Love the work the guys at Royals Farm Report do. I do feel like they sometimes sell guys a bit….but it didn’t help that essentially ALL the young guys that came up last year struggled right away. It’s a tough league but there is plenty of at least league average arms on the way. David, lie to me and tell me that after this year…..the royals will go get that top of the rotation starter we need even if it hurts! Sounds like everyone is talking again. Surely, we will get to some baseball now.
David, thank you for shining a light on the development staff that the Royals have employed. For years this was a huge frustration for those of us who follow the minor leaguers. Some fans even called for Dayton to be fired because of the development problems. Both the pitching and hitting side should give all fans excitement for the future. I feel like we can have a pipeline like Tampa has developed. As a small market, the organization needs to behave this way if they want to compete for division titles in most years. But like Tampa has done, the Royals need to be smart about extending the young talent early so they can keep the core players in KC longer. I know you have written about this also David, but the Royals need to take the next step as an organization and extend BWJ for 10 to 12 years like Wander Franco was and they need to pick a couple of pitchers to extend as well. If MJM shows that last season was not a fluke he will need a long-term extension as well. The Royals like to build up the middle and now they need to extend those up the middle stars that are developing. The corner players can come and go, but up the middle players with bats like BWJ, MJM, Massey, Loftin are hard to find. Let keep them in royal blue for as long as possible.
So David, do you think that the front office and ownership have the stones to be aggressive with some of these players and assume the risks that come with long-term extensions?
I love the word pipeline. Means we hopefully won't be years of frustrating on field play.
Love the work the guys at Royals Farm Report do. I do feel like they sometimes sell guys a bit….but it didn’t help that essentially ALL the young guys that came up last year struggled right away. It’s a tough league but there is plenty of at least league average arms on the way. David, lie to me and tell me that after this year…..the royals will go get that top of the rotation starter we need even if it hurts! Sounds like everyone is talking again. Surely, we will get to some baseball now.
David, thank you for shining a light on the development staff that the Royals have employed. For years this was a huge frustration for those of us who follow the minor leaguers. Some fans even called for Dayton to be fired because of the development problems. Both the pitching and hitting side should give all fans excitement for the future. I feel like we can have a pipeline like Tampa has developed. As a small market, the organization needs to behave this way if they want to compete for division titles in most years. But like Tampa has done, the Royals need to be smart about extending the young talent early so they can keep the core players in KC longer. I know you have written about this also David, but the Royals need to take the next step as an organization and extend BWJ for 10 to 12 years like Wander Franco was and they need to pick a couple of pitchers to extend as well. If MJM shows that last season was not a fluke he will need a long-term extension as well. The Royals like to build up the middle and now they need to extend those up the middle stars that are developing. The corner players can come and go, but up the middle players with bats like BWJ, MJM, Massey, Loftin are hard to find. Let keep them in royal blue for as long as possible.
So David, do you think that the front office and ownership have the stones to be aggressive with some of these players and assume the risks that come with long-term extensions?