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Old 07-14-2015, 11:05 PM  
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*** Official Royals Repository, Part 4 ***

In this thread: All things related to the AL Champions.

Duncan's Official Team Record prediction: 90 wins
One month in: Looking strong
All Star Break: Looking strong, probably should adjust up to 93-94 wins.
Duncan's Official Team MVP prediction: Eric Hosmer
One month in: Upstaged by his best friend MIKE MOOTACOS, MAN. Tell us bout your hittin, bro!
All Star Break: Lorenzo Cain starting to run away with this one.

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Clearly, overlooking the Twins was a mistake at this point. I still don't believe in that team long-term, but they're starting to get that Magic Season twinkle about them.

Detroit is toast. Garbage rotation beyond Price and Sanchez, Miggy out.

And Cleveland... Cleveland still is dangerous if it ever clicks offensively, because the starting pitching is good enough for them to real off a 15-5 stretch and get right back into the playoff picture.

The Royals will be a division winner IF ...
1) Ventura and Duffy combine for 375+ innings of high-quality work
2) Eric Hosmer delivers on his potential with a FULL season of success rather than bursts
3) The deeper bullpen lessens the critical load on Herrera, Davis and Holland
4) Lorenzo Cain stays healthy
5) Either Alex Rios or Kendrys Morales bounces back to 2013 form

The first of these is clearly not going to happen. The second looked good through the end of May but is now eating Cain's dust (Hosmer has still been improved this year, though, lessening his valley. If he has a really hot second half, he can get right back in it). Item three is definitely the case. Item four should probably be first at this point. And Morales has more than bounced back.

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Old 10-02-2015, 12:32 PM   #3796
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Well, here's the definitive answer as to their order of priorities with respect to pushing for home field vs trying to get everyone as healthy as possible.

I'd have to agree as much as I despise Toronto snatching it in the last week of the season.

Oh the irony and mad genius of Ned when Toronto loses in the 1st series and Yost proves his bizarre brilliance and luck...

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Kansas City's No. 1 priority at this point: Get to the postseason healthy


The surging Minnesota Twins enter their final series with a playoff berth within reach.

Standing in their way is a Kansas City Royals team trying to lock down home-field advantage throughout the postseason.
Trying to inch closer to their first playoff appearance in five years, the Twins turn to Ervin Santana -- one of baseball's top pitchers over the last month who is also ineligible for the postseason -- as they face the banged-up Royals on Friday night at Target Field.
A year after finishing with the AL's second-worst record, Minnesota (83-76) trails Houston by one game for the second wild card with three to play. Winners of five of six, the Twins have also caught the Los Angeles Angels as they try to chase down their first playoff berth since 2010.
"I love our chances," said Torii Hunter, who hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning of Thursday's 4-2 comeback win in Cleveland. "Being a game back with three to go, all we wanted was a chance to get into the postseason. We're giving ourselves a pretty good chance right now."
The AL Central-champion Royals (92-67) have a good chance of opening each of their postseason series at home. They're tied with Toronto for the best record in the AL, though the Blue Jays -- who finish their season in Tampa Bay -- own the tiebreaker by virtue of winning the season series.
Kansas City's No. 1 priority at this point, however, is entering the playoffs healthy.
The Royals wrapped up a three-game set on Chicago's South Side on Thursday resting outfielders Lorenzo Cain and Alex Rios, and designated hitter Kendrys Morales and catcher Salvador Perez each departed during the 6-4 victory.
Cain was nursing a sore right knee sustained in Wednesday's win while Rios was scratched because of a stiff back. Morales was lifted with tightness in his left quadriceps and Perez came out due to swelling in his right thumb.

Ryan Madson pitched in the ninth because closer Wade Davis had a stiff back.
Manager Ned Yost said none of the injuries were serious.
"They're very trivial, day to day, probably overly cautious concerns," he said. "I mean just trying to do the smart thing."
Yost gives the ball to Chris Young (11-6, 3.15 ERA), who looks to build on an encouraging and emotional outing.
In his first start since July 28 after a two-month stint in the bullpen, Young tossed five no-hit innings while walking one in Sunday's 3-0 win over Cleveland. The veteran right-hander was pitching a day after his father died and flew home before the game ended.
Young is 8-6 with a 3.30 ERA in 17 starts and starting a playoff game is not out of the question if he can deliver again. And that certainly seems possible considering he has a 0.77 ERA in two starts against Minnesota this season.
Hunter, Brian Dozier and Trevor Plouffe are a combined 1 for 22 against Young this year.
Santana is 5-0 with a 1.47 ERA in his last six starts, striking out 44 and surrendering just one homer over 43 innings.
The right-hander made his season debut against the Royals - his only matchup this season - on July 5 after being suspended 80 games for the use of performance-enhancing drugs which also bans him for the playoffs. Santana (7-4, 4.10), who pitched for Kansas City in 2013, gave up two runs and three hits in eight innings against his former team.
Mike Moustakas is 1 for 7 against Santana, but Eric Hosmer is 4 for 11 with a pair of homers and a double.
The Royals and Twins have alternated wins and losses in their last eight matchups, but Kansas City swept the last series at Target Field in June.
Joe Mauer is batting .328 with nine RBIs against the Royals this season and Miguel Sano is hitting .368 with a homer and two doubles in six matchups.
Dozier and Kurt Suzuki have not fared as well, however, with Dozier, who has a team-high 28 homers, batting .186 without a homer versus Kansas City. Suzuki is hitting .157 in the season series.
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Old 10-02-2015, 01:20 PM   #3797
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I did not know that rule about playoff ban and peds
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Old 10-02-2015, 02:23 PM   #3798
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A Royals fan I know from another forum sat next to Rany last night. Didn't realize who he was until people kept coming up to say hi, and still wasn't very familiar with him.

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Most of the fans from Monday stuck around for this one. Guy sitting right behind me turned out to be some dermatologist who also blogs about the Royals, Rany something. Nice guy, but was blabbering on the whole game. People kept walking down to say hi as well. His buddy asked me to snap a pic of the three of them.

My mom thought he was kind of annoying because he talked throughout the whole game.
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Old 10-02-2015, 02:35 PM   #3799
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It doesn't even makes sense to have that turf anyway. The roof is retractable, and they've figured out how to sustain a grass field that is primarily indoors for a while now.
Installing grass into that stadium will cost a ton of money, money that Rogers has unsurprisingly not wanted to spend on the team.
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Old 10-02-2015, 02:57 PM   #3800
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No Kendrys tonight.

Hope he didn't badly pull his quad.
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Old 10-02-2015, 02:59 PM   #3801
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No Kendrys tonight.

Hope he didn't badly pull his quad.
No need to play Cain, Perez or KenMo. Rest them and get ready for Thursday night.
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Old 10-02-2015, 03:00 PM   #3802
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No need to play Cain, Perez or KenMo. Rest them and get ready for Thursday night.
Agreed. I'm just a nervous Nelly at this point.
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2 hilarious but completely unrelated notes about Chicago reading twitter this afternoon.

1. Robin Ventura will be back next year as manager of the Sox
2. Cubs fans have started a gofundme totaling over $2500 to get Steve Bartman to go to the wildcard game.
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Old 10-02-2015, 03:26 PM   #3804
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1. Robin Ventura will be back next year as manager of the Sox
2. Cubs fans have started a gofundme totaling over $2500 to get Steve Bartman to go to the wildcard game.
Why the fugg would they do that? Don't they all hate his guts?
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It looks like we're going to play the Rangers in the playoffs and I'm conflicted on whether or not to go to the game. I want to support the team but I'm not confident in us beating the Rangers and the humiliation would be overwhelming.
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Old 10-02-2015, 03:58 PM   #3807
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It looks like we're going to play the Rangers in the playoffs and I'm conflicted on whether or not to go to the game. I want to support the team but I'm not confident in us beating the Rangers and the humiliation would be overwhelming.
Yeah, you should probably not go...to a post season Royals game or any other.
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It looks like we're going to play the Rangers in the playoffs and I'm conflicted on whether or not to go to the game. I want to support the team but I'm not confident in us beating the Rangers and the humiliation would be overwhelming.
Grow a pair
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It looks like we're going to play the Rangers in the playoffs and I'm conflicted on whether or not to go to the game. I want to support the team but I'm not confident in us beating the Rangers and the humiliation would be overwhelming.
Maybe you should just have a nice drink of AIDS.
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