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Witt is still alive!!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Witt still on the MLB roster <a href="https://t.co/HClgqpyvDg">pic.twitter.com/HClgqpyvDg</a></p>— Bayou Brady Singer (@BayouBillButler) <a href="https://twitter.com/BayouBillButler/status/1370174435580383233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Bobby Witt Jr. starts at the major league level to begin the season, he will be the first player to make his major league debut with no college or minor league experience since Tim Conroy in 1978.<br><br>Coincidentally, Conroy is currently a scout with the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a>.</p>— Alex Feuz (@AlexFeuz) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexFeuz/status/1369050123725111299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Surely the Royals will keep him down long enough to gain another year of control before FA.
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The decision to bring Witt up sooner rather than later is a little more nuanced than the sports media guys make it out to be. From a "filling the seats." perspective it's not going to matter. Sherman will take another loss of revenue this year because we're capped at 10,000 fans initially and its going to be midseason before attendance is allowed to increase. So he doesn't really care if Witt plays or not. Dayton is likely against bringing him up early because you lose the service time and if he gets hurt early or stalls out, Dayton looks like an idiot and he would have to sign off on it. Matheny is the wildcard here, he is the type of guy to take a chance on Witt and lobby for it but I bet he won't. Cause if he calls Witt up and we lose 100 games, his ass will be close to the frying pan. So bet it's just for a couple more weeks and they send him down. If we're close to or better than .500 at the ASB, I say it's like a 50-50 proposition if he's playing well. If we make the postseason I bet he's on the roster.
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If he’s still on the team in two weeks, it’ll be interesting. For now this is nothing more than getting him experience and letting him get a feel. I’d guess there’s a less than 10% chance he actually breaks camp with the MLB club.
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no way Witt's on the KC squad unless it's July and 1)we're legitimately in the pennant race and 2)he's raking at AA.
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I thought one of the knocks on Matheny was he didn't like playing rookies?
I can't see anyway in hell that Witt Jr breaks spring training in the starting lineup & that is the only way he makes the team...if he is in the starting lineup. |
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https://www.mlb.com/royals/news/bobb...up-predictions
Inbox: When are the Royals calling up Witt? Beat reporter Anne Rogers answers questions from fans Quote:
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Man, the Royals are kicking ass in Arizona this Spring. Gonna' be fun to see how we do during the regular season.
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when its for real they will crap the bed for the first 6 weeks and get buried early and then when the pressure is off they will start playing good ball as usual.
Nick Pratto hit two bombs today 6 for 13 with 3 dingers so far, its only spring but at least maybe it will build his confidence. Matias had a triple and he smoked it he was 2 for 2 with a walk today. Lynch gave up a dinger in the first inning but was lights out after that, striking out 5 in 3 innings of work with no walks. |
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