Your Kansas City Royals: Scenes From An Italian Baseball Jaunt

93 meatball straight as an arrow to end the game…..

 

Fun with stats!

Hunter Renfroe still has the lowest WAR on the team at -1.5, Canha is second at -1.1, Salvy third -0.9.

Jac currently has a lower WAR number than MJ

Garcia has an OPS+ 9 points higher than BWJ but is 1.5 behind him in WAR, I am assuming driven largely by his league-leading 9 CS and 7 GIDP (vs. 1 for BWJ)

Ragans has the lowest WAR number of the rotation... Lorenzen is the only other one in the red on WAR and he's only -0.1.

 

We are also outperforming our Pythag by one game which is horrifying.

This team is cheeks

 

Three players with an OPS+ over 100 and Vinnie's is only 109

Massey is 35 woof. Renfroe is 37, for reference

Isbel is 77 OPS+ but still worth 0.8 WAR

Salvy, as crappy as he's been is still 85 OPS+ which is much higher than I would have expected....

MJ's OPS+ is an unfathomable -2

 

Some 2 out 2 strike luck for us for a change. No clue why Bob can’t ID that slider.

 

Rolling along and one mistake down the middle sends down the toilet

 

Same story every game. At least mix up how you’ll melt down every once in a while.

 

Cool. Time for bed.

 

Good lord Wacha

 

Remember when the Ms couldn’t hit for shit then they fired everyone and hired Martinez and Seitzer? Must be nice having a top 10 OPS now.

 

Who in the Cubs system should we be looking up?

 

What toolsy fast player who can't hit worth a shit do they have in AAA?

 

Don’t think you want to point that out when it’s the worst offense in decades Jake

 

You like mixing the Royals and national politics; a real glutton for punishment

 

Considering its impossible to scroll a page in here without seeing 45+ husk posts I can’t blame him.

 

Facing another mid 5 ERA tonight. :biggulpshuh:

 

Gives up bombs to lefties, need Squatch and Cags to find some distance

 

Ump did Bob a huge favor with that first call, thanks Blue

 

Its hard to hate the next 2 chases

 

Glad he took that walk, had me worried on that swinging strike

 

Hey, Loftin!

 

I thought Maikel would beat that out

 

This fucking ump. That lorenzen pitch wasn’t close

 

Thank goodness for that pickoff. Perhaps just walk Arozarena

 

What was Jrod doing on that double and why couldn’t he do the same for Cags rocket?

 

Damn, he smoked that. Gotta elevate Bob.

 

Laddies and gentlemen let me present to you the rare 5 strike walk

 

Erceg’s good. Does he have 3 more in him?

 

Really nice inning from cruz

 

Need to move a catcher

 

But he can't hit any more

 

Neither can anybody else lol. It's the most obvious move that needs to happen. Splits show he performs better when he's DH and not at C or 1B (OPS is over .100 points lower when he plays the field) .

The best lineup has always been Freddy at C, Salvy at DH, and Vinnie at 1B but Q is hellbent on having a 35-year-old that's 260 pounds be the everyday catcher and moonlight at 1B.

 

Lesky pulled the numbers a little while ago and the days AFTER he sits or DHs he’s been raking.

 

That’s what the science is telling us.

 

Think Hud’s ever tried wasabi?

 

Back to back meatballs to Maik and nothin but an infield pop up.

 

Love those rested Sal legs. Instead of a can or corn he can drive it.

 

I’d love for one of these line drives from Jac to find grass

 

I’d love for us to take walks when 5 of 7 pitches are way out of the zone

 

Damn Vin, straighten it out bud.

 

I’ve never seen a team that hates meatballs more than these guys. Crazy how they miss all of them.