https://www.royalsreview.com/2023/2/...bruary-17-2023
Sounds like Quatraro is going the Ned route and let the guys play regularly and in the same spot. Fresh air over Mathney.

In other words, we're paying this POS so he's going to play. If he doesn't perform, he's gone.

Nah. We're transactional now. He'll be traded for prospects and get paid by someone else.

Why did franmil reyes have to accept minor league deal? Dude may be the Royals best hitter lol

He's hit 30 HRs twice. 5 yrs had ops .777 or better.

Vinnie back up?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stat.../franmil-reyes

low risk, high reward move in my book
Cleveland gave up on him though...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> OF Drew Waters has a left oblique strain &amp; will be out for 6 weeks, Matt Quatraro said. Waters was competing for the CF job this spring. Kyle Isbel will “get every opportunity to grab that spot.” More innings/ABs will go to Nate Eaton, Edward Olivares, Samad Taylor, etc.</p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1628080681598455808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This team might win 55 games.

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I'll take the over

If the new pitching coaches are truly competent at all this team might actually be improved. People are underestimating just how horrible our pitching staff was. We were dead last in almost everything and by a wide margin in some categories. You don't even have to get league average, just any improvement to catch up with the pack a little bit and you're probably talking 70 wins.

Just us becoming “average” in the amount of walks we give out would be transformational.

Our pitching was an atrocity. Dayton completely lost his sense of reality if he thought our numbers for the past 5 seasons (consistent through many different pitching staffs) was “part of the process.”

Good read
https://www.royalsreview.com/2023/2/...oaching-basket

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">5 years into his career and Brad Keller is finally trying a curveball.<br><br>Reading quotes from Royals pitcher after Royals pitcher this spring about how amazing it is to use things like &quot;data&quot; and &quot;high-speed video&quot; is hysterical. What, exactly, was Cal Eldred doing all these years? <a href="https://t.co/ydm1bLeHQ5">https://t.co/ydm1bLeHQ5</a></p>&mdash; Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/1628802907456917505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The stuff coming out of spring training is pretty ****ing damning for Dayton, Matheny, and Cal. Those idiots probably didn't do a single thing with analytics.

Kind of funny that in here we are talking about how Royals did not use analytics and the problem it caused while in a current Chiefs thread titled, "The Chiefs didn't need analytics" they talk about with great players like Mahomes, analytics gets thrown out the window.

Royals need some great players but maybe they need to use analytics to get them and develop them.

All I know is I don't want to wait another 30 years for Royals in the World Series.

Thank goodness for the Chiefs!

It seems like the only measurable variable going into this season is competent, analytics-informed management. I'm truly interested to see what improvement comes from it.

I mean, the fact that Matheny and Eldred are no longer here is already considered an improvement in any shape or form.

Baseball Analytics are a little different than NFL analytics. Less established and less proven.

The sample sizes of baseball really make it possible to do meaningful statistical analysis.

I also think the "Chiefs don't use analytics" article you're referencing was a poor example of applying analytics to break out something or review it. Salfino is good, but calling Butker a bad kicker based on 2022 (and not his full-career sample) or talking about bad roster construction while citing Brown and Clark without talking about the good work in the rest of the roster, the analytical decision to spread the Tyreek Hill money/resources to a deeper WR room and improvements elsewhere (I mean, analytics got big in baseball because a smart front office figured out how to replace an expensive star with less expensive parts).

That’s because it was started by a Mongoloid who everyone should mute. Does that help?

First inning of spring training, Bobby Witt walks and Vinnie smashes a 2 run home run. Print 'em.

Man I dont know. They are going to be really horrible.

Im thinking 52-110.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vinnie Pasquantino - Kansas City Royals (1)* <a href="https://t.co/v7tx80AO37">pic.twitter.com/v7tx80AO37</a></p>&mdash; MLB HR Videos (@MLBHRVideos) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBHRVideos/status/1629221486081855490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Future Royals Hall of Famer.

The new pitch clock is way too fast IMO

Matt Duffy with the walk off winner. Royals on their way to Cactus League championship.

Players union and ass wipe Scott Boras is the bigger problem in MLB than the owners
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MLBPA executive director Tony Clark, during a conversation about MLB&#39;s new Economic Reform Committee, said he believes MLB&#39;s goal is to have a salary cap. <br><br>Clark: “We’re never going to agree to a cap. Let me start there. We don’t have a cap. We’re not going to agree to a cap.”</p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1629558403142934528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

15 seconds is plenty of time. 20 with runners on is perfect too.

Scott Boras is awful for all the players beside the top 1% of guys. He's all about making sure teams can give out mega deals to his top clients and avoid the luxury tax. A salary cap and salary floor would be beneficial for basically 99% of MLB players. I can't believe a salary floor wasn't the number 1 thing that the union would be asking for, since they're representing all the players and not just the guys getting >$100 mil contracts. Somehow Boras and the idiots in the union convinced all the people they represent that a higher luxury tax was more beneficial than a spending floor.

**** Boras, the MLBPA and the idiots in sports media.

There will never be a salary cap partly because there isnt revenue sharing in baseball. And there never will be. There should be a salary floor, but you aren't going to see a cap beyond a luxury tax.

Dozier's defense at third hasn't improved much.

Salary floor would be extremely beneficial.

Dozier with a dong. Had a rough start with the glove today but has bounced back nicely

And if this was a Chiefs preseason game, Tyler Tolbert would be a CP legend for his performance today lol.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s good that this sort of thing is happening early in spring training, because one thing is abundantly clear: Umpires have been instructed to enforce the pitch-clock rules strictly. It&#39;s the only way, MLB believe, they&#39;ll work. So hitters and pitchers both know: Be ready early.</p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1629591178416123905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The owners are completely against a salary floor which is why this shit goes nowhere.

Link?

Because everything I've looked at says the owners proposed one, but wanted tougher penalties for exceeding luxury tax. The union were the ones that didn't want a lower luxury tax.

I wish it would have shown video of what he was doing in the batters box. The fact that they didn't makes me think he was being a dipshit.

Royals win again. 2-0 on the way to the Cactus League championship.

I bet the video people probably weren't ready either. They've never had to focus on that stuff before either.

Basically the batter has to be set in the box by the 8 sec mark or else it's a automatic strike. He wasn't set apparently and took a third strike without a pitch being thrown.

Vinnie made a little boy’s day at practice today.

My son also asked where Whit was. I said he was traded and doesn’t play here anymore. He turned and said “guess I need a new shirt with a different player on it.” ROFL

you missed a chance to confuse him. "He's gone. We no longer root for Whit, junior. We root for Witt, Jr."

Nice photo though Lew to remind Southern Californians that it's spring somewhere, and to remind us all that Vinnie Pasquantino is just the best.

Good thing they're getting used to this in ST. Gotta know the rules. 7 seconds is plenty of time to get set.

Lew, you snatch that ball right out of his hands?

I can see veterans like Machado having to adjust, but it is weird that a lot of these guys in the early days of spring training are all minor leaguers and they have a 14 second pitch clock down there, which is shorter. They actually have more time. So I don't get get some of the complaining that's happening so far. If you've been to a minor league game it's a shorter pitch clock and the game flows fine.

No shit. He probably tightened his batting gloves 19 times

Love the pitch clock and the effort to make batters stay in the box. Less time ai have to listen to Rex Hudler talk.

Nah man, he was loving meeting them all. We came away with 3 other baseballs that we caught from BP or that a coach gave to him. He was really into it this year.

Also, how can I watch spring training games on a stream?

If it's a rule, and they're enforcing it, great. Do it all the time and its a non issue to everyone by July at worst

so of the 16 position players on the 40 man, is olivares the only one who has big league experience with another club? I think the other 15 are all home grown.

And of the 24 pitchers, I think all but 5 are in the same mold. This has to be some sort of big league record, right?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> prospect Diego Hernandez has a dislocated right shoulder (which isn’t his throwing arm) after his diving catch yesterday. He’ll be out 3-4 months.</p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1629871317637033988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Not gonna lie: I'm kind of excited to see what Franmil Reyes can do. He hit a bomb today.

Yeah, it doesn't take up much time by itself, but when pretty much every player is doing that shit every single at bat it really adds up. This is probably the best rule theyve ever implemented.

It really should improve the game. Most of the best pitchers keep the tempo up. They don't walk around and then call off pitch after pitch and then decide to stop and redo that cycle all over again. The guys that do that shit usually get hit around pretty good, so this forces them to just pitch.

I love it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Franmil Reyes has entered the chat.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoyalsST?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RoyalsST</a> <a href="https://t.co/JqL7tp4bWL">pic.twitter.com/JqL7tp4bWL</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1629945143406260224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;There was wind today, but that one didn&#39;t need any help.&quot; --Matt Quatraro<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> Trackman data had Franmil Reyes&#39; first spring home run at an estimated 460 feet.<br><br>(��️: Royals) <a href="https://t.co/a3cCvw7Svx">pic.twitter.com/a3cCvw7Svx</a></p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1629996899213414400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I honestly think he may be our 2nd or 3rd best hitter if he returns to form.

Also, everyone keep ****ing doubting Makiel Garcia. If he maintains the power seen in the winter he might take that SS spot and force Bobby to 3b. Trade Nicky Lopez for whatever.

https://theathletic.com/4156171/2023...system-ranked/

Maikel Garcia isn't taking SS from Witt Jr. No chance.

If Bobby doesn't improve on defense he absolutely will. It will just make Bobby a 3B or maybe even an Alex Gordon move to OF even.

Garcia also has genes of champions from Acuna and Escobar. He was 21 and 140 lbs last year. All he has to do is eat Whits moms lasagna and put on the pounds and he might develop some power. He is already showing flashes.

MLB dot com reports that Nate Eaton carries five gloves in his bag, two for infield, two for outfield, and a catcher's mitt. Seems likely he's gonna make the squad as a super utility type.

Also in Royals spring training news, more bizarre circumstances with Aroldis Chapman:

Maikel Garcia going yard.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We have signed OF Jackie Bradley Jr. to a minor league contract with an invitation to big league Spring Training.</p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1631072446831812609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'll miss Miggy and Salvy having long conversations during Miggy's ABs.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;I don&#39;t know if Miggy has time to talk to the umpire, the opposing dugout, and the starting catcher, and our own dugout,&quot; A.J. Hinch said last week. &quot;Those habits are going to be hard to break.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Q6VC0g2kWM">https://t.co/Q6VC0g2kWM</a></p>&mdash; Cody Stavenhagen (@CodyStavenhagen) <a href="https://twitter.com/CodyStavenhagen/status/1631002786652454921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

:bravo:

Yeah it was fun watching Soler hit those kind of moon shots for a couple years. Love this signing.

Saw a bit last nite. Salvy lower half is massive. His quads and butt is bigger than Orlando Brown


Got thrown out at 2nd on a toss way off line. Oh to be young again

Figured this might happen with all of them injuries to outfielders this spring training. Bradley is good insurance and can play center at Kauffman

I like Jackie in the outfield. Can we DH for CF?

**** might as well had kept Michael A Taylor

That was my first thought as well. At least it is a minor league contract so perhaps it is just to add a little depth and kick the tires in spring training to see what he has. The past regime would definitely have him on the ML roster and playing 150 games while contributing a negative WAR.

This will be a good test to see if the new regime is truly different.

Astute observation dillphayg

I will not be happy when the 110 loss Raytown Royals are giving ABs to jackie bradley junior instead of our young guns

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Quatraro: &quot;I feel better about the depth, not because we didn&#39;t feel good about who was in camp. ... I feel better about the depth, because you know how it is. One injury, and all of a sudden you&#39;re really scrambling.&quot;</p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1631338198852063232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

don't look now, err I mean look actually:

https://www.mlb.com/standings/spring-training

Royals are awesome in Spring Training, a lot.

2022 - 8-8
2021 - 16-8 1st in cactus
2020 - 9-12 not good
2019 - 18-11 1st in cactus
2018 - 16-13 2 gb from 1st
2017 - 17-15 2 gb from 1st

We play really good in spring training and then we suck butt in the regular season.

Of course Scherzer is going to be the one to figure out how to use the clock to his advantage. Hitter only gets one timeout now so he forces him to use it, then waits on him to step back in so he can attack.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Max Scherzer, Pitch Clock Gamesmanship.<br><br>Long hold. Adams takes his only time out. <br><br>Then Max stays set so he can pitch as soon as Adams is ready. <a href="https://t.co/3uj9ucDFEl">pic.twitter.com/3uj9ucDFEl</a></p>&mdash; Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a href="https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1631727808979546116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

**** it, I like it.

Baseball was played at this speed in the 70's and 80's and there was nothing wrong with it. Not sure when anyone who has watched baseball or cares about the past has any complaints about the pitch clock. It's getting the speed of play back onto what used to happen. The game evolved to be slower and it isn't needed.

Like this just a regular game from the 1985 season. 2 1/2 hour game. The last 30 minutes is the knock off SportsCenter
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Welcome to Cactus League play, Gavin Cross!<br><br>The No. 1 <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Royals</a> prospect shows off his wheels, slashing a triple in his first Spring Training at-bat: <a href="https://t.co/CZxIYs1De7">pic.twitter.com/CZxIYs1De7</a></p>&mdash; MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBPipeline/status/1632221039416451074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Remember when douchebag Dane said this was the worst trade in Royals history and it destroyed our team lol. We gave the Reds trash.
https://blogredmachine.com/posts/red...eam-history/13

In Dane's defense, he was very rarely correct on any of his hot takes. He just delivered them with only the gusto a blowhard like him could and would yell at anyone on here who disagreed with his usual shitty takes.

heh...that old Twins stadium....so awful.

Looks like a zoo, with the big round windows behind home plate.