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Let's get back sole possession tonight.

continuing from the last repository,

The whole 60-day DL thing might somehow give us the ability to make someone postseason eligible after tonight (who knows since we don't know what rule 40 says anymore), but I still think we'd have to pick 25 guys before each series. We're not gonna be in a situation where we get to have more players than our opponent.

****ing Tigers rallying.

Makes way more sense. Again, just heard it in the background. Can bring up more players for september that weren't allready on the 40 man

Chisux up 6-2 in the 8th.

Today, I don't care about the Tigers. I just want our guys to be less reeruned at the plate with RISP

So in layman's terms what does this mean for the playoff roster? If they bring up Finnegan, Binford & Zimmer tomorrow are they eligible for the playoffs?

The team will still have to designate 25 players from the 40 man roster for each playoff series. If those 3 guys get called up, they'll be eligible to be on that list of 25, but they won't automatically be on the list.

According to McCullough, the Royals do plan to execute some 40-man roster shenanigans right after the game and before the deadline. They aren't saying exactly what they are doing yet.

Ned Yost ladies and gentlemen.

Andy McCullough ‏@McCulloughStar 35m
Ned Yost says part of the reason the hitters have been pressing is the pressure to perform in front of the big crowds here at The K.

I have to keep telling myself this:
Baseball is a game of streaks, winning and losing. We HAVE to have known that all this winning wouldn't come without a slump (just ask Detroit). I'd much rather the Royals slump now than three weeks from now.

15 LOB won't happen but once a season.

:facepalm:

If this is true, these guys dont deserve to make the playoffs

Yeah, Det has been in about a three month slump. That said we have to win tonight because Cleve is gaining fast

Ned, I'll bet the players just LOVE hearing that.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Per <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar">@McCulloughStar</a>, the Royals are calling up Finnegan, Gore, and Lane Adams tomorrow. Finnegan immediately becomes the #1 LH in the pen.</p>&mdash; Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/statuses/506215012063789056">August 31, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Thanks ****ing God. We have shit for lefties out of the pen.

RAH RAH TCU!

I really have no idea why Rany has dubbed himself some sort of shadow GM here and announced Finnegan is already our #1 bullpen lefty. The team certainly hasn't said that, McCullough's tweet didn't say that, and history would not suggest that's likely for pretty much any MLB team.

I wonder how they'll perform in the late innings of game 7?

Wasn't he just busting our balls on showing up to The K?

Truly amazing they keep running out that POS Moustakas vs LH. .175 v them but who needs offense on this juggernaut?

Considering the fact that Bruce Chen and Scott Downs have pitched this week, it wouldn't take much to be the #1 LH in the pen. I think I could do that. And I'm not even left-handed.

They have no other third baseman on the roster. They, for some reason, unbeknownst to man, sent Christian Colon and his .300+ batting average to the minors.

Oh, what's that? They just signed Jayson Nix? The only guy on earth who plays third base and hits worse than Moustakas? Awesome.

The moves this team has made the last couple of months are absolutely mind-boggling.

Raul Ibanez? Scott Downs? Jayson Nix?

What is going on here? Who thinks it's a good idea to let these people play in the major leagues in a pennant race?

Are we looking at the Inevitable Collapse?

Just play Colon at 3B against LH. Or I dunno, keep Valencia instea of trading him? He was hitting LH fine

These seem like remarkably easy decisions to make. Moustakas can't hit left-handers, so at least keep a platoon guy on the team who can hit lefties. Or at least keep Colon, who is hitting .300, on the team, instead of signing Jayson Nix, who is hitting .130 (yes - you are reading that correctly - HE IS HITTING ONE THIRTY. As in he gets a hit 13% of the time).

I could literally ask my five-year-old daughter to make these decisions, and she would be smarter about it than these idiots.

Thurman this is why it's so infuriating following this franchise. What a complete shit storm this weekend. I doubt they'll recover and I look for them to go 10-16 the rest of the way.


In a way, 86 wins will feel like Dayton won the WS. Again.

Since the other thread was ended I'll restart it over here on a weekly basis:
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Lost ground this week.

Realistically, we're now tied with Detroit.

I'm pretty laid back about the Royals but shit, this series with Cleveland has left me bummed out a little. Cleveland is a crappy road team and a much better team at home, so yeah, we gave this shit away to them!

I know it's baseball, we have hit a speed bump in the road this last week. The month of August we were speeding away through the schedule threatening to bury Detroit while they were reeling. So before we could build a good division lead, our bad luck would have it, we stopped hitting and Ned Yost over thinks about managing.

I told everybody we would win this division out of spring training. I still feel it, but only just a little bit now dammit. We just do not have that cushion I thought we would have going into September. During the homestand vs the A's & Giants, I said we would be in 1st place on Sept 1st with 3 game lead! How many people here thought we would win the division or even lead it on Sept.1st?

So thanks to the lack of hitting and Ned Yost, we do not have that 3 game cushion I had envision with a good chance to grow the 1st week of September. It's gone, I was looking for a split with Detroit & Cleveland to finish the season and just finish strong. But no,we just finished losing 3 games to Cleveland for the most part, at home,which is totally unacceptable!. To get that back, we have to sweep Cleveland in Cleveland now and still split with Detroit, yet finish strong! We have no room for error now.

My projected finishes,

Royals ..........finish 16-11 final 90-72 * Gotta hit, score runs so Ned doesn't think! *

Tigers...........finish 15-10 final 89-73 * Still injured, bad bull pen pitching *

Indians .........finish 18-10 final 88-74 * Side note, next 10 games at home *

After the AS break, we dropped those 4 games, to be honest I questioned rather we could win the division and may have to settle for a WC team. I am almost back to this point, again, almost.

Now I know many of you are thinking here, no ****ing way we make the playoffs, much less win the division after this weekend. We do have our work cut out for us. What was once a good bet a week ago up 3 games is now 50/50 if we do not have anymore hiccups.

Yep, we have to sweep Texas at home now!

@ Yanks 3
@ Det 3
H R Sux 4
H W Sux 3
H Det 3
@ Cle 3.5
@ Min 4

I'm trying to remain as optimistic as possible about September but I think we have to win every three game series and, at least, split every 4 game here on out to have a chance at the division. Ned needs to be very smart with his lineups....




:huh:

Is there anyone that still wants to bring Butler back for 2015? Yeah, I didn't think so. He's got to go.

i actually had trouble sleeping last night. all i was thinking about was that error, and the end result.
why does it seem that the effing indians are our 70s and 80s version of the yankees?

dammit, go royals!

All I know is that our pitchers, especially Duffy, need to stop trying to be heroes. Just throw freakin strikes and let our infielders take care of the base runners. I don't know how many times I've seen BGJ, Guts and Duffy throw errant pick off attempts, eventually resulting in runs. At least wait until you have your southpaw first baseman back.

i was arguing with a friend a few days ago about hosmer being in the lineup when he gets back. based purely on his defense. arguably billy's bat has been better this year, and won us a game or two.
but billy's glove (potentially) cost us last nights game.
i hate winning an argument like this.

No, I think I can be the Royals #1 lefty and because of cerebral palsy I have less than 50 percent use of my left hand.LMAO

Don't talk bad about Billy on twitter.. I had people almost threatening me because I had some bad things to say about that defensive play.

I'm sure it was covered in the game thread, but what is the "official" ruling about the suspended game? Will they pick it up where it left off or will they replay the tenth inning in its entirety?

Left off iirc. Sept 22
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They'll go to the Bottom of the tenth with the tribe up 4-2

Thanks. I figured as much. Last I had heard was that the Indians' top of the tenth wouldn't count, but that didn't seem right to me.

Nobody ever advocated that to my knowledge.

It was his bat that did more damage. Fatboy hit into another GiDP and grounded out meekly in the 9th. He's a fat POS loser

Most hitter fWAR after the trade deadline:
1. Alex Gordon 1.8
2. Jhonny Peralta (!!) 1.7
3. Josh Donaldson 1.6
4. Josh Harrison 1.6

Mike Trout and Alex Gordon are the only two players in MLB with fWARs north of 6.0

Hosmer should be 1B when he gets back. Butler's comments about being better offensively when he plays 1B are self-serving. If he's too mentally fragile to be a productive DH, then I don't want him next season.

I also want Aoki on the bench as our 4th OF. Maybe even our 5th OF, and have Willingham be our backup in RF.

Speaking of which, that might be today. Along with a flood of September callups, the Royals also announced that Hosmer is off the DL and coming back to KC.

Today's moves:

DFA'd

Chris Dwyer
Blake Wood

Added to 40-man roster (and presumably put on active roster either today or tomorrow)

Carlos Peguero
Brandon Finnegan

Activated off the DL

Eric Hosmer

Brought up to Active Roster

Johnny Giavotella
Francisco Pena
Lane Adams
Casey Coleman

Will be made Active Tomorrow

Aaron Crow
Liam Hendricks
Christian Colon
Terrance Gore

So will Hos play tonight?

I'm actually quite happy Hosmer is back.

The odds have to be very good that he's starting at 1B, I'd think. Especially after last night's fiasco. Say what you want about him, but Yost sure does seem to be obsessed with defense, and I don't think he wants Butler on the field more than he has to.

If Willingham's back is still giving him fits then we have a need at DH as well. Billy can fill that.

By the way we could have a stocked bench for once with Dyson and Aoki on it potentially.

That's some serious infield ground-ball power we have there.

That series just put me in a funk.

Peguero showed some pop in Omaha, yes?

To the ship!!!

Blue October

Hosmer is going to come back and spark this team into the postseason.
Book it.

He's back.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Things Done Changed Lineup: Dyson 8, Infante 4, Gordon 7, Perez 2, Hosmer 3, Ibanez DH, Peguero 9, Moustakas 5, Escobar 6, Ventura 1.</p>&mdash; Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/statuses/506528379101642754">September 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Whoa. Crazy lineup.
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Ibanez?

No shit. Pissed me off and put me back in the pessimistic mode.

Alright Hos...pretend you're still helping the Storm Chasers win that PCL title.

Let's get the fans out of the seats, the games off National TV, and go back to being anonymous.

Willingham's back must still be screwed. :shrug:
No Butler either?

Was Ned not watching when Butler took Lewis way deep in Arlington two weeks ago? What an asshole.

Peguero?

I missed that Carlos Peguero is starting in right field. In a pennant race. For a first-place team.

Rany? Is that you??

Yep

Also from Rany

Granted, Peguero 1) is a LHB and 2) hits homers, which seems like someone who matches up against Colby Lewis. Still smells of desperation.

Dumbass if you are going to post tweets, embed them.

Per Andy

Raul Ibanez is 1-for-9 in his career against Colby Lewis, so I assume Ned Yost is reacting to Billy Butler's .553 OPS week and Lewis' split.

Honestly I don't care if it's Peguero, Francouer, or Amos Freaking Otis in Right Field. I'm so sick of watching Aoki's Parkour-esque spinning gyrations of a swing. The guy who was known for getting on base can't even hit a sacrifice fly when we need it.

I'm gonna say WTF on Peguero?

We do have Gordon, Dyson and Cain right?

Yea. Apparently Peguero can hit bombs. He hit 15 HR in the month of August

When is the last time the Royals led their division on Sept 2nd?

1982

lawd!