***Official 4/16/25 Royals (Bubic) at Yankees (Schmidt) GameDay Thread***
 

Today at 4:05 Pacific, the Royals will be facing the Yankees in the Bronx, Bubic on the mound for the Boys and Clarke Schmidt on the hill for the opposition.

Lines are +124 for KC and -148 for NYY if you must bet into a 20 cent line.

Bubic got lit up in his last outing after dominating before that, while Schmidt makes his 2025 debut after a stint on the IL to start the season. He's real good though so the play just might be the under, but that line already reflects the pitching talent (total is 8).

Personally I'm putting a half unit on KC and my undefeated GameDay thread record both on the line in this one. Let us gogogogogogo!

In fo the L

What could go wrong with a young lefty facing a lineup of torpedo cheats in a little league stadium with a 100% HR/FB ratio?

Royals win 5-3 in this one or my crystal ball is broken!

Noted

You read Faulkner's novel Pylon yet, Ptlyon? You'd dig it.

Valium, Vicodin and vodka for the win!

Two Vs, close together, form a W.

OP eats crayons.

Wild lineup today.

India
Witt Jr.
Pasquantino
Perez
Garcia (DH)
Melendez
Waters
Tolbert
Isbel.

Four of those batters will be hitting from the left side, if I can use the adjective charitably, which is ideal against a RHP.

Less ideal is having your best defensive third baseman in as DH, a pinch running specialist at 2B, and a solid 2B out of position at 3B.

I am looking for a better run output today.

Royals 1

Yankees 3

LGR!! :grovel:

MJ has made adjustments, that somehow have made him worse.

1-0 Rs

Bubic escapes a bases loaded, 1 out jam.

2 of these grounders by the Royals were fielded by the pitcher. :shake:

Great jump on that fly ball by Isbel. Saved a run.

I'm lfg

Joey Wiemer might be worth a call up. He was good on the Brewers. Has talent.

Isbel with the RBI triple, 3-2 yanks

Tied at 3 after India's groundout RBI.

Have you ended up releasing Cavan Biggio yet? I notice he's not in the lineup.

Played last night. (3B)

That's unfortunate.

The pinch runner playing second base just cost he Royals the game, most likely. They could have played Garcia at 3B and India at 2B.

That's what you call "fancy play syndrome" and it's on management not the team.

On replay, he's OUT!! Bubic out, Schreiber in in relief.

Schreiber holds them, 3-3 after 6 innings.

I reverse jinxed it. I do that a lot. It actually does work.

Well, so much for that, why bring him back out when Lynch is there?

Shame that jASS got hit. Too bad it wasn’t in the nuts.

Lynch out after all of 11 pitches, and Zerpa is in....4-3 yanks bottom of the 8th

Since the 2015 crew we have been the Yanks AAA team. Don’t see it changing when they visit Kauffman. Manager is soft. JJ needs to sub him out for Ned to inject sone energy into the lineup. Pathetic

Oh Salvy...

Salvy looks like he is 1000 years old.

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I think the Yankees double A team could ass whoop the Royals. 11 years without a series win in NY. They are beyond in their heads.

I thought they'd show a little more fire after those asshats Chisholm and Volpe clowned Garcia last year, but nah.

Royals are low T. The only team that the league doesn't have to drug test.

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**** the yankme's. **** them to hell.

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That's about right. MJ rips one to tie the game and Bellinger does that.

MJ still blows

Games over, and Salvy still hasn't reached 1st base.

Siiiiiiiiiiigh……..

Bats are gonna heat up any day now…

Just be patient

In 19 games, we’ve scored over 4 runs 2 times. That’s ****ing pathetic

It’s getting dangerously close to the time where I check out from the royals for a month.

I can’t take futility.

It's unfortunate but not as asinine as Ross Atkins guaranteeing to take on $14.75 million of Miles Straw, who put up a 40 wRC+ last year for Cleveland and was DFA'd by the penny-pinching Guardians for being the worst hitting regular in baseball.

I think Straw might lead the Jays in fWAR this year. Great bang for their buck.

You say that on April 16, 2025. He's not going to go .417 BABIP all year.

He's guaranteed through 2026 with a 2027 buyout.

How is it great bang for the buck when the Jays already have a subpar hitter with Gold Glove defense?

Because he's been worth 0.5 fWAR already, which is almost equivalent to 5M in value. Even if this is a hot streak and not the start of Straw's reawakening, he'll end up more than worth that money over 2 years as a 4th OF when Varsho returns.

Stick to basketball big dog. Your baseball takes are cringeworthy.

You're full of shit.

The Jays ate his salary hoping they could get a $300 million dollar pitcher (Sasaki) for $8 million. Worth the trade off and the gamble.

The Jays are printing money so it's not going to cripple them but Cleveland is one of the most efficient operations in baseball and they outrighted him off the roster and were willing to eat what was owed for him to play in the minors.

Move this team to the Northland or Kansas. Let someone else pay for this mess. I'm getting tired of caring.

More unluckiness at the dish?

The good news is that the team has all the confidence in the world. In what, I have no idea...

Have you heard MJ adjusted his stance?

It’s finally paying dividends.

They’re paying a glorified DH 500M. I expect they can afford to pay a 4th OF 14M over 2 years, especially when ZiPS is projecting him to make up that entire value this season: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/my...ts?position=OF

Was I wrong about Biggio?

You're defending one of baseball's worst hitting regulars and bashing one of baseball's purest hitters that has the rare combination of bat-to-ball skills, power and plate discipline.

He is an absolute piece of shit.

Also he is our 2nd best OF.

No, you were not.

Not an outrageous take.

Obviously he sucks.

If the Dodgers try to resurrect a guy and can't, the Royals just need to leave that dude alone and not acquire him as the missing piece.

Little write up on Bubic's outing from Nick Pollack:

Kris Bubic (KCR) @ NYY (ND) – 5.1 IP, 3 ER, 7 Hits, 4 BBs, 6 Ks – 14 Whiffs, 35% CSW, 94 pitches. Blegh. The four-seamer, sweeper, changeup approach to RHB was all over the place, while he couldn’t get the slider or sweeper down to LHB. And yet, he still earned 14 whiffs and a 35% CSW. If only the sweeper wasn’t his most thrown pitch and his worst thrown pitch. Okay, maybe that’s the changeup, which was featured just eight times and looked pretty terrible. I’m glad we get Rockie Road up next, the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream equivalent to help pitchers get over their frustrating outings.

That's correct.

He might be the first hitter I've ever seen whose Plan A is to take a walk and who has absolutely no Plan B after that.