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Repeal the 19th Amendment
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: RGV TX (via KC & ATX)
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#1367 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Why hasn't Walter Pennington been brought back up?
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Perpetual Mediocrity
Join Date: Jan 2006
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#1369 |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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No baseball today:-(
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Life is changing..
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: NW Missouri
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#1371 |
I'll **** anything that moves!
Join Date: Jan 2022
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So here we are... High water mark was back in late May when we were 15 games over .500, and firmly in the playoff race.
Now things look a little different. We're still over .500, albeit only by 6 games. Starting pitching is still in great shape. We've got a legit superstar in the making putting together an MVP type season, with a few good offensive pieces around him in Salvy, Vinnie, Massey, and to a lesser extent Garcia, Renfroe and Isbel, and that's probably generous. The bullpen is held together by chewing gum and scotch tape. So here's the question. We're currently 1.5 games back of the wild card. With Houston, Boston, Minnesota and others surging, do we sell or buy before the deadline? There are legit reasons to go either way. What do we think? |
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#1372 | |
Back-to-Back-to-Back.......
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Planet of Chiefs
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#1373 | |
Life is changing..
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: NW Missouri
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#1374 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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#1375 |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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#1376 |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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Former Royal manager Mike Matheny was involved in this.
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#1377 |
Repeal the 19th Amendment
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: RGV TX (via KC & ATX)
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To have a brighter future, i.e. a better shot for sustained contention. It is a frustrating spot: seemingly on the brink of contention, yet with a paltry stable in the farm system and few guys beyond Witt that are true cornerstones to build around. And like you said: reliant on veterans. Veterans that don't really factor into the long-term plans, and probably won't sustain their current performance levels.
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#1378 |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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Royals fan: Our minor league system sucks
Royals fan: Don't trade our minor league guys, you would ruin our system! Me: Make the ****ing playoffs and see what happens. |
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#1379 | |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Last year Aroldis Chapman was the best RP on the market and the Royals got back 2 guys that weren't even in their top 30 prospect rankings. One was a 25 year old.pitcher coming off back to back TJS. Cole Ragans is a god damn stud, but no one expected this. |
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#1380 |
Repeal the 19th Amendment
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: RGV TX (via KC & ATX)
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Beyond hoping for the best, I don't have much to suggest. Enjoying meaningful baseball (rly tho, I'm trying), which isn't something we often have. A rarity for all the reasons we've mentioned: poor drafting, poor development, subsequent lack of assets to flip for fine tuning of the roster for a legit push.
As soon as I was praising Maikel Garcia for having a solid, under-appreciated April & May, he decided to channel his inner Rubén Gotay and play like it was 2005 in June. Even Salvy followed suit to a large degree. I get it though. Long season. Peaks and valleys. Run differential and pythagorean record still provide some light amidst the June/early-July darkness. True enough, 10th overall in winning percentage, and 8th in both pythag & run differential is more than could have been expected (although, 25th in strength of schedule worth noting). The pessimist/realist/jilted Royals loyalist in me will probably always have doubts. Decades of lousiness does that. But oh how sweet the playoff runs are when they happen. |
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