Gut Response: Are the Royals Better than the Astros?

If I make my browser wide enough, it looks like Royals Review is all lubed up in KY Intense.

but the Royals are worse.

But if the bullpen doesn’t implode…again, the Royals might flirt with .500 next year IMO. I know its pretty far fetched at this point,
but with a good rotation anythings possible…and by anything I mean a .500 season. The complete lack of offense is amazing.

actually has Houston as the worst team in baseball in 2010, and that was even before I adjusted for the leagues.

Basically, their only good players are Berkman, Oswalt, Wandy, and Hunter Pence (who is overrated, if still good).

This doesn’t take into account their disastrous minor league situation.

At the moment, I have them projected at 63-99… that seems insanely low for any projection… I’m not sure what the deal is, but yeah, 100 losses isn’t out of the question for Houston.

The Astros are horrid. and while the royals aren’t much better, I have already predicted that the Astros will lose 100 this year. We We’ll see though

royals are better. If the astros were in the AL, they’d lose 100, and I don’t think we will lose that many this year. Maybe 95 losses, but 100 would surprise me.

I would say we are better, but they will finish with a better record because of the league difference. The NL Central is especially weak looking this year.

… but not by much. Both teams will probably finish with around the same record – but the Royals play in a tougher League, though they both play in rather poor divisions.

I am currently running the entire 2010 season through my baseball simulator using the actual 2010 schedule, playing each game 10,000 times. In this exercise I am currently running the mid September games – so I am almost done. I am having each team use a five man rotation, but having to cycle in a 6th and 7th starter on their depth chart every once in a while. Currently, the Royals have almost the exact same record as the Astros. There is actually one team with a worse record than both the Astros and Royals and that is the Cleveland Indians. I was kind of surprised at that result, but a closer look at the Indians and they were pretty bad in 2009 and haven’t done much to bolster themselves in 2010. We’ll see.
vr, Xei

even if their record doesn’t necessarily reflect it this season. Of course, this is rather like saying a root canal without anesthesia is less painful than bowel surgery without anesthesia; it may be true but you would rather not experience it anyway.