The 2009, 2010 and 2011 drafts have produced very little value, and the 12 and 13 classes are still a little a bit away.

There's some intriguing LA talent at AA (Cuthbert, Calixte, Bonifacio) but none of them are really forcing the issue at this point. Everything else is at A+ or lower.

It seems that Moore is trying to bunch "waves" of prospects about 4-5 years apart. If one of those waves doesn't produce, you're left trying to patch things in between, because you have little of value in between the waves.

Blake Wood apparently still smells of Georgia, and this is why DM wanted him back.

Waves of talent to DM are ripples on a pond to every other competent GM.

Organizational depth chart to start the year was:

Shields
Vargas
Guthrie
Ventura
Chen
Duffy
Zimmer
Dwyer
Lamb
Brooks

Ventura and Chen and Zimmer all getting hurt/delayed moves a guy like Brooks up the chart quite a bit, as does the basically complete suckage of John "I'm the one in 100 that doesn't make it back" Lamb and Chris Dwyer.

Glad we never tried to move any of those pitching prospects. First chance we get that Zimmer shows he's healthy, please trade him.

Immediately.

Keep telling yourself that. That's been the Royals Mantra.................for the last 28+ years.

Who is trading for Zimmer at this point?

"You say he has shoulder and elbow problems? Sign me up!"

Brooks was top 10 in ERA in the PCL and was 4-1. Everything looked okay what he was doing in Triple A. Emergency starter you normally call somebody up and that is what he did. Just got his shit pushed in. Sucks but that is baseball. Hell even if Zimmer was healthy I don't think they would have burned one start and service time for an emergency start.

Probably no one.

I watched Ororizzi pitch the other night vs Boston. He looked pretty good. He'd be a good #4 guy in our rotation right about now. Too bad we had to give him up.

I like our #1 pitcher and the 8th inning relief pitcher better.

He has a 5.13 ERA.

Yeah he did pitch well May 25 vs Boston. 6 IP 4H 1 ER 5 SO.

His next start, also vs Boston, on May 31 he looked like he has the rest of the year. 3.1 IP 6H 5 ER pushing his ERA for the season up to a cool 5.13.

You got a little bit of Royals True Fan in you? It's OK, we're here to help.

No I actually hated the Shields/Myers trade because I didn't want to give up Myers.

:Poke:

Careful here. Don't offend DM. :fire: