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Originally Posted by Literature
What are the details on Student Night? Half price with student id or something?
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's $5 outfield tickets with a HS or college ID.
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Originally Posted by alnorth
Looking at the rotation, barring injury, Hoch, Sanchez, and Chen have to be locks, regardless of spring training.
Paulino probably has a very significant amount of leeway for the 4th spot, if he doesn't fall apart in Surprise, he's in.
Duffy is probably a lock to start, just not necessarily in KC. I don't think he goes to the bullpen, he's either starting here or in Omaha.
#5 is being fought over by Duffy, Crow, and a bunch of others. If its a tie, Duffy probably gets it. If Duffy excels, maybe he pushes Paulino to #5.
Ideally, you'd like the Royals to sign one more guy and make Duffy wait in Omaha for someone to get hurt or fail. This could be a smokescreen, but if not, perhaps DM has basically decided that he wants to know who can pitch and who can't, and is willing to lose a game or two in order to find that out.
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That's fair. I guess I'd rather see a guy like Paulino as the 5th starter than the 4th, but when you mention all those names, there's a lot of potential there to be a decent 5th starter. Then again, we are the Royals & it's probably more likely they all fall flat on their collective faces.
Personally, I hope it's
1) Sanchez/Hoch
2) Hoch/Sanchez
3) Chen
4) Paulino
5) Duffy
with Crow as the long man in the pen.
I think my biggest problem with the rotation is that I have zero faith that Chen continues to pitch as well as he has the last year or two...