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]
So, wife says “Happy Father’s Day early” I’m going to get you Royals tickets at Orioles for today. I thought about it, and said let’s skip spending 2 hours in the car and 3 more hours watching shitty baseball. I’ll work on trimming trees instead. It was a good decision. [Reply]
Pratto has stepped up. Which is good to see. I think Vinny's been hurt longer than he has let on with him going on the DL today it makes sense. MJ has been a disappointment for sure. Massey is meh. He makes it, we scored if not no lose. Garcia is a rookie.
I still think some of the bats will come around. Hell they are all 23 and 24. It's not like Gordon, Moose, Salvy, Hosmer and all of them just came out of the gate as bad asses at that age either. And the team's timeline of 2025 seems reasonable just knowing the average age of hitting your prime is 26.
But Pratto is striking out 35 percent of the time, same as last year. Unsustainable BABIP. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DCTwister:
So, wife says “Happy Father’s Day early” I’m going to get you Royals tickets at Orioles for today. I thought about it, and said let’s skip spending 2 hours in the car and 3 more hours watching shitty baseball. I’ll work on trimming trees instead. It was a good decision.
Any time spent not watching this team is a very good decision. Yard work has real benefit to your life [Reply]
I was literally about to post the only thing that'd be more fitting is O'Hearn ends this one by hitting one out into the street and he basically did it except for that fence post that stopped the ball. I know it's a limited sample size but he just looks like a different player. He's in no way a star but he looks like a functional bench player.
Just way too much sloppiness and bad baseball right now. [Reply]
