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 Dartgod:
There was another guy that was always down front in RF GA. He had a hat that had a Budweiser can sticking out of it. My buddy and I just called him Can Head.
EDIT: Like this...
Ha ha ha!!! Never saw that guy!!! Love it!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by gblowfish:
This is a picture of my baseball buddy Gary from exactly 20 years ago at the 2004 Royals home opener. My other best baseball buddy was Derrek, who is no longer here to watch the Royals with Gary and me. We were the three amigos at Royals games.
Great memories. Thanks for sharing. Those GA seats were great. I think they were $3.50 when I was a kid in the 80s and probably allowed me to attend more games than I would have otherwise. [Reply]
I wonder why they aren't wearing the powder blues on a Sunday. Makes me wonder if it has something to do with MLB making them go with the small letters on the back. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
I wonder why they aren't wearing the powder blues on a Sunday. Makes me wonder if it has something to do with MLB making them go with the small letters on the back.
I saw most of the powder blue jerseys aren’t ready yet. Good one fanatics.
The Royals had powder blues all spring but they had the old normal sized letters on the back. There was a whole thing about it because the Royals were the only ones in Spring Training who got to keep the old lettering, but opening day it came out that MLB had forced them to change. Wonder if MLB or Nike stepped in and made the Royals change and now Fanatics has to start over. [Reply]
This team is eminently more enjoyable to watch play baseball.
I still think they're a good LH power bat short of being REALLY dangerous (Would love to have someone to slide into the 3 hole and have Pasquantino hitting in a less pressure-focused role), but they can compete in the Central.
Especially if Ragans is for real and they get good Brady Singer.
Can't wait to dive into the pitch data on Singer from today and see if there are differences to the arsenal he deployed. Would speak to him being to be a little more consistent if there are some changes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
This team is eminently more enjoyable to watch play baseball.
I still think they're a good LH power bat short of being REALLY dangerous (Would love to have someone to slide into the 3 hole and have Pasquantino hitting in a less pressure-focused role), but they can compete in the Central.
That LH bat might be coming from Omaha..... [Reply]
Originally Posted by :
Darcy our favorite beer man worked right field.
He worked with another beer man named Clem. They used to let us in early on really hot days and we got to sit in the big beer cooler with them exchanging stories.
