I feel like I teach better approach to my 8U machine pitch team I coach (and lord knows I have tons of room for improvement) than anyone getting paid to coach the royals hitters are doing

:(

Rep.

I think they work in porn. With the women.

Any guy associated with Oakland, just sign him up.

When Glass fires his VP of Sales at Wal-Mart, does he reassign him to VP of Supply Chain Management? Of course not. So he has to be asking wtf is going on in Kansas City.

You assume he is actually informed.

Paul DePodesta disproved that

Well, the gutless f's pulled one out tonight.

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Butler with the groundout to right field... . #fat'nKC

*insert crazed Dennis Leary laugh here*

You can tell Toronto practiced that very scenario. As soon as the ball made it past Encarnacion, he sprints to the bag in anticipation of Bautista throwing him the ball to get Belleh out.

Gee, you don't imagine Seitzer may have suggested that play could work on Belleh to those guys, do you?

Rare play in baseball.

Aoki might have one of the worst ****ing approaches at the plate that I've ever seen. He is just about ****ing worthless.

Tonight, his "jump swing" was yet another one to memorialize.

Aoki: .264/.320/.318

Love the look of that flashy slash. Mediocre OBP, highlighted by lesser slug. That takes a special kind of suck.

Be Royal.

Sometimes he bunt/swings
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This is racist.

I have no idea why anyone would ever play back on him at third. And the left fielder should be 200 feet from home shading the line.

Mother****er would never get another hit.

.318 ****ing slug from a corner outfielder. And the funny thing is that his defense, according to Baseball Reference, is sub-replacement level.

He's Frenchy with less slug.

Time to clean house
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how many pitches does he see an at-bat?

And does he get back-spin?

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sweet jezus...are we getting soft for Frenchy again?

frenchy always made me soft

Thank God we didn't go get Nelson Cruz.

To many home runs to be a part of the process.

He's ok for what he is. A slap hitter.

Nobody would complain about him if we had some power hitters who could drive him in.

So Aoki's problems get accentuated.
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610 had some discussion (they were just speculating) this morning about the Royals making a move to sign Kendrys Morales and cutting Billay loose.

Again, they were just speculating, but they thought it would take about $8MM right now to get him to come finish out the 2014 season with the Royals. He'd be a 3/4 year rental. They said, the Royals don't plan to re-sign Belly after this season anyway (which I agree with). Hmm. Well, would you?

No, people would and should complain about him because he ****ing sucks. He doesn't get on base. He has absolutely no power, despite playing a power position in RF, and his defense is below average.

He is the very definition of terrible.

JFC Butterball....

Worst DH ever...

Yep. Color me completely unimpressed with Aoki. He provides this offense with very little.

:shake: - Nice hustle Country Fatass

Caller on the radio this AM said 1B coach Rusty Kuntz should wear a pork chop around his neck when Belly bats, to speed his pace down the line.

Well, it can't hurt! I mean, dear God, Butler has to know he's playing for another contract next year... yet he still sucks!

How about we shoot for the moon and just make 2nd base a Gates mixed plate.

Just have Dyson run in front of him with a pork chop on a stick. Like a dog after a bone.

Sadly, he actually ran hard on that play

Yep, Billay is just slooooow. Harmon's Killebrew's last season in baseball was with the Royals as a DH. I saw him hit a screaming line drive off the 385 sign in right center at Kauffman, and the center fielder almost threw him out at first. His knees were shot. Billay is almost that slow now, and is 15 years younger then what Killebrew was back then.

I'm still feeling really good about the win last night. Our offense picking up Shields for once. Let's see if it carries over to tonight.

Yeah - I watched him get thrown out at Royals Stadium in his only season at KC ('75). Harmon hit a shot down the 3rd base line that hook around the left field wall. He barely made it into 2B sliding. He get's up, grabbing at his knees and laboring for air. Then, next up, I think Jim Wohlford, hits a deep gapper that rolls to the Right Center Field wall. Harmon hoofs it to 3B and is pumping his arms but going no where as he turns 3B. Wohlford is already already at 2B before Harmon is 10 ft off of 3rd. The throw is waiting on Harmon before he gets to Home, and Harmon crumbles like someone shot him in the back. My Dad was laughing his ass off, and I actually thought he may have died of a grabber en route to Home.

Dude was 39 and completely out of shape when he got to KC. I actually felt bad for him as he was the butt of many a joke in KC.

Well, somebody needs to tell him through his interpreter, it's very hard to hit American Baseball with Eyes Closed...

@JonHeymanCBS: #jays will focus on rentals more than samardzija this summer. Shields (if available) high on list. blog on @CBSSports

@jazayerli: If Shields gets traded to Toronto-or anywhere else-that almost has to mean Moore got fired. I expect this FO to hold him to the bitter end.

FIFY

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Dropping the DFA on Butler might just be the wakeup call these petulant little bitches need.

And honestly, Morales can at least hit home runs.

If we get down big before deadline we need to trade Shields.

FIFY

Agreed. I think he's toast, but even if he's not, its a wakeup call for both him and the team. This guy is "allegedly" the veteran team leader who is supposed to carry the team. He's a huge part of the problem.
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This too.

Butler won't get extended as his #s will be down. Its too bad too...all star 2 years ago. He should be in his prime right now

I wonder if Texas or the Yankees would take Butler off our hands for us? They both have the need for a DH type.

I still think Butler is the best hitter on this team...there are bigger problems then him. I'm just surprised how he's fallen.

The biggest problem is Hosmer not developing into a power hitter. He should be a 30 plus home run hitter.

WTF are you talking about? If you add up his homers from this year through 2012, he has 32 HR's!!!

It's humorous that the Royals team record is 36, by Balboni, in 1985. 36. There are some teams that have two or three guys hit 36 in one year, no problem.

What ****ing team would trade for a DH who can't hit HRs, hits way too many groundouts, has a .238 BA for the year, has never had a BA over .318, and couldn't even beat either Mustard, Ketchup, or Relish in a race to first base?

I think he's one of the biggest problems.

He's the veteran team leader that doesn't lead.

Zero power
His average is way down
No speed
He bats cleanup, yet very little run producing ability
He doesn't allow any lineup flexibility because he doesn't play a position.


The Royals can't drop this bum fast enough for me.
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The K is tooooooooooooooooooo big for a person to hit some sort of MLB '14 PS4 Style 36 Hr's. Come on, Man!

If you're getting thrown out at first by the right fielder, you'd better damn well be able to hit the ball out of the park.

It's so Royals to have gone through the steroid era without touching that record.

Keep doubting Gary Gaetti, Chili Davis and Dean Palmer....
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Key word - should be, he should have developed into a Mark Teixeira type power hitter.

He'd beat all three, because he would eat them before they crossed the finish line.

On Hosmer: He IS Hal Morris. Who was Hal Morris? The greatest inconsequential, non-impactful .300 hitter in Royals history.

Hal Morris played for KC one year, as DH, in 1998. Here's his season line:
1998 stats: 127 games, 516 ABs, 146 singles, 27 doubles, 2 triples, 1 HR, 40 RBI, .309 average.

Does that sound like Hosmer or what?

Royals won 72 games that year.

We should start calling Hosmer "Morris" until he proves otherwise.

Hos probably has better run production than that, but yeah, that's a close comp.

Oh, something else that is amusing. Know what Hal Morris is doing now?

He's the Head of Scouting for the Anaheim Angels.

Interesting.....i was thinking Hos is like Kevin Seitzer. Hits for decent average. Very little power.....
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If only Hos could dance like Morris in the batters box.

The only thing Hosmer has been good at has been hitting doubles, kind of like what Belly did a couple years ago. No power, but he hits doubles. The season is about 1/3rd complete. If you take Hosmer's production so far and multiply by 3 -assuming his play remains the same the rest of the year, his 2014 line would be:

633 AB (he won't get 600 ABs)
177 singles
54 doubles (that's not going to happen)
0 triples
3 homers
69 RBI
.280 average.

Hoz is an arrogant punk who should be sent down but, The Royals.

being sent down isn't going to get him hr power.


what other reason should he be sent down?

There's definitely a disturbing trend in terms of becoming too contact oriented over the past 2-3 years, not just with Eric Hosmer but with all the Royals hitters.

Hosmer looked to have regained the ability to loft the ball over the last 4 months of last season. Not sure where that went over the offseason, but it's damned disappointing.

He's still hitting the ball hard a lot and hitting a lot of screamers... but he's not generating any loft.

You could say similar things about Gordon and Butler, too.

The sad thing is... this team doesn't need those guys to be 40 HR boppers to be good. It doesn't even really need them to hit 30 HR apiece. It needs 20 HR and 40 2B or so each, all numbers they're quite capable of producing.

I think Hos will start to hit for some power. He'll do what he did last year and heat up the power stroke in one month and then fade back to nothing. I say he finishes with something like 12-14 HR's and 70+ RBI. It'll be meaningless numbers when we are at the bottom of the Wild Card pack.

Package deal, I'd be happy to see Relish get shipped out with Billy.

Clearly Butler's gravitational pull is causing all of our hitter's homeruns to die and lose momentum keeping them in the park, and leaving us with an abundance of warning track power.

Hud needs to teach them how to get that backspin.

You are way off base here. I don't recall many balls even making it near the warning track to be honest. This team has completely evolved into a slap hitting\ground ball bonanza.

:spock: You realize .318 is an extraordinarily good batting average, right?

WAYYYYY too much "see ball, hit ball" and not enough focus on finding pitches they can hit hard and drive.

You know, I think what the Royals need is a lead-off hitter who cannot get on base, hits for less power than Dyson, and plays shit defense.

If we can lock this down, we're set.