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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.

Hillman on 810

gordonrules — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:43:14 -0000

810 has a new podcast up with Trey from a couple of days ago. A couple of things he mentioned that I find worthy of note: He knew Gibbons from their time managing in the minors. Likes his knowledge of the AL and Soren mentioned the rep that Gibbons has a confrontational. Trey said he managed Lilly before and that he could be a handful. Likes Seitzer quite a bit. He is not in favor of trading Greinke. He reiterates this several times. At his age he should only get better, he would have to be blown away with who we got back, but it isn't his call. Also when asked what the 09 Royals record would be he said worst case scenario .500 best case 90+wins. Soren said that they would bring him back after this offseason so he could alter his answer.

Also kind of a side note-in Baseball America I read that Buddy Bell is now the White Sox farm director. Did anyone else see this and find it absurd?

Cortes toasted in AFL debut

gordonrules — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:23:01 -0000

Cortes toasted in AFL debut

1.2 innings pitched, 7 hits, 5 runs (all earned), 1 bb, 5so and 2 hrs allowed. Current ERA is 27...WOW. Well I guess it can't get much worse for Dan.

Moore article in the Star

gordonrules — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:42:37 -0000

Nice article in the star today about GMDM. I found a couple of things interesting. #1 being we don't have the payroll flexibility like we have had the last 2 years. Dayton sounded like we wouldn't be trying to sign any of the big name free agents. So those of you who were hoping for Dunn, doesn't sound like its going to happen. Also Dayton said " looking at it (the free agent market) right now, I think we'd probably be looking more at trying to do those things through trades." Hello Andrew Jones. He also mentions that alot of our players can play multiple positions so that gives him more options when thinking about acquiring a player. Lastly, GMDM says the royals are going to give up on Teahen, " we still have a lot of faith in Mark as a player." So it sounds like Mark will be back. Hopefully as a utility player. Lots of interesting stuff to talk about here. Glad to read something Royals related.