Royals Records

by beltran42 on Feb 20, 2012 3:12 PM EST

With all the pieces seemingly coming together for the Royals, it got me thinking of the Royals HR record. Steve Balboni currently holds the record at 36, which is rather low for a franchise. With Moose, Hosmer, Butler and Gordon as the Royals potential power hitters I was thinking Balboni's record may be broken in the next 5 or so years. Butlers career high is 21, Gordon hit a career high 23 last year, Moose hit 5 last year as a rookie and Hosmer hit 19 as a rookie last year.

Poll

Steve Balboni's record of 36 home runs will be broken by

Eric Hosmer

35 votes

Billy Butler

3 votes

Alex Gordon

6 votes

Moose

34 votes

Someone else

20 votes

98 votes | Poll has closed

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FWIW

Only eight players hit 36 HR last year.

Six the year before that.

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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 20, 2012 3:30 PM EST reply actions

I think it will be the Royals 4th round draft pick in 2015

And he’ll break the record in 2021. Book it.

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 20, 2012 4:11 PM EST reply actions

I'll put $1

on those odds

by beltran42 on Feb 20, 2012 4:24 PM EST up reply actions

Psh, way to be vague about it

I predict his name will be Chace Whittington.

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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 20, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions

Unless of course

they draft a pitcher

by beltran42 on Feb 20, 2012 4:37 PM EST up reply actions

Tell that to Rick Ankiel

"We don’t have guys with a long history of being effective in the seventh and eighth innings."
~Trey Hillman, master of understatements.

by RoyalPug on Feb 20, 2012 7:57 PM EST up reply actions

I predict Bolt Powerson.

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 20, 2012 5:13 PM EST up reply actions

McKinney, quit it with the funny business.

It ruins my image of you as a relentless argument winning machine. I prefer to think of you as some kind of smiley faced boxer wearing Borg, not an actual human being with a wry sense of humor.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 22, 2012 10:21 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs

Maybe I’m softening in my old age. I’m not even wearing the boxers full-time anymore. I’m at least 50% commando nowadays.

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 23, 2012 12:04 AM EST up reply actions

100% Here

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

by philofthenorth on Feb 23, 2012 12:56 AM EST up reply actions

I typically don't even wear pants

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 23, 2012 7:11 AM EST up reply actions

I thought that was a given

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 23, 2012 9:42 AM EST up reply actions

No pants. Eye patch. Corn cob pipe.

Wrestling shoes. Burberry scarf. Tuxedo t-shirt. Leather ball strap.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 23, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions

Leather ball strap? My, aren’t you fancy. I use nylon, like my father and my father’s father before me and that suits us just fine. We aren’t for putting on airs and the like.

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 23, 2012 2:55 PM EST up reply actions

Perhaps you are right....the leather ballstrap is a bit showy.

And I thought I’d catch grief for the Burberry scarf.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 23, 2012 6:27 PM EST up reply actions

I actually use my Burberry scarf for a ball strap,

but I’m a utilitarian.

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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 23, 2012 8:43 PM EST up reply actions

In My Day

We made ball straps out of squirrel leather……AND WE LIKED IT!

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

by philofthenorth on Feb 23, 2012 11:40 PM EST up reply actions

Can we please get LaFlamme to write an...

apocalyptic wasteland short story with you 4 drinking in a cellar awaiting the end of times

I am the one who knocks.

by PhattStairs on Feb 24, 2012 8:46 PM EST up reply actions

What Are These

Pants of which you speak?

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

by philofthenorth on Feb 23, 2012 11:38 PM EST up reply actions

Maybe the draft will be international by then

And the Royals will discover that working class British kids are the new market inefficiency. They know nothing about baseball, but they’re raised on porridge and grit. The HR record will be broken by Karl Pilkington Jr.

by thelaundry on Feb 20, 2012 7:02 PM EST up reply actions

It is somewhat sad that we talk about this a lot.

36 is so astronomically low. I had high hopes that Hamelin/Sweeney/Dye/Quinn would shatter it at one time.

I am the one who knocks.

by PhattStairs on Feb 20, 2012 6:35 PM EST reply actions

by mitchfreakingmaier! on Feb 21, 2012 9:22 AM EST reply actions

Hosmer, Moustakas, Gordon

And maybe Butler have a chance.

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

by philofthenorth on Feb 22, 2012 11:35 PM EST reply actions

It could be someone else, even.

Nick Swisher is hands^h^h^h^h^h delicious.

by ChrisCEIT on Feb 23, 2012 1:44 PM EST up reply actions

Jarrod Dyson

37 inside the park home runs.
That’s what speed do!!

I don't have an MD or law degree. I have a baccalaureate in kicking ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl, I'm him on crack.

by don_jerovanni on Feb 24, 2012 10:20 AM EST reply actions