Royals Take Weekend Series Against Tigers

That doesn’t mean his agent hasn’t and that his agent hasn’t come to an agreement. I don’t know how Grandal is dealing with his agent. Maybe he isn’t hands on. Just because he doesn’t know anything doesn’t mean there isn’t an agreement in place.

Duffy’s back?

Those damn powder blue shirts. This team is never going anywhere until we get rid of all this pseudo-retro bullshit, including all players born in that cursed decade of the ’70s (except DeJesus, born 12/20/79). Powder blue is as ugly as those pink prisoner uniforms at that Arizona tent jail. Wear white at home and either traditional gray, navy blue, or royal blue on the road.

By the way, that includes sinecures for ex-players. What does George Brett do? If the answer is, “Really nothing,” get rid of him. Screw loyalty; he’s already gotten plenty of it and from it. I don’t mean Seitzer, who teaches players to hit better, or White, who broadcasts the games, because those are, like, real jobs.

Royals pitchers with ERAs above 5.50 this season are no longer on the big club. Meche is on the DL, who knows for how long. Mendoza’s 22.50, Colón’s 18.00, Bullington’s 12.00, Thompson’s 6.41, and Rupe’s 5.59 are all stinking up somebody else’s bullpen.
 
Is Davies, at 5.49, next to go? My guess: Not unless he goes over six, then he gets sent to the bullpen, and if that doesn’t work out he gets sent down. Hochevar, at a respectable 4.74, is the next highest, and Marte, at 4.70, has the highest reliever ERA.

This is a miracle of sorts: the Royals’ reliever with the worst ERA is at 4.70. Robinson Tejeda and Kyle Farnsworth are, of all things, pitching quite well. Excuse me now while I take my meds.

We’re almost one-third of the way of the season, and we need to give some credit to our godawful players who actually aren’t complete TPJ 426 OPS shite.

Guillén’s OPS is 804 and on the slide. Please, please trade him now and eat some salary and get a level C prospect.

Of Dayton’s controversial signings, Kendall’s OPS is 721, Podsednik’s is 706 (but he gets extra credit because of his status in the Polish-American community), and Yuni’s is 735. That’s bad, but not absolute dogshit. It’s below-average but probably slightly above zero VORP. The sad thing is that this mediocrity will continue to take playing time away from younger players, simply because these players don’t completely suck.

At least Maier, Avilés, and Wood are getting playing time.

the Royals swarm are only able to bully pitchers with era over 4.
They are like, a herd of hyena..