But where do you draw the line? If Melendez was hitting .200 I'd excuse it to a bad league. But hitting .134 or whatever is current BA is just seems inexcusable.

And if you want to stop and discuss bright spots for a minute, Mondesi’s current pace is roughly:

.285/./315/.500
With 78 XBH and 40 SB
And 225 combined R + RBI

That’s basically right in line with what Lindor did at the same age. Slightly less OBP, + 25 SB.

That still concerns me, though Ive seen via twitter several comments about bad batted-ball luck for him and Matias (none of that chatter for Prato, though).

65 AB is not much of a sample.

It is if you're a mouth-breathing moron.

Multiply it by 4, since we are talking about 4 players here. 260 is surely a decent sample. He’s also discussing Ks which aren’t weather related, so if the moaning was over power or something it could be dismissed. But not Ks

Do you really expect a doubleheader scheduled less than 12 hours ago on the middle of the week to have anybody show up?

ROFL

You said that KC cared more about baseball than the Chiefs a few years ago....

apparently not.

You gotta admit, no matter the circumstances, that pic is pretty funny.

Hays KS wouldn’t do any worse than that. Also:




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I know that it's a Wednesday afternoon during the school year in a city that doesn't draw well against a team that doesn't attract a road crowd. But I've never seen so few people at a major league game as the one just starting now between Kansas City and Tampa Bay

If you include the yellow coats, I think I can count about 100 people in that pic.

A twatter peanut gallery said “instead of doing starting lineups, the Royals announced the fans”

ROFL

“Annnnd in Sec 329, a retired janitor from GRRRRRANDVIEWW Missouri, Jake Smith” (golf claps)