I agree with you on your award winners. I thought they were actually pretty easy. I don't know if you could call it an award or not, but I might include the bust of the year presentation to Carlos Santana. His horrible season really hurt the Royals, maybe to the tune of 10 wins. Anyway, great article as always.
One thing about this front office and scouting department: They are *really good* at finding freely available talent for the bullpen. I knew Barlow had a good year, but man. A 2.63 FIP is something else.
Hey David, I read your article on RR and I'm pretty sure I asked you about moving Mondesi. So that was fun to read! I seem to be on the other side than most with Mondesi in that if they can pair him with someone to get back a better starter than what we currently have from one of these teams that may be looking to trim payroll go for it. At some point you have to produce, and he really hasn't. I'm ok if he suddenly plays 150 games and hits .290 with 20 hr's and 50 sb's. Its not like the royals haven't given him every opportunity to do that already. If it works somewhere else good for him and sometimes guys need that. Will it happen? Probably not, but I just want them to be creative.....and they certainly have the pieces to be creative if they choose so.
One thing on Bubic not being in the opening day starting rotation. I know his ceiling isn't as high and some of the advanced metrics don't like him as much as Singer and some of the other guys. To me, I can very easily see where he is MIKE MINOR to this team in the next two years. A 200 inning guy that gets stronger as the year goes on with a 4-5 ERA. Exactly what the royals wanted Minor to be this year. If I'm his agent, I'm telling him that's who you want to be cause you'll play a long time in the league if you can do that. The jury is still out for these other guys but he's role is crystal clear to me. Good or bad....who knows but not an unknown anymore I think.
All good calls. Next year we will have some legitimate CY candidates! And I had the over on 74.5, but it was certainly worth it and an enjoyable season - we were legitimately in first place for a while and didn't lose over and over out of the gate!
The Journalism major in me is recoiling at the use of the phrase "First Annual" - there can't be a "First Annual" anything, because it's the first.
It can be the "inaugural" or "Initial" or "First Ever" - and this is my weird hill to die on.
Real surprised on manager of the year, really thought Pedro Grifol had a shot
I agree with you on your award winners. I thought they were actually pretty easy. I don't know if you could call it an award or not, but I might include the bust of the year presentation to Carlos Santana. His horrible season really hurt the Royals, maybe to the tune of 10 wins. Anyway, great article as always.
One thing about this front office and scouting department: They are *really good* at finding freely available talent for the bullpen. I knew Barlow had a good year, but man. A 2.63 FIP is something else.
Hey David, I read your article on RR and I'm pretty sure I asked you about moving Mondesi. So that was fun to read! I seem to be on the other side than most with Mondesi in that if they can pair him with someone to get back a better starter than what we currently have from one of these teams that may be looking to trim payroll go for it. At some point you have to produce, and he really hasn't. I'm ok if he suddenly plays 150 games and hits .290 with 20 hr's and 50 sb's. Its not like the royals haven't given him every opportunity to do that already. If it works somewhere else good for him and sometimes guys need that. Will it happen? Probably not, but I just want them to be creative.....and they certainly have the pieces to be creative if they choose so.
One thing on Bubic not being in the opening day starting rotation. I know his ceiling isn't as high and some of the advanced metrics don't like him as much as Singer and some of the other guys. To me, I can very easily see where he is MIKE MINOR to this team in the next two years. A 200 inning guy that gets stronger as the year goes on with a 4-5 ERA. Exactly what the royals wanted Minor to be this year. If I'm his agent, I'm telling him that's who you want to be cause you'll play a long time in the league if you can do that. The jury is still out for these other guys but he's role is crystal clear to me. Good or bad....who knows but not an unknown anymore I think.
Good stuff! Thanks!
All good calls. Next year we will have some legitimate CY candidates! And I had the over on 74.5, but it was certainly worth it and an enjoyable season - we were legitimately in first place for a while and didn't lose over and over out of the gate!