SB Nation User Blog: gordonrules

Winter ball

gordonrules — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:13:26 -0000

Winter ball

Does anyone know who is playing winter ball this year? I checked royals.com but they had nothing. 2 Leagues started this weekend Puerto Rico and Mexico. By checking box scores I found Pina-catching prospect and one of our AAA scrubs O'Conner playing. Thats all I got so far.

Cheap tickets to 9-22 vs. Boston

gordonrules — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:22:49 -0000

Cheap tickets to 9-22 vs. Boston

I bought 3 tickets to the Red Sox vs. Royals game on 9-22-09 when single tickets first went on sale. I get the pleasure of traveling to Arkansas for work on 9-21 and 9-22. The tickets are in section 250 AA seats 5-7. I put the tickets on stubhub for $20 a piece. The tickets have a face of $30. You can print them from home once purchased. I just thought perhaps some of you may be interested in capitalizing on my misfortune. Also if this breaks any rules feel free to take it down.

September Callups

gordonrules — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:54:30 -0000

I have been looking at our current 40 man roster to see if there is anyone worth taking a significant look at once rosters expand. The most noteable additions I could see are Kila, Rosa and Tug. I left Alex off the list because if this FO has any sense left he will man 3rd once he "clears his head/gets his joy back." I believe we have 3 or 4 empty spots on our 40 man. Is there anyone not on there currently that we should add? Not necessarily to protect from rule 5 but just to get them some major league time? I think Lenny Dinardo should certainly be added. His stats are very respectable for a terrible O Royals team. He could take Bale or Mahays place next year and probably not be any worse. There is also a older OF on the O Royals who we may take a look at I believe his name is Cory something. His stats look like he has had one of the better offensive years in Omaha. Also does anyone have information on what happened to Devon Lowery? He has not played at all this year. Henry Barrera also seems to have lost nearly the entire year. Any ideas on what' up with him?

Looks like Chen is in

gordonrules — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:40:48 -0000

Looks like Chen is in

Looking at tonights box score Bruce only pitched two innings. So unless he is hurt I would expect to see him in KC shortly. Would anyone liked to have seen Sir Sid instead? Personally I like the call.

Paging Daniel Gutierrez

gordonrules — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:25:17 -0000

Paging Daniel Gutierrez

Has anyone heard any new information on if/when his suspension/banishment is over? I found this bit of info on Danny from BP "By the end of the year the Royals felt he was by far the best pitcher they had at any minor league level." If this is the case we need to stop the pissing contest and get this kid back to work.

Odd Man Out-Book Review

gordonrules — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:58:24 -0000

Odd Man Out-Book Review

Just finished this book tonight and I thought I would let you know that it was a very enjoyable read. The author was a minor league pitcher in the Angels system and it chronicles his time there. For Royals fans AC was on his team and what he does/ the way he acts is very comical. If you were ever wondering what it is like to play minor league ball you should pick this up.

BA predictions

gordonrules — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:22:10 -0000

BA predictions

In the latest issue of BA Callis has his predictions for 2012. Royals win first division title since 85. Moose (1st base) and Hosmer (rf) will be games most feared power combo. Monty, Melville and Duffy will be in rotation fronted by Zac. Thoughts?

Hochevar

gordonrules — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:37:53 -0000

Hochevar

I was wondering what other folks in the Royals Nation are expecting from Luke this year? If I recall correctly last year he had a problem ending innings (would get into trouble with 2 outs) a lot. If he straightens that out what would you expect from him? I was thinking 8-10 wins with a era of mid 4s would not be to absurd of a improvement. I think he will take a step forward this year and become a legit 3-4 starter for us.

Buck being shopped to Red Sox?

gordonrules — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:12:44 -0000

Buck being shopped to Red Sox?

I found this to be very interesting, according to mlbtraderumors Buck, along with virtually every catcher on the planet, is being brought to the Red Sox attention that they are avaliable. If this were to happen, and it surely isn't, they have alot better catchers avaliable to them than John Buck, we would be left with Olivo and Pena at catcher. What does the RR nation think about a tandem of Olivo and Pena?

Interesting Royals info in new Bill James Book

gordonrules — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:16:55 -0000

First a couple of things I found interesting in the new Bill James Handbook: He has the Royals as #5 in terms of young talent-behind only the Twins, Dbacks, Rays and Marlins. And this was before we obtained Jacobs, who by the way was one of the six good young players on the Marlins. From 06-08 +/- for first base, Ryan Shealy was tenth best with a +14, during this same time Jacobs was a -49 good for dead last.

I also found some stats from this past year interesting. Did anyone else notice Butler's platoon splits? He hit almost 100 points highter against lefties than righties, .340 to .244. He slugged nearly 600 against lefties ( 590)! Does anyone at this point think he should be platooned with Jacobs at DH or 1st? Or is he too young still to come to that conclusion? I would like to see what Shealy could do for a full year if he could manage to stay healthy.

Finally, I was wondering what everyone thought our starting outfield would be this coming year, just using the players we currently have. Would we stay with Guillen in lf, DDJ in center and Tbag in rf? Do we move Tbag out from starter to the bench? Do we put Gator in CF and move DDJ to LF with Guillen shifting to RF? Did Maier show enough that he could be in CF with DDJ in LF? Discuss.