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4 more losses and Royals would be picking #7 in the draft instead of #9. A .500 record gets you the #17 pick.
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***Official 2021 Royals Season Repository Thread***
The Athletic:
On Sunday, Perez compared the year to the 2011 and ’12 Royals in the sense that talented young players got their feet wet. In that sense, Perez and every one of his Royals teammates who spoke to the media during the season’s final week sounded upbeat about the future. Asked about the source of their optimism, Whit Merrifield said: “Young … pitching … talent. And a lot of it.” Magic number: .307 In the three-true-outcome nature of baseball in 2021 (homers, walks, strikeouts), this felt like a nice segue. The Royals’ on-base percentage — .307 — was the second lowest in club history. Only 2018’s .305 on-base percentage was lower. Magic number: 27 Fielding statistics remain perplexing to evaluate, but Baseball Savant ranked the Royals (27 outs above average) as the fifth-best defense in baseball. This makes sense, considering the Royals have four Gold Glove award possibilities. Nicky Lopez leads 239 qualified defenders in outs above average. Michael A. Taylor ranks sixth. And Merrifield pops up at No. 39. Magic number: 57.3 No team threw fewer first-pitch strikes than the Royals. Manager Mike Matheny is so aware of this issue that, on Sunday morning, he joked about the ceremonial first pitch thrown a night earlier by Royals vice president of communications Mike Swanson. “Man, it was almost so good,” Matheny said of Swanson’s throw. “You know, here’s the deal. We’ve had a problem with first-pitch strikes.” Magic number: .300 No Royals shortstop had ever finished the season with a .300 batting average. Then Lopez did it. There’s a lot to unpack here. Lopez was not the Royals’ starting shortstop when they broke camp in Surprise, Ariz. Nor was he even on the big-league club. Instead, he was conversing with general manager J.J. Picollo and director of hitting performance Alec Zumwalt as they worked toward reverting Lopez’s swing back to what it looked like in 2018. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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10-05-2021, 09:46 AM | #6318 |
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One third of the offensive players on Baseball America's minor league All-Star team are Royals prospects.
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10-05-2021, 12:24 PM | #6319 | |
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10-05-2021, 01:06 PM | #6321 |
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They really should get Witt Jr up at the start of the season to help “sell” something to the fan base.
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Well...not sure that anyone would take that contract. But maybe I'm wrong. In a fun world, Pratto at 1B makes the infield crazy elite from the start, even if Mondesi plays some 3B to start the season. The range of that infield would be nuts. If Santana is gone and the DH position is free, that makes an early season call-up of Melendez all but inevitable. Witt Jr. still feels like a call-up when Mondesi goes on the shelf at some point, unless he's going to play one of the corner OF spots.
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10-05-2021, 04:45 PM | #6323 |
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Unless you have an obvious spot/need, it makes no sense to burn a year for a few early season ticket sales.
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10-05-2021, 05:12 PM | #6324 |
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Well, third base and right field are barren right now
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10-05-2021, 05:18 PM | #6325 |
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10-05-2021, 05:22 PM | #6326 |
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Witt Jr and Mondesi for 100 plus games next year completes me
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10-05-2021, 05:26 PM | #6327 |
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7 years ago tonight I sat in the front row down the 3rd base line as the Royals swept the angels in the division series. LOCain made two of the best catches in a playoff game I’ve ever seen live.
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Those catches from Cain were unbelievable. His diving catch...the ball was about an inch off the ground.
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10-05-2021, 06:42 PM | #6329 |
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There's no obvious open position if Mondesi plays 3B. And further, I'm not sure how any CBA can tell a team when to move a guy up and give the boot to a veteran player playing with competence on the MLB level. Can't see MLB level players agreeing to anything of that sort.
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Would an idiot do that?
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