***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

[ChiefsCountry]

Here's how we're taking the field behind Ryan Yarbrough to open up our 10-game homestand.#WelcomeToTheCity pic.twitter.com/A9IUwTqBdH

— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) May 2, 2023

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

He managed a 1.200 OPS in AAA after being acquired by KC; 1.044 on the season. He had a .931 OPS in AAA in 2021 and .933 OPS in 2019 in AAA (no minor league season in 2020).

I mean the guy has a prolonged track record of drawing walks and hitting with power in the high minors. I can't say that is sufficient to override 29 big league PAs with KC last year.

If he were out of options and you had to designate him to get him down to AAA, okay - I can understand that one. But the guy had options left - all you needed to do was send him down if he couldn't have earned his way onto the team out of camp.

I just don't understand why you DFA him in November.

How about Michael A Taylor? They already saw Waters perform well in Sept and knew he’s free and controllable. Same with Isbel Oliveras and MJ. There’s simply zero - zero - reason to protect him or Ohearn. Idiot shit


They dumped Taylor and Mondesi middle of January. Knowing they wanted neither, why the hell were they protected?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

How about Michael A Taylor? They already saw Waters perform well in Sept and knew he’s free and controllable. Same with Isbel Oliveras and MJ. There’s simply zero - zero - reason to protect him or Ohearn. Idiot shit


They dumped Taylor and Mondesi middle of January. Knowing they wanted neither, why the hell were they protected?

I didn't realize they had rights on Taylor and Mondesi.

Ouch - yeah, that's dumb. They had to know those were guys who were going to get non-tendered. Again - it's just basic asset protection stuff. Even if you think there's only a 5% chance Booker ever does anything in the bigs - it don't cost you nothing to find out.

Really bad resource management.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I didn't realize they had rights on Taylor and Mondesi.

Ouch - yeah, that's dumb. They had to know those were guys who were going to get non-tendered. Again - it's just basic asset protection stuff. Even if you think there's only a 5% chance Booker ever does anything in the bigs - it don't cost you nothing to find out.

Really bad resource typical Royals roster management.

fyp

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by myselff77

Who's the better SS between Garcia and BWJ? It will be interesting to see where Garcia plays.

Garcia is better defensively at SS and it isn't even close. But he's struggling a bit more from the plate than I hoped...so far.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I didn't realize they had rights on Taylor and Mondesi.

Ouch - yeah, that's dumb. They had to know those were guys who were going to get non-tendered. Again - it's just basic asset protection stuff. Even if you think there's only a 5% chance Booker ever does anything in the bigs - it don't cost you nothing to find out.

Really bad resource management.

Taylor was under contract via an extension he signed in 2021 for 2022 and 2023. He wasn't under any arbitration negotiations.

Mondesi was though. They re-upped him in December to avoid arbitration then traded him to Boston for Josh Taylor.

Those guys weren't exactly guys to DFA.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I didn't realize they had rights on Taylor and Mondesi.

Ouch - yeah, that's dumb. They had to know those were guys who were going to get non-tendered. Again - it's just basic asset protection stuff. Even if you think there's only a 5% chance Booker ever does anything in the bigs - it don't cost you nothing to find out.

Really bad resource management.

They gave ROH $1.4M just before the 40 man declaration. Then outright cut him a month later. It wasn’t enough that his last 4 years he OPS 68. (For a 1B - DH no less). Or that the team ditched him a month later during the winter, apparently because he wasn’t performing well when games aren’t even being played


Meanwhile they dump the 1000 OPS guy who is free. Picolo is a dipshit for that

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Taylor was under contract via an extension he signed in 2021 for 2022 and 2023. He wasn't under any arbitration negotiations.

Mondesi was though. They re-upped him in December to avoid arbitration then traded him to Boston for Josh Taylor.

Those guys weren't exactly guys to DFA.

They knew they wanted to dump Taylor so they should’ve done it in Nov. what, did they suddenly change their minds in January? That makes no sense. If you just want to ditch salary you could easily found a partner after the season.


The only way this makes sense is if Shermanator ordered it in January for salary reasons and Picolo had to do it

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

They knew they wanted to dump Taylor so they should’ve done it in Nov. what, did they suddenly change their minds in January? That makes no sense. If you just want to ditch salary you could easily found a partner after the season.

The only way this makes sense is if Shermanator ordered it in January for salary reasons and Picolo had to do it

Or you make a trade after free agency has been pretty much over which is what picking up Taylor would be. You are just being your obtuse self over nothing.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

They gave ROH $1.4M just before the 40 man declaration. Then outright cut him a month later. It wasn’t enough that his last 4 years he OPS 68. (For a 1B - DH no less). Or that the team ditched him a month later during the winter, apparently because he wasn’t performing well when games aren’t even being played


Meanwhile they dump the 1000 OPS guy who is free. Picolo is a dipshit for that

In fairness, they DFA'd him but then traded him for cash considerations.

So, y'know, some small chunk of the contract they'd signed him to. It wasn't smart.

They dealt Taylor and Mondesi, so they got a return on them, but the players weren't any better/worse than Rooker as prospects (probably worse given Rooker's ML track record) and again, they just made so many odd decisions at the fringes.

They were at 40 men for the Rule 5 (they didn't participate in the big league portion) but they...suck. The roster is bad. How can you look at 40 guys and say 'nah, no room for a guy who's done nothing but hit in the high minors' then keep overaged minor league relievers with no notable pedigree?

It's just a series of bad decisions.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Garcia is better defensively at SS and it isn't even close. But he's struggling a bit more from the plate than I hoped...so far.

I don't know why you keep spouting this. Witt Jr showed GG defense in the minors, so why are you so certain Garcia is better defensively? Just your normal contrarian bullshit?

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

I don't know why you keep spouting this. Witt Jr showed GG defense in the minors, so why are you so certain Garcia is better defensively? Just your normal contrarian bullshit?

The difference is Bobby Witt passes the eye test. He LOOKS like he SHOULD be a good defender but isnt. Hes athletic. Great arm. Good build. Doesn't make you automatically good at it. Its projection.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Or you make a trade after free agency has been pretty much over which is what picking up Taylor would be. You are just being your obtuse self over nothing.

Rooker: .351 9hr 1200 OPS

This is the part where you tell us what you think of that.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I don't really care to do the research but you KNOW there's some scrub they added to the 40 before he needed to be protected in late august/september so they could call him up for 'a taste of the big leagues' and in so doing created a 40 man crunch that was wholly self-inflicted.

And even at THAT there are a half dozen guys on your 40 man that really don't have value to speak of. Like, who the hell is Collin Snider?

Side note: Jackson Kowar is 26 already? Yikes - that's probably not gonna go as planned.

Yeah, he was part of the 5-year rebuild plan when we drafted college guys in 2018 (Bubic Singer Lynch Heasley Bowlan etc). We were told college pitchers would be the answer. Just be patient and 5 years from now we will finally produce good pitching


Now that they all suck farts, we are told: we can compete after the next 5 year plan

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Yeah, he was part of the 5-year rebuild plan when we drafted college guys in 2018 (Bubic Singer Lynch Heasley Bowlan etc). We were told college pitchers would be the answer. Just be patient and 5 years from now we will finally produce good pitching


Now that they all suck farts, we are told: we can compete after the next 5 year plan

Are Danny Duffy and Yordano Ventura still the best starting pitchers GMDM ever developed?