball America
1. Gavin Cross, OF
2. Cayden Wallace, 3B
3. Drew Waters, OF
4. Ben Kudrna, RHP
5. Frank Mozzicato, LHP
6. Maikel Garcia, SS
7. Tyler Gentry, OF
8. Nick Loftin, OF/3B
9. Angel Zerpa, LHP
10. Carter Jensen, C

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Bowser

At this point NKC is going to win the bid for the new stadium, and KCMO is going to insist to MLB to officially change their name to the North Kansas City Royals.

I still think Sherman is using Clay County and NKC as leverage to push Jackson County and KCMO to make a deal.

I do feel NKC would make a great location the Harlem area would be sandwiched between Heart of America and Buck O'Neil Bridge. It would be on the Mo River with a great view of Downtown.

The channel 9 and Chris Ketz broadcasting in front of the old NKC Bowl being torn down seemingly suggests that's the location. I would not be in favor too many railroad tracks converging into that turnaround.



Forget this above as the KC city limits extend north of the river and take in the Harlem area.

[Pablo]

I did catch the last three innings of this Royals classic on radio. A real treat to the ears

[WhawhaWhat]

Ryan O’Hearn has more home runs in the past week with the Orioles than he had in 145 PA with the Royals last season pic.twitter.com/FkCdPZncar

— Locked On Orioles (@LockedOnOrioles) May 21, 2023

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Ryan O’Hearn has more home runs in the past week with the Orioles than he had in 145 PA with the Royals last season pic.twitter.com/FkCdPZncar

— Locked On Orioles (@LockedOnOrioles) May 21, 2023

He looks a bit slimmed down there. Maybe he decided to finally put some work in.

[KCUnited]

The Dave Winfield story was the best moment of the game today

Winfield to Hud as a player: You're a big leaguer now so you know what that guarantees?

Hud: ugggghmmmm....

Winfield: It guarantees that one day you'll be an ex-big leaguer and I've seen you play, your days are numbered

[TLO]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Ryan O’Hearn has more home runs in the past week with the Orioles than he had in 145 PA with the Royals last season pic.twitter.com/FkCdPZncar

— Locked On Orioles (@LockedOnOrioles) May 21, 2023

**** him

[TLO]

Kansas City is 20 games below .500 before Memorial Day for the third time in franchise history. ('05, '06)

The team has fallen 20 games below before June 8th in four of the past five 162-game seasons. #Royals

— Josh Vernier (@JoshVernier610) May 21, 2023

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by lewdog

He looks a bit slimmed down there. Maybe he decided to finally put some work in.

He only has 34 PA's this year. The O's know his value comes as a pinch hitter and have almost exclusively kept him in that role.

[WhawhaWhat]

No. 6 @Royals Drew Waters with a powerful day for the @OMAStormChasers:
4 H
2 HR
3B
2B
3 RBI pic.twitter.com/OrnQhzPzYM

— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) May 22, 2023

[tk13]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

Remember when people were chuckling at Grifol when a Sox player didn’t run out a ground ball?

Oliveras didn’t even leave the batters box on a fair ball bouncer

If he's the guy who got the boot for Drew Waters I wouldn't be entirely surprised. I know he was a fan favorite at one time but his offense isn't really great right now and his defense is just butcher level. He had a crucial play in LF today that wasn't easy, but a good LF probably would have made it. And that's on top of not looking focused at the plate and hitting about .100 this month.

At the risk of sounding like Dayton Moore, I'm not entirely convinced you wouldn't have a better team if you eventually just ran Bradley, Waters and Isbel out there in the OF and had a great defense to help the pitchers at least. It's not like we're scoring runs anyway. At least they'd be elite at something. But you don't even really have to do that because Pratto and Melendez can mix in LF/RF every day.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by tk13

If he's the guy who got the boot for Drew Waters I wouldn't be entirely surprised. I know he was a fan favorite at one time but his offense isn't really great right now and his defense is just butcher level. He had a crucial play in LF today that wasn't easy, but a good LF probably would have made it. And that's on top of not looking focused at the plate and hitting about .100 this month.

At the risk of sounding like Dayton Moore, I'm not entirely convinced you wouldn't have a better team if you eventually just ran Bradley, Waters and Isbel out there in the OF and had a great defense to help the pitchers at least. It's not like we're scoring runs anyway. At least they'd be elite at something. But you don't even really have to do that because Pratto and Melendez can mix in LF/RF every day.

Olivares is 27. He is no longer a prospect and has a 10 cent head. I would be fine with cutting bait. He was worth the risk to trade for but I think his time should be done.

[Mecca]

Oliveras bat doesn't make up for his glove and he's in reality a platoon guy, he kills left handed pitching so he has a very specific role.

But when you mix him on a roster thar has Dozier and Bradley that's just a losing formula.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

Remember when people were chuckling at Grifol when a Sox player didn’t run out a ground ball?

Oliveras didn’t even leave the batters box on a fair ball bouncer

I was a big advocate for the dude getting a shot in 2021, but he has had some of the worst, game swinging miscues in the field and at the plate this year. To echo what TK posted, I don't see a real place for him once Waters returns at this rate.

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

I was a big advocate for the dude getting a shot in 2021, but he has had some of the worst, game swinging miscues in the field and at the plate this year. To echo what TK posted, I don't see a real place for him once Waters returns at this rate.

He's basically a 5th OFer that should only play versus lefties, he's showing he's not an everyday player.

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by srvy

So Ewing and his GMs were willing to throw money around willy nilly to the team and went 1-1 in WS. Glass tite as **** hired DM to build a team with little support in money and went 1-1 and is dogshit because he was a religious man. You are so full of crap on this shit.

Whoa Whoa Whoa now, in 16 years they had 2 winning seasons...

The religious stuff will always be joked about because he brought that upon himself. Sending the team to an anti-porn seminar in spring training. The comment about building better fathers and sons than baseball players..the inside reports that the Royals would move guys up and down on their draft boards due to religious faith. You bring jokes and skepticism to yourself when you engage in those things.

But to be honest at the end of the day, I could give a shit about his faith or religion. He completely lost ability to build a competent baseball team. After 2015 he couldn't make a trade or FA signing to save his life and he hadn't drafted well since years before that.

The man was unable to pivot in an ever changing landscape of baseball.