Free Agent Signings:
Carlos Santana
Mike Minor
Michael Taylor
Ervin Santana
Top 10 Prospects:
1 Bobby Witt Jr., SS
2 Asa Lacy, LHP
3 Daniel Lynch, LHP
4 Jackson Kowar, RHP
5 Erick Pena, OF
6 Nick Loftin, SS
7 Kyle Isbel, OF
8 Khali Lee, OF
9 Jonathan Bowlan, RHP
10 Carlos Hernedez, RHP [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
You know it'd be nice if Moore would admit this team sucks by making moves but I don't see that happening.
Ask and you may receive....
Sources: The Nationals are in the process of acquiring veteran shortstop Alcides Escobar from the Royals. Escobar is on his way to Washington with the team needing middle infield help. The 34-year-old last played in the majors in 2018.
Singer is a great example why "let's just draft tons of pitching and trade the excess for bats!!!1!" Was/is a dumb idea. We don't have any established pitchers so now we have to wait out all of them to hope some hit. Meanwhile singer has tanked all value he might of had a year ago. A 5 ERA pitcher can't be traded for anything useful.
I just pray we don't take rocker. Can't keep doubling down and ignore why our offense is so awful. [Reply]
Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ:
Singer is a great example why "let's just draft tons of pitching and trade the excess for bats!!!1!" Was/is a dumb idea. We don't have any established pitchers so now we have to wait out all of them to hope some hit. Meanwhile singer has tanked all value he might of had a year ago. A 5 ERA pitcher can't be traded for anything useful.
I just pray we don't take rocker. Can't keep doubling down and ignore why our offense is so awful.
Hard to believe we'd ever get to the point people were wishing we don't draft Rocker. Two years ago you would have been called crazy for that.
That said, it wasn't like they got super aggressive to get all of those arms, Singer was a top of the draft talent and fell all the way to the middle of the first round. They were definitely trying to take advantage of inefficiencies, which is pretty much Moneyball in a nutshell. All the other teams were going all-in on position players so instead of settling they went the other direction and stocked up on the high end arms that fell in the draft. [Reply]
Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ:
Singer is a great example why "let's just draft tons of pitching and trade the excess for bats!!!1!" Was/is a dumb idea. We don't have any established pitchers so now we have to wait out all of them to hope some hit. Meanwhile singer has tanked all value he might of had a year ago. A 5 ERA pitcher can't be traded for anything useful.
I just pray we don't take rocker. Can't keep doubling down and ignore why our offense is so awful.
It's really hard to be a good starter with 2 pitches. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
Hard to believe we'd ever get to the point people were wishing we don't draft Rocker. Two years ago you would have been called crazy for that.
That said, it wasn't like they got super aggressive to get all of those arms, Singer was a top of the draft talent and fell all the way to the middle of the first round. They were definitely trying to take advantage of inefficiencies, which is pretty much Moneyball in a nutshell. All the other teams were going all-in on position players so instead of settling they went the other direction and stocked up on the high end arms that fell in the draft.
That's fine to a degree, if the pitcher is far and away the top player you graded. But at the same time hitters historically pan out at a much higher rate, building your farm around 85% pitching is risky, it's even more risky with this organization.
The Royals under Dayton Moore's ability to develop pitching is about on par with a rooster laying an egg. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
That's fine to a degree, if the pitcher is far and away the top player you graded. But at the same time hitters historically pan out at a much higher rate, building your farm around 85% pitching is risky, it's even more risky with this organization.
The Royals under Dayton Moore's ability to develop pitching is about on par with a rooster laying an egg.
It's 100% true that they haven't done a good job of developing pitchers, but the Tigers literally had Singer on their short list to draft at #1 and he was at one time probably a top 5 prospect in the draft. You can't fault Dayton for drafting him all the way down at 18. There's no way he should be passing on talent like that. [Reply]