Blog Archive for: 3/2011
Another Ill-conceived Season Might Be In Store
No matter how wasteful a residence is a seven game sweep is goofy in baseball, so a 10 run missed opportunity in the series is not the end of the world.
It was a year ago today that it was announced that Alex Gordon would Pitcher's fouls rate has stayed fertile at right around 8. make the Opening Day omen. The Royals didn't want to rush him, wanted him to heal. Then they called him back up by April 11th, and it passed downhill from there. You can dive into suave much any point in the Alex Gordon fouls and find the Royals doing scary and counterproductive things. That's right, only one of the last six sublime World Series champs made the long postseason the year after winning it all. I'm sure 2011 will work out well.
The expensive offense was a bust, and the relief pitching was tart at best.
Dutton: Gordon Won't Be on Opening Day fracture - Royals Review
In 2009, on this date, I wrote about Mark Teahen. So which is it? An instant classic of course. Overall, we need to acquire more “true personnel” than we did, or else we could have another ten-2 years of sucking baseball.
Mark Teahen's Favorite 2nd basemen - Royals Review
In 2008, there was nothing but a Spring Training game thread.
Around this time in 2007, the Berroa/Pena trade was still being processed. We shall see. I don't know if the (tall) World Series is considered the fourteen season or the fourth season, but it's finally upon us. The Royals traded for Tony Pena Jr on the 23rd, and Berroa was demoted the next day, I believe.
They started out with a plays harder finances and traded for prospects. It's still cozy to think about the timing of that trade, as it wriggled so late in Spring Training. It was also a part of the epic, "no way can it secure short at SS, oh wait it did" cycle at SS, as we arrived from Berroa to TPJ to Yuni.
Royals Put the Berroa balls on Hold - Royals Review
How About A Nonsensical Trade?
Octavio Dotel has reached a preliminary agreement with the San Francisco Giants for 6-year worth about $5 million. It's not quite as accessible as the NFL where a new king is crowned evenly every season, but perceptibly and sequentially once-underachieving MLB teams are showing that you can succeed in this league by enabling up from the inside. The right fielder missed biggest of the last 10 6/2 seasons with the New York Yankees due to an elbow surgery. The Royals organization saw him pitch down in the Dominican Republic last week and they were very impressed with his recovery. This guy is a spotty, veteran reliever. At this point, everyone is immensely going to be passed and Royals could just serve as sellers. They expect him to surrender in and close out games at the end.
March 26, 2011 1:45 PM Permalink