It's getting harder and harder to care about this team on a daily basis. I actively dislike about half the roster at this point and I'm somewhere between really and truly rooting for losses and...
The San Francisco Giants are not a good hitting team.
A lack of hitting by the Royals sours a nice afternoon on the mound for Sidney Ponson.
Percent Chance of Select Royals Hitters Hitting a Certain Number of Homers given 650 PAs in 2009, drawing on CHONE projections. If you need a closer look, click here. I already posted this at Royals Review, but given the recent fun with Excel's BINOMDIST function and the accompanying charts (not to mention how long it took it to get through my thick head), I thought I'd post it here. Those more in the know: is something like a binomial distribution roughly how stuff in projections systems like CHONE's percentiles and ZiPS' "Oddsinator" are generated?
Percent Chance of Select Royals Hitters Hitting a Certain Number of Homers given 650 PAs in 2009, drawing on CHONE projections. If you need a closer look, click here.
Another brilliant signing by Royals GM Dayton Moore.
A look back at the Kansas City Royals and their 2008 season. An in-depth retrospective on a fourth place team that no proper fan should miss.
Ryan Shealy is evoking ancient memories of Mike Aviles. Or possibly Emil Brown, circa Spring Training 2006. Home Runs By Dudes Who Are Royals & Were Also Standing Near First-Base When the Other...
Last season the Royals hit only 102 home runs, the lowest total in the Majors by a wide margin (Minnesota was 29th with 118) and 59 below the American League average of 161. (Oddly, the NL...
