FanDuel has two channels normally on every cable package. I have DirectTV - the Cardinals are on 671-1 and the Royals on 671-5. When I had Charter/Spectrum, the main one which normally had the Cardinals was channel 37 and the other one was 75, which had the Royals normally. Or the Blues game if they were on at the same time as Cardinals.

What's her cable provider and we can probably find the channel for her.

I like where you are going with this.

107 wins

83 wins.

91 wins baby!

Let's go!

I'm ready for the season. Here are some of my predictions for our Royals this year:

1. Jonathan India scores 110+ runs. The Royals leadoff spot managed 97 runs last year despite an awful collective OBP. Even if India only hits .350 on OBP, an extra 20 runs is an easy bet for him - as long as he stays healthy.

2. Noah Cameron makes starts for the big-league club. Cameron's velocity bumped up a bit this spring, he still has an excellent change-up off of it, and he has good control.

3. Caglianone doesn't debut in the majors until August, but he makes an impact with his power when he does.

4. KC makes a midseason trade for help in the OF.

5. KC wins the Central in a tight race with Detroit.

91 wins. Central champs. ALCS vs Red Sox.

I'm going to guess 88 wins, and another WC spot.

In Price is Right style... 84 wins.

Does Caglianone debut in the Outfield or the log jam that is 1B (assuming no injuries to Vinnie or Salvy).

87 wins

69 losses

One less win than last year

Tentative lineup for tonight? Haven't paid attention much.

C Mayne
1B Joyner
2B Lind
3B Gaeitti
SS Gagne
LF Tucker
CF Goodwin
RF Jose
DH Hamelin
SP Appier

LF - India
SS - Witt
DH- Pasquantino
1B - Perez
2B - Massey
RF - Renfroe
CF - Isbel
C - Fermin
3B - Garcia

Is how I would roll for today, with Pasquantino nursing the hamstring.

Starting line-up.

https://x.com/Royals/status/1905278099178004512

LMAO Certainly aren't going to stem the calls for Jac Caglianone when Biggio is the first baseman.

Biggio at 1B

Wat de hell

So far so good. I did have to start it twice, I got a "Something went wrong" message, but it started right up after that.

Woot for Mrs. GloryDayz... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3b2fab2aca.jpg

Yeah, Hudler needs to lose that jacket.

The good news is the Tigers got swept to open the year. The bad news is it was by the Dodgers who are 5-0 and may never lose a game.

It's a good thing the Royals didn't sign Profar after all. Ineligible for the 2025 postseason.

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Came here to say the same thing. Things are NOT going well in the early goings for the Bravos...

JJ with another win
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Suspended 80 games today. Wow

“I would never willingly take a banned substance”. ��

Brady singer line today.

7IP, 1 H, 8 K, 0 ERA.

Happy for Brady, happy for us. Could be a great win-win trade for both teams.

Especially since Bubic will, health-permitting, be an upgrade over Brady in the 4th spot.

I love that these guys just copy/paste from the previous "apology" and change the names.

Our Lineup:

LF - India
CF - Needs Replaced
RF - Needs Replaced
3B - Garcia
SS - Whitt
2B - Massey
1B - Vinnie
C - Sal
DH - Needs Replaced

Basically, we need 2 OF’s and another Bat at DH that can play OF, and maybe some 1B. As is, we are run production weak and razor thin depth wise with this lineup. There are some GREAT pieces on the roster, but unless the starting pitching performs at an extremely high level again, we are gonna struggle without some offensive help.

You could get by with Isbel in center field for his defense and in the nine hole if you could upgrade one of the other corner outfield positions.

We need some of those bowling pin-looking bats the Yankees use!

Gotta love baseball and the atrocious ass umpires. What's even better is that there is a clear and simple fix that could very easily eliminate these issues, but MLB wants to drag their feet.

Having strikes and balls called by an automated system would increase the fairness of the game significantly. That's not even the best thing that would come from an ABS. The best thing would be the end of the stupid ass pitch framing conversation.

Pitch framing is a bunk ass stat that has no real way of being calculated and just tanks Salvador Perez's fWAR and defensive ranking. The guy who has been one of the best at throwing out base runners has career defense ranking of -9.2 and has had a negative defense ranking in 7 of his 12 seasons according to fangraphs.

Twins have won 2 in a row and Cleveland got swept.

All five AL Central teams are now tied at 2-4.

I was shocked tonight to hear the Royals mangler say he WASN'T upset at our offense, instead tipping his hat to the other team's pitching.

No bowling pin bats like the Yankees have and a mangler who is already making excuses ny saying the other team's pitchers were dealing, welp.

Oh well... LMAO

Peralta put up similar numbers against the Yankees as he did against the Royals today.

Looks Drew Waters is hitting once again at Omaha......

Classic AAAA player.

Our scouting department really does need some kind of award / recognition for that ability. We can find a plethora of those guys.

Isbel can't hit or throw. He'll make the routine catches but is too short and slow to get to alot of balls a good CF would get to.

We draft in a very specific way that tends to produce those kinds of players. Hopefully that changes in this regime but it's too early to tell.

Agree... but if we going to have an outfielder who can't make contact, at least Drew can field the position, unlike Melendez.

I don’t think I agree with any one approach te ding to produce AAAA players, Royals are otherwise.

Guys who fall into that category typically are guys who have a fatal flaw or two that major leaguers can exploit at high levels of consistency, but players in the minors cannot.

A pitcher who can’t throw his breakers for strikes, ever.

A hitter who can’t handle a specific location or a specific pitch in a location. Etc.

The minor leagues are filled with them, because baseball is really, really hard.

What’s your take on Melendez? Is he a AAAA player?

Meanwhile in Omaha, drew waters hitting for the cycle

I think India is boardline unplayable in LF... he looks lost and has a pop gun arm. He has to rotate from 3b/2b/DH nightly...

I'm going to have to disagree significantly n regards to hitting. Pitching is another thing entirely so I won't go into that here, but hitting we absolutely do.

The Royals have always prioritized defense and athleticism over anything else with picks not high in the first round, of which those players are usually 5 tool guys anyway. Get beyond that and let me tell you the story of nearly every single guy we draft: "good to great defense, athletic, could play multiple positions, could hit for solid average, hope to develop power". And when your strongest traits are defense and athleticism, those generally don't fall off when being promoted. So we promote guys with a nice defensive floor and we just hope they can figure out hitting, which leads to tons and tons of how we talk about Kyle Isabel right now: "well if he could just hit more then..."

The royals best OF Non-high first rounder prospect listed on MLB top 30 is, wait for it, a second round light hitting OF who is called "defense first" player(Roccaforte). I'm shocked. Tylor Gentry who we just called up: "one of the best arms in the system and above average fielder. Needs to find more consistency at the plate". Javier Vaz: "plus runner good defender. Zero power good contact hitter". It goes on and on.

You know what you almost never see? Offense first guys. "This guy can hit but can't defend" guys. Those guys are much more likely to bust in AA because their single skill can be stopped there. And we simply don't draft those kinds of hitters. So we never run out of these fringe guys who play good defense and if you squint you can see a serviceable player. That's why the Royals absolutely have more fringe utility players than other teams and why our minor league system is usually referred to as "deep but lacking star power" aka we have a bunch of possible utility guys who aren't terrible but can't hit enough to be a star most likely.

So, will there be a game this evening, or no?

The amateur meteorologist in me says yes

I’ll literally be at the GBS tomorrow if anyone wants their chin checked or to just say hi

BKS before for beers?

I'm actually heading there in about an hour!

I'm in for my dad's birthday tomorrow and he wanted to go to a game so kind of leaving the day up to him, but if you'll be there before the game tomorrow I'll swing by

Bro, Alma Mader doesn't have 1 hazy on tap or to-go today. My luck

Ouch. Dripping in Orange just sold out, it was a scorcher. Wife and kids always want to go to BKS early on Saturday afternoon. I'll shoot you a message if we're going out there.

So, someone else will have to start the GDT today. I won't be able to today. j/s

I'll take a crack at it

Ok, we're ALL counting on you. ;)

Nick Gordon? Meh.

Son of former Royal Tom “Flash” Gordon.

Also a noted Royals-killer.

These little boys pajama uniforms the Royals wear are godawful. Am I watching a baseball game or reading a bed time story to a little boy?

Melendez needs to be on a bus to Omaha asap.

A AAAA guy is a AAAA guy. Whether he's a AAAA guy because his bat is a little short, or he's a AAAA guy because he doesn't have a position or he's a AAAA because he has power but strikes out too much or whatever.

The Royals do traditionally target guys who can run and play defense (part of that is the park. You can't exactly play guys in the corners who can't defend - look at how much of a liability Hunter Renfroe looks like). So their guys that don't quite make it fall into more of the same bucket.

I think they've changed up the approach a bit (Caglianone is not the type of player they have drafted in the past), so eventually we'll see the guys who aren't quite good enough change up their approach.

Be interesting how much they change when they get new ballpark. If its the Crown Center site, that would just scream left handed bats based on how a ballpark would be lined up.

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He just looks the part. That swing was just so beautiful.

Yeah...but where would you play MJ Melendez? Can't lose that bat.

Yeah I posted in last year's thread how happy I was they took Cags. It's a huge shift in priority, him vs Wetherholt. Past regimes take the other guy every time, but we went for upside, not floor. I don't agree on needing to prioritize defense. We have no idea if a player can out hit a lack of defense in the K because you have literally 0 players who even come close to that outcome. There has never been a player in my lifetime who couldn't play for the Royals because his defense wasn't good enough but he could hit. We gave up on Rooker immediately but I'd bet he would be fine if he hit for that power here.
Unfortunately we can't really say if this regime will truly make those changes going forward since we completely ignored hitters after Cags, unless you count a ninth round catcher and some late round fliers. Here's hoping next year is better.

Very nice! I almost went to the game here in Tulsa just to see him, but it was too cold and very windy. :thumb:

He is so fun to watch mash. What a goddamn stud that dude is

I thought they might try Jac in the OF if there was any thought of bringing him up this season, but not yet.

And I'm good with that. I'd rather trade for an OF than jeopardize his progress I guess.

Why would you want to ruin the team in Omaha? He needs to be removed from the system completely.

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Sam Long must be gone. Bring up Sisk, lean on Lynch.

Val Kilmer would be disgusted with this start. RIP.

Totally agree. I’m too lazy to look, but haven’t we lost every game that Long has pitched?

/asking for a friend

I thought Gavin Cross was supposed to be a big bat outfielder? I haven't heard much about him lately.

We talked about him a few pages back.

He has looked a lot better recently. Got Rocky Mountain fever from a tick bite a few years back and it's possible his suckage in 22 and 23 was related to that/recovery.

There's still a chance there. Early in the minor league season, but scouting reports from the spring seemed to indicate his pop had bounced back.

I'd given up on Cross.... I thought he was another Dayton Moore special - "high character," coach's son type player with a higher floor and much lower ceiling. Still don't see much there there, but man it would be great if he became a piece. We are so piss poor in the OF.

That shit is no joke. My old shop teacher/basketball coach from high school got it several years back after a hunting trip. He was wheelchair bound for a bit and had to relearn how to walk. He’s doing much better with a walker now, and granted, a much older man, but yeah, it can be quite debilitating even for a young man. Cross is definitely on the radar.

Cross was picked at least where he was ranked universally. Now Frank Mozzicato on the other hand...

You know who doesn't appear to be a AAAA player? Kris fockin Bubic PBJ PBJ

NW Arkansas again scoring some runs thru the 8th inning. Something like 30 runs in three games? Holy smokes. And Jac is 3 for 4 with a double, 3 ribbies and a walk today.