"Historically bad" is a phrase starting to be floated out there in articles regarding the Royals' offense.
Yeah, 100 is average. 80 considered bad. 60 is like worst in the league shitty. 6 is, fuck who knows what 6 is. I don't dive deep into the sabermetrics stuff so I didn't verify any of it but someone else in the thread posted the lowest full season mark they could find in baseball history was 48 iirc.
This. If we aren't going to compete (which we clearly aren't) I'd rather we suck this bad rather than play ~.500 ball and show some glimmer of hope. This team is deeply flawed and the only way to right the ship is to sell all of your assets. We had to deplete the system to win the WS (totally worth it, wouldn't change a thing) so we need to replenish it. Trade anyone with value. Sorry Kelvin, I love you, but you're worth a ton for a team that needs a closer (Washington). We made a mistake being loyal to Gordon. It is really hurting us now. Hoz is quite overrated and is essentially an average 1B who is looking for star money. I'll pass. Cain is an oft-injured player who is in his 30's that relies on speed for his value, I'll pass. I would still like to see us sign Moose though. But seeing the direction our team is headed I'm not sure he's even interested in that.
Did everyone hear the reports that we're getting close to a deal that would extend Esky? Almost drove my truck into a tree when the said it this morning.
He has pretty much been one of the worst offensive players in baseball for the past 3 years. No matter what they give him, it's too much. Why anyone would give him 3-5 million/year (just a guess) when you can get the same production from a farmhand for the league minimum is beyond me.
Man, there's just something so f'n cool about guys who scream obnoxiously loud in completely quiet stadiums.
Probably the same guy who gets there for BP with 25 balls trying to get auto's. Who heckles someone about their eyebrows anyway?!
Even with his contract, is Wood in danger of simply getting cut at this point? He's been beyond terrible.
Well, the Royals are calling up Maness, so somebody on the 40-man's gotta go. Young and Colon are strong candidates. Doubt they give up on Wood yet.
Was watching the game earlier on my lunch break, thankfully the sound was on. They were joking about Gordon "Wally Pipp'ing" LoCain in CF and then all of a sudden Rex comes in with a "well, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to be Wally Pipp, you know, because Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease." Oh Uncle Rex, never change.
The Royals haven't won a single game since back when Jim Comey was director of the FBI. Think about that.
This bullpen just needs to fuck the fuck off. Sell the whole fucking team while they're still worth a bag of balls imo.
Junis called up to start game 2. Albuquerque DFA'd. Almonte added as 26th man. Gordon hitting 9th in game 1, then going on paternity leave. raul a mondesi called up