*****Official 2024 Royals Season Repository Thread*****

[ChiefsCountry]

Year Two of the Matt Quatraro tenure. Time to take a step up this year. Active in free agency and trades this offseason. A new look pitching rotation and bullpen. Will the young players take the leap up offensively? Bobby Witt extension? New stadium? Will Vinny recover from injury? Salvy taking aim at the Royals record book? Will Cole Ragans turn into the best Royals starting pitcher since Greinke 1.0?

Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Seth Lugo, SP
Michael Wacha, SP
Kyle Wright, SP
Hunter Renfroe, OF/DH
Will Smith, RP
Chris Stratton, RP
Nick Anderson, RP
Adam Frazier, 2B
Garrett Hampson, INF/OF
Matt Sauer, RP

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm

You’re not entirely wrong, but I think you’re kinda barking at the moon.

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…

I'm not saying that I'm a better scout than anyone. I'm saying this franchise has had a habit of playing shitty veterans, that shouldn't even be in the ML, over younger guys. I didn't cherry pick anything. I just picked guys that did damn good in the minors and performed really well in AAA, but never got a real shot with the big league club.

How is this such a hard concept for so many of you to grasp?

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Oh, damn dude, then you should apply to be a head scout if you are able to judge a guys ability based on 3 games and 2 innings. Those 8 ABs were all you needed to deem the kid 100% in over his head.

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.

Hampson stinks, too.