*****Official 2024 Royals Season Repository Thread*****
 

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Year Two of the Matt Quatraro tenure. Time to take a step up this year. Active in free agency and trades this offseason. A new look pitching rotation and bullpen. Will the young players take the leap up offensively? Bobby Witt extension? New stadium? Will Vinny recover from injury? Salvy taking aim at the Royals record book? Will Cole Ragans turn into the best Royals starting pitcher since Greinke 1.0?

Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Seth Lugo, SP
Michael Wacha, SP
Kyle Wright, SP
Hunter Renfroe, OF/DH
Will Smith, RP
Chris Stratton, RP
Nick Anderson, RP
Adam Frazier, 2B
Garrett Hampson, INF/OF
Matt Sauer, RP

Good news from down on the Farm
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BestofBA2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BestofBA2023</a><br><br>We examined how all 30 major league farm systems ranked based on advanced statcast pitching data<a href="https://t.co/nXdsyfwCEW">https://t.co/nXdsyfwCEW</a> <a href="https://t.co/4R7oNLc2jc">pic.twitter.com/4R7oNLc2jc</a></p>&mdash; Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/BaseballAmerica/status/1741460448275251206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

In! PBJ

Missed it by that much!!
Let’s go win!!!

This will be 10 years since the miracle run through the playoffs.

Would love to see some…thing good happen this year.

We're overdue to say the least.

Calling my shot. This team will be above .500.

I'm not even that optimistic

Ya got any goats to sacrifice

I drank enough last night to kill several goats. Does that suffice?

90+ losses

The revamp of the front office continues. Two good pickups with Brian Bridges and now Johnny DiPuglia.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Quick Notes: Johnny DiPuglia former <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nationals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nationals</a>’ international scouting director has been hired by the <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Royals</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkNats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TalkNats</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHeyman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonHeyman</a> <a href="https://t.co/d1lvBqF9z4">https://t.co/d1lvBqF9z4</a></p>&mdash; TheNatsReport ⚾ ���� (@TheNatsReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNatsReport/status/1742278742242693390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The best free agent just hit the open market when brilliant talent evaluator Johnny DiPuglia resigned from the Washington <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nats</a> as their VP and international scouting director. It&#39;s a massive blow to the organization, who has yet to re-sign GM Mike Rizzo. On it, <a href="https://twitter.com/dougherty_jesse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dougherty_jesse</a></p>&mdash; Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1697984648553619656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

DiPuglia signed Hanley Ramirez and was in charge of the Nats international scouting when they added Soto. Seems like he’s a great add.

He signed Ramirez as a 16 year old for 20k so he can work within our budget

J/k this seems like a positive move