Phillips will be up in a month. :-)
Kennedy and Hamilton will also likely clear waivers and be available for trade later.
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Maybe you missed the memo.
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I don't know what memo you are referring to, so probably :-)
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The August waiver trades dont exist any more.
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Worst run organizations don't have a World Series championship and two pennants in the last 5 years. And were a Lorenzo Cain injury and Ventura death from having a 4 year run.
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�� FIVE-STRIKEOUT INNING ��#Royals prospect Malcolm Van Buren notches 5⃣ K's in one frame for @BRoyalsKC.

��: https://t.co/HTuGmnAWbD pic.twitter.com/fyqER1H6YN

— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) August 1, 2019

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The fuck happened there? World's shittiest catcher kept dropping swung on third strikes? Farm team came up against a lineup of Tyreek Hill / Terence Gore clones?
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The ball is totally not juiced. The Twins, who the Royals play next, are on pace to obliterate the all-time team HR record by about 50 homers. Nothing to see here.

The Twins just hit 50+ HR for the 3rd straight calendar month.

That's three 50-HR calendar months for them already in 2019.

They had three 50-HR calendar months in *franchise history* entering this year. pic.twitter.com/9BmqZcmm0V

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) August 1, 2019

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I hate that franchise, don't know why. I love knowing that as good as they have been this year they still can't compete with Houston/New York/Boston in the postseason.
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In the words of Verlander..."it's a joke".
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It's basically the Yankees. They somehow get the Yankees every time they make the playoffs and get slaughtered. It's something like 5 of their last 6 playoff series have been against the Yankees.

If the playoffs started today... they'd get the Yankees again.
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So the late 70’s Royals...George Brett is not walking through that door.
#upperdeckvsgoose
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To me that was always just as impressive. In spite of the fact that none of our "homegrown" guys became true stars (even though Gordo, through defense, was likely one as tk points out), our system was so deep anyways that we made it to deep October twice in a row.

Our homegrown talent in 2014-2015 was as follows, right?

Offensive:

Hos
Moose
Gordo
Salvy
Billay

Bench:
Dyson
Colon
Mondesi
Paulo
Gore

Pitchers:
Yordano
Duffy
Kelvin
Holland
Hoch
Collins
Finnegan

That doesn't include Cain and Esky, though large parts of their development came in KC. This list, especially if you give credit to the Royals for some of Cain's development, is really a testament to how well the organization did at developing if not stars, solid major league players.

I think Eric Hosmer was the only prospect of the bunch who was hyped to be a "superstar" (if I remember right A-Rod was the one who made that prediction). Montgomery was up there as well and his failure to launch hit hard, but Hos was the only one who made it to the majors who never quite hit his hype, I'd argue. We were always waiting for his hot streaks to become his new normal, for when his hard-hit baseballs would start falling over the fence more, but it never quite hit that 30-40 HR potential we hoped he'd have. As tight as money is now, imagine if we landed him for 130m? There's a sizeable chunk of Padres fans who are angry they gave up a player with more power and who was far cheaper (Franmil) since they're locked up with Hosmer for the immediate future.
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The Twins and Indians are just mediocre enough to win a garbage division. They are in no shape or form legit contenders.
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Since the 2015 WS they aren't exactly a glowing example of how to do a good job....and their minor league failures started long before that. I read some shit on the Royals Review board that the Royals front office is full of cronies from George Mason that are dipshits, I don't know much about that so I won't make any more comments on it.

However I will say this, the Royals took what should have been a long run and turned it into about a 3 year run.
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