Fred Patek said you'd be interested

That ****in liar

I hope Escobar goes 0-4 so people will keep bitching about Ned.

If Escobar gets the last AB with the game on the line again, the fans may melt down.

Hey now, cut Esky some slack...the last game he batted with the game on the line he would have tied it if not won it if our stupid 3rd base coach had not ****ed it up

No one cares. Go away.

Hate to see any kid get hurt. But they can be fixed now. Back in the day, you were done

You still can be. (See: Lamb, John)

Really sucks, he looked like he had a ton of potential. Now he can't crack 90

Which is exactly why it's hilarious to see anyone balk at trading a bevy of pitching prospects to acquire a young, cornerstone bat.

Sam Mellinger ‏@mellinger 8m

Good grief. MT @Royals_Report #Royals scratch plans for Felipe Paulino to re-start rehab assignment. Experienced shoulder soreness

**** off you pile of puss.

Don't you have a pitcher of your own who experienced a minor setback?

You Royal fans are so bitter just posting news.

Why do you care so much about the royals it makes no sense

He's probably hoping we trade them Paulino .

BUTLER FOR BUNDDIES

Is there no way to ban someone from a thread? He's been a worthless troll and dumbass for years now.

I was thinking if you could remove any thread created with a Royals icon from his homepage, they he wouldn't ever be allowed to post in those threads. Wonder if we can get a Mod working on this?

Myers HR number 3

Not trolling at all bud just posting news.

Not trolling, my ass.

Piss off.

Ok then you just suck as discussing baseball. Congratulations!

Typically, trolling doesn't bother me much.

But an Orioles fan trolling here makes absolutely no sense.

If he were a Tigers fan, it would be completely normal.

How many games is that that we've hit a HR? 7?

MOAR HRs

Yes you can ban posters from threads.

I'm sure he's been reported before, but the mods are too busy writing roast to worry about it.

And your mother is a whore. Good day, Sir!

Thought I'd add that Shields won, and the Royals have a winning record in his starts. 117 ip of sub-3 era, 104k, avg 7 ip per start. Stud.

Mooses' line for the last 7 games: .348 .375 .565 .940

If him and Hos can keep this up it will be huge for this year and what the team does for next year regarding trades. Batting Escobar 2nd though? Neds to get shit canned still.

So?

Or having Getz lead off....

Well, it either means that he finally figured it out, or just a flash in a pan....

I agree though, its too small of a sample size. I need to see Moose doing this more on a consistent basis before I'll buy it.

So hopefully he is getting his shit together.

He just can't help himself, but put some light weight slap hitter at the top of the lineup. It's Gordon, Hos, Sal, Billy, and Moose if he keeps swing the bat like that. They throw the slappys like Escobar, Lough and Johnson/Tejada in.

I am curious how Dyson would hold up playing CF regularly.

1. Dyson
2. Cain
3. Hos
4. Butler
5. Gordon
6. Salvy
7. Moose
8. Slapdick 2b
9. Escobar

Go ahead and pitch around Billy now. I dare you.

I feel like salvy has been playing pretty damn good right behind billy though.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/0...medium=twitter
The Royals have released outfielder/first baseman Xavier Nady, according to the Pacific Coast League's transactions page. Nady had been playing on a minor league deal that he agreed to after being cut in advance of the Article XX(B) free agent retention bonus deadline, back in late March. It is not presently known whether Nady exercised an opt out clause to trigger his release, or indeed whether he had any such clause in his contract.

Nady was hitting a robust .310/.382/.486 in 289 plate appearances for the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers. After a well-documented power outage over his last several seasons, moreover, Nady had swatted a promising 11 home runs thus far for Omaha. In a combined 166 big league plate appearances last season for the Nationals and Giants, Nady hit just .184/.253/.316.

Would have liked to see Nady HR's in the majors.

The only hope of power in the entire organization.

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 9m

#Rockies signing Xavier Nady to minor-league deal. Scout who saw him recently says Nady, "swung as well as I have seen him in a while."

Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe reports that the Royals have discussed the possibility of trading for Chase Utley.
It's not clear how far those discussions went, but, at least on the surface, Utley would make sense to fill the Royals' hole at second base. To this point, Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro has expressed a hesitancy of being a seller at the trade deadline, but he could certainly change his mind over the next few weeks.
Source: Boston Globe Jun 30 - 10:28 AM

SELL SELL SELL SELL

Why did Biancalana only play five or six major league seasons?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitchin...-2/order/false

I thought this was interesting. There are two SPs on the Royals who receive less run support than Shields. Santana and Guthrie.

Jair Jurrjens Designated For Assignment
By Edward Creech [June 30 at 2:51pm CST]
The Orioles have tweeted they have designated Jair Jurrjens for assignment off the 25-man roster to clear a spot for Brian Roberts. Roberts, who had been on the 60-day disabled list recovering from a right hamstring strain, is in the lineup tonight against the Yankees as the DH batting ninth.

Somewhere, Moore has a load full of jizz rags in the washing machine.

We have no room for Jurrjens, imo.

GMDM will find a way, I wouldn't be shocked....

How long will we continue to go with Davis in the rotation?

Until Duffy/Paulino are ready. He's only really had one bad start in his last five starts. I think he gets a little bit of a bad wrap.

Rick Sutcliffe picked KC as his team who isn't currently first in their division to win their division.

He's an alcoholic right?

He lives here.

He's from Independence so sometimes you gotta let things slide.

Also, yes, a bit of a drinker:

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Heard that too.

Figured he had a drink or two before the segment.

Chris Davis hit his 31st homer tonight. No doubt he is juicing. Props to him.

Could be that Hochevaresque ERA 5.55 and War of -1.4 also.

Also from today.

Left-hander Danny Duffy was sensational in his fifth 2013 appearance for the Storm Chasers as he put together his longest outing of the season, limiting the I-Cubs to only three hits in 5.2 innings of work. Duffy has not allowed a run in his last 12.0 innings for the Storm Chasers, and his last two outings since being optioned to Omaha on June 25 have resulted in shutouts.

Machado hit his 38th double too. That's absurd, it's June. Gordon led the entire league last year with 51.

Yea he is ****ing insane! Fun player to watch. That doubles mark he has at this point is just absurd.

Fangraphs has him at a 0.9 WAR and a 4.12 XFIP.
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx...441&position=P

I'm on the road today, spent the night in Bentonville, Arkansas. Woke up this morning with this weird urge to cut the Royals payroll to $30 million....

lawlz

I got my numbers from ESPN. http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/stats/...957/wade-davis

I'm not sure how a 5.55 ERA, 1.81WHIP, and 328 batting average against is better than replacement level. I'm also pretty sure those numbers justify the "bad rap" he gets.

Mellinger called his Wade Davies today on 810, and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to steal that.

The -1.4 WAR is based on Baseball Reference's assessment, which seems far more accurate, given the player's line.

Fangraphs' formula relies heavily on BABIP and FIP, I think. Davis' FIP is much lower than his ERA, and his BABIP is crazily high. So Fangraphs likes him a lot more than Baseball Ref (his K/9 is solid).

I like Baseball Reference's WAR stats for pitchers and Fangraphs WAR stats for position players. Each is screwy for the other stat, IMO.

Regardless I think we would be better off with Duffy in the rotation and moving Davis back to the pen to help with Herrera sucking it up this year.

Fangraphs is superior to bbref. Davis has been hurt by bad luck this year. Fangraphs factors "leverage" into the equation and Davis has been unlucky with guys scoring whenever they're on base, whereas Guthrie was lucky in having them all stranded.


Of course as Fangraphs predicts, this is not sustainable and Guthrie's luck ran out this past month as it almost always does.

I see. I still don't think good pitchers have an ERA of 5.55 1/2 way through a season. I'd like to see Duffy get a crack at that spot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...aroStanton.jpg
to dream.....

Yes, if Duffy strings together a few more strong outings at Omaha, I think it's time to slide him into Davis's spot in the rotation.

Of course, there's no guarantee Davis can pitch the same way out of the bullpen that he did last year...

So what happens if Duffy is recalled to the MLB?

DFA Gutierrez (who has been pitching a little bit better)?

Me too. I loved the guy when he came up 2 years back. I think at one point before he got hurt, his avg fastball was 2nd in MLB only behind Strasburg. I can't recall. Something like 95.5 mph. His arm is ridiculous.

No, but I think it's worth a shot after Herrera and Crow's regression.

It is so nice to have options with a major league staff.

That's probably the guy that gets cut.

Bob Dutton ‏@Royals_Report
Baseball America projects #Royals to sign two of top 30 international prospects: No. 12 SS Marten Gasparini; No. 22 OF Cristhian Vasquez.

I probably like David Lough way too much. To me he is a line drive hitter, good range, hits the cutoff man. Doesn't piss me off.

Call up Duffy when he's ready, DFA Gutierrez, move Davis to the pen.

Profit.

Rany (or maybe it was Petro) likened him to Avilles and saw him more as a super-utility type guy.

But that's one step too many!