Agreed to all of this.

I love Lorenzo, but he's injured too often and is too old to take a chance on for what will likely be an expensive 4 to 5 year deal. Gordon's deal, who was on a player who was projected to age better than Cain, should give us the warning we need on a deal like this.

I see we called up Bonafacio from AAA to play centerfield today. Maybe he'll show the rest of the offense how to hit.

It's a shame that of the core three we are set to lose to free agency after this season, LoCain is the only one keeping his worth so far yet still the one that makes the least sense to retain due to his age and injury history. I think Hosmer will always have that untapped ability until the day he retires. Whether it's just straight stubbornness about changing his swing mechanics or what, he's been the same streaky player for years now.

It's maddening to see how simple Moustakas' swing now is, compared to Hosmer's.

That change sure seems to have turned Moustakas into a legitimate front-line hitter. Hosmer has had JUST enough success to not change.


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I'd say he just did, 421 ft worth.

Imagining Hosmer reforming to a Daniel Murphy swing is... almost maddening.

Who gets sent down when Soler is done with the rehab stint....Alexander? Outright Colon?

I'd guess Alexander gets sent down.

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You can't outright Colon, he's out of options. He'd have to be DFA'd and pass through waivers. I think someone would claim him.

Boy, losing Colon would be impactful.

Might as well trade Hos and Moose and Cain and Vargas and Kennedy and keep Colon as an everyday player, heck Butera can pitch for us.

Nobody wants Hoz

If I'm a team likely headed to the playoffs in need of a 1B - I'll take Hos for a half season all day (assuming he's playing good by midseason).

Whether we're in contention or not, this team could really benefit from having Hos go on his random torrid stretch in June where confused national commentators say he'll be in MVP consideration if he keeps it up (he never does).

Colon can play SS. I'm guessing that's what is keeping him on the team. If Mondesi could hit better than .100 I bet they'd let Colon go... but until that happens they'll probably keep Colon around.

Hoz's replacement is doing pretty well in Omaha. Ryan O'Hearn is batting .317 with 5 HR.

http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp...tting/2017/ALL

Hosmer BA .203
Escobar BA 190
Gordon BA .169
Moss BA .133

And before they went to Omaha;
Orlando BA .149
Mondesi BA .103

Only five Royals player are batting over .250 and two of them (Merrifield & Bonifacio) just got called up.

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable.js...=1493037258955

I'll be repping my positive outlook at Guaranteed Rape Field tonight!

I knew Gordon would be a total pumpkin his last year or two of his contract. But not this quickly. I figured he would get us 3&2 war his first two years before hitting the shitter. And he couldn't even give us that.


He should get booed out there, and I really don't care about the past. He sucks so bad, can't even drive the ball with any authority now

Yup, it's hard to drive the ball with only one hand on the bat.

Heck, the guy isn't even close to giving us Major League at bats (whether he makes contact of not). Not sure these are even Triple A at bats. And what's even more troubling is that he doesn't appear to be making ANY adjustments either. I guess he doesn't feel he needs to since he batted a lofty .220 last year. Go figure.

It's coming & people will be saying pay the man. It happens every year...I'm not falling for it this year though.

Bye Bye Hos.



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I think everyone thought he'd struggle, which is why the contract never made sense.

Turner Field: 1997-2016
Bartolo Colon: 1997-



Bartolo outlasted a ballpark.

If his average hits .300 again and he hits 5 homers in 7 games or some such, it's time to be looking for takers. It would do us no good to look to sell him while he'd be struggling to hit it out of a little league park.

This reminds me of Wade Davis last year. Where the team was going to get a haul for him, and then Davis gets hurt and we end up with Soler.

In this case, Hoz is going to suck so bad all the way up through the trade deadline - then he'll turn it on.

Speak of the debil, Hos dropped this quote in the Mellinger article today:

Totally agree. Trade him a week into his hot streak.


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When I read that in class this morning I wanted to chuck my Macbook across the auditorium.

Ground ball rate, Hoz:


Minors 53.5%
Majors 53.3%


I'd honestly consider cutting him at the ASB if he's still at 225 with 6 HR or something fierce

In broad strokes...what the hell happened to this team?

6 out of 9 players lined up in Game 5 of the 2015 World Series and won.

Time, age, and stubbornness.

Yost quit putting Escobar in the leadoff spot. :-)

People think Salvy is the clubhouse leader, but it turns out it was Alex Rios this entire time

To the surprise of no one, Kyle Zimmer to the DL with shoulder soreness.

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Our batting coach needs fired !

Just being overly cautious, I'm sure.

Bring back George!

Put a fork in it.

Good to see Salvy back in there, I'm assuming he is catching and not playing 3B :D Flip Bonifacio and Esky and Moose/Hoz and I like it a lot.

Ned really needs to swap Hoz and Bonifacio in the lineup.

Bat Hos 9th send a message /fanning

That would mess up Ned's "Right, Left, Right, Left, etc..." game plan.

The lineup has four left handed batters and only one of them is batting over .205

Hindsight.

No one thought he was going to drop off the table in year 1 like he did, or go from being a good offensive player to being a bad one from 2015 to 2016.


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Watch your cornhole and wallet bud.

We have an ump review happening before the first pitch??

I think they were completing a background check on one of the Sox players.

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Should have traded him after last year's ASG...teams would have given us the mother lode.

Hosmer's replacement?

http://mlb.com/r/article?ymd=2017042...ews_kc&c_id=kc

1B: Ryan O'Hearn, Omaha Storm Chasers (Triple-A)
(Royals' No. 8 prospect)
6 G, .423/.444/.846, 3 R, 2 2B, 3 HR, 7 RBIs, 0 BB, 2 K

O'Hearn batted just .235 over his first nine games before catching fire last week. The 23-year-old first baseman hit safely in all six games for Omaha, including home runs in three of his final four contests. He's now gone deep five times in 15 games, during which he's hitting .317/.369/.650.


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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a> would quit being stubborn and listen to the call-in shows, there are lots of folks offering free advice on how to fix swings.</p>&mdash; Matt Davis (@KCRoyalFan) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCRoyalFan/status/856674447742443520">April 25, 2017</a></blockquote>
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LOOL

Offense bad

All aboard the struggle bus!

Why cant we spend up to the salary cap and keep our good players. Seems to me we had a winning formula shut down bull pen, scrappy players that didnt quit because they knew they could count on the bullpen. We get rid of davis let holland walk and pretend we have a power batting team. Who ever showed us on the team they were top level run producers?

Well this team is officially complete dog shit.

This team needs to massively improve just to get to the suck level. Holy crap they are bad.

wRC+ is at a perfect 100 league average currently for all batters in the league who have > 29 PA's
[For example, if a player has a wRC+ of 115, he is 15% above league-average and vice-versa if it is below 100.]

Taking that into account and searching for only batters who have > 29 PA's, the Royals are currently tied for 26th in the league with the White Sox, Rangers, and Cardinals with a total of 3 batters with above-average run production. The only team with 2 players above league-average wRC+ is the Padres.

On the contrary, we are tied for first for amount of players whose run production is greater than 25% below league-average. So not only are we bad... we are really bad. In fact, we do bad good. We are good at bad.

tl;dr, "I don't care about statistics, you AIDS ****er" translation:
We suck nuts.

#nutsucker.

What's this salary cap you are talking about in baseball?

Hoz 0-4, with 3 ground outs. Even to end the game. Shmuck

Has Travis Wood ever not given up a run this year?

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As I said before and as painful as it is to say, it's over, we suck and the fire sale is coming. Every game, it's the same ****ing thing. We make EVERY pitcher look like a ****ing Cy Young candidate.

Long term I think this is our best option (fire sale), but we have got to get some of these guys hitting to make them attractive. Hosmer needs to go on a tear or he may be looking at accepting a QO next year.. I still want to win, but we cannot stand tight if we are sitting close to .500 and have half a dozen teams above us.

The new multi-year deal between the White Sox and Modelo Especial did not go unnoticed amongst the crowd of 5k on hand last night.

I think our coaching staff needs to be replaced, not so much the players. Players don't just become untalented.

30+ year old players do.

Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton say "hello".

It's over

I'd start benching these guys like hosmer, send a message. Tell him to go work on his hitting non stop. Maybe sacrifice a chicken or something.

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I think I need to watch Bull Durham again. :)

Skip: What's our record, Larry?

Larry: Eight and sixteen.

Skip: Eight... and sixteen. How'd we ever win eight?

Larry: It's a miracle.

Skip: It's a miracle. This... is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball. You got it?

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I still think Hosmer will be better than this. Gordon and Moss, I'm increasingly not so sure.

I mean, Gordo probably will improve some, but maybe only to last year's level, which isn't good enough. His K's are down this year, which is good, but instead his groundball rate has skyrocketed, to a career high. He's gonna need some help from the BABIP fairy.

And Moss ... he's repeating the awful September he had last year. That's still just one month and three weeks, SSS, but it's a disturbing trend for a 33-year-old, one-dimensional player.

Time to start over. Way past time........

Hosmer's stubborn refusal to make any adjustments whatsoever is really starting to annoy me. "I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing" is a bad idea when what you're doing is completely awful.

I just submitted a resume for Royals DH on careerbuilder . Said "81 have already applied to this job". The next screen showed a list of similar jobs, so I submitted for SS and RF too

That was going to happen after this season anyway.

We won a world championship less than two years ago. It's hardly "way past time".

Well, to be fair, about half of this site was calling for us to sell everything, cut worthless players like Gas-Can Herrera, Davis, Moose and Hos, and for Glass to sell the team after the bad start in 2014.

Shit, I may have been one of them. I'm pretty sure I was calling for Moore's head.