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Originally Posted by sedated
Anyone who thinks the Royals are going to overhaul starting pitching is crazy. Our rotation will have 4 of the same 5 guys we see out there every day.
Hoch – “he just needs to work on consistency”
Chen – he’s signed up for another year at a pretty significant salary, and you’ve got to be crazy to think
Glass will waste a dollar, so he will get the Davies/Sanchez treatment.
Guthrie – “we haven’t even really seen what he can do yet”
Mendoza – “he really saved us last year and showed us something, we have to give him another chance”
Fighting for the 5th spot will be Adcock, Odorizzi, and Mazzaro.
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I'm not expecting wholesale change. But to actually see a Royals fan SUGGEST they should sit pat... yeah, I went
kaboom on him. Which is not something I do often on message boards.
I actually have no problem with bringing back Mendoza, Hochevar and Chen. Those types of guys are fine at the 4/5 spots in the rotation. Especially Hochevar (who I'm done expecting anything more out of but who has been at least acceptable as a back-end guy of late).
Chen, I think is more effective if he's not being asked to stretch out as much (5-6 inning limit). Though I am worried at this point that Bob McClure was the Chen whisperer.
Mendoza has been fine as a No. 4/5 guy. He's missing more bats at the ML level, which was the question for him.
Those guys aren't the problem (though Chen has been pretty bad, especially of late). The problem is not having anybody in front of them to fill the higher level spots.
Like I said, not expecting wholesale change. But they should be bringing in at least 2, probably three guys (Even if a few of them are short-term options). They're not going to do it. So unless Dayton Moore gets lucky as f***, we're going to be ripping him for the next year. While fans stay away from the K.