Year Two of the Matt Quatraro tenure. Time to take a step up this year. Active in free agency and trades this offseason. A new look pitching rotation and bullpen. Will the young players take the leap up offensively? Bobby Witt extension? New stadium? Will Vinny recover from injury? Salvy taking aim at the Royals record book? Will Cole Ragans turn into the best Royals starting pitcher since Greinke 1.0?
Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Seth Lugo, SP
Michael Wacha, SP
Kyle Wright, SP
Hunter Renfroe, OF/DH
Will Smith, RP
Chris Stratton, RP
Nick Anderson, RP
Adam Frazier, 2B
Garrett Hampson, INF/OF
Matt Sauer, RP [Reply]
Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm:
You’re not entirely wrong, but I think you’re kinda barking at the moon.
You’ve cherry picked a few examples to go scorched earth on.
But the Royals have also made terrific moves at the same time during all of this.
You’re no better as a scout than me, or pretty much anyone here. If I’m wrong, this is when you give us your resume. Ten years ago, there were fans like you railing the Royals for giving up on Tony Bats. 30 years ago, fans shit themselves because we gave up on Cecil Fielder.
I’ve got news for you. It’s an inexact science, and you can yell at the sky all night if you want, but it won’t change anything except for your blood pressure.
Yeah, the Royals sign guys who could probably be replaced by guys who don’t get paid shit, but if they all suck, what’s the difference? You’re not paying the salaries, so why give a shit? Does it make it better to have Loftin being Frazier? I guarantee if that happened, you’d be bitching about bringing in a veteran. It’s a no win, no lose thing.
You know what really sucks? We just lost our starting first baseman for the year who was having a very good year. We’ve got nobody who can replace Vinnie right now. We also lost Lorenzen for the next several weeks. That sucks, because he was doing great, and it’s a crapshoot about how he’s gonna get filled in.
And generally speaking, you don’t show up much to be happy or show joy in what has been a pretty amazing season all things considered. You show up to complain about why this happened, why this didn’t happen. Blah, blah, blah…. Maybe that’s how you roll, but I think it must be exhausting.
But I do get it. I’m still pissed about Covid for so many reasons and the pettiest is because my Jayhawks didn’t get a chance at the NCAA tourney, in a year when they were probably at worst a Final Four team.
But dude, seriously, try to lighten up…
I'm not saying that I'm a better scout than anyone. I'm saying this franchise has had a habit of playing shitty veterans, that shouldn't even be in the ML, over younger guys. I didn't cherry pick anything. I just picked guys that did damn good in the minors and performed really well in AAA, but never got a real shot with the big league club.
How is this such a hard concept for so many of you to grasp? [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Oh, damn dude, then you should apply to be a head scout if you are able to judge a guys ability based on 3 games and 2 innings. Those 8 ABs were all you needed to deem the kid 100% in over his head.
Garrett Hampson has shown me that he's not capable of doing anything right and has a .586 OPS and Adam Frazier is worse than Hampson and gets more playing time.
So many younger guys that have never gotten more than a handful of games in the majors.
John Rave, CJ Alexander, Logan Porter, Walter Pennington, Evan Sisk, Brent Rooker.
That's just the ones from recent memory. Sure they might all suck, but they won't suck or cost anymore than the trash that's keeping them down in the minors. Piccolo is the same motherfucker Dayton Moore was in this regard.
It's gotta be disheartening to anyone drafted by this franchise in the later rounds or if you get traded here and your not a highly rated guy. You can crush it all through the minors and all you will get is maybe 10 games to show anything and if you don't come out killing it, then by and no more chance again.
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
I'm not saying that I'm a better scout than anyone. I'm saying this franchise has had a habit of playing shitty veterans, that shouldn't even be in the ML, over younger guys. I didn't cherry pick anything. I just picked guys that did damn good in the minors and performed really well in AAA, but never got a real shot with the big league club.
How is this such a hard concept for so many of you to grasp?
Take a look around the league. You’ll find endless examples of other teams doing exactly the same thing. [Reply]
Fucking Gurriel is 40 years old, hasn't played in the majors all year, and hasn't had a good season since 2021, but he's playing over young guys with tons more upside. Grossman is 2 weeks from being 35 and has been absolute ass this season, but fuck the young guys. Pham is 36 years old and has a negative fucking WAR for the year, but it's all good.
Gentry gets 5 ABs and it's time to say fuck off for some old pieces of shit. This is some of the most embarrassing shit I've ever seen from this team and that's saying alot.
Don't even get me started on the bullpen. This shit franchise is doing everything they possibly can to turn this special season into a miserable one. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Same shit different year.
****ing Gurriel is 40 years old, hasn't played in the majors all year, and hasn't had a good season since 2021, but he's playing over young guys with tons more upside. Grossman is 2 weeks from being 35 and has been absolute ass this season, but **** the young guys. Pham is 36 years old and has a negative ****ing WAR for the year, but it's all good.
Gentry gets 5 ABs and it's time to say **** off for some old pieces of shit. This is some of the most embarrassing shit I've ever seen from this team and that's saying alot.
Don't even get me started on the bullpen. This shit franchise is doing everything they possibly can to turn this special season into a miserable one.
You know what’s ruining this year? You and your incessant whining and shit posting. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Same shit different year.
****ing Gurriel is 40 years old, hasn't played in the majors all year, and hasn't had a good season since 2021, but he's playing over young guys with tons more upside. Grossman is 2 weeks from being 35 and has been absolute ass this season, but **** the young guys. Pham is 36 years old and has a negative ****ing WAR for the year, but it's all good.
Gentry gets 5 ABs and it's time to say **** off for some old pieces of shit. This is some of the most embarrassing shit I've ever seen from this team and that's saying alot.
Don't even get me started on the bullpen. This shit franchise is doing everything they possibly can to turn this special season into a miserable one.
Pham had two hits today and Gurriel drove in one of the two runs. It's September and we're in a playoff race. The goal at this point is to win, whatever it takes. This isn't even close the same thing as almost any other year. It's probably only the 5th or 6th time this team has even been in contention at this point in the last 30 years and they're being aggressive. I don't know how you could be miserable about that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
Pham had two hits today and Gurriel drove in one of the two runs. It's September and we're in a playoff race. The goal at this point is to win, whatever it takes. This isn't even close the same thing as almost any other year. It's probably only the 5th or 6th time this team has even been in contention at this point in the last 30 years and they're being aggressive. I don't know how you could be miserable about that.
Amen. It’s September 1st and we’re currently a WC team. Raise your hand if you actually thought that was even a remote possibility on April 1st. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiTown:
Amen. It’s September 1st and we’re currently a WC team. Raise your hand if you actually thought that was even a remote possibility on April 1st.
I can step back and reassess and be content in the greater picture; but 5 in a row is a real gut punch way to start September.
Never thought I'd be so happy to be going up against the Guardians next, but I sure as hell am. [Reply]
Originally Posted by siberian khatru:
You know what’s ruining this year? You and your incessant whining and shit posting.
My posts in here have leaned way more towards positive than negative. Sorry I'm not a blind fucking homer and can't seem to get excited about signing old and wayyyyy past their prime players when we could get the same production from guys in the farm system. We just added a 35, 36, and 40 fucking year old to the major league roster for a playoff push. Fuck that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
Pham had two hits today and Gurriel drove in one of the two runs. It's September and we're in a playoff race. The goal at this point is to win, whatever it takes. This isn't even close the same thing as almost any other year. It's probably only the 5th or 6th time this team has even been in contention at this point in the last 30 years and they're being aggressive. I don't know how you could be miserable about that.
A blind squirrel finds the nut every once in awhile.
If the goal is to win, then signing guys that absolutely no one else wanted because they're old as shit and suck ass is a pretty dumb way of going about it. This "aggressiveness" is stupid as shit.
Gentry gets 5 ABs and it's time to say **** off for some old pieces of shit. This is some of the most embarrassing shit I've ever seen from this team and that's saying alot.
Gentry has struck out 30% of the time this year in Triple-A. That's not a player you bet on unless he's bringing light tower power. Gentry is a fringe major leaguer. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
My posts in here have leaned way more towards positive than negative. Sorry I'm not a blind ****ing homer and can't seem to get excited about signing old and wayyyyy past their prime players when we could get the same production from guys in the farm system. We just added a 35, 36, and 40 ****ing year old to the major league roster for a playoff push. **** that.
I would rather take the experience of those players over fringe guys like Gentry and Alexander that have never done anything in the majors and aren't really upside plays to begin with. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
A blind squirrel finds the nut every once in awhile.
If the goal is to win, then signing guys that absolutely no one else wanted because they're old as shit and suck ass is a pretty dumb way of going about it. This "aggressiveness" is stupid as shit.
I'm not miserable I'm annoyed.
You're acting like we're 30 games under. If we were 55-85 or something then yes this would be dumb. But we're literally about to start the most important week for this franchise since the World Series against the Mets.
You can't put the entire season on the line against Cleveland and Minnesota with guys like CJ Alexander who don't have any MLB at bats unless you're 1000% sure they're ready. If JJ did that, I would honestly say he deserves to be fired. Will all these signings work out? It might not but you gotta go with guys who will give you MLB at bats, which we clearly saw today. This is not the time for "developing" guys. [Reply]