The Braves just hit three homers back-to-back-to-back.

I guess to be fair at least Pittsburgh's playing in Cincy. The ball flies out of that place.

First in with the "playing in the K" excuse.....

Well it does make a difference compared to Cincy. Remember Joe Randa was a 10-15 HR guy in KC, went to Cincy and was on pace to be a 25 HR guy before he got traded midseason. I've been to a few games there... it feels like a tiny stadium, and the ball flies.

I'm cool with putting up a snow fence in the outfield at the K.

Of course, I heard the breakdown by Rany this morning, and Butler has hit, literally, only three balls in the air all year. Two of these were pop-ups in the infield.

Thus, he's found the outfield grass only once. That is almost unbelievable.

This dude is way too good of a hitter to have that type of performance at any time. This isn't anywhere close to "regular slump."

Maybe they need to move in the fences again?

I don't think I've seen the Royals even hit one at Kauffman that would have went out in another stadium this year

That's pretty sad.

I wouldnt mind seeing maxwell/dyson dh for a few games and see if it cant spark something

Matt moore torn ucl. Out for season

I've been a big Billy defender here but it's true. He's played just awful. Seems more so than just a slump. He's WAY off.

Sigh.....

Maybe we can trade the Rays James Shields and get a PTBNL.

but only when the Royals are up to bat

heh, well the fences were in from 1995-2004. We did have some decent HR years during that time frame.

Gary Gaetti
Dean Palmer
Sweeney
Beltran
Jeff King
Chili Davis


and offense wasnt too a big a problem during that era. It was mostly horrific pitching.