read this same post on royals curve...why do you say that his attempts to develop a slider have not gone well? Curious. Keith Law said he is has 3 plus pitches.

If Law said that, the changeup must be the third-pitch he's referring to, or he caught him on a good night with the slider.

BP referenced it as "his worst pitch" according to many scouts, and cited overuse of that pitch as a potential reason for his struggles this year.

CBS Sports talking about Santana's future with the Royals:
http://tinyurl.com/l9h73ad

From the link. That is pretty sweet!

Rest in Peace

It will be awesome if Lough continues to develop


now if we can just find a 2nd baseman

Let's assume, for a moment, the Royals make a September run at the playoffs. Do we call up Ventura or not?

We're in the toughest part of our schedule right now. After our homestand with Detroit and the Jim Johnson's, the schedule eases considerably.

3 at White Sox, 3 at Twins, 3 at Mets, and 3 at home vs. Twins.

After 4 at home against Boston, it's the Marlins at home for 3. Later in August, we see the Twins and White Sox 3 more times each, at home.

Oh yeah, and with that rainout we have a 5 game series at home against the Tigers.

So to follow that, we're all in. We didn't just trade away the #1 prospect in all of baseball to dick around and be mediocre. My expectation, based on that move and the Royals' willingness to hold guys accountable, is that we're going to swing big at the deadline.

Depends on how the rest of the bullpen is pitching. If Crow, Collins, Coleman, etc. are all throwing well, you leave him down.

If you need to stabilize the pen a bit, you bring him up and let him go Matt Moore/Trevor Rosenthal out of the pen.

I think Ventura needs to perform better in AAA before we bring him up. If he goes beast mode after the break he might get a look to start in the bigs next year, but I'd be looking for him to be at best a June call up next year.

I'd move Davis to the pen and find a back-end starter before I'd move up Ventura. But that's just me.

Ventura won't be called up this year. If he does get called it will be late in the season for the pen

I've been watching wondering...specifically game 1 of the Yankees series. When we're in an 8th inning jam, runners on the corners up 3-1 with 2 outs...why don't we put in Holland for the 4 out save? Doesn't that just make sense?

If the Royals trade Santana it shows they've given up on the season.