*** Official Royals vs Twins GDT 07/30/14 ***

[ROYC75]

Wednesday 7/30, 8:10 PM ET at Kauffman Stadium
Radio: MIN: 96.3 K-TWIN, TIBN KC: KCSP 610, Royals Radio Network
TV: MIN: FS-N KC: FSKC

Twins 2014 stats Last 5 years vs. starter
AVG HR RBI SB AB AVG HR RBI
Santana, D, CF .318 3 20 6 - - - -
Fuld, S, LF .262 2 21 13 3 .333 0 0
Dozier, B, 2B .233 19 48 16 6 .333 0 1
Willingham, J, DH .222 10 30 0 9 .000 0 0
Plouffe, T, 3B .241 7 45 1 5 .200 0 0
Suzuki, K, C .307 2 41 0 2 .000 0 0
Colabello, C, 1B .232 6 38 0 3 .000 0 0
Parmelee, C, RF .261 4 16 0 - - - -
Nunez, E, SS .256 3 16 4 4 .250 0 0

SP- Phil Hughes
2014 season
10-7, 4.10 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 113 Ks
vs. Royals last 5 years
5-1, 4.93 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 24 Ks

Royals 2014 stats Last 5 years vs. starter
AVG HR RBI SB AB AVG HR RBI
Aoki, N, RF .265 0 17 9 - - - -
Infante, O, 2B .261 5 49 4 3 .000 0 0
Hosmer, E, 1B .270 6 46 3 9 .111 0 0
Perez, S, C .278 12 38 1 5 .200 0 0
Gordon, A, LF .271 9 46 7 14 .357 0 3
Butler, B, DH .271 5 41 0 14 .214 1 2
Moustakas, M, 3B .193 13 40 0 10 .300 1 1
Cain, L, CF .297 3 37 14 2 .500 0 0
Escobar, A, SS .276 2 30 22 7 .286 0 0

SP- Danny Duffy
2014 season
5-10, 2.47 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 76 Ks
vs. Twins last 5 years
1-1, 2.93 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 17 Ks

It's GO TIME, Royals! Time to start hitting the ball and score 4 + runs per game. We are ALL tired of this weak hitting lineup that only scores 0 to 3 runs per game.

New slogan: Be Hungry for wins, hit the damn ball better,Royals.

[TLO]

****ing ump needs glasses.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by Three7s

I agree with you. I've been harping on their plate discipline all year. When Yost gets questioned about it, he says, "They're naturally aggressive. You can't just change who they are, they won't take more pitches."

What does that sound like to you? It sounds like a manager that is calling out his GM saying his players refuse to change their approach.

without knowing the approach the HC has,I can't answer. I just know a tried and proven approach that I know we do not do, for that matter, NO MLB team does.

[SPchief]

Wade F Davis

[gblowfish]

Nice job Wade Davis. It's easy to take that for granted.

[stonedstooge]

An insurance run would be nice

[tk13]

Wade's ERA is down to 0.99, and we're almost in August. That's incredible.

What's really incredible is Hochevar had one of the best seasons by a Royals set up guy, maybe ever... and we thought there's no way to replace that, and Davis has been even better.

[C3HIEF3S]

Wade Davis

[PHOG]

Originally Posted by tk13

Wade's ERA is down to 0.99, and we're almost in August. That's incredible.

What's really incredible is Hochevar had one of the best seasons by a Royals set up guy, maybe ever... and we thought there's no way to replace that, and Davis has been even better.

Yes, although neither were hired to be setup men.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by lewdog

And the same stupid organizational approach this team uses that seems to work in the minors but doesn't translate to the big leagues. Maybe that's because pitching is better in the show and you have to wait for your pitch! Ned's right, you can't change a hitter who has been doing something the same way for years and years. If you make that change, it's done at a lower level than the majors.

There is a lot to this, but the bottom line if I am HC,GM and you do not do as followed, we will have issues working together.

[C3HIEF3S]

Gordo!!!!

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by tk13

Wade's ERA is down to 0.99, and we're almost in August. That's incredible.

What's really incredible is Hochevar had one of the best seasons by a Royals set up guy, maybe ever... and we thought there's no way to replace that, and Davis has been even better.

Hochevar wasn't really even the setup guy for most of the season though. He was still kinda, sorta low leverage Luke...until about 2/3 of the way through unless I'm not remembering right. He as excellent, though.

Wade Davis has better stuff than Holland and that's saying something.

[gblowfish]

Moose should just flick one to left field. Easy RBI.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by tk13

Wade's ERA is down to 0.99, and we're almost in August. That's incredible.

What's really incredible is Hochevar had one of the best seasons by a Royals set up guy, maybe ever... and we thought there's no way to replace that, and Davis has been even better.

Imagine if they ever made the playoffs and had Hochevar, Davis and Holland as inning 7, 8, 9 guys for most games. Duffy, Ventura, Vargas as starters.

[TLO]

Finish them!

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Imagine if they ever made the playoffs and had Hochevar, Davis and Holland as inning 7, 8, 9 guys for most games. Duffy, Ventura, Vargas as starters.

And imagine if that team had Billy, Hosmer, Gordon and Moose in the meat of the lineup!