We can all breathe a sigh of relief because Washington's number 1 pick in the draft is human.  Strass pitched a terrible game giving up his first two homers this fall in one inning.  Now we will see just how well he can come back and compete after a disasterous start.  Wood pitched 4 innings of shutout ball tonight and Sisk followed that up with another scoreless inning in relief.  Sisk and Hartsock shouldn't spend too much time in Omaha with the shape of our bullpen.  Keep an eye on the Rangers rookie Moreland.  He looks to be as good as Smoak if not better.  Remember Smoak is the player we passed up to take Hosey (with glasses).

Here are the winter league stats so far for the Royals:

Individual Statistics As of: 10/22/2009 02:45 AM EDT
      BATTERS   CLUB   LEAGUE   AVG   G   AB   R   H   2B   3B   HR   RBI   SO   BB   IBB   SB   CS   OBP   SLG   OPS   SF   SAC   HBP   GIDP  
  Bianchi, Jeff SUR AFL .308 6 26 3 8 1 0 0 4 4 2 0 0 0 .357 .346 .703 0 0 0 0
  Duarte, Jose CAR VWL .324 11 34 9 11 1 0 0 2 7 5 0 2 0 .425 .353 .778 0 0 1 0
  Lisson, Mario CAR VWL .333 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .600 .667 1.267 0 0 0 0
 * Moustakas, Mike SUR AFL .333 5 21 4 7 3 0 1 9 3 0 0 1 0 .348 .619 .967 1 0 1 1
  Pina, Manuel LAG VWL .400 4 10 1 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 .500 .700 1.200 0 0 2 0
 * Tupman, Matt LIC DWL .100 3 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .182 .100 .282 0 0 0 2

      PITCHERS   CLUB   LEAGUE   W   L   ERA   G   GS   CG   SHO   SV   SVO   IP   H   R   ER   HR   HB   SO   BB   IBB   WP   GIDP   WHIP   AVG  
  Abreu, Juan AGU DWL 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 .000
  Hartsock, Aaron SUR AFL 0 0 2.70 3 0 0 0 0 0 3.1 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0.90 .167
  Nicoll, Chris ORI VWL 0 0 2.25 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.0 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1.25 .286
 * O'Connor, Michael MAR VWL 0 1 0.00 5 0 0 0 0 0 4.1 6 1 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 1.62 .316
  Paulino, Eduardo LIC DWL 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 .000
 * Rivas, Carlos CAR VWL 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 .000
 * Rivas, Carlos LAR VWL 0 1 10.12 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 4 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 2.63 .444
T * Rivas, Carlos   0 1 5.79 4 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 4 3 3 0 0 2 3 0 1 1 1.50 .267
 * Sisk, Brandon SUR AFL 0 0 3.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.0 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1.33 .333
 * Swaggerty, Ben SUR AFL 0 0 13.50 3 0 0 0 0 0 3.1 6 5 5 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 2.40 .500
  Wood, Blake SUR AFL 1 0 9.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 3 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2.00 .375