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***Official 2022 Royals Season Repository Thread*** (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=341631)

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Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 16258601)

How about my boy, Vinnie Pas?

He looks great. BA has been affected by some bad luck, but he's hitting for power, drawing more walks than strikeouts

I read somewhere that league batter average is the lowest it's ever been at this point of the season.

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Originally Posted by lewdog (Post 16258687)

I read somewhere that league batter average is the lowest it's ever been at this point of the season.

And by quite a bit. But if the article you're thinking of was the recent one on fangraphs about the spike (again) of no-hit bids, I believe they were comparing the season to date (cold weather, shortened spring training) to prior full seasons. Offense heats up as the season progresses. But still, that doesn't account for it all; it's a noticeable thing. Only question is how much offense will come back as the weather warms up. I'm thinking not all that much of it.

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Pitchers (and their teams, as this includes combined efforts) are taking no-hitters into the sixth once for every 38.4 starts thus far this season, compared to once for every 58.5 starts last year and once for every 60.4 starts for the recent seasons that did not have truncated spring trainings. Putting it another way: thus far, they’re 57% more common relative to that “normal season” baseline.

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Here’s the kicker: Batting averages have never been this low. Not in the 19th century, not in the deadball era, not even in 1968, “The Year of the Pitcher”

On a major league-wide basis, batting averages are six points lower than they’ve ever been. In the 1880s, errors — about four per team per game, leading to over 40% of runs being unearned — helped to elevate scoring rates above their 1960s lows; now it’s home runs driving the scoring. We’re getting fewer of those than in recent years

Link to article:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/welcome-...less-baseball/

Matheny and his idiot buddy Eldred can't be gone soon enough.

Tampa actually had a no-hitter tonight but it was tied 0-0 after nine and gave up a hit in extras.

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Originally Posted by Ron Swanson (Post 16259107)

Matheny and his idiot buddy Eldred can't be gone soon enough.

them, santana.... looks like salvy might miss time. If he does I want Melendez and Vinnie Pastabelly or Pratto up too. Let the kids play.

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Originally Posted by nychief (Post 16259190)

them, santana.... looks like salvy might miss time. If he does I want Melendez and Vinnie Pastabelly or Pratto up too. Let the kids play.

"Let the kids play" is not in Matheny's vernacular.

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Originally Posted by Fansy the Famous Bard (Post 16259213)

"Let the kids play" is not in Matheny's vernacular.

I don't know what he is good at, matheny that is.

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Originally Posted by Superturtle (Post 16258581)

How far off is Pratto?

He's currently in Omaha working on the AAA record for strikeouts in a year.

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Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 16258601)

How about my boy, Vinnie Pas?

Raping the shit out of Omaha with a .905 OPS and showing he's an unexploitable hitter.

Mike Matheny needs to be gone. Dayton needs to be gone. Get some new blood in here.

I listened to the game coming home from out of town last night. Was a total cluster F. My St. Louis pals told me that Matheny is God Awful with bullpen management and he certainly proved it last night. These guys are going to be a fourth or fifth place team again this year, especially if Salvy is hurt and out for an extended period of time.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 16259305)

Salvy is in the lineup today.

Pitching hasn't been bad, bullpen in fact has been stellar. We just need to score more runs.

I'm ready to move on from Santana. At this point I'd rather see olivares in right and Dozier at first.

Not watching today. They pissed me off last night and I don't really need to watch them get swept

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Originally Posted by cmh6476 (Post 16259437)

Pitching hasn't been bad, bullpen in fact has been stellar.

If you call that shit show last night "stellar" I can't help you.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 16259563)

If you call that shit show last night "stellar" I can't help you.

Didn't they have something like 13 scoreless innings in a row earlier this year