Royals Gored by Blue Jays, Anxiously Await News on Meche

by Freneau on Apr 28, 2009 11:30 PM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

Well that was an awful three hours.

Only the New Jersey Devils had a worse night.

If anything, the last two nights just show you how random baseball is on a day to day level: yesterday the Royals dominated Toronto behind a cast of unlikely heroes, today, with one of the better pitchers in the league on the mound against a generic unknown, they suffer a complete lay down.

Didn't Meche tweak his back during the meltdown inning in the last start? Oh well, let's go the Gordon route, where we sit him for a start, then send him back out there, then shut him down for two months.

Tejeda kept the Royals in the game for a key stretch during the middle of the game, only to have Ho-Ram erase all doubt. The good news is, we've now got Farnsworth's ERA back under 10.00.

The Royals scratched out a few hits, and DeJesus even had a two hit night, but it wasn't a thing of beauty for the Royals at the plate.

In other news, our magical closer continues to be irrelevant, injured or not. Through 20 games Soria has pitched five innings total: that's less than Farnsworth, less than Wright, less than Cruz and on and on. Hell, Waechter managed to appear in four innings before getting "injured."

Greinke's start tomorrow cannot come fast enough.

Meanwhile, the AL Central remains tighter than... something tight. The Royals have wasted a ton of good pitching and for that they find themselves stuck in the middle of a middling division in the middle of America.

AL Central Standings

	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	11	9	.550	0	Lost 1
Chicago	10	10	.500	1	Lost 1
Kansas City	10	10	.500	1	Lost 1
Minnesota	10	11	.476	1.5	Won 1
Cleveland	8	13	.380	3.5	Won 1

(updated 4.29.2009 at 12:46 AM EDT)

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well if momentum is only as good as your next starting pitcher

………….

realistically speaking

by slayor on Apr 28, 2009 11:32 PM EDT reply actions

Is he about to be in the Sporting News

or Baseball America

cant remember

by Freneau on Apr 28, 2009 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions

sports illustrated cover

realistically speaking

by slayor on Apr 28, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions

forgot sarcasm font

realistically speaking

by slayor on Apr 28, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions

is that picture caption based on an actual interview

not that I’d be shocked, but I would love to read it

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 28, 2009 11:34 PM EDT reply actions

just getting my awfulness on

I think I will take it down

can’t blog angry

by Freneau on Apr 28, 2009 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions

You remember how that worked last time ;)

by sterlingice on Apr 28, 2009 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Boo

When you censor yourself, the monkeys have won.

by Gopherballs on Apr 28, 2009 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions

So now do we get to call you someone who caves to PC pressure or a horrible person for putting the original caption up in the first place?

by sterlingice on Apr 28, 2009 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions

wasn't going after you

I just had to know

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 28, 2009 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions

i just decided there was no way to be needlessly divisive

by Freneau on Apr 29, 2009 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions

Greinke SI Cover

http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/04/28/greinke-world-premiere/

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/web/COM1154983/index.htm

by ZachMartin2 on Apr 29, 2009 12:17 AM EDT reply actions

It looks like they managed to remove all traces of Kansas City or the Royals from said cover

by sterlingice on Apr 29, 2009 8:55 AM EDT up reply actions

That way

when he’s traded to the Dodgers in 2 years they can use the same picture…

I've got crazy flipper fingers!

by labbadabba on Apr 29, 2009 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions

the indians had everything go wrong for them to start the year

and they’re 3.5 games back

by Freneau on Apr 29, 2009 12:55 AM EDT reply actions

and thanks to

anthony reyes being garbage
carl pavano being garbage
and fausto carmona being garbage

i’m not sure there is really a light at the end of that tunnel, other than a train

realistically speaking

by slayor on Apr 29, 2009 1:07 AM EDT up reply actions

but if one of those guys gets straight...

they can still win the division

by Freneau on Apr 29, 2009 1:08 AM EDT up reply actions

somebody has to win it

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 29, 2009 1:19 AM EDT up reply actions

Pavano might be the unluckiest pitcher in baseball so far this year

8.0 K/9, 2.5 BB/9, 3.2 K/BB, 15.6 LD%, 42% GB%, but with highly unsustainable .418 BABIP, 14.8% HR/FB, and 54% LOB%.

The Indians also get a pretty decent Scott Lewis back soon and Jake Westbrook later in the year, plus they have their 47 three-star-and-up prospects to trade for starting help (or step into the rotation themselves).

by Gopherballs on Apr 29, 2009 1:44 AM EDT up reply actions

as i surmised in my

Al Central SP preview

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 29, 2009 1:53 AM EDT up reply actions

I hate Kyle Farnsworth

I’m not the type to leave early but as soon as he came into the game, I decided to call it a night. Seems like he didn’t give up any runs that affected his ERA but he let some inherited runners score…

by Royal from Queens on Apr 29, 2009 1:33 AM EDT reply actions

Just FarnsyBeingFarnsy

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Apr 29, 2009 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions

Optimism note

got this from Sam Mellinger’s Twitter

“Royals have now scored 2 or fewer runs in 11 of 20 games this season”…which means in spite of that, we’re at .500 right now. I have to think the offense is going to come around…between the weather warming up and Jose Guillen back in the lineup, it has to.

by RoyalsFanInBillings on Apr 29, 2009 1:40 AM EDT reply actions

But doesn't the weather warming up and Jose Guillen back in the lineup hurt the pitching staff?

by Gopherballs on Apr 29, 2009 1:45 AM EDT up reply actions

Jose Guillen in RF only hurts the pitching staff compared to Mitch Maier

Defensive stats show that Bloomquist was worse in RF than Guillen. Small sample size, unreliability of defensive stats, etc… I’m willing to say Guillen > Bloomquist when considering both offense and defense.

I am Billy Butler's Gold Glove.

by cbrett42 on Apr 29, 2009 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions

I didn't know this until last night

But apparently Scott Richmond was pitching in an independent league as recently as 2007. And not even pitching that well. He pitched for Edmonton, which is the same league the T-Bones play in, and I have watched games in that league. It is not a particularly high level of play.

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by RoyalsRetro on Apr 29, 2009 8:42 AM EDT reply actions

HoRam

How did the Royals brain thrust miss it by a mile on this guy.

by BlueBloodRoyal on Apr 29, 2009 9:27 AM EDT reply actions

The only drawback to the Royals being competitive and getting attention:

Jason Whitlock writing more columns about the Royals

He should really stick to sports he has a clue about.

I am Billy Butler's Gold Glove.

by cbrett42 on Apr 29, 2009 9:40 AM EDT reply actions

JEFF GEORGE NOW!!!

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by RoyalsRetro on Apr 29, 2009 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions

I'd take him over Farnsworth or HoRam

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 29, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I wonder what baseball player he's "in the tank" for?

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 29, 2009 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions

In all seriousness though

Thoughts on bringing in a guy like Jim Edmonds or Ray Durham?

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by RoyalsRetro on Apr 29, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Royals need a win tonight

for a chance at their first winning April since ’03

I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.

by kcscoliny on Apr 29, 2009 10:00 AM EDT reply actions

Off-topic, am I the only one who thinks that Mark Teahen looks like Ray Liotta (as Shoeless Joe Jackson) in Field of Dreams?

I am Billy Butler's Gold Glove.

by cbrett42 on Apr 29, 2009 12:04 PM EDT reply actions

Yes you are

I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.

by kcscoliny on Apr 29, 2009 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions

White people all look alike

"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae

by Sweep_the_Leg on Apr 29, 2009 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Nice.

Those pictures aren’t perfect, but are the best I could find. It’s not from every angle, but whenever they show him in the batters box from the center field camera, I think the same thing.

I am Billy Butler's Gold Glove.

by cbrett42 on Apr 29, 2009 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions

I have thought this for awghile

by Freneau on Apr 29, 2009 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I think he looks more like Susan Boyle

"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae

by Sweep_the_Leg on Apr 29, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions

I actually see that

same eyes

by Freneau on Apr 29, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions

And eyebrows (which is tremendously unfortunate for Ms. Boyle)

"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae

by Sweep_the_Leg on Apr 29, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Who is Susan Boyle?

The Allard Baird of incisive internet discourse.

by kcbottom9th on Apr 29, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Hi. I'm the internet.

Have we met?

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by RoyalsRetro on Apr 29, 2009 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Royals are the team that almost could

Just came up a few dollars short. The writing is on the wall. We have one of the best pitchers and closers in baseball. The pitching overall is promising. This year was going to be a big year IF Billy fuckin Butler got his act together (tears up the minors but somehow can’t hit anything at the next level ugh!) and Gordon had a breakout year. Butler = FAIL. Gordon = FAIL. Guillen healthier than ever still gets put on the DL. Meche starting sucking and needed a cop out. FAIL. We are not staying healthy. Our bats are not coming through. Our pitching is pretty good but that’s only half the story. Several years back we had the offense but the pitching stunk. This team will finish around .500 but.. that doesn’t win the division. No playoffs this year. Fuck this shit.

Wait, wait. Sorry I just had a bad dream. Go Greinke! Royals will win the division! ….

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Thank thee

by JChief on Apr 29, 2009 12:09 PM EDT reply actions