Royals Link Gathering: Slotting Talk, Dyson Injured, Greg Billo, and The Iceman

by Freneau on Oct 28, 2011 12:17 PM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

Oh... and Game Six talk. St. Louis forces a Game Seven, which also delays the inevitable baffling Dayton Moore transaction to kick off the off-season by a day.

Royals:

Here are Billo's numbers from 2011:

Year	Age	Tm	Lev	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9
2011	20	Kane County	A	1.93	27	18	1	135.0	113	39	6	25	119	1.022	7.5	0.4	1.7	7.9

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/28/2011.

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I'd like to see some video of Billo's mechanics

The picture on that MiLB.com article just looks awful.

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by Scott McKinney on Oct 28, 2011 12:45 PM EDT reply actions

First thing I thought too

I hate your couch

by tiquanunderwear on Oct 28, 2011 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions

that's by design...

its all completely fake, the Royals staged that

they don’t want anyone knowing how good this kid is

by Freneau on Oct 28, 2011 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

Good move by Eiland, then

Already making his mark on the organization.

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by Scott McKinney on Oct 28, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh no...

It’s the dreaded “Inverted M.”

by halfmanhalfshark on Oct 28, 2011 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

it annoys me

that it’s not just called “The W”

Obviously, you are not a golfer.

by Kyled85 on Oct 28, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought it was the "Inverted W"

but anyway, jokes aside, there is a reason for it:

http://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2011/09/08/why-its-called-the-inverted-w-and-not-the-m/

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by Matt Klaassen on Oct 28, 2011 7:01 PM EDT up reply actions

I think the joke is that Billo's arms are in the opposite of that form

by KSinDC on Oct 28, 2011 7:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Bilo is the new Edwin Carl

I hate your couch

by tiquanunderwear on Oct 28, 2011 12:49 PM EDT reply actions

Lebron James may be dating the girl from that Victorious show

by Freneau on Oct 28, 2011 1:04 PM EDT reply actions

Victoria Justice?

She’s 18…and hot

I hate your couch

by tiquanunderwear on Oct 28, 2011 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

thats what the internet is saying

by Freneau on Oct 28, 2011 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions

and the i nternet has never been wrong

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by averagegatsby on Oct 28, 2011 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions

Al Gore invented

I hate your couch

by tiquanunderwear on Oct 28, 2011 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions

it

I hate your couch

by tiquanunderwear on Oct 28, 2011 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions

He did write the legislation that brought it to our homes.

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by Old Man Duggan on Oct 28, 2011 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

Thank You. And

He was, in part, the inspiration for the male lead in Love Story (Tipper had no part in this), and he never said he was the first one to find out about Love Canal.

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by philofthenorth on Oct 29, 2011 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions

if i cant trust celeb jihad, who can I trust?

by Freneau on Oct 28, 2011 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions

When did she turn 18? Must have been recent

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by Scott McKinney on Oct 28, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions

And Lebron is about to turn 27. I’m not a Lebron hater. I don’t care about him either way. And I think the reaction to his ESPN decision special was an overreaction. But if he’s actually dating this tiny 18-year-old who looks more like 16, that’s kind of creepy. Not illegal. Probably not immoral. But creepy.

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by Scott McKinney on Oct 28, 2011 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Hes destroyed his legacy

by Freneau on Oct 28, 2011 2:29 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Hes?

I can’t believe you left out an apostrophe. I hope a simple typo.

by hawkinscm87 on Oct 28, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Mobile

by Freneau on Oct 28, 2011 2:35 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

He learned from his mama

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by RoyalsRetro on Oct 28, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

shes probably at the same level at him when it comes to maturity

by BeauJackson on Oct 28, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Quite possible

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by Scott McKinney on Oct 28, 2011 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions

I enjoyed watching him be the one man show in Cleveland,

but soon grew tired of hearing the same tired storylines be hashed out again and again once his contract ran out there.

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by KeepItCopacetic on Oct 28, 2011 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions

I Had An

18 year old girlfriend when I was 27; I'm just like LBJ

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by philofthenorth on Oct 29, 2011 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Petro is reporting...

that the Twins are pursuing Ryan Levebre to take over their announcing job. Fingers crossed.

If women only slept with nice guys...guys would only be nice. And they don't. And we're not.

by setupunchtag on Oct 28, 2011 1:44 PM EDT reply actions

Frank and Monty!

I hate your couch

by tiquanunderwear on Oct 28, 2011 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions

this deserves its own fanshot, imo

by Loose Seal on Oct 28, 2011 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

We complain about him a lot.

But do we really want to lose him? His broadcasting ability is very good. The content is sometimes disagreeable, but he’s good at broadcasting, enables Frank White to actually get his insight into the broadcast, and he is respected in the community and in the game.

Plus, the Twins can’t have him back. That would feel too much like a win for them.

by hawkinscm87 on Oct 28, 2011 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Yea

I kinda feel like whoever they hire is guaranteed to be awful.

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by RoyalsRetro on Oct 28, 2011 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions

I think I disagree in general with the hard-slotting article.

Hard-slotting helps small-budget teams. Teams with bigger resources can’t out-spend in the later (or earlier, for that matter) rounds.

Hard-slotting might seem bad for the Royals, but that’s not b/c of the market size, it’s b/c the Royals focus resources on scouting amateurs and drafting while other teams don’t. Milwaukee, for instance, is helped by the hard-slotting since they’re a team that doesn’t put as much focus into scouting and drafting. It’s about the FO’s focus, not budget/market size.

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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Oct 28, 2011 1:59 PM EDT reply actions

Hard slotting creates different problems for signing players

You will want to know in advance where you have to draft a player to assure he will sign. And such information would still be on the draftee’s honor. Guys who aren’t picked by their cash “bottom line” will go undrafted, or the team can draft them and hope to convince them (and they have an incentive to pay money under the table in excess of the minimum to get them to sign) to play for less.

Maybe draft eligible players could fill out a form where they won’t be eligible tobe drafted if they aren’t drafted by a particular threshold.

Or,they might move to a scheme where players have to declare for the draft and doing so voids amateur eligibility. But I I hate that system because too many kids end up declaring, going undrafted, and losing their ability to play in college.

The system as it stands is great but they should narrow the negotiating window to a month.

by WURoyal on Oct 28, 2011 2:54 PM EDT reply actions

I've said this a hundred times already

But I hate Atlanta.

by NobodyFsWDeJesus on Oct 28, 2011 4:02 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

That's what Sherman said

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by KeepItCopacetic on Oct 28, 2011 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

????????

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Oct 29, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Man, I love me some Greg Billo

but they named him the best starting pitcher in all of Class A? That seems like a reach.

I would like to have seen him get a mid-season promotion to Wilimington (I was pretty obnoxious about this in the comment’s on Dubya’s top performers posts), but I’m hardly in a position to complain that the organization is too slow to promote pitchers (although they also seemed to drag their feet on Odorizzi).

Billo’s numbers were actually quite a bit better before he really fell apart in his last three starts.

by KSinDC on Oct 28, 2011 5:30 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs