Royals *** Official 2019 Kansas City Royals Repository *** - Page 117

Get the offseason thread out of here. It's on!

Opening day roster:

Catchers (2): Cam Gallagher, Martin Maldonado

Infielders (7): Hunter Dozier, Lucas Duda, Whit Merrifield, Adalberto Mondesi, Ryan O’Hearn, Chris Owings, Frank Schwindel

Outfielders (4): Alex Gordon, Terrance Gore, Billy Hamilton, Jorge Soler

Starting pitchers (3): Jakob Junis, Brad Keller, Jorge Lopez

Relief pitchers (9): Scott Barlow, Brad Boxberger, Jake Diekman, Chris Ellis, Tim Hill, Ian Kennedy, Kevin McCarthy, Wily Peralta, Kyle Zimmer

Injured list: Danny Duffy, Brian Flynn, Jesse Hahn, Salvador Perez

Suspended: Eric Skoglund
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Originally Posted by siberian khatru:

The Royals have DFAd Chris Owings and selected the contract of Cheslor Cuthbert.
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) May 31, 2019

Cuthbert is batting .310 at Omaha. Could this mean Dozier is going to miss some playing time?
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Originally Posted by DeepSouth:
Cuthbert is batting .310 at Omaha. Could this mean Dozier is going to miss some playing time?

Almost certainly. They could've DL'd Dozier, called up Cuthbert and kept Owings' warm-body versatility. Maybe Dozier will miss fewer than 10 days, but they clearly didn't want to have to play Owings during even that short stretch.

Unless they're getting ready to platoon at 1B.
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Originally Posted by DeepSouth:
Cuthbert is batting .310 at Omaha. Could this mean Dozier is going to miss some playing time?

Maybe Dozier is going to play some 1st...

Now it's time to dump Gore.
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Originally Posted by Mecca:
Maybe Dozier is going to play some 1st...

Now it's time to dump Gore.

I would make Cuthbert play 1B. Dozier seems to play a better 3B to me.
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Originally Posted by Mecca:
Maybe Dozier is going to play some 1st...

Now it's time to dump Gore.

Agreed.

It's time to dump Gore if he's only stealing bases at a 50% clip. That's not good enough.

And he doesn't add anything else of value to the team. Not sure who they would want to call up in his place, though.
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Awful defensive awareness by the Rangers CF'er.
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it was implied earlier, but if anyone here (who might work in the royals clubhouse) could drop some porn mags in kennedy's locker, and make sure DM sees it, that'd be great.

p.s. welcome back, cutty!!
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And Duffy is losing it here. How bad does it get before the bleeding stops.

:-)
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Vintage Duffy
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Duffy can eat shit.
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A little late with the pitching change, Ned.

:-)

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I like Duffy, but he’s such a mental midget.

A veteran pitcher knows there when you have a few rough things that don’t go your way, you gotta bear down and battle.

Duffy just flakes and gives up. Disheartening to see from the guy that should be the leader of your staff.
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Originally Posted by FringeNC:
Completely disagree. Check out his advanced metrics and tell me, given our record and how Pratto is now only a marginal prospect, why one earth we wouldn't give this guy a lot of time:

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savan...-r-hitting-mlb

I agree, but I'm uncertain as to whether they will do the DFA routine with Cuthbert again. That would mean that unless they are planning to DFA Duda, O'Hearn is the one guy that can be sent down that would make sense. Of course, I'd rather they just DFA Duda and Gore both...keep Cuthbert up and recall Boni or maybe Phillips (a better option than Gore IMO as a 4th OF).
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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin:
I like Duffy, but he’s such a mental midget.

A veteran pitcher knows there when you have a few rough things that don’t go your way, you gotta bear down and battle.

Duffy just flakes and gives up. Disheartening to see from the guy that should be the leader of your staff.

You got all of that because he struggled at the very end of the game while being left in too long?
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