Pickering

Very small sample size and they were exactly the same last season, but it looks like the Indians have started this season pretty slow.

Split with the A's 1-1
Lost 2 of 3 from Minnesota
Won 2 of 3 from San Diego
Lost 3 of 4 from Chicago
Split with Detroit 1-1
Lost 2 of 3 to Toronto

Being on the road, I would still be alright with splitting, but winning 3 games in this series would be perfectly fine with me :D.







Oh, and **** the Indians

Butler back to cleanup

@McCulloughStar: Back Where I Belong Lineup: Aoki 9, Infante 4, Hosmer 3, Butler, DH, Gordon 7, Perez 2, Moustakas 5, Escobar 6, Dyson 8, Guthrie 1. #royals

Hate seeing Butler back there, but I don't see a whole lot of options. Hopefully it'll allow Perez to get back on track.

Jeff King, Sweeney in his prime, Beltran....

Steve Balboni

This is a horrible matchup tonight, but Guthrie might out perform his norm against his former club.

Sweeney never hit more than 29 homers for the Royals, though he was probably a "power hitter" in Royals terms. Beltran, eventually, hit true power hitter numbers, but not until he left the Royals. I forgot about Jeff King, and would certainly fall into that Mike Sweeney mold.

When I'm talking about "true power hitter" I'm talking a minimum of 30 homers, and preferably more than that.

Ah, ok gotcha. I've come to the conclusion that any Royal that can jack 25-30 is probably the same as a guy in a smaller ballpark who hits 30-40. The K swallows a lot of long balls.

But yea, would love to see some guys put up 30-40 in the K. Moose, Hosmer maybe someday???

Dyson activated, Marks down

Bueno and Collins are eligible to return tomorrow.

Dyson starting tonight

No one else has put a game thread up yet? OK, I'll do it today.

Early returns suggest legit off season work by GMDM with the acquisitions of Aoki, Infante and Vargas. I don't know much about Valencia.

Sample size, but Valencia has the highest OPS on the team thus far. (.818). Yet still can't get on the field.

Moustakas, Perez, Hosmer, and Butler just have not been hitting and it's killing this entire team.

Perez was lucratively hot to start the season... since then he's been equally as bad.

With the pitching this team has gotten, we should be well over .500 but damned if the hitters aren't shitting on themselves, same as last year.

This team will not make the playoffs, unless about 3 of those 4 turn it on and have Hosmer-secondhalf like seasons....

so daggum frustrating to watch. :sulk: