hackfest Stories - Royals Review
The Dream Is Alive: BP Predicts Miguel Olivo WILL Hit Double-Digits in Walks in '09!
Sure, his .240/.273/.401 projected line will also come out to a negative VORP, but the critics just can't point to Olivo and say Dayton Moore has an OBP blinspot. Nope, PECOTA has him pegged as a 10-walk man in '09. Sure, Olivo only drew seven free passes in '08, and with numbers so low a...
Royals Acquire Mike Jacobs for Some Reason
It was inescapable: KANSAS CITY -- The Royals acquired power-hitting first baseman Mike Jacobs from the Florida Marlins on Thursday for right-handed reliever Leo Nunez. Jacobs, who turned 28 on Thursday, should answer the Royals' need for a proven power hitter. He had career highs of 32 home...
Jon Lester No-Hits the Royals at Fenway
Well thank goodness the long-suffering fans of Boston have something to cheer about now. Contrary to what might be expected, sometimes I miss a game. Not that I usually have much going on -- baseball games are usually very convenient in that respect -- but there are 162 games after all, and even a...
Love That Treyball
Walks Drawn: 0 Caught Stealings:1 Extra-base Hits: 1 --------------------- Runs Scored: 0 Oh, and Joakim Soria never appeared in a game that was tied 0-0 going into the 9th. Instead, the 9th inning (with the heart of the Angel order coming up) was left in the hands of Ramirez, Gobble and...
Love that Treyball
Well, at least the Royals forced Sir Sidney out of the game by the ninth inning. In a way, I'm glad we gave the old Aruban one last nice start before he fades back into horribleness. We can file it next to our DVD of Livan Hernandez's similarly dominating performance of a supposedly up-and-coming...
Try Not to Look So Pretty
Thanks to a few recent meltdowns all those nice, pretty, even awe-inspiring team pitching stats have taken a hit. BAA BBs Ks HRs ERA K.C. Royals .265 58 124 11 4.07 A.L. Average .262 67 115 16 4.21 Still good, but not near how good things looked four or...
Hackfest
Since this is the silly season, the time when we draw all kinds of absurd conclusions based on data ten times too small to be valuable, let's go ahead an bring up the fact that the Royals are showing dangerous signs of severe hactasticity. Hopefully, this is only a freak stretch, and will be...
Somewhere Becoming Rain
An offense without patience or power cannot survive in the American League, in 2007. That became something of a clarion this evening in Kansas City, as the Royals struggled to score runs for the third straight night against the Blue Jays. Back in May we started noticing something striking about...
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