Royals Losing Again, Trying to Save Twins Season

by Freneau on Sep 25, 2009 11:29 PM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

The Royals have actually not been terrible against the Twins this year, as Minnesota leads the season series 8-5. (Which makes the Twins 72-68 against everybody else.) Still, after tonight, its hard not to feel like a complete laydown sweep is coming.

St. Willie went 0-5 tonight, batting in the leadoff spot. Considering that Betancourt and Anderson each had two hits, and that Butler went 4-5 hitting in the three hole, you'd have to say that the man, though still a sainted one who is beyond reproach or being held to any kind of rational standard, had a deleterious impact on the team's chances of winning tonight.

And Billy Butler is awesome.

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As long as the Royals win the 2 Greinke games

the Twins can have the rest.

by AxDxMx on Sep 25, 2009 11:38 PM EDT reply actions

Billy Butler ROCKS !

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

by kcscoliny on Sep 26, 2009 12:09 AM EDT reply actions

Dear Twins,

Re: Tigers

You’re Welcome.

Love,
Royals

Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!

by mazoboom on Sep 26, 2009 1:30 AM EDT reply actions

imagine how many games we could win if

our manager didn’t constantly pull starters one at-bat too late and if he had any semblance of a clue on which relievers to bring out of the pen in crucial situations

Just because Juan Cruz avoided total disaster means that he’s gonna pitch tomorrow or Sunday and melt down. Cruz is a total waste of time (and coincidentally, his only other season in the AL was also a complete disaster, but this org doesn’t believe in stats)

Graduate with a B.S. from the Dayton Moore School of Stats Analysis

by BHWick on Sep 26, 2009 3:09 AM EDT reply actions

Sadly, Cruz was the only apparent example of this organization actually paying attention to stats.

There was much talk in the off-season from Dayton Moore about Cruz’s K rate the past two seasons (12.8 K/9 in 2007, 12.4 last year), and how his rate of swinging strikes was extraordinary. Now they’ll feel burned and never trust numbers again.

by andrewmiller on Sep 26, 2009 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm with you

It’s Ironic that the only move that pretty much everyone agreed with last offseason (Cruz) has backfired badly. You don’t see anyone really complaining about that move even now. It was a good one, it just didn’t work out. That does happen.

Dayton’s problem is that he acquires far too many players who were never going to work out (Farnsworth, Jacobs, Bloomquist, Betancourt, HoRam….). Cruz was unfortunate, but it worth a go. You can say the same about very very few of his other moves.

by kcbottom9th on Sep 26, 2009 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Remember wins and losses aren't the measuring stick

It’s well….um…maybe how good the buffet spread is after the game…maybe…no that’s not if…its…if your wife is in the mood when you get home from the game…yeah that’s it..

by Olentangy on Sep 26, 2009 11:21 AM EDT reply actions