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

[ChiefsCountry]

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

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

There's so much that goes into BABIP.

How much contact do you make?
How hard is that contact. on average?
Are you fast enough to beat out a lot of IF grounders?
Are you hitting lots of line drives?

If you can run like the wind, you hit the ball hard (and consistently hit it hard), you control the strike zone, and you hit a lot of line drives, like Bobby Witt, BABIP is generally going to be higher than average.

Garcia is fast. Hope he is better. Hes been a little disappointing.

[cmh6476]

finally something

The Kansas City Royals are finalizing a deal to acquire right-handed reliever Lucas Erceg from the Oakland A’s, sources tell ESPN.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 30, 2024

[In58men]

The Kansas City Royals are finalizing a deal to acquire right-handed reliever Lucas Erceg from the Oakland A’s, sources tell ESPN.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 30, 2024

[cmh6476]

Originally Posted by In58men

The Kansas City Royals are finalizing a deal to acquire right-handed reliever Lucas Erceg from the Oakland A’s, sources tell ESPN.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 30, 2024

Q

[cmh6476]

Cleveland mortgaging the future, apparently to get in win now mode :|

Trade news: The Cleveland Guardians are finalizing a deal to acquire right-hander Alex Cobb from the San Francisco Giants, sources tell ESPN.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 30, 2024

[dlphg9]

This is gonna be a haul.

[dlphg9]

Paul Dejong to KC

[cmh6476]

From stuff I'm reading...

Erceg has been a solid setup guy, with a 3.68 ERA, 1.20 WHIP and 41:13 k:BB ratio and has kept runs off the board in his last 12 of 13 appearances. Throws triple digits, is 29 and comes with 5 years of team control.

[cmh6476]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Paul Dejong to KC

going to push BWJ for time at SS? Or are they planning on giving Bobby a day off?

[SithCeNtZ]

Originally Posted by cmh6476

going to push BWJ for time at SS? Or are they planning on giving Bobby a day off?

He's played third and second in his career. Looks like an upgrade over hampson or Frazier.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by cmh6476

going to push BWJ for time at SS? Or are they planning on giving Bobby a day off?

Utility guy

[siberian khatru]

Erceg is intriguing. Converted position player.

[cmh6476]

can dejong play tonight? Just has to walk over to the other dugout...

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by cmh6476

going to push BWJ for time at SS? Or are they planning on giving Bobby a day off?

It appears he would hit RHP better and Garcia hits LHP better. Some kind of creative platoon?

[BWillie]

What happened to Dejong in STL at the end? Looks to have a great start his first 3 years and then 2021 and 2022 was absolutely awful