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lcarus 04-14-2025 07:33 PM

Instead, they broke the torpedo bats off in our asses.

ping2000 04-14-2025 07:34 PM

Boring and hard to watch. But we want a new stadium please!

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Bowser 04-14-2025 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by KCUnited (Post 18029748)
Royals just need a smaller stadium to dominate

Legit - Billy Butler would have been a HoF'er had he been a Yankee in that peewee stadium.

PHOG 04-14-2025 07:35 PM

Well, they need an offensive transplant, because they're batting is terrible. Get 'em tomorrow.

siberian khatru 04-14-2025 07:36 PM

Time for Q to overturn the postgame spread in the clubhouse. That’ll get the bats going.

KCUnited 04-14-2025 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 18029754)
Legit - Billy Butler would have been a HoF'er had he been a Yankee in that peewee stadium.

Could play RF too!

ping2000 04-14-2025 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru (Post 18029758)
Time for Q to overturn the postgame spread in the clubhouse. That’ll get the bats going.

They need a bottle of rum and a bucket of chicken to sacrifice to Jobu.

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Vladimir_Kyrilytch 04-14-2025 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 18029747)
Weakest hitting lineup in MLB

Average, actually, according to Nick Pollack. Do you pay your bills from betting baseball? Cause he does.

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GloryDayz 04-14-2025 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by KCUnited (Post 18029748)
Royals just need a smaller stadium to dominate

Can we just put up some of that fencing to make it smaller; at least until we get some torpedo bats and quit having bad luck?

GloryDayz 04-14-2025 09:30 PM

Bobby baseball is working on becoming a coach, he says he's not worried at all about this team's offense. Well that makes one of him...

Or he might be prepping himself for something bigger... :hmmm:

tk13 04-14-2025 09:34 PM

My hope is the bats improve as it warms up. They haven't played a lot of warm weather games yet. It's weird because this was a legitimately okay offense up until September last year and they fell off a cliff and haven't found it again. I don't know what else you can bank on at this point, just too many holes.

GloryDayz 04-14-2025 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by tk13 (Post 18029848)
My hope is the bats improve as it warms up. They haven't played a lot of warm weather games yet. It's weird because this was a legitimately okay offense up until September last year and they fell off a cliff and haven't found it again. I don't know what else you can bank on at this point, just too many holes.

Are our players allowed to wear 1980s era leg warmers, use wool gloves, and perhaps were some 4th Element undergarments (seriously good stuff!!!) to bring some of those Surprise Arizona temps back to their bats?

Drysuits? LMAO Just joking...

Al Bundy 04-14-2025 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch (Post 18029774)
Average, actually, according to Nick Pollack. Do you pay your bills from betting baseball? Cause he does.

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That was a week ago.

nychief 04-15-2025 03:48 AM

Black holes all over the lineup. Vinny has to hit to make this work at all. Salvy will have a hot couple months - I have no doubt.... but as it stands not doing anything to upgrade the outfield bats looks like a pretty big mistake.

SithCeNtZ 04-15-2025 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Why Not? (Post 18029661)
Last season, Salvy played above his norm in regards to early season offensive performance. That really helped carry the team (along with BWJ, but that's a given). Considering we brought back most of the same awful cast of characters (looking at you, outfield) Salvy not being able to do that is killing this team. Not necessarily his fault, just awful to go into the season with the same shitty guys.

It wasn't just Salvy though. I wish I had the data to prove it, but I'd bet the royals performance through August was one of the luckiest offensive performances ever. Not in the traditional measure, which is cluster luck, but in a way that shows that guys were playing so far above their head that it helped carry everyone else.

Salvy hits 368(!) in April? I believe that's the best mark of his career. Of course that's only slightly ahead of Fermin who hit .364 one month and .368 another month. Think that happens again? Massey in May hit .333 with a 970 OPS! He will never come close to that again. There is quite a bit of talk about the outfield, but in June and July we probably had a top 5 corner outfield combo in baseball. I'm serious, stop laughing. Renfroe hit 333 with a 1.078 OPS in June with a .297/870 line in July. Meanwhile Melendez had an 800 ops in June and a 944 OPS in July. To put these 900 OPS months in perspective, those would all qualify as Juan Soto's third best month last year. This is not normal. A "normal" hot month is something like Isbel hitting .303 with an 850 OPS in June last year. That is realistically the hottest he can get.

In reality sure, someone will get hot eventually, but odds are we will not have anything close to these kinds of numbers put up. For every guy who was struggling last year at a certain point, we had 2 guys having maybe the best month of their career or playing at an All Star level at least. That just isn't sustainable, and it finally hit in September and has lead into this season.


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