Freddy fought a baseball and won

Setting up to be another crushing series loss. Ragans getting owned by the bottom of this sorry ass Cubs lineup, just unbelievable.

Crushing?

Meet me a the George Brett statue when we come back and win this.

hunter harvey blows. throw a ****ing strike you hippie!!!

And Harvey leaves with an apparent injury- not good

Bullpen has more injuries than strikes thrown

There is no way that Harvey wasn't already injured when he was traded to the Royals.

It's gonna be interesting to see if the Royals really go for it and make a trade this season that puts a dent into the minors. At this point they need another BP arm and at least another bat. The injury to Harvey didn't look good at all so they may need 2 BP arms. Not sure if they even have the capital to even do that.

They should be sellers.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">John Schreiber left today&#39;s game with right knee patella tendon discomfort. Hunter Harvey left today&#39;s game w a left low back spasm. Two <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> relievers have injury concerns. James McArthur has allowed two runs in the ninth inning today.</p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1817661688235086125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

McArthur is garbage. Send this dude to single A

Your a ****ing reerun

Started the home stand 4-0. Gonna finish 5-4. Won the first game of the Arizona and Cubs series, couldn’t finish them off (blew a win vs Dbacks).

That’s just not gonna cut it. To me, 6-3 was bare minimum.

Listening to Royal s broadcast, sounds like they are playing in Chicago. Pathetic.

Bullpen is ****ed right now

Will Smith needs more use!

and he will prob get it

So this bullpen is ready to go toe to toe during the rest of the season?

Look on the bright side.

We're about to be very legit contenders for the next 3 games boys.

Apparently, the key word was hip. God dammit.

There is really no reason to make a trade IMO. We don't want to mortgage our future. Next year maybe we go for it because every guy we have will be back. Hopefully once Caglianone hits the majors that will offset Salvys eventual decline.

Once again you say this dumb shit while completely ignoring the fact that it doesn't cost much for RPs. They're 8 games above .500 and idiots on here keep acting like we'd have to give up much for a half a season rental. Aren't you guys the same ones that wanna bring up how we have no one in the minor league system? So who the **** are you all so worried about losing?

Well only good thing from today is that we will finally get Pennington up here. The guy that's more than likely better than 95% of the bullpen.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Hey Siri, how are the Royals RP in Omaha ERAs looking over the last month!”<br><br>…<br><br>“Not great, Josh” <a href="https://t.co/aJnSuSpI8G">https://t.co/aJnSuSpI8G</a> <a href="https://t.co/dC0NE9DN7p">pic.twitter.com/dC0NE9DN7p</a></p>&mdash; Josh Keiser (@joshkeiser40) <a href="https://twitter.com/joshkeiser40/status/1817666324719624366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Looks like Carlos’ MLB career peaked over a year ago.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We have acquired RHP Michael Lorenzen from the Texas Rangers in exchange for LHP Walter Pennington.</p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1817928730683089100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Oh.

LMAO

The boy wonder is gone

Marsh to the bullpen?

He's scheduled to start tonight. Short leash?

You blew it!!!!!

Lorenzen has been a reliever in his career as well

****ing Royals

That’s an exactly what I said!!!

(You still blew it) ;)

Lorenzen is not very sexy with his mediocre ratios, but always seems to pitch above his stat line and be competitive in his starts (92 ERA- this season). Last year he was having a career year with Detroit and made the All-Star Game, but his performance cratered with Philadelphia after pitching a no-hitter in his first start with the Phillies. I hope that doesn't happen in KC.

Lorenzen could have been developed as a hitter as he was a two-way prospect in his amateur days. He has a career .710 OPS in 147 career major league plate appearances. He's definitely the Roayls' emergency pinch hitter when the bench has been exhausted, but that situation rarely ever happens in the universal DH era.

My gosh, the White Sux have lost 14 IN A ROW!!!! Should be an even match up tonight. :evil:

The White Sox are so historically bad that if you take away their two 14-game losing streaks this season, they would still have the worst winning percentage in the majors.

If we subtract the Royals record vs CWS (9-1 by my count), the Royals are exactly at .500 :hmmm:

So you are saying, even if we exclude the games against the White Sox, the Royals are still VASTLY overachieving my expectations on the year?

Exactly. Hell of a turn around. Last season was awful

Can he play OF with that .711 OPS lol

Well, when one starts by saying that, then yes!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s official. Let’s get to work <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Royals</a> <a href="https://t.co/XYFnh7xQ2O">pic.twitter.com/XYFnh7xQ2O</a></p>&mdash; Kyle DeGroat (@degroat_kyle) <a href="https://twitter.com/degroat_kyle/status/1818001703549190273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Schrieber to the DL and Will Klein recalled

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">5 years ago today the Royals smacked around Trevor Bauer so bad that he did this <a href="https://t.co/bogyTsGyCC">pic.twitter.com/bogyTsGyCC</a></p>&mdash; 643Royals (@643royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/643royals/status/1817729956446613751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Can't believe we traded the one guy that could have been great in the bullpen. Traded him for half a season of a finesse dude that walks way too many batters and can't strike guys out.

Forget everything I said about not ****ing up the farm system with trading guys. Piccolo will definitely do that.

Thinking about going to a A-ball or AA-ball game if Caglianone gets there this year.

Are you dating Walter Pennington?

Twins are the same story. Also 9-1 against the ChiSox and .500 against everyone else.

Cleveland, weirdly, is .500 against Chicago.

So if you put the Royals record against every team they've played at the inverse of that teams winning percentage (i.e. if the team has played .600 ball and the Royals have played 10 games against them, they'd be 4-6 under this experiment) the Royals have actually out-performed their opponents season record by a little bit.

The Royals record is 57-49. Just giving them the inverse of their opponents winning percentage has them at 55-51. So they're two games better than the 'baseline' quality of their opposition.

I have no earthly idea what that means, but I find it somewhat interesting nonetheless. Kinda curious to do it for the Cardinals but honestly, it'll take like 5 minutes to enter the data and that's more time than I want to put into those assholes.

The Cardinals record inverted from their opponents would be 53-52. Their actual record is 54-51.

What this is kinda telling me is that maybe all these teams that are neither very good or very bad are just kinda a product of their schedule.

This has me "concerned". Hopefully they're up to the task, because we're going to need them.

https://www.royalsreview.com/2024/7/...chael-lorenzen

Maybe we're all reading this wrong. Maybe they're going to a 6-man rotation.

Lugo is gonna get CY votes. That's some pretty incredible work by the Royals scouting and/or development team.

Man, look at how bizarre the AL pitching is this year.

1-10 in AL WAR for pitching:

Skubal, Fedde (traded), Tyler Anderson, Seth Lugo, Crochet, Burnes, Ragans, Singer, Blanco, Gilbert.

Skubal, Crochet and Ragans are legit breakouts. Singer is WAR via bulk in a lot of ways, but maybe a breakout in his own right.

The only 'expected' guy in that entire group is Burnes and maybe Gilbert (though I think most would've had him 3rd on his own squad behind Kirby and Castillo). Fedde and Anderson are journeymen. Blanco was an organizational afterthought by the Astros who got shoved into the rotation because nobody was left as a 30 yr old with 60 career innings. He doesn't even qualify as a journeyman.

I mean anybody with a strong finishing kick seems capable of winning the CY. Skubal's clearly in the driver's seat but damn man, Lugo could really win that thing.

(But Taj Bradley's comin' in hot; don't think he can win it with only about 135 IP by seasons end likely, but man he's been good this year...)

Has Alec Marsh ever demonstrated that he belongs in a big league rotation, though? I mean he wasn't even particularly good in the minor leagues.

His entire career just looks like an organizational arm with some relief innings at his apex.

I'm not sure what KC sees here.

yep...maybe that explains Lorenzen...give em some more rest...Bubic might be ready in a pinch too

That's been mentioned in an article I read earlier (maybe in this one, I don't remember), after the Lorenzen trade, but mostly speculation, I think. Just in an emergency, the way I remember reading it.

Was hoping the Royals would find a way to get Lane Thomas but it wasn't meant to be. Guardians give up a top 10 prospect but he's still an A-ball pitcher. 2 more guys as well.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Cleveland Guardians are finalizing a deal to acquire outfielder Lane Thomas from the Washington Nationals, sources tell ESPN. Left-handed pitching prospect Alex Clemmey and two other prospects are headed back to Washington.</p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1818059540098637867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Guardians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Guardians</a> reportedly acquired OF Lane Thomas ($5.7M surplus trade value) from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nationals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nationals</a> in exchange for LHP Alex Clemmey ($10.6M) and IFs Rafael Ramirez Jr. ($3.3M) and José Tena ($1.7M).<br><br>The deal is rejected by our model as an overpay by Cleveland.</p>&mdash; Baseball Trade Values (@BaseballValues) <a href="https://twitter.com/BaseballValues/status/1818063969879474417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Still haven't gotten over the loss of Wally Pendergrass

Lane is a nice player, but Isbel has got a lock on CF

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> acquired RHP Michael Lorenzen ($1.6M surplus trade value) from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rangers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rangers</a> in exchange for LHP Walter Pennington ($0.4M).<br><br>The deal is accepted by our model.</p>&mdash; Baseball Trade Values (@BaseballValues) <a href="https://twitter.com/BaseballValues/status/1817933122803286360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Isbel is worth 2x as much as Thomas. Also Isbel has been pretty damn good since mid April. From April 19th to yesterday he had a .703 OPS, which is plenty with his defense.

Lane Thomas mostly plays RF but has also played LF and CF in the past so Isbel would have been safe. But hey the Royals got MJ Melendez instead.

Yes, and fresh off the IL!! LFG!!

I'm not worried about not getting Thomas. However I did listen to David Lesky talk about why Seth Lugo won't be traded and it sounds like Lugo's agent told the Royals that if Lugo were to be traded it would cost the Royals more money and years to lure free agents.

He is your classic traditional fifth starter/long arm in the bullpen. He is what he is.

Wut? Why would trading Lugo be on the table.

Only a reerun like Al Bundy would want to do that.

Just random thoughts going through my head...

If (probably a big if) MJ, Renfroe, Massey, and Garcia stay out of their funks and remain healthy, are there really any offensive players that were acquired in the last few days by other teams to really take this team to another level? And if so, worth what we would have had to give up to get it?

And the other being had this team been sitting under .500 and in 3rd or 4th place in the division, would anyone want any of our players as pieces to get them over the hump? Obviously starting pitching, but would we not want to hold onto that to try and compete next year?

And next year, Wacha and Renfroe have player options? Frazier a mutual option and will smith and Lorenzen are the only real name free agents?

It's almost to me the team showing we believe in who we got.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/free-age...contract_value

Exactly. He started off hot this year and once the book got around on him, he's been terrible. The single good start in the last two months against the Yankees is the only reason he isn't in AAA right now. Another 4 hits in the first inning against the worst team in baseball shows that he doesn't have much value other than a spot start due to injury or something, or possibly in the bullpen.

He’s always had really good stuff but struggled with consistency and command. I also don’t think the previous pitching development organizational approach was doing him any good.

He’s had some ugly crooked numbers put up against him, but the fastball is still live and mid-to-upper 90s, with a pair of usable breakers.

I would assume the thought with him is to put him in the pen and let him blow it out for an inning at a time. His stuff should play up nicely in that type of setting, I’d think.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Big, big return for the Blue Jays from the Astros, per sources: For Yusei Kikuchi, they&#39;ll receive RHP Jake Bloss, 1B/OF Joey Loperfido and IF Will Wagner, the son of former Houston great Billy Wagner.</p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1818096606387876337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Milwaukee Brewers are acquiring Frankie Montas from the Cincinnati Reds, a source tells ESPN. <br><br>First-place Milwaukee adds to its rotation with one of the best starters left on the trade market in an intradivision deal. <a href="https://twitter.com/ByRobertMurray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ByRobertMurray</a> was on the news.</p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1818098342972313807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Jesus, the schedule in August is gonna be BRUTAL.

Yeah we better sweep the White Sox.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There are still two more days in July but this is the list of players who&#39;ve had a .480 BA and .850 SLG in a calendar month with at least 90 PA: <a href="https://t.co/ufgGhFQw4D">pic.twitter.com/ufgGhFQw4D</a></p>&mdash; Kurtis Seaboldt �� (@KSeaboldt) <a href="https://twitter.com/KSeaboldt/status/1818128740255244405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Bobby’s entering a 2018 Mahomes run where each week opposing announcers realize they’re watching greatness.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hot take alert! ��<br><br>Steve Stone would rather have Bobby Witt Jr. than Shohei Ohtani on his team <a href="https://t.co/HiqZVoGw2U">pic.twitter.com/HiqZVoGw2U</a></p>&mdash; White Sox Talk (@NBCSWhiteSox) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSWhiteSox/status/1818120472380559721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here you go buddy <a href="https://t.co/rxDV04U6Cl">pic.twitter.com/rxDV04U6Cl</a></p>&mdash; Israel Ramirez (@Issssy_4) <a href="https://twitter.com/Issssy_4/status/1818126241389494390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>