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Definitely Not Good, but I’m just not worried about this team. They were likely a 70-75 win group at the start of the year. They’re clearly capable of playing good baseball. I think they’re on track to do exactly what we thought they’d do in March.

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They're currently about four wins below my prediction, which is obviously solid gold, but yeah, they'll likely end about where most people thought. The crazy swings are what I think are unexpected. I thought they'd be streaky, but not best team in baseball/worst team in baseball streaky. It's just a frustrating stretch right now.

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Both on the play yesterday but even more so on the play he last injured himself on, his transfer speed from the time it hits his glove to release of the throw is just phenomenal, as fast as anyone I can ever remember. You're exactly right, its frustrating but he has athletic talents that are simply not replaceable, period. Bobby Witt Jr, may end up being a pretty good SS defensively, but he will never be as good defensively as Mondi there. I'm a long way from giving up on him.

How many of Hernandez's HR allowed have been on fastballs? Seems like all of them. He's got major league talent and stuff but his location needs to improve.

I guess I'm a realist hardened by 30 + years of mostly losing Royals baseball, but I didn't really expect this team to be any better than this, this year. I'm excited about Witt and Pratto. The only thing that is really bothering me is the total faceplant of Lynch and Kowar, and the recent mediocrity of Singer and Bubic. My focus is already on next season and what they can do to get this team ready to really compete in 2022, cause again, you are right. This organization is too thin to suffer through Soler and Dozier being two of the worst hitters in baseball, and injuries to Duffy, Mondi, and Benintendi. Both Soler and Dozier have gone entire seasons within range of a .900 OPS. What is the Royals record with them hitting at that level instead of .600?

Lastly, how bad is the overall talent level at AAA when Ryan Ohearn hits 11 HR in 15 games and Alcides Escobar has a .955 OPS?

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On Hernandez, his only homer this year is on the two-seamer and three of four last year were on the two-seamer. It can get pretty straight, so that's a bit of an issue with him.

I expected them to be worse than 16-9 and 13-6 stretches but (obviously) better than the 0-11 and 1-11 stretches. So when you get down to it, the sum of the parts, as I said to Kevin above, is probably about right. I think even with Benny hurt, if you add in 2019 Dozier and Soler, they're significantly better (I guess that's sort of a duh) but I wouldn't be surprised if they had two or three wins to this total.

And yeah, on AAA talent, I don't know. Omaha's batting average is 12 points higher than the second best, their OBP isn't the best, but it's still .346 and their SLG is 36 points higher than second. So yeah, I honestly don't know what is in the water there.

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Very interesting and informative comments. Thanks for the positive attitude. This made me feel better about the team. I have had a lot of frustration being a Kansas City baseball fan since the Athletics came to KC in 1955.

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My brother use to work w\Royals, so I have been fan since Kaufmann owned the team in 1969.....

same Country Club too. Anyhow, Sherman is good and so is Matheny, so some luck may work here plus the club has the right attitude. We are small market, but look at the A's who used to be here in KC.......

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