Get fisted by an orangutan.

Trevor Rosenthal from Lees Summit just threw a ball 100 mph for the Cards. Sweet job #Royals...not scouting your backyard again.

Eric Henske is pinch hitting and his walk up music is pantera.

FIRE THE DREAMING COACH!

There's a good chance at least one game during our home opening week will be a rainout. Looking wet.

Going to be a little better in Chicago today. Virtually no wind so even though the temperature is only going to be around 44 degrees, the sun and no wind should keep the hitting conditions better.

Gordon Beckham's mom can get DP'd by Arthur Ashe and Pedro Zamora, but he was walking up to Megadeth's Holy Wars when I was down in Surprise, he might still be, respect for that.

LMAO

He was drafted in the 21st round so it's fair to say no one really scouted him. I don't think the Royals are really hurting for flame throwers in the bullpen either.

We're playing baseball again today? Cool!
Maybe we'll score a run or something!

I understand the sentiment, but here's the reality:

Trevor Rosenthal was a SS at at CC on the Kansas side of the metro. A Cardinals scout was at a tournament scouting other players and saw Rosenthal pitch the 5th or 6th inning of his college career (seriously, he had only pitched a few innings before getting noticed).

It was a flyer on a kid with a big arm and practically no pitching experience. Cardinals got very, very lucky. He could have just as easily ended up like Colt Griffin.

Different story than with Pujols, who was heavily and thoroughly scouted and still passed by 13 times.

I still can't believe they passed on me when I was dominating in grade school! Where were the scouts then? :cuss:

I still cant believe he went in like the 12th round or something?? How does that happen??

Prospect updates from Baseball Prospectus today. Lots of attention to Royals' guys today.

Notably:

Adalberto Mondesi: Plus (6/7) defender who is no doubt to stick at SS all the way up the ladder because of his arm strength, lateral movement and quickness. Power projection is just to 4/5 (which translates to 10-15 HR in the majors), but everything else is 6/7 (Hit, Run, Field, Throw).

7 prospect (regular major league all-star)

RHP Miguel Almonte: This is the one that might surprise you. Jason Parks is calling him equivalent to Kyle Zimmer as a prospect. Plus-plus fastball (sits 93-95, touches 98), plus change, curve that flashes plus. Calling him a top 5 guy in Royals system

6 prospect

Kyle Zimmer: Same report we've been seeing. Easy plus-plus fastball, plus curve that is commanded well. Change is average currently and useable. Also is flashing an average/useable slider to give him a change of pace breaking pitch. Sat 93-95 also, touched 99.

One thing I did see that was concerning is that he is lacking in deception... might have to adjust his delivery a little as a pro to fix that. Fastball gets him more than his stuff says it should.

6/7 prospect.

John Lamb: Starting to look like his ability to recover his velocity is going to be make or break for him. Parks' scouting report mentioned that it looked like he wasn't letting it go all the way, so maybe he's still holding back a bit. His last few starts had the fastball ticking up. Will bear watching as the season plays out.

Tough to rank as a prospect. 4/5 guy if the velocity never comes back. 6/7 guy if it does.

1) Bad body
2) Everyone thought he was 2-3 years older than reported (still dogs him)
3) Questions about his position
4) Questions about his skills other than with the bat

The Rays were going to take him with their next pick when the Cardinals took him off the board.

Mondesi = Jurickson Profar

Almonte = Julio Teheran

Anyone want to throw up a game thread? This week, I was only planning on doing it Saturday/Sunday since I'll be here for those games from the beginning.

That's Jason Parks' opinion... He actually has said Mondesi could develop MORE power than Profar as he fills out.

MORE power than a guy predicted to be a .300/20/100 R/30 SB player.

Do you have a BP membership?

Anyone want to throw up?

Vomiting while posting a game thread would be strictly optional.

No, but I've read a handful of reports on each of them and the comps kind of jump out at you.

We'll see how they develop, but we may have struck gold with these two.

My BIL played basketball at Fort Osage at the same time Pujols was there. He claims he was an absolute beast in the gym, and yes, most believed he was older than he claimed even then.

Yeah, it looks that way.

It was Almonte/Teheren that made me ask. Parks drew heavily on those comparisons. And not just because of the fastball/change combo. Apparently, the arm action (clean and easy, with some whip) and body composition really jumps out at you, too.

Funny that these two are the studs, when Elier Hernandez and Cheslor Cuthbert are the international signees who got all the attention.

What the hell, I'll do it. Might as well find out early on if I have any mojo this season.

Start a run my man

Our 2013 draft bonus budget for our 11 picks in the first 10 rounds has been determined: $8,290,700. (after the 10th round, no player can receive over 100k without incurring penalties)

We can't spend more than 5% over that without incurring serious penalties, which is about $8.7MM.

Update on Lamb:

I sent Parks a question about him regarding his velocity in his last few starts... BP had two guys at his last minor league start and they didn't have him higher than 89 on their gun.

Not good.

It's still possible the arm strength is in the process of coming back, but very odd for it to be taking this long.

They specifically mentioned his arm speed looked slow. It's possible Lamb is sacrificing velocity for location at this point in time, or that the foot injury last year slowed his build-up.

This is a cool new column in the Star. Lee Judge. I guess hes breaking down every game?




http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/03...ood-pitch.html

Will Ned throw at Longoria?

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/ey...orias-comments

We can only hope so.

He was throwing in mid 80s I see that as a big improvement

He'll let Hoechaser throw him a belt high change up middle plate...

First win!

Solid pitching. Timely hitting.

Blatently stolen from Rany

Royals starters have gone 6ip in each of the first 3 games. Last year they didn't get 3 straight starts of 6ip until June 17-19. With our bullpen, if the offense shows up and the starters hold up, it's gonna be a fun season.

Wasn't funny the first 4 times it's been posted

Non-Royals baseball news, just now exploding on twitter. The umps apparently badly blew a call in the Rays-Orioles game that probably stopped a comeback.

Rays down 6-2 in the bottom of the 9th, runners on first and 2nd no outs with Longoria up. Longoria belts one to the wall, first base runner is holding up near second to make sure that it wasn't going to be caught. Its not, banged off the wall, lead runner scores, he goes to third, Longoria at 2nd, runners at 2nd and 3rd no out down 3.

The umpires rule that Longoria committed a little league mistake, saying he passed the runner who was holding up near second, so he's out, they just have man on 3rd down 3 with 1 out.

The replays clearly show that Longoria did not pass the runner. As I typed this, they just got another baserunner before the final out, game over. So, without that blown call the Rays would have had the lead runner at the plate for one more out.

Good. Longoria was bad mouthing Shields in the paper this AM. Serves him right.

First off it was close and it would of been the tying run at plate.

not after Escobar's walk, he wouldn't have been. The tying run would have been at first.

We can play the what if game how do you know he walks if Longo on 2nd?

Take this shit to the O's thread.

dude, how do we know that everyone doesn't strike out after longo and there IS NO tying run at the plate?

You were following the same convention as I was, reconstructing the inning, you just apparently forgot that longo being on base meant that escobar would have been the tying run.

This is not an Orioles issue, this is a "hah-hah the umps suck! We need replay!" issue.

Let's say they don't call it score is 6-3 with man on 2nd and 3rd.

I'll accept your Royals Karma and say "Thank you very much."

EDIT: I think it was really close as to whether Longoria was past Zobrist. He was way wide going around first and Zobrist was in the base line.

EDIT 2: I really feel good for Guthrie. He deserves success.

What am I supposed to be looking at here? The fact Getz is on first?

Konerko gets ****s

Damn, sorry for not meeting your standards. I'll do a dead baby joke next time.

Anyhow, I assumed that this shot was taken at a recent game and the image wasn't anywhere in this thread recently (that I saw). Where was the picture posted here before?

Big deal. That guy's an ass.

So our pitching staff has 29 Ks and only 4 BB through three games. That's pretty dang good.

True, keep that perspective. :thumb:

Whatever you do, don't analyze our batting average and ops, you will become cynical at best.

Come to play!!

In the first three games their hitting has been brutal. Bad enough to start out 0-3. On the other side of the coin the pitching has been pretty darn good outside a handful of bad pitches by Santana and one horrible inning by Hoch.

Let's hope getting out of Chicago is the recipe for the lineup!

Hmmmm:hmmm:

Hopefully we get Holliday, his fb was in the upper 80's and every time he got ahead of atl he threw offspeed. Dudes lost right now, could be a great opportunity to blow Philly out and gain some early confidence.

So im confused. Why not pitch Santana on Sunday night so that we can have Shields pitch the home opener?

Saw this on twitter. This was from a game at the old Mistake By the Lake in 1983...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8334/8...d2cfca8b_k.jpg

Wow, wonder what the lowest attendance for a MLB game is all time. To Google!

Results:

Ever gone to a sporting event and wondered how the team could survive with so little fans in the stands? Even when this thought crosses your mind, there are usually at least a couple thousand people there. Imagine going to a game and seeing only a few hundred!

How could this happen? In 2011, The Florida Marlins played the Cincinnati Reds and broke the record for the least amount of people at an MLB game. The previous record had been set in 1979 at an Oakland Athletics game with only 653 people. The reason only 347 people turned out was because of Hurricane Irene.

Many of those who had purchased tickets decided to flee the area and save their belongings from the potential damage than attend a sporting event. Justin Cohen, a fan at the game, counted five sections with only three or four people in them and three that were completely empty!

That's amazing.

This was years and years ago... but I remember being at a Royals game (against the Mariners? I think.) where a really bad storm blew through, tons of lightning, and it took 2-3 hours to resume the game. It was a weeknight and really cold after the storm, and by the time the game resumed at 11PM or so... there were literally 5-6 people in the upper deck, and half of them were my family.

There were probably a few hundred people in the lower deck though, but that's the best I've got. Although the more I think about it, maybe it was against the Marlins.

Has anyone here eaten a Junebug?

Yep. I was 3 and deliberately ate it.

Did...you?

I went to a Jays/Royals game back in Toronto during the SARS outbreak there 10 years ago. There was probably only a few thousand there (although they likely listed it as more considering the attendance figures were based on who bought tickets back then, not who showed up). And by the 9th, there were probably only a few hundred as the Jays were down by 5. Only a few people saw the Royals completely blow it that day:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...00304270.shtml

He was my class until his first hold back. It is no real secret that he is older. I am sure it will come out in a book when he retires.

heh, yea i remember watching some of those Cleveland games on TV when i was a kid. We used to joke there were more people in the dugouts than the stands.

This is encouraging.....


http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/04...-the-game.html



In two out of the first three Royals games, the starting pitcher went six innings. In two out of the first three Royals games, the starting pitcher walked one batter.

In two out of the first three Royals games, the starting pitcher gave up one run. In two out of the first three Royals games, the relief pitchers threw nothing but shutout innings.

In two out of the first three Royals games the pitching staff gave up a total of two runs in 18 innings.

I don't spend a lot of time on the internet, but I'm under the impression that there was some panic after the Royals lost their first two games. I've got no clue what's going to happen next, but if the Royals can get that kind of pitching in two out of three games for the rest of the season, I'd be willing to bet they'll do OK.

OK IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH>>>> THEY GOT WE GAVE UP PETENORTH/MICHEYMANTLE ALLIN1 with WILL MEYERS

through the years we've seen teams do well May through August, then shit the bed in September and watch the playoffs from the couch. All we can hope for is that the Royals win more series than they lose. Baseball is a bitch.

When the Royals games were televised from Cleveland it always looked like that...I remember the guy with the drum pounding on it for the whole game...only crowd noise you'd hear.

Anyone fire up the gameday thread yet?

The really cool news is that, after 3 games, we are only 1 game back of both the divisional and wildcard races. :clap:

Here ya go.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...48#post9558848

heh, the funny thing is, if "Major League" was remade today, they could use the Royals instead of the Indians.

Insert "frozen rope" joke.

Just finished watching the game from today. Man that was fun!

We are tied for the division lead now!

lol wow