ChiefsPlanet - Royals 2013 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread

The point isn't Wil Myers now. The point is that the team wasn't ready for a win-now push. Therefore, we should not have made the trade. If the offense had broken out, we may have missed a good opportunity, but we would certainly have had $$$ to address pitching via free agency.

BigMeatballDave

06-24-2013 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 9773678)

The $8million fat-ass at DH is a huge problem this year and he seems to skate from these discussions. Out of 160 qualifiers, he's a dreadful 114th in slugging at .390 (behind Chris Donofria of SD).

Butler kind of gets a pass here because of how good he's been in the past, particularly last season.

Nightfyre

06-24-2013 11:13 PM

How every hitter in our organization has regressed from last year has got to be an indictment of the major league development/coaching process. That doesn't let DM off the hook, because those are his guys implementing his reeruned philosophies (which apparently include a complete disregard for OBP as has been demonstrated by his acquisitions as well as coaching at the ML level.)

CaliforniaChief

06-24-2013 11:23 PM

Butler has NO protection in the lineup. He's pressing and doing things he hasn't done in the past. That's why we need a slug get now that we're all in with Shields.

Chiefspants

06-24-2013 11:31 PM

You want to know what I'm still mad about?

When Texas (rumoredly) offered us Derek Holland for Joakim Soria (during his last year of prominence).

Sadz.

Mama Hip Rockets

06-25-2013 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 9773361)

If you want to say signing Frenchy was dumb, everyone agrees. But Myers wasn't playing this year with Gordon and Cain clear starters and $7m owed on French. Did you think we'd just park 7m on the bench?

He's been on the bench a good chunk of the time anyway, even without Myers here. He only has 23 at-bats this month.

Mama Hip Rockets

06-25-2013 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by tk13 (Post 9773394)

Having a great offense and five #3 starters isn't going to get you anywhere.

It's working pretty well for the Orioles. I'd much rather be in their position than the Royals the last couple of years.

Mama Hip Rockets

06-25-2013 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by KevB (Post 9773500)

Puig now has more home runs in 20 games than any Royal in 73 games.

And more RBIs than Mike Moustakas has in 62 games.

:banghead:

sedated

06-25-2013 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Nightfyre (Post 9773743)

The point is that the team wasn't ready for a win-now push. Therefore, we should not have made the trade.

Hindsight 20/20.

The offense was supposed to be good. And the defense. And the bullpen.

Had the front office KNOWN that the offense would be this bad top to bottom, they would have had no choice but to blow up the whole thing. I’m sure Royals fans would have loved that.

Prison Bitch

06-25-2013 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief (Post 9773761)

Butler has NO protection in the lineup. He's pressing and doing things he hasn't done in the past. That's why we need a slug get now that we're all in with Shields.

But again, we're scoring about what we scored last year. Why wasn't he "pressing" last year?

Archie F. Swin

06-25-2013 10:32 AM

Just 'cause we haven't seen it in a while....

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you know....Ned coming to the defense of his players (during games)

Mama Hip Rockets

06-25-2013 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Archie F. Swin (Post 9774309)

Did Jeff Montgomery seriously say they can't afford to lose Humberto Quintero this early in the ballgame? ROFL

CaliforniaChief

06-25-2013 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 9774064)

But again, we're scoring about what we scored last year. Why wasn't he "pressing" last year?

Weren't Hosmer, Perez, and Moose (for awhile) producing at a much higher rate last year?

Bowser