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 tk13:
The other thing is I just saw the National Hurricane Center has upped their forecast for this thing to be a Cat 4 at landfall. Obviously won't be near that in Atlanta but this is going to be a nasty storm. Hopefully we can even play on Friday.
Originally Posted by TambaBerry:
Can someone explain like I'm five on what that tweets talking about and how it effects us?
I don't think we entirely know yet, but the Braves vs Mets is postponed the next two days because of the hurricane.
What's 100% true is the Braves were about to use their best 2 starters against the Mets and now those games are moved to Monday for a doubleheader. The Braves are on the outside looking in just behind the Mets and Dbacks.
Who knows if Atlanta throws their best pitchers at us or save them for the potential doubleheader. What we do know is we need the Dbacks to win tonight to put pressure on the Braves and Mets. The more the Dbacks win it forces the Mets and Braves to play hard while possibly saving something for a Monday doubleheader that would decide playoff teams. [Reply]
This is an awful break for KC. Not only does it mean all 3 games are basically guaranteed to have playoff implications for Atlanta, it means that Sale and Fried, who were supposed to pitch tonight and tomorrow, will likely start Friday and Saturday, with Schwellenbach Sunday. https://t.co/kVKYzDINAV
Originally Posted by PHOG:
So after the Washington series, it looks like the Royals will be heading into the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Not a great scenario for the last series of the year. Especially if Atlanta gets postponed the next 2 nights. According to radar, it's already raining cats and dogs there, and that's just the normal front moving thru.
Crazy talk here, but are there any chances of moving the Atlanta games to KC?
Originally Posted by tk13:
I don't think we entirely know yet, but the Braves vs Mets is postponed the next two days because of the hurricane.
What's 100% true is the Braves were about to use their best 2 starters against the Mets and now those games are moved to Monday for a doubleheader. The Braves are on the outside looking in just behind the Mets and Dbacks.
Who knows if Atlanta throws their best pitchers at us or save them for the potential doubleheader. What we do know is we need the Dbacks to win tonight to put pressure on the Braves and Mets. The more the Dbacks win it forces the Mets and Braves to play hard while possibly saving something for a Monday doubleheader that would decide playoff teams.
one could surmise that the braves think they can beat the royals (and their light lineup) with their lesser starters..........? :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by cabletech94:
Crazy talk here, but are there any chances of moving the Atlanta games to KC?
/asking for a friend.
No. The storm will basically be through there by Friday night. The only issue may be can the Royals get to Atlanta tomorrow, which would be the same issue the Braves would have potentially getting to KC. Unless they made that decision today, which they aren’t gonna do. [Reply]
I would be somewhat surprised if they don’t pitch Sale and Fried. There is a theoretical world where the Braves could lose a series to us and if the Mets take care of business vs a nothing to play for Brewers team, the Braves could be out of it by Monday. This would also include the Dbacks stopping their meltdown. The good news is that we will have Lugo and Ragans on Saturday and Sunday so we could maybe get a close or tied game long enough to get into bullpen which becomes more of a crap shoot. Also, he’s good but Fried has not been usual Fried this year. Sale we have almost no chance of getting to and we have Singer on the mound (assuming the Braves do pitch Sale Friday) in an important game on the road. I’d set his IP over/under at 3.5 [Reply]
In AAA, Nick Pratto hit a walkoff sac fly in the 10th to win the game for Omaha tonight in the International League Championship series. It's tied at 1-1 and they play a final game tomorrow for the league title.
Originally Posted by Nightfyre:
The player opt-out is worth a shit ton if he believes in himself. The royals are also shedding about 60-70 million in payroll next year, so it's evidence that they can afford him, to me. Soto preceding Witt in the order is the best way to generate runs, imo. Highest obp followed by most xbh equals runs. He also lengthens the lineup and allows the royals to identify a righty leadoff bat. That's a much tougher lineup than whatever is happening now.
