Kind of a morbid deformity don't ya think?

Hey, this is kind of enjoyable to watch. I don't know what I'm seeing here..

It's still early overall but Freddy Fermin looks like a player. Almost to 50 games and he's hitting .300 and playing like a 15 HR/75 RBI type catcher.

The Raytown Royals are the bees knees right now.

Fermin the Vermin cannot be stopped!

very nice. Pull, buy raw and send it in, or just bought outright?

I have to go through some of my Witt's next week. I am sending in a bulk order to CGC. Hopeful to get back at least 1 gold 10 label, but I doubt that will happen.

Don’t look now, but BWJ’s overall OPS for the season is approaching .800

Bobby has been on this tear all while only walking twice since the 4th of July weekend. Incredible

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Bought it outright in 2021. Here’s the order details, long term investment lol.

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That would be 7 in a row

What’s it worth today?

When do postseason tickets go on sale?

Probably around $700.

It’s only his 2nd year and baseball is very hard to gain superstardom. He’s getting there though, just has to stay consistent.

Do you buy cards to sell later for profit? Is that the main goal or do you just keep some?

The insurance payoff is phenomenal when he burns his house down smoking a pork butt.

Old friend alert
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This team has sent many of us into countless fits of rage. Let’s just enjoy Bobby Whitt JR ballin out and live in the ****ing moment.

I keep them, I haven’t sold any of my cards.

If I can get life changing money I’ll sell my Mahomes. It’s worth about $7,000-$8,000 and that’s still not enough.

That's a ridiculous stat lmao. If he can develop a little plate discipline, he's a future MVP.

Nice to see from Moose! Turned his ankle a bit at home… that’ll bring the adrenaline down a bit. Lol

Wait... i thought we needed to trade him simply because we suck and it wont matter the next 4 years.

Bobby Witt is doing things no player has ever done and there have been so many games of baseball played that there aren't many things that have never been done before. He's legit carrying this team on his back.

Does Devin Mann have any chance of being the starter at 1B eventually over Nick Pratto?

https://www.milb.com/player/devin-mann-669471

He seems like he's always had good numbers from the plate but never seemed to move up quickly.

Makes me think he's more of a Kila Kaʻaihue/Calvin Pickering type.

going for 8 straight today...

That A's team is in trouble.

Kila should have been a lot better than he turned out to be. I never realized how much plate discipline that dude had. He had a couple of back to back 100 BB seasons in AA/AAA. In 2008 he had 104 BBs to 64 Ks and then in 09 he had 102 BBs to 85 SOs. He had all kinds of power. Honestly he never got the playing time he probably should have deserved, because Dayton Moore was a ****ing dipshit. Here's what was holding him back.

2008 24 yr old 1.085 OPS - 32 year old Ross ****ing Gload who was OPSing .664

2009 25 year old .825 OPS - Dayton decides to trade Leo "that's not my name" Nunez for a yr of Mike Jacobs, who absolutely sucked shit OPSing .698. This trade was so ****ing dumb it's almost unbelievable.

2010 26 yr old finally gets his shot, OPS's .702 on the season, but over his last 27 games his 162 game pace was 35 HRs and 104 RBIs. During that last month he had an .878 OPS and it wasn't just luck, because his BABIP during that time was .295. He only got 47 starts that year, because once again Dayton was the stupidest mother****er running a team and just had to play 34 year old Jose Guillen instead of his young guys.

2011 - his time ran up, because Hosmer was in the bigs and Billy Butler was holding down DH. He got to play in 23 games that year.

That was his last year here. He should have been given more playing time, but Dayton was obsessed with shit stain vets. God I hate him so much. Kila gets way too much shit for things outside of his control. The one stretch that he was able to get continuous playing time he absolutely raked. Dude was probably what Vinnie is. Kila could have been a good player, but Dayton ruined that.

Fermin is a beast.

Something to be said about any player in his prime.

Royals might have found them a player in Fred

Salvy has looked alright at first base. Big Vinny might be a nice trade chip

Do you guys think philly fans like anything KC?

Philly fans don't even like their own team or Santa Claus lol

They're the worst. Basically East coast raiders fans

freddy 2nd dong

#2. Start building the Fermin statue now.

Fermin > Barry Bonds

Phillies don't have a cart? Make their injured CF take 10 minutes to limp his way from the fence to the dugout because he messed his leg up.

Taylor, Blanco and Garcia all out here flying around the bases wrecking havoc. Royals baseball.

speed do what speed do

The Phillies that inning was like watching a children's baseball game.

So Bryce Harper just homered, but that is only his 6th HR in 78 games. WTF is going on with his sapped power?

The streak is over — and with it, most likely, the Royals’ postseason hopes.

They needed to win out to make the playoffs.

He rushed his way back from a reconstructive elbow surgery this year.

Jose Ramirez just about knocked Tim Anderson completely out tonight.

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White Sox trash

Tim Anderson may have the weakest jaw in all ML. It was more of a closer fist slap, then a punch.

A wild swing that didn’t look pretty but it connected pretty well. Pretty satisfying to see a POS like TA get dropped like that.

Salvy just got knocked out of the game after getting HBP.

Fermin comes in from DH to catch. Means pitcher spot has to hit now the rest of the day. Is Greinke going to get to hit?

Holy crap Michael Massey. Web gem of the year candidate.

And people wanted to can Massey early on!!!!! He's a ballplayer.....period!!!!

Missed our shot. If the Royals had gotten one more hit last inning Greinke probably hits but it didn't happen. Pinch hit for him in the 5th. Might have been the last chance to see Greinke take an at bat.

Michael Massey has been making some amazing plays with the glove, so he doesn't need to be a beast at the plate to have a lot of value. All he needs to do is be at or above .700 OPS and he's a really value piece for the future. He's really started to come along over the last month at the plate. We'd be pretty set at infield when Vinnie comes back if he can keep up what he's done over the last month.

He’s been good since about May 1. .775 OPS or something like that. Very playable with his glove … and it he’s .800+ you’ve got a really nice piece.

Isbel is a stud in the OF.

McArthur with that solid 24.00 ERA. Great trade.

Since May 2nd, either didn't play May 1st or no game on that day he has a .756 OPS and that's with a pretty low BABIP of .256. Seems he may be a little unlucky. During that time his 162 game pace is 22 2Bs, 24 HRs, and 76 RBIs. That's some pretty good power numbers from a 2B with his glove.

He really had an astonishingly bad first month of the season that has kept his numbers low.

Drew Waters is also starting to look like he might actually be as good as he showed last year. He had an absolutely horrendous first 21 games and got his OPS down to .476, but over his last 35 games he's an .809 OPS and his 162 game pace during that time has him at 23 HRs, 74 RBIs, and 23 SBs.

He's really good in CF isn't he? This is what I was hoping to see, at least some steps forward and improvement. We've seen it from Bobby Witt Jr (23)., Maikel Garcia (23), Michael Massey (25) Drew Waters (24), and Freddy Fermin (28)(didn't expect anything from him). That's a lot of youth to get excited about and if Vinnie can come back without any lingering issues, then that's 6 pretty young guys with lots of control left. Just need the pitching to come around and hopefully they make a move to go after a couple pitchers. If our pitching wasn't so horrendous, then this is a terrible you could get pretty excited for next year if the other guys continue to do what they are doing.

Melendez is only 24 too. I would not give up on him. He's not Moustakas but we can hope for a similar trajectory maybe, a big time HR hitter in the minors that took a little bit to adjust to the big league level. Melendez still definitely has pop in his bat and he takes walks but strikes out a lot. Him and Pratto still have a couple years to figure it out.

Not a ringing endorsement for former Royals bench coach Pedro Grifol.

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Hot take. Royals will pass the White Sox in standings by the end of the year

I'm not counting either of them out. Just bringing up and praising the guys that have been showing something. I'd love for those 2 to contribute and be real pieces.

Gavin Cross promoted to AA....after hitting 206 in 350 single A at bats..

There's plenty of raw talent in Melendez. If the Royals (or someone else) can unlock it, they'll have a heck of a player on their hands.

His batted ball numbers are good even at the big league level. He strikes the ball well and he does it often. But he has a hole in his zone and he chases too much crap. So he can't put that raw power to use.

I feel like the approach issues may be hard to get around but there has to be a mechanical change that can keep him from swinging through as many hittable pitches as he does. There's a lot to like in there but it's just not working.

Hell, send him to Driveline or something. Have someone outside the organization work with him to see if they can untangle a hitch in his swing or something. That's the kind of guy a team like the Royals should be looking to acquire/repair but it doesn't do them any good if they can't diagnose/develop the guys from within their own system first.

He's a canary in the coalmine to me. If the Royals can't figure out how to make a productive big league hitter out of Melendez, they need to make changes to their staff to address that. He's exactly the kind of player they need to be developing into a difference maker. They just can't afford to let players with his tools plateau and/or regress.

supposedly MJ has made some adjustments...he started moving his hands away from his body etc...It has seemed to help some

He falls away from the plate!!! Like he's drag bunting or something. He needs to quiet his legs which will steady the rest of the body so he makes solid contact more often.

I hadn't heard that, so I went to look up and see if maybe he's been on a tear the last month or so.

My god. Why?

Last 25 games

17 hits, 2 hr, 23 SOs, 9 BBs .183 BA, .267 OBP, .312 SLG, .579 OPS

Really earned this promotion lmao. Has a .217 BABIP, so maybe he's hitting the ball hard?

:shrug:

**** if I know.

I know a taskmaster they can hire to right the ship! He promotes veteran leadership and is a real savvy investor in St Louis real estate.

Glad we avoided that disaster!

These Red Sox uniforms look as bad as those old Royals uniforms they wore that one time.

seems like they are rushing guys up to early...sign some shitty FAs and let our guys develop to the point that they are breaking down the door

frekin Waters beat that....overturned

bring em back

MJ has a three hit night so far

Cole Ragans is our Ace. Good thing, bad thing, I don’t know but he’s the best we’ve got right now. Yes very small sample size but it is what it is.

Not to go all pete, but damn that was a shit call.

Got cooked by the umps tonight.

Royals got ****ed tonight. ****ing umpire piece of shits and to those Boston bundle of stickss