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#2356 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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#2357 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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#2358 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Nov 2018
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They also got Yuli Gurriel
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#2359 |
George Brett shit his pants
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: At the Bellagio
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#2360 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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.253/.315/.452 is his career slash line. He's hitting well in his second exposure to Triple-A at 28. Ho hum. |
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#2361 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Some guys are late bloomers and it'd be nice to give some of these guys an extended look, because they are being blocked by absolute shit. They did the same shit with Brent Rooker and look how that turned out.
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#2362 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Just like how Walter Pennington and Evan Sisk should have been pitching in the ML bullpen, but are being blocked by hot ****ing ass.
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#2363 |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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They have let some guys slip away but part of that is being slightly more aggressive overall. The flip side of that is getting guys like Erceg. But it's September tomorrow and we're in a playoff race. It's time to win, not find out if our AAA guys can hack it.
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#2364 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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It's much rarer for a hitter to change his stripes. Rooker has a .909 career OPS in the minors. He's not some guy that learned how to hit suddenly, he just never got the long leash in the majors until recently. |
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#2365 |
Damnit Peg
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Overland Park
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He got some playing time and he was 100% in over his head in every facet of the game.
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#2366 | |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Garrett Hampson has shown me that he's not capable of doing anything right and has a .586 OPS and Adam Frazier is worse than Hampson and gets more playing time. So many younger guys that have never gotten more than a handful of games in the majors. John Rave, CJ Alexander, Logan Porter, Walter Pennington, Evan Sisk, Brent Rooker. That's just the ones from recent memory. Sure they might all suck, but they won't suck or cost anymore than the trash that's keeping them down in the minors. Piccolo is the same mother****er Dayton Moore was in this regard. It's gotta be disheartening to anyone drafted by this franchise in the later rounds or if you get traded here and your not a highly rated guy. You can crush it all through the minors and all you will get is maybe 10 games to show anything and if you don't come out killing it, then by and no more chance again. |
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#2367 |
Choco Favre
Join Date: Jul 2012
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We went from hyped to sad pretty quick
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#2368 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2010
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I'll **** anything that moves!
Join Date: Jan 2022
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You’ve cherry picked a few examples to go scorched earth on. But the Royals have also made terrific moves at the same time during all of this. You’re no better as a scout than me, or pretty much anyone here. If I’m wrong, this is when you give us your resume. Ten years ago, there were fans like you railing the Royals for giving up on Tony Bats. 30 years ago, fans shit themselves because we gave up on Cecil Fielder. I’ve got news for you. It’s an inexact science, and you can yell at the sky all night if you want, but it won’t change anything except for your blood pressure. Yeah, the Royals sign guys who could probably be replaced by guys who don’t get paid shit, but if they all suck, what’s the difference? You’re not paying the salaries, so why give a shit? Does it make it better to have Loftin being Frazier? I guarantee if that happened, you’d be bitching about bringing in a veteran. It’s a no win, no lose thing. You know what really sucks? We just lost our starting first baseman for the year who was having a very good year. We’ve got nobody who can replace Vinnie right now. We also lost Lorenzen for the next several weeks. That sucks, because he was doing great, and it’s a crapshoot about how he’s gonna get filled in. And generally speaking, you don’t show up much to be happy or show joy in what has been a pretty amazing season all things considered. You show up to complain about why this happened, why this didn’t happen. Blah, blah, blah…. Maybe that’s how you roll, but I think it must be exhausting. But I do get it. I’m still pissed about Covid for so many reasons and the pettiest is because my Jayhawks didn’t get a chance at the NCAA tourney, in a year when they were probably at worst a Final Four team. But dude, seriously, try to lighten up… |
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#2370 |
Field General
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Freeport,Ks
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Its hard not to think, that theres nobody in the Royals system, whom couldnt swing the bat as well as Hampson or Frazier. You know what youve got with them, not much. Vinnies injury was devastating. Royals were already a weak hitting team, now much worse. It seems like the only way they are going to win is if their starting pitcher throws a no hitter, and someone hits a single home run, or opposing pitchers walk in a run with the bases loaded, leading to a 1-0 win. I feel bad for the players, but they havent given up trying.
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