Plus ça change...

by Freneau on May 29, 2011 6:00 AM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

So much roster turnover, so little difference. Here are the Royals' records after 51 games in recent years:

2011: 23-28
2010: 21-30
2009: 23-28
2008: 21-30
2007: 19-32

Now, in 2005-2006 the Royals were a different level of really bad. The Royals were 13-38 through 51 games in '06 and 14-37 in '05. I remember those days. Just a young Royals blogger hoping things would get better. They did. Just not by much.

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I left a lawn chair in the plaza... Should I go get it?

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by averagegatsby on May 29, 2011 9:52 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs

You could.. its probally still there...

"Stay Classy Kansas City"

by Mas Cervezas on May 29, 2011 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Same wins

as ’09 but without the ace pitcher building his Cy Young season. Oh well, Master Chen will be back and save us:)

by Jim Fetterolf on May 29, 2011 10:38 AM EDT reply actions

Improvement!

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by RoyalsRetro on May 29, 2011 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Interesting,

but ’09 did have some high priced free agents and maybe a couple of guys brought in through trades for young players, basically what is being suggested here and in other venues.

by Jim Fetterolf on May 29, 2011 11:29 AM EDT reply actions

Not really

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl/player_search.cgi?search=2009%20Royals

Guillen and Meche were there before ’09. Everyone else is random crap filler from all over the place or people brought up from the farm.

Who was the young players traded for?

Edgar knows best.

by kcbottom9th on May 29, 2011 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Guillen and Meche were there before ’09

And how did that work for the team, beyond burning $20m of payroll? Both were on the team in ’09, so a useful comparison to now with the same record but half the payroll and much younger guys with upside. I would rather not go back to that method of building a team. Not that I oppose trades, but prefer trading old for young, like in the Greinke deal; peddle Melky, Frenchy, Butler, Gordon, or even Master Chen for the right price, at the moment Chen being the most difficult player to replace with Cain, Lough, Moooose and Clint Robinson a phone call away.

“Who was the young players traded for?”

Two relievers traded for Crisp and Jacobs, as I remember, Ramirez and Nunez?.

by Jim Fetterolf on May 29, 2011 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Crisp and Jacobs were young players

Of the type people advocate acquiring?

No.

Edgar knows best.

by kcbottom9th on May 29, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Shit don't change

To be a Royals fan is to be a fatalist.

by OnixConcepcion on May 29, 2011 12:17 PM EDT reply actions

Depressing

by LaFLamme on May 29, 2011 12:29 PM EDT reply actions

Hosmer

Getting unabashed love, for his bat, glove and maturity, on Baseball Tonight. “But the important thing is that he’s coming along as these guys are starting to win. It’s not all about him.”

by LaFLamme on May 29, 2011 12:42 PM EDT reply actions

It's too bad that BBTN personalities are forbidden to look at standings

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by Matt Klaassen on May 29, 2011 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions

but, this time it's different

which should be the slogan of the organization

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by BHWick on May 29, 2011 1:05 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

We all knew this season would be the same..

"That's fine wood from... somewhere."

by KeepItCopacetic on May 29, 2011 1:20 PM EDT reply actions

At the start of the season

based largely on information I got right here, I braced myself for a season that might be, at times, ugly. Lots of roster shake ups, adjustments, more experimenting than you find in a coed dorm in California. I was ready for it. But then, as has become customary, they started the season hot and provided hope of near-contention. It’s that false hope that ultimately gets me boiling every season. If I would have stuck with the original plan (“they’re going to suck, but it’ll be a good kind of suck”) I’d be as content and calm as a… content and calm thing.

by LaFLamme on May 29, 2011 1:25 PM EDT reply actions

The coach is an idiot.

How many times does Soria need to blow a save before we put someone else in a close game? He has cost us about 10 games this year. I would only put him in blowout games and let him get his confidence back. This coach is going to stick with him and allow the Royals to lose 100 games.

by Mustang fever on May 30, 2011 7:12 PM EDT reply actions