2013 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread

[duncan_idaho]

Proposed 2013 Slogan: Tigers: They're what's for dinner
Actual 2013 Slogan: Come to Play
A better, more accurate, or alternative slogan: All in, no panic, we promise.

Dayton Moore has pushed all his chips in and is riding on King/Jack suited, hoping it comes together, he gets some good luck, and he hits the nuts by the river card. There's potential, oh yes, there's potential. There's also risk.

At the midway point, Dayton is left counting on the river card. The flop and turn didn't help him, and he's looking at the Tigers holding a pair of Queens and the Indians holding a pair of 9s. His 2013 plan hasn't failed - yet - but the odds are not in his favor.

Burning questions updates below.

Burning Questions for 2013:

1) Will the improve rotation be improved enough? Does James Shields pitch like a fringe No. 1 away from Tampa Bay? Does Ervin Santana pitch to his highest upside in his walk year? Can Jeremy Guthrie build on his strong performance as a Royal in 2012? Can Wade Davis bring his new mentality- and velocity - back to the rotation?

Midseason check-in: Yes, the rotation is certainly improved enough. Shields has pitched like a fringe No. 1 and Santana is having his best season. Guthrie has horrible peripherals but has continued to perform well at his home park and eat innings on the road. Davis brought neither his kick-ass mentality or improved velocity back to the rotation and is in Luke Hochevar/Hiram Davies territory.

2) When will Luke Hochevar be shown the door?
Midseason check-in: It appears, never, at this point. Hochevar has been solid in non-leverage situations, though pretty much every time he has been used with men on base in an inning, it has been a disaster.

3) Does Hosmer bounce back?
Midseason check-in: It took some time, but Hosmer's performance from June 1 on is probably the most encouraging thing about the 2013 season so far.
4) Can Moustakas hit for a whole season like he did in the first half of 2012?
Midseason check-in: Nope. Moustakas was god-awful, then great for about 3 weeks, then god-awful again. He has been better since he started working with Brett and Grafol but still has a long way to go.
5) Who regresses?
Midseason check-in: Welp, Alicides Escobar is not a surprising name here (though Yost's stubborn insistence on hitting him second is ridiculous). Billy Butler is a surprise. He isn't having a terrible year - still contributing a lot to the offense - but he's not hitting for the average or power he has displayed over the past several years.
6) Who plays 2B?
Midseason check-in: A whole bunch of people, and not that great. Gio is at least getting a shot, though he once again is not doing much with it.
7) Can Jeff Francoeur be at least replacement level, rather than epic horrible level?
Midseason check-in: Hahahahahahahahahahaha
8) Will Dayton Moore survive to see 2014?
Midseason check-in: Outlook uncertain. Probably still around, unless the team completely tanks in the second half and he does something foolish. My guess - he sacrifices Ned Yost this offseason and gets one more shot with a new manager in 2014.
9) Will Danny Duffy come back healthy? And if he does, is he the same, better or worse?
Midseason check-in: Yes. Velocity looks the same, and it looks likely he is the same guy as before.
10) And the big one: Has KC added enough to run down the big-money Detroit Tigers?
Midseason check-in: Doesn't look like it, does it?

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by jbwm89

Read a yahoo article which made me wonder what I would do if they offered. I apologize for not meeting your discussion criteria. I'll make sure to do better next time.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/james-s...151500115.html

The bottom of the article says the author is a freelance writer.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

KK was railing on Glass with Jack Harry this afternoon. Saying the guy who owns Sporting should buy the Royals.

True, Glass has been total suck as an owner. But I trust KK as far as I can throw his Lasik altered, wife leaving ass.

I'll bet he'd love to stir up the shit, have Sporting buy the Royals so he could get the radio rights away from Entercom. And every time you hear him talk to anybody in authority, whether that's David or Dan Glass, or Clark Hunt, he turns into a softball lobbing kiss ass.

What a douche.

I heard this today. While I basically agree with most of the negative comments about Glass, KK always seems to add in some side issues that make it seem personal, such as comments about Glass not pursuing a downtown stadium and his station's radio rights (I recall that KK bought some downtown property near where a proposed stadium would have been built, so he had a personal reason to be pissed when they opted for renovation).

KK was also bitching about George Brett. He said that if Brett truly cared about the team he would publicly call out Glass as a shitty owner and demand he sell the team. Even Jack Harry thought that was a bit much. Toward the end, KK added in some comment about how Brett has never been friendly towards him or something. Again, KK's bitching sounded like he had some personal issue to it.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

He said that if Brett truly cared about the team he would publicly call out Glass as a shitty owner and demand he sell the team.

Thats never gonna happen. He wouldnt blackball himself like that.

But yea, ill be a very happy man the day that Glass decides to sell the team. If not, hey at least i got to see a championship once in my lifetime.

[Sure-Oz]

Brett will never say anything about Glass. KK just wants shit started...thing is the GM is the main problem even if the owner blows hes given dayton what he's needed and Dayton has failed miserably.

As for Shields for Profar, yeah i'd do that

He won't be back

[stonedstooge]

Just heard on the news that the GlASS group is in Kansas City and it was reported that they "Back Ned Yost". w00t. The kiss of death

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by stonedstooge

Just heard on the news that the GlASS group is in Kansas City and it was reported that they "Back Ned Yost". w00t. The kiss of death

Dayton Moore is the bigger problem and needs to go

[stonedstooge]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Dayton Moore is the bigger problem and needs to go

It will work it's way up

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

The bottom of the article says the author is a freelance writer.

Shut the **** up
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[Prison Bitch]

Guthrie bears an uncanny resemblance to Dayton.

[ImAWalkingCorpse]

I can't believe Chris Getz is still on this team. He is 100% useless.

[Prison Bitch]

"Prison Bitch nobody is totally worthless. He can always serve as a bad example" - grandpa

[teedubya]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

We were 17-10 before Gordon moved to third in the lineup. Just saying.

No, we were 17-13 when the change was made in Baltimore.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

KK was railing on Glass with Jack Harry this afternoon. Saying the guy who owns Sporting should buy the Royals.

True, Glass has been total suck as an owner. But I trust KK as far as I can throw his Lasik altered, wife leaving ass.

I'll bet he'd love to stir up the shit, have Sporting buy the Royals so he could get the radio rights away from Entercom. And every time you hear him talk to anybody in authority, whether that's David or Dan Glass, or Clark Hunt, he turns into a softball lobbing kiss ass.

What a douche.

He was hitting ***** pretty hard in his interview with him last year in his defense. I remember Pioli got pissed about something and said he wished Kevin would be the GM of the Broncos and Kevin said I would to because they just signed Peyton Manning and drafted their QB of the future in the 2nd round. Good stuff.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Why in the world would Texas trade the #1 prospect in all of MLB (and who's playing fine in his first year of MLB at a premium position) for 1/2 season of Gopher-Ball Santana and an A ball project?

exxxxactly

[Hootie]

they probably wouldn't do it for Shields, either

BUT

The Royals should in a heartbeat. This season is toast. **** Shields. See ya later, brah. Flipping Myers and Odrizzi for Profar is fair enough.