For Royals, Questions Remain as Spring Training Winds Down

that has a blogger drawing the attention of a hot woman b/c of his hair or something… very weird

I think the Royals coaches kept things misty because they wanted players to step up and assert their respective role. That really hasn’t happened outside of the fact that Maier has proven he deserves to play and the KK has good power, plate discipline and won’t get a shot.

My take on the team.

Give Chri Getz, Mike Aviles, Willie Bloomquist, Mitch Maier, Kila Ka’aihue and Brayan Pena a bigger role.

Acquire a legitimate starter because after Meche, it’s kind of dicey.

Dissolve notions that Kyle Davies, Kyle Farnsworth, Jose Guillen and Scott Podsednik deserve to be here past the trade deadline.

The Royals didn’t improve this spring and they hardly identified a firm rotation…let alone lineup. The Royals have proven that this team needs starting pitching, an offensive player who can play everyday and a new manager.

We can be clear on that.

their equivalent of Ric Flair

(there’s that word again) is that they were giving him a chance to prove he could play adequate D in RF. maybe even just lip service. but Trey and Hillman must know (despite their immense shortcomings) that you can’t spell “improved defense” with “Guillen”, so the increased PT in the outfield is not indicative of their plans for the regular season.

If that’s the case, I really don’t like the idea of handing Davies a spot in the rotation based on one good start against minor leaguers.

I don’t think that is why Davies is going to start the season in the rotation. I think it is about his skills, tools and pitches. A strong case has been made by many that Davies stuff is better suited to starting than Tejeda’s. And at Davies age, this is a good season to give him another long look to see if he can put it together enough to be a decent MLB starter. If not, he goes back to the bullpen and someone else gets a shot. I think this is a decent decision. There were no clear right decisions for the 5th starter spot. There were some clear wrong decisions, though, but I don’t think Davies is in that group.

as in, how much did our optimism get crushed by what the 25-man and first week’s lineups look like?

because you don't have anything else to do

Once set up, just redo it every month and the results are added up for you.

Convinced Glass to spend money, though the MLB moves have been pointless if not crippling to the current team. The draft picks haven’t been brilliant, but at least they took the obvious picks in the higher rounds, signed them, went overslot to get better players in the lower rounds, and invested in the international market. Given the money, I don’t know if Baird would have done better or worse, but it would be hard to do worse than the FA’s Moore has signed and MLB trades Moore has made.