We probably win with Singer pitching today.

His career ERA at Minnesota is over 9.

Any early rumblings on who the Royals are looking at? Saw they were going to be buyers this go around.

Blake Mitchell is starting to hit.

I would guess bullpen help.

It was Saberhagen in 1987. He went to 12-2 with a 2.25 ERA at the time. Finished 18-10.

God damn, have you looked at his game logs for that year?

13 complete games, 21 games of 8+ innings pitched, 25 games of 7+ innings. He only went less than 6 innings two times.

Sabes had one hell of a 3 year stretch from 1987 to 1989. This was his yearly avg through that stretch:

34 starts - 18 wins - 12 complete games - 3 shut outs - 260 innings pitched - 1.130 WHIP - 176 strikeouts - 52 walks - 0.7 HR/9 innings - 3.10 ERA

He was so damn good for a decent stretch, but those 3 consecutive years he was at his best. He didn't have the massive strikeout numbers, but the guy didn't walk anyone.

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Baseball America thinks the Royals are going to take another prep player in its latest mock draft.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stor...aa-tournament/

6. Royals — Bryce Rainer, SS, Harvard-Westlake HS, Studio City, Calif.

The Royals have had the most smoke about a prep player of any of the other teams picking inside the top 10. Earlier in the spring Konnor Griffin was the name frequently mentioned with them, though over the last week or so I’ve heard that Rainer might be both the preferred target for Kansas City and more likely to be the first high school hitter off the board.

There are cases for both Griffin and Rainer as the top high school player in the class—the two are ranked back-to-back on the BA board—but model-heavy teams might prefer Griffin due to the fact that he’s nearly a full year younger than Rainer. Rainer does have the lefthanded hitting shortstop profile from Southern California, however, and you probably wouldn’t have to fight too hard to convince scouts that demographic has a better success rate than a prep hitter from Mississippi.

I’ve not heard this specifically, but would anyone be shocked if new scouting director Brian Bridges went after a prep pitcher he really liked in this spot? Given his track record with that demographic I’m not sure I would be—though it could simply be too early for that here at six given the talent available.

MLB Pipeline mock from Jonathan Mayo.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pipelin...draft-coverage

6. Royals: Nick Kurtz, 1B, Wake Forest (No. 4)
He shook off a slow start and now has 22 homers and a 1.327 OPS for the year. Who wouldn’t want to see him in a lineup with Bobby Witt Jr.?

ESPN'S Kiley McDaniel's mock

6. Kansas City Royals
Braden Montgomery, RF, Texas A&M

K.C. has been tied to almost every player in the top 10. I think they'd also take any of the first four projected picks if they get to this spot. They've also been linked to the top prep bats -- Bryce Rainer and Konnor Griffin -- but I think those are secondary choices. For later picks, the Royals have been tied to almost every prep pitcher in the draft, so I have a good chuckle whenever I get a phone call that another one comes up tied to them.

I like Montgomery quite a bit, and best of those options. He's a switch hitter, he has great tools, and he has been productive in college while also showing a feel from the strike zone. He's dead even on walks and Ks this year, which is encouraging.

True opportunity to be an on-base + power + baserunning + defense guy in a corner, and to be that quickly.

I'd really absolutely hate going with a prep player, especially a SS. Montgomery looks like a damn good choice. I like guys that keep there walk numbers close to there strikeout numbers. Guys that do that are rare and it seems to be an indicator that the player will be an average hitter at worst.

Speaking of guys that walk around the same rate as they strikeout, wtf is up with Vinnie? He's struck out 19 times in May with only 5 walks. He's had 13 games with a strikeout and 5 this month. He only had 5 double digit strikeout games his entire rookie year and he only had 6 double digit strike out games all of last year. From May 9th to May 30th of this year, so 18 games he had all 5 of those double digit strikeout games. During that 18 game stretch he's had just 2 walks to 17 strikeouts.

I think he's starting to press and is probably frustrated by his shitty luck. He has a .234 BABIP (Avg of last 2 years his BABIP of .279), but his EV is the highest it's ever been 91.8 (Avg of last 2 years 90.1 EV). His hard hit percent is 47% which is just behind his best season which was his rookie season in which he had a 47.1% HH%. It was 40.5% last year.

I'm hoping he doesn't let this go to his head and this is all a case of small sample size. Fingers crossed that his surgery didn't **** his bat speed. I love the Pasquatch and wanna see him crush it.