*** 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

[TambaBerry]

We lost to the Ray's, I bet prison bitch is happy we lost to his favorite ideal team

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by Munson

.@hdozier_17 to the ROOF. ��

(almost)#AlwaysRoyal pic.twitter.com/ZG5k3y1GM2

— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) April 23, 2019

Reminds me of dean palmer.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Soler is such a bad OF

Yep. Im ready to bring up Starling. Soler DH. Not sure why we have Hamilton or Gore. Lets see what hes got.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Yep. Im ready to bring up Starling. Soler DH. Not sure why we have Hamilton or Gore. Lets see what hes got.

26 years old
former top 5 pick
OPSing.950 in AAA
plus defender

Yeah..no reason to wait.

[dlphg9]

It's nice to see Nicky Lopez and Bubba Starling killing it in AAA. Itd be awful to rush them too the majors, especially when you have such integral parts of our future keeping them down. How could you ever replace Chris Getz, I mean Owings, and his .564 OPS. If a .564 OPS doesn't get your dick hard, then read on for more stat Viagra.

*****CAUTION STOP READING IF YOURE NOT READY FOR AN ERECTION THAT WILL LAST LONGER THAN 4 HOURS*****

So .564 OPS doesn't do it for you? Well let's dig a little deeper into the stat book. Does 26 SO to 7 BB get your blood flowing? How about the 8 RBIs in 22 games.

**** I just blew my load.

Guess you can only look at Chris Owings stats for so long.

**** Billy Hamilton and his worthless ass blocking Starling.

Come on Daytons Defenders. Tell me how these are thecright moves.

[BigCatDaddy]

Don't we pretty much control Bubba the rest of his prime years at this point? Why not bring him up?

[tk13]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Don't we pretty much control Bubba the rest of his prime years at this point? Why not bring him up?

No if I'm not mistaken, he is out of options. Technically if he makes it we control his prime MLB years, but he has to actually make it.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if we see Lopez eventually. Bubba's going to be another matter. Once they bring him up there's no going back, so they're probably going to make him show sustained success at AAA, not just a couple hot weeks.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by tk13

No if I'm not mistaken, he is out of options. Technically if he makes it we control his prime MLB years, but he has to actually make it.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if we see Lopez eventually. Bubba's going to be another matter. Once they bring him up there's no going back, so they're probably going to make him show sustained success at AAA, not just a couple hot weeks.

He will be 27 this August and isn't getting younger. With his speed and D he will be Billy Hamilton. There is no reason to not just call him up and send Duda to the moon. DM is just a clown.

[Prison Bitch]

There’s no reason to keep Hamilton over Starling


Hamilton provides nothing. Literally zero.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

It's nice to see Nicky Lopez and Bubba Starling killing it in AAA. Itd be awful to rush them too the majors, especially when you have such integral parts of our future keeping them down. How could you ever replace Chris Getz, I mean Owings, and his .564 OPS. If a .564 OPS doesn't get your dick hard, then read on for more stat Viagra.

*****CAUTION STOP READING IF YOURE NOT READY FOR AN ERECTION THAT WILL LAST LONGER THAN 4 HOURS*****

So .564 OPS doesn't do it for you? Well let's dig a little deeper into the stat book. Does 26 SO to 7 BB get your blood flowing? How about the 8 RBIs in 22 games.

**** I just blew my load.

Guess you can only look at Chris Owings stats for so long.

**** Billy Hamilton and his worthless ass blocking Starling.

Come on Daytons Defenders. Tell me how these are thecright moves.

.564 OPS? I’m moist....

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

There’s no reason to keep Hamilton over Starling


Hamilton provides nothing. Literally zero.

Hamilton reads the Bible

Starling likes the Pronz.

That’s an easy decision for Dayton.

[dallaschiefsfan]

The Royals "plan" for this year was speed (w/ emphasis on stolen bases) and defense. For that plan to work, Goodwin or Phillips had to make the team, Gore had to have multiple opportunities and Hamilton had to improve his OBP and Owings had to return to 2016 form. Not only has none of this occurred, but in tandem with Salvy's injury, we knew a good portion of this was not going to happen prior to playing a single regular season game.

And that fact alone is what makes the roster construction of this team criminal. While DM is ultimately responsible for roster construction, Ned Yost is every bit as dug-in and invested in how this roster has been constructed. If Ned didn't want Duda on the team, DM wouldn't have signed him, period. Ned wanted him. This approach to roster construction is actually regressive towards the larger goal of prospect development. When they got rid of all the veteran junk last year and let the young guys play, the team started to thrive.

I mean...two left handed hitting first-base-only players on a roster...a backup catcher...a late-inning-pinch-runner-only. Two bullpen arms with no options signed to hope they recover their careers and yield a trade at the deadline. The 40 man roster spots and the makeup of the 25 man active roster is just incredibly inflexible at this point. I really can't imagine anything getting better until they cut bait with a few of these guys and open up some roster spots so that they can do more shuffling and have the flex to send more guys up/down to the minors.

The optimist in me believes this will actually start to happen in June...but the pessimist in me isn't so sure they are't going to stay doubled-down on this "plan", despite the fact the plan just isn't going to work, given our current circumstances.

[dallaschiefsfan]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

There’s no reason to keep Hamilton over Starling


Hamilton provides nothing. Literally zero.

The Royals answer (which I'm not in agreement w/ their rationale):

1. Hamilton steals bases...Starling, while fast, does not really steal bases.
2. Defensively its mostly a wash. Starling w/ a better cannon, but Hamilton more experienced and likely better reads/angles.
3. Starling is not on the 40 and when placed on the 25, can't come off without having to clear waivers.
4. Probably hoped (and still hope) Hamilton outplays his recent career numbers and they can flip him at the deadline for something.

[duncan_idaho]

Re: Starling, there’s also the matter of him not having much success prior to this current 60 AB sample.

He only played 20 games in the minors last year. He hasn’t posted an .800+ OPS since 2012.

There’s nothing to be gained with Starling by rushing him. This team isn’t going anywhere. He’s not going anywhere.

Might as well let his sample stretch out to 50 games or so and 150 ABs or more. If he’s still raking, promote him and see what you have.

Progression of minor league players, especially hitters, is rarely linear. Letting Starling and Lopez marinate and improve a little longer at AAA isn’t a bad thing for them at the major league level.

Ultimately, the Royals added some boring vets that aren’t very good. The playing time Duda and Owings are getting is annoying.

It’s a good idea for a team that won’t contend to sign some cheap vets and try to rehab some value and trade them (see Jon Jay, Moustakas last year).

They’ve got another month or so to play patty-cake with the veteran guys. Then it should be on to more youth.

Starting in June, I’d like to see this lineup:

Merrifield RF
Mondesi SS
Gordon LF
Dozier/Soler 3B/DH
O’Hearn 1B
Dozier/Soler 3B/DH
Maldonado/Gallagher C
Starling CF
Lopez 2B

Lot of speed and defense in that group. When/if they trade Maldonado, if Viloria is still showing well, he can slide into the rotation with Gallagher.

[BlackHelicopters]

Because Royals