What a bunch of clowns. Gore and Hamilton just got double played in a run down. First Gore is in a run down between 3rd and home. And then Hamilton's dumbass had ample time to get to his base, yet he still gets picked off right after that run down.

We'll be good at baserunning they said.

So far it would seem that Ned and GMDM have built a team that not very good at anything. Especially the bullpen.

This team is living proof that what you see in the cactus league is 101% not an indicator of how good a team is.

Wow, just wow... That was pretty stupid.

Bunt hit dynasty

8-1 Royals now.

You know, it PROBABLY won't matter, but taking Junis out after 5 and asking this bullpen to get 12 outs ... I'm not 100 percent comfortable with a 7-run lead.

Eh, now it's 9-1.

It's probably safe. Probably.

And this explains it anyway:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jakob Junis has a right hand contusion, the Royals report.</p>&mdash; Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlannyMLB/status/1121134009805955072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Sounds about right...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just want to thank Chris Owings and Brian Goodwin for perfectly illustrating how meaningless spring training stats are. <br><br>Fake games played in the desert:<br>Owings 1.129 OPS<br>Goodwin .443 OPS<br><br>Real, actual baseball games that count:<br>Owings .536 OPS<br>Goodwin 1.060 OPS</p>&mdash; Royals Review (@royalsreview) <a href="https://twitter.com/royalsreview/status/1121066716145037313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Meh. Nicky Lopez has more to do with Goodwin being cut than keeping Owings around IMO.

Tim Hill was sent down to make room for Danny Duffy, who starts Friday.

https://www.royalsreview.com/2019/4/...-april-25-2019

Hill > Boxberder

Man that A team in Wilmington is just stacked! The wave will hit in 2-3 years for sure. Don’t pay any attention to Pratto, Seuly Mattias, and Melendez off to .150 starts and tons of Ks. They are a “wave” I’ve been told. Gasparini (should be released) and Blake Perkins hitting the same, sad.

And people wonder why I don't want to draft high schoolers. Isbel is the only one in Wilmington hitting and he came here out of college. Guys we take out of high school almost universally don't develop. Hell we're lucky Mondesi seems to have developed finally because we haven't found anything in IFA in forever either. They blew their load on Matias and have been hamstrung signing anyone else since then.

Soler leisurely jogs to a pop up that drops fair