Stfu idiot
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Agreed.

It SOUNDS like the off-season work by Pratto and Melendez helped them a bunch, plus Witt showed out in camp and probably accelerated his debut.


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Tell us what’s up with Kowar-Lynch-Lacy

That’s really all we need to know. I can’t find anything on Shitter.
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I haven't heard a bunch about them, though the few things I could glean were:

1) Lacy is advanced enough that if they were staying in the race, he would have been brought up to give them innings out of the pen

2) Lynch was the best pitcher in the extended camp

I think it was a good developmental year for all of them. Hopefully Kowar worked hard on his breaking ball or cutter and made some progress.
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Twins lost their 17th STRAIGHT playoff game yesterday. That's fucking brutal.
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They lost their 18th straight today and are done, again.

I believe this is:

5 division series
1 wildcard
1 3-game series (2020) without a W

They haven't won a postseason game since 2004
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Lost to a team with a losing regular season record. Because 2020
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Entire Central division booted out in the first round. We knew this was a pattern for the Twins, but Indians continue to show they peaked in 2016 and the Sox are either not ready for prime time or are not built to make a deep run.
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Well the Twins and Indians both went .500 against the Royals. You knew they weren't ready for prime time.
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Is it time for the Royals to take over AGAIN? I think it's getting close. :-)
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Padres are putting up a fight. Entertaining game. It would have been a set back to be beat by an inferior team as they're ascending as an organization.
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I put this together because I was looking at the KC players for 2021 and seeing what kind of contracts each of them had. At the end, I also took a look at possible free agents for the Royals.

2021 Kansas City Royals Roster

Starting Lineup
2B #15 Whit Merrifield, R/R, Age 31, $6.750 M ’21, Team Option ’23, FA ‘24
SS #27 Adalberto Mondesi, S/R, Age 24, ARB1 ’21
DH #12 Jorge Soler, R/R, Age 28, ARB2 ’21, FA ‘22
C #13 Salvador Perez, R/R, Age 30, $13 M ‘21, FA ‘22
3B #7 Maikel Franco, R/R, Age 27, ARB4 ’21, FA ‘22
1B #17 Hunter Dozier, R/R, Age 28, ARB1 ‘21
RF #19 Franchy Cordero, L/R, Age 26, ARB1 ‘21
LF #14 Edward Olivares, R/R, Age 24, PRE-ARB
CF #0 Nick Heath, L/L, Age 26, PRE-ARB

Bench
C #36 Cam Gallagher, R/R, Age 27, PRE-ARB
1B #66 Ryan O’Hearn, L/L, Age 26, ARB ‘22
UI #1 Nicky Lopez, L/R, Age 25, ARB ‘22
OF #11 Bubba Starling, R/R, Age 27, ARB ‘23

Possible later call ups
3B Bobby Witt JR, R/R, Age 20
OF Kyle Isbel, L/R, Age 23
OF Khalil Lee, L/L, Age22

Possible Starters
SP #56 Brad Keller, R/R, Age25, ARB ‘21
SP #65 Jakob Junis, R/R, Age 28, ARB ‘21
SP #41 Danny Duffy, L/L, Age32, $15.5 M ’21, FA ‘22
SP #50 Kris Bubic, L/L, Age 23, PRE-ARB
SP #51 Brady Singer, R/R, Age 24, PRE-ARB
SP #21 Mike Montgomery, L/L, Age 31, ARB3 ’21, FA ‘22
SP #71 Carlos Hernandez, R/R, Age 23, PRE-ARB

Possible call ups
SP Asa Lacy, L/L, Age 21
SP Daniel Lynch, L/L, Age 23
SP Jackson Kowar, R/R, Age 23

Possible Relief
RP #58 Scott Barlow, R/R, Age 28, PRE-ARB
RP #32 Jesse Hahn, R/R, Age 31, ARB4 ’21, FA ‘22
RP #55 Richard Lovelady, L/L, Age 25, PRE-ARB
RP #61 Kevin McCarthy, R/R, Age 28, ARB ‘22
RP #68 Jake Newberry, R/R, Age 26, PRE-ARB
RP #63 Josh Staumont, R/R, Age27, PRE-ARB
RP #53 Tyler Zuber, R/R, Age 25, PRE-ARB
RP #45 Kyle Zimmer, R/R, Age 29, PRE-ARB
RP #67 Gabe Speier, L/L, Age 25, PRE-ARB
RP #57 Glenn Sparkman, R/R, Age 28, ARB1 ’21
RP #64 Scott Blewett, R/R, Age 24, PRE-ARB

Free Agency

Attempt to sign one or two of the following pitchers -

RP Greg Holland R/R, Age 35
RP Wade Davis, R/R, Age 35, FA – Minor League contract
RP Kelvin Herrera, R/R, Age 30, FA – Minor League contract
RP Trevor Rosenthal, R/R, Age 30, FA
SP Chris Archer, R/R, Age 32 – low cost contract since he is trying to recover after thoracic outlet syndrome surgery.
SP Taijuan Walker, R/R, Age 28- Had Tommy John Surgery in 2018. Missed 2019 and threw 53 innings with 11 starts in 2020

Attempt to sign one or two of the following outfielders

RF Yasiel Puig, R/R, Age 30
LF Michael Brantley, L/L, Age 34
CF Jackie Bradley JR, L/R, Age 30

Contract information from -
https://www.rotoworld.com/baseball/m...yals/contracts
https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/kansas-c.../payroll/2021/
https://www.baseball-reference.com/t...ontracts.shtml
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Please remove Junis and Duffy and I'm cool with this lol
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I am always hopeful. Maybe they get traded or they have great years for the Royals.
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I've never been a big Yasiel Puig fan, but maybe at this point in his career he's not too expensive and he "feels like playing baseball". Royals could use someone that can hit.
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