2023 – A new beginning for the Royals. Matt Quatraro era begins. A year to see which of our young players will make up the core going forward. Can Bobby Witt Jr become a superstar SS or will go to the hot corner? Will Brady Singer take the next step forward? Will Salvy be Salvy? Will Big Vin or Pratto take first base? Will they find a position for MJ? Who else emerges from the youth movement? Not to mention the development of the new downtown stadium.
Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Jordan Lyles, RHP
Ryan Yarbrough, LHP
Josh Taylor, LHP
Aroldis Chapman, LHP
Top 10 Prospects from Baseball America
1. Gavin Cross, OF
2. Cayden Wallace, 3B
3. Drew Waters, OF
4. Ben Kudrna, RHP
5. Frank Mozzicato, LHP
6. Maikel Garcia, SS
7. Tyler Gentry, OF
8. Nick Loftin, OF/3B
9. Angel Zerpa, LHP
10. Carter Jensen, C [Reply]
Originally Posted by Valiant:
Still pisses me off mlb capped the royals on how they were investing in Latin America. But won't put a cap on the majors.
The royals literally started a pipeline. And baseball was oh hell no, no small market dominance.
They've done a few things to fuck small market clubs. Which is God damn ridiculous. [Reply]
For discussion in hindsight would you have kept Andrew Benintendi at the contract that he signed with Chicago for? 5 for 75. Average of 15 million per year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry:
The defense has gotten so much better adding Garcia at 3rd and Pratto at 1st.
Pratto has been really bad defensively. Up the thread you'll see me bitching about a 2-base error he made when he tried backhanding a routine grounder and ended up booting it into RF. Beyond that, statistically, his 'Def' for 2023 per fangraphs is well negative already (-3.6), and that's a counting stat. He put up that big of a negative in only 11 games, meaning he has cost the team almost 4 runs on defense in just those 11 games. Horrible! He was negative last year as well, -3.9 in 49 games.
Pratto fails both the eye and the statistical tests on defense. I know his reputation is that he's really good at D but he just hasn't been able to perform anywhere near that reputation in the bigs.
Whoever made that tweet up the thread about Pratto helping the defense didn't actually check how he's been doing, nor was he watching that game over the weekend I was bitching about. I think the tweeter was just going on rep. [Reply]
you're a bitch, chiefs country. I give you both observations and stats, I make my case like a fucking attorney, and you give me a downvote for it. In the future, don't say demonstrably false shit and you won't get corrected on it, and then you won't have any replies to get upset about and downvote. [Reply]
