He's like a poor mans Jarrod Dyson.

Should have called up Samad Taylor. Blanco is ****ing 30 years old and has no future here.

I don't really understand why they are avoiding calling up Taylor at this point.

They are going to have to take some hard looks at guys they thought were part of the future and decide if they should move them if they get good offers.

Yep, Taylor is pretty much just as good as swiping bags and is only 24. I guess it's because they don't have a place to play him ATM. He should have been up instead of Jackie Bradley Jr. when Waters was out.

A team that is running Oliveras in the OF nearly everyday can't make that argument...

Here is the problem is that they same guys that have been in charge of the draft for well over a decade and will make these picks and screw them up. The only way it was going to work is if the entire FO was fired as well. They didn't get it and they will end up picking the shit SS from Grand Canyon that cannot hit.

Blanco can sit the bench and be a pinch runner/extra outfielder without sacrificing anything. Let Taylor keep getting everyday playing time and bats in Omaha and force his way into the Majors.

Olivares sucks ass in the outfield but I think you got to play it out now this year until he proves he just can't do it. It sucks because his bat will show up and you go **** we got it use it and then he does stupid shit in the outfield that costs you.

I've said this in the past but I think it's just 100% true - your pitching will determine your floor and your offense your ceiling.

Hit all you want but if you can't pitch, your floor is still in the cellar somewhere. And the Royals just can't pitch. So they've seen a little bit of progress among their position players but it doesn't matter because the pitching simply can't support anything.

And sooner or later the hitters/fielders start pressing and that falls apart as well.

You've gotta have a decent foundation of a starting staff. You look at the Guardians - those guys are a DISASTER on offense. And they don't field terribly well either. But I think they're gonna have a far easier path to relevance because they have a ton of pitching. They have guys like Gavin Williams who simply don't have a spot in the majors and Gavin Williams would be the Royals best pitching prospect since...shit - Greinke?

The problem for KC is that pitching is expensive to acquire, extremely difficult to develop and fragile as all get out. All you can do is throw insane numbers at it and hope you get a 25% hit rate and then 1/2 of those guys manage to stay healthy. So 1 of every 8 guys who look pretty good in AA may actually pan out into something meaningful long-term.

Y'all have...uh...40 of those guys? 32? Do you even have eight?

It looks like tough sledding for quite awhile in KC...

Oliveras is basically a 4th/5th OFer that platoons on a good team, he kills left handed pitching, on a team like the Royals his value is lost.

They have been so terrible at developing anything and the pitching is even worse...

You go top 5 pick on Asa Lacy and he's just a bag of shit and that list goes on and on and on.

Edward Olivares?

Is there something I'm missing about the guy who has a sub .700 OPS for his career against lefties?

Because I think he might just be shitty.

Maybe he is just shitty, the entire team is shitty and so is the farm system.

You could literally build a better team throwing ****in darts.

He is just a polarizing player. One minute he will hit a monster home run that knocks out the windows in the Hall of Fame. Next play he will field a routine flyball and boot it into an error. I still think he might get DFA at some point this season.

I'm being a little dramatic - I'd say half of your good prospects develop into genuine big leaguers and about half of those stay healthy enough to hit their ceiling.

So you're talking about 1 in 4 rather than 1 in 8.

But man, from Lacy, Singer, Kowar and Bubic you've GOTTA get at least a playoff caliber starter in there somewhere. A #2 at worst. You can't get a scenario where the best of that lot might be a little better than someone like Keller who who guys got as an organizational cast-off.

But it's just hard to know where to even begin. I'd say everyone in baseball should just be stealing talent from the Dodgers and Rays when it comes to organization building and then the Indians and Marlins when it comes to pitcher development.

Go poach some guys. Oh sure, there are gonna be coattail riding Pioli-like bitches in there, but that's the nice thing about a staff in baseball - there's a TON of collective wisdom. Steal lots of guys - some of them will be worth a shit.

And from an ROI standpoint, it's a HELL of a lot cheaper than torching draft and/or FA capital.

I don't think he gives you enough of the monster home run part to even earn a polarizing label. I think he is a player who sucks that happens to run into one every so often.

I'd trade y'all Paul DeJong for him just to get that asshole off the Cardinals roster so I don't have to hear Chip and Butters give him a handjob every time he fields a routine grounder.

We kind of did that though. At least the manager and pitching development

Aren't most of your front-office guys folks who were promoted from within? I know Picollo was. And I can guess a big ol' chunk of guys like Mitch Maier, Reggie Sanders and Mike Sweeney were. Monahan is a career Royal, pretty sure Goldberg is and I think Zumwalt is.

I'm not really talking about field personnel as much - I'm talking about the 50 guys you have behind the scenes evaluating players and creating throwing programs and all that stuff. The guys stocking the pipelines and teaching them as far away as Quad Cities.

Though i will concede that coming from Cleveland, you'd have expected Sherman to have made a little more progress towards rebuilding the pitching factory they had out there. Maybe that just takes more time...

Would take Tyler O'Neil off your hands. I think he would be perfect for what the Royals need.

That's an incredibly low bar to hop considering that's anything even remotely positive at this point.

I think this year the plan was to see if Matheny and Eldred were the problem or do the players just suck ass. So far its looking like they just suck ass.

Bubic gets a TJ after 3 starts. So there goes his evaluation out the window. Singer's problem is he is a red ass that won't throw a 3rd pitch.

Yeah - Singer still thinks it's 1987 where a 94 mph sinker means you're hot shit.

Now that gets you some work in the 7th inning. Sinker/Slider when the slider is a pretty average offering won't really get you anywhere in today's game.

Was it Keller y'all had that threw some of the funky new-age 'seam shifted wake' stuff that just scrambles brains? Like, you throw a slider, but the angle you throw it at puts it in its own 'jetwash' and the ball looks like a slider that should move a certain way but then it goes a completely different way.

It's not even a particularly devastating pitch, but hitters end up a little vapor locked by it so it can be more effective than it looks like it should be.

A lot of teams were tinkering with that a couple years back as a way for fringe stuff to play up a bit, but you hear less about it now. I'm not sure what other 'magic bullet' kind of stuff may exist to help that staff out.

As you noted - they just might not be very good.

One thing last year I will give Dayton Moore credit for. When he sent Singer down to Omaha last year was you better get a third pitch or you might never get back to the majors.

Nah Dyson barely hit home runs at all. Blanco's got a little pop in his bat. He's been a guy who hits 10-15 homers and steals 40 bases a year. The problem is he's 30 years old.

Name a player on the roster who has EXCEEDED expectations this year.

I'll wait.

I think Maikel Garcia has been pretty good, relatively speaking.

Salvy is taking a beating this inning.

Taylor Clarke has been pretty good in the pen

Neat a 30 yr old relief pitcher lol.

Tradeable asset

Well get jack and shit for him. No one gives up anything in value for an old relief pitcher.

and another one.

I hope they trade Salvy. Makes me wonder if he is content and won't want to leave

Greinke can't go pass 5 innings anymore

and another one.

LMAO

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Salvydong

There is a douchebag Bengals fan in the seats behind home plate.

Another Kansas City sports legend with a clutch play against Cincinnati.

Suck it Buck Farmer!

You guys see Salvy directing Hernandez to cover the plate on that foul ball back behind the plate? He is always situationally aware.

He's safe.

The Go-Go Royals with the double steal!

I want to see douchebag Bengals fan cry

Absolutely unacceptable by Olivares there. Completely bailed the pitcher out.

Olivares is such a ****ing ****. Gave them that out.

Kyle Isbel is starting a rehab assignment tomorrow. I would expect the days of Olivares as a Royal may be coming to an end.

Disheartening that they couldn't get to Ricky Karcher considering how bad his command was.

This team is not good but that right there is the difference between going 72-90 and just being a historically bad team. Have the other team on the ropes and bail them out with a clock violation and the inning turns around and you lose.

The Super Regional at Stanford just ended like this. Texas' season is over.

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When we want Kyle Isbel back you know you are just a shithead player.

He's still 6th overall on the entire team in WAR because his defense is so good. At least he'll offer something out there.

I have no real friends, my kids hate me and take advantage of me. My wife picks fights for no reason and my favorite baseball team is the royals. The last part hurts the most.

Perhaps the Royals should be the pallbearers at your funeral so they can let you down one last time.

It might be too late to do anything about the family stuff but you can certainly pick a new baseball team!

The douchebag Bengals fan is back tonight

He gives off such small peen energy.

The fans around him every night should deck themselves out in Chiefs gear.

He is what I picture that douche rfaulk34 to look like

If the A's win tonight the Royals will have the worst record in baseball.

The A's are playing in front of a playoff atmosphere, too. It's a mad house.

Last two nights the Royals had their chances. Too many mental mistakes.

Jordan Lyles is totally worth his contract!

Royals are now tied with the A's for the worst record in MLB

It's unbelievable. All it took was losing 11 of our last 12 and for them to win their last 7 in a row. I hope Sherman is embarrassed. He's gotta know that this might kill his chance at getting a downtown stadium. No one gives a shit about a franchise that's on pace to have
A top 5 worst season ever.

A's won tonight so now the Royals are officially the worst team in baseball.

LFG!!!

They have essentially played 3 rebuilding teams in a row that are built around a bunch of young players...

They are 0-8 vs those teams, Royals really know what they're doing.

This is a level of suck that shows we are so far behind. Way worse than I think anyone thought.

Not a young player in sight making improvements.

Besides Salvy, which I've already said should be traded if there is any offer of value in return, there is not a single player on this roster that I'd really be upset it they were traded away.

Someone has to lose a job, right? I know we are in yr 1 of a new Manager, but this isn't year 1 for the guy that's been overseeing player development (JJ). He's looking like a severe incompetent boob at this point. 18-49 is completely ****ing unacceptable.

Yep. I'm abandoning all hope moving forward. Just gonna be a bitter asshole. Really sucks too because my son's at the age where he is actually caring a little bit about watching sports.

I'm not gonna make him watch Royals games or probably even take him to any so he might just grow up not giving a shit about them at all. And that's probably the best thing I can do for him as a father. Not subject him to this scumbag org.

Eh I'll probably take him to some. One of the perks of the current stadium is the Little K where he can actually have fun and play games and stuff. That will go away with a downtown park and it will just be watching baseball. Which is torture for little kids.

I got to take both of my boys to the Playoff games and WS in 2014 & 15 (they were teenagers at that time. I'm so glad I did because it was a lot of fun to share that experience with them. My youngest just graduated college and moved to KC, and we've been talking about maybe meeting up and going to a Royals game, but neither one of us are really that interested. I think we are just going to wait and go to a Chiefs game in the Fall :(

Royals play in by far the worst division in baseball. They are 5-12 in games against those teams.

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KCMO has to be off the table at this point and they're looking at a downtown KCK stadium, right??

The MLB going away from the unbalanced schedule has certainly highlight how awful the central is.

Lol

Lawl, at this point the Royals will be lucky to get a new stadium here at all, or anywhere for that matter unless its almost entirely out of Shermans pockets.

Look at the embarrassment the As are going through now. The team and commish ran their mouths about how they were headed for Vegas and Oakland just wasn't feasible, and.now they're at the precipice of Vegas just outright telling them to **** off unless they want to foot the bill almost entirely.