Moore has said he feels like he has a real chance to re sign the core free agents because of their familiarity with KC. He says they all love it here

Lol!


They always say that

Twins are engaged in trade talks with Jaime Garcia

A proportional response from MIN: About to upgrade their rotation by adding Jaime Garcia for a minor-leaguer, at relatively low cost.

Good.

Could be true. I've speculated more than enough on Moose (probably more than I should) but he really doesn't give any hints to the media on anything.

Hard to know how much he enjoys it here. He's pretty low key on answering everything.

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Interesting read:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...are-the-worst/

We are one of the least hated teams!!

Hey, Brandon Moss starting to actually play like a real DH!

Ride the hot streak, Ned. Keep him in there every day till he cools back down again. Might as well get some value out of that check Glass wrote . . . .

Looks like we will be 1.5 GB with Cleveland and Minnesota idle.

TOMORROWS MATCHUPS
Indians, Bauer 5.59 ERA vs Toronto
Texas, Yu Darvish vs Tampa Bay
Twins, Ervin Santana vs Detroit, Anibal Sanchez
Kansas City, Kennedy vs White Sox, James Schields 5.10 ERA

Our unfavorable rating is probably made up entirely of Orioles and Mets fans

And Blue Jays fans

He and his wife were born and raised in SoCal.

If he has an opportunity to return (Angels), he will.

This can go both ways. Some guys want their home to be home and prefer to not play where they live since it can tend to give them a little less privacy. But LA being what it is with many famous people and so large does mitigate that some.

Moose has spoken many times about being "home" in SoCal.

Soler hit 2 home runs yesterday for Omaha.

Bring up Soler!

J/K. He needs to be in Omaha getting regular AB's every day. Give him a chance to work on his offensive game consistently. Probably will come up for a bit when rosters expand in September after Omaha's season is over.


Next year will be the year of Soler . . . . . .

Per Jon Heyman

the #SFGiants are hoping to bring back pablo sandoval today, and that's still the expectation. tho the royals are among others w/ interest.

Per Mark Bowman

The Astros have shown interest in Garcia. The Royals were also potential suitors, but they now seem more interested in a RH starter

Why the **** would we be interested in that tub?

Gordon and Moss are feeling lonely as shitty hitters on the team

There's really no downside. He'd be cheap, and there's a slim chance he plays better away from the spotlight of Boston.


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I see what you did there


I guess so, but Moss is heating up to his norm or expected level. I'd rather have Torres who can fill in at several positions and hit his weight.

Using weight as a level of expectation isn't exactly fair in this case.

Lol

Sure. Depends on how a deal would be structured and what guarantees he gets. If he will accept a AAA assignment, you could stash Sandoval in Omaha and see how he performs. Call him up in September when rosters expand, and then have some inventory for 2018 if he recovers his form.

It's a potentially creative way to get an above-average MLB bat on the extreme cheap.




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Gordon is awful.
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If I were Dayton Moore today, here's what I would be working on:

SP - Trevor Cahill, San Diego. Cahill boasts a nice strikeout rate and has kind of reinvented himself after a stint in the bullpen, showing much better K rate and less dependent on getting groundball outs. He's a rental and isn't likely to get enough money to warrant a Qualifying Offer at the end of the year, so he should be pretty cheap. If everything translates, he might be KC's second-best pitcher down the stretch (also someone to think about as a FA signing for 18 and beyond).

OF Curtis Granderson, New York Mets. I've been begging for a different LH hitting NyM outfielder, but Granderson has been excellent since May 1 (awful April depresses overall numbers). He still is an above-average runner and has great plate discipline and good power. And unlike Bruce, the Mets won't risk a QO on Granderson, so the cost is cheaper.

RP Pat Neshek, Phillies. Neshek' lack of control beyond this season should depress his price below that of David Phelps or David Robertson or Ryan Madison, who weren't huge expenses, anyway. Neshek would be an excellent solidifying piece for KC's pen.


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They all make comments to this effect. Hosmer went "home" for the AS Game. Think he'll be signing with Miami?

He's a Boras client. You're an idiot to think that he won't go wherever he is offered the most money.

Where would Granderson play? Wanna bench Gordon? I'd be more focused on Lance Lynn than Trevor Cahill

Granderson plays RF, Bonifacio slides to DH, Moss slides to bench (though you'd be able to "hot hand" the DH spot a bit.

Lynn is probably better than Cahill (though Cahill has been really good this year and may be better right now), but he also is likely more expensive to acquire.

Cahill has a 3.14 ERA, with a 1.24 WHIp and 11 K/9. He's only made 10 starts, but he has been excellent.


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I'd be fine with moving Boni to the DH. All he does is get on base. What do you think it would cost to get Grandy?

Off topic, but I watched a couple of old VHS tapes of the 1999 Royals. 97 loss team, and yet a young offensive core that would have rivaled any dynasty. The woes of being a small market team. :( Here was the 1 through 5 lineup that year.

1. Johnny Damon (25 yrs old) 307 avg, 14 HR, 77 RBIs, 36 SB
2. Joe Randa (29 yrs old) 314 avg, 16 HR, 84 RBIs
3. Carlos Beltran (22 yrs old) 293 avg, 22 HR, 108 RBIs, 27 SB
4. Jermaine Dye (25 yrs old) 294 avg, 27 HR, 119 RBIs
5. Mike Sweeney (25 yrs old) 322 avg, 22 HR, 102 RBIs

Granderson comes across as a super-likable guy

Unfortunately, he'd could only play in day games, as the salisbury steak is served promptly at 4:30 at the Home.

If we acquired Neshek, think Herrera would quietly move back to the 7th or 8th inning guy, or would that mess with his confidence too much?

The way we're constructed we need something closer to that 14-15 bullpen if we're going to make a serious playoff run. We can't replicate it, but we've gotta be tighter

I know this may sound crazy but what about putting Moylan as the closer. He has been nails after his terrible April

You're right. It is crazy.

Moylan's been good as the fireman arm in the bullpen. We don't really have anybody else who can do what he does.

It's pretty incredible that Alex Gordon is now in his mid-30's and by multiple statistical measures he's now the slowest LF in the the game.

And yet he still has the best LF defense in the majors, and it ain't close.

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.asp...ers=0&sort=8,d

I don't give a **** how slow he is. The route he takes to fly balls are insane. By far one of the best LF of all time defensively

He catch against the Tigers I believe 2 years ago where he literally jumped 2 rows deep to catch a ball was insane. It was better than Jeter

Btw does somebody wanna start a game thread? Moss is batting clean up tonight

My mojo's all used up. I can't do it.

White Sox, but yes, that was one of the best defensive plays I've ever witnessed. He then had an OF assist right after, iirc.

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I wouldn't use Neshek to close. He'd be a setup guy/fireman.


Moylan is very vulnerable to left-handed hitters. You want to use him situational, so I wouldn't want him closing.

I do like the idea of lining up this pen:

Moylan
Alexander

Two groundball heavy guys you can deploy in middle innings

Minor
Neshek

High-quality, high leverage guys

Herrera
Sofia

Neither has been wade Davis or even vintage Kelvin Herrera, but Soria has been pretty excellent overall. If anything, you might consider flipping those two (and if Soria hadn't been so awful in 16, they probably already would be).




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Yu Davish sucks.

Good thing we're not interested in him. We are interested in Lynn and Tehran though

My bad someone gave me fake news. I deleted my post

We were a bit above avg in that inflated era, 5.32/per (league avg 5.18)


Our pitching was dead last At 5.72

If i remember right, We scored a ton of runs, but our pitching gave up a lot of them too.

Savor this moment.

Because right now, every hitter in the Royals lineup is batting over .200.

MENDOZA!!!!!

Rather fitting that George Brett is credited with popularizing that term.

Junis back up to KC, Burns sent down to AAA-Omaha.

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Orlando has began his rehab assignment. Will he be called up to KC? Cuthbert and Orlando up and Junis and Torres sent down?

Going to need Alex to step up his offensive production.

So far, it's a hell a lot better.

2nd half of the season:
.286 BA
.344 OBP
.357 SLG
.701 OPS

I was looking up the top distances on HR in MLB this year, mostly to see where the monster I saw Bryce Harper hit at the game I was at last night ranked(10th at 467 feet). I was surprised to see two Royals in the top 10. Soler at tied 4th(470 on 5/14)and Hosmer at tied 6th(469 5/5). Doesn't mean much but pretty cool

I dont even know how they accurately measure these things? What if a HR hits an obstruction before it hits the ground? Like a wall, or the front of an upper deck?

Maths.

Using the launch angle and the exit velocity, which are measured now more than they ever were before, we probably have better data on HR distance than ever before.


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If a fielder has to leave the field of play to make a catch, I think that this should not be recorded as an out.

Chiefs and Royals BOTH have Alex's that suck.

There is likely some rule.. I doubt you could hop into the stands, stand there at catch it. Not sure.

LMAO

At least 1 of them was elite at 1 time.

And to be fair he's still playing great defense. His overall WAR isn't nearly as bad as you'd think because his defense is still very good.

Just by the eye test, he's not hitting like an all-star but he seems to be making more solid contact more often now.

What is the point of this? It seems that a pinch runner/defensive sub is much more valuable than a pitcher who gives up tons of dingers.

Billy Burns is neither a great pinch runner nor a great defender.

He's really fast, but he doesn't get great jumps stealing bases (career rates not that great) and he takes bad routes/has no arm in the OF.


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Orlando and Cuthbert will be up soon

Damn indians already have a 4 spot against the hapless Blue Jays. They're on one of their hot streaks. I just hope we can continue this hot streak through Detriot, who seems to give us fits

We can take the wild card spot today if Yanks and or Rays lose

They are in the easy part of their schedule.

Moose's last 162 games he has hit 47 bombs

Yep. In my head if we are 5 or less back come August, the division is very much in play.

Burns made a tremendous catch the other night. I would certainly take him in the outfield over Bonifacio in the late innings.

Anyway, my main point is not that Burns is awesome. It's that Junis sucks.

Bullpen is tired and has been getting overworked. Yost needed a long man in the pen, just in case. That's why Junis is up.

So why isn't Dayton buy buy buying yet?

If that's going to be your strategy why the **** would you dick around with some of these assholes and rack up unnecessary losses when you can get security and help?

The Royals are far from guaranteed to even make the playoffs. Get some help now so you at least get in.

They're in a pickle

Luckily, Wood's next turn through the rotation can be skipped since we have an off day this week between Detroit and Boston. Hopefully Dayton can address the need for a starting pitcher before we circle back around to the #5 spot against the O's in Baltimore.

Dayton just needs to get something done before the trade deadline.

Another reliable bullpen arm would help tremendously too . . . .

I think Wood has a spot on this team, it just isn't as a starter. He seems like the perfect candidate for long relief.