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Fanpost Friday: The Week Before Baseball Edition

Lots of good stuff over the past two weeks!

Kansas City Royals second baseman Chris Owings makes the play for an out against the San Francisco Giants in the first inning during a spring training game at Scottsdale Stadium.
Kansas City Royals second baseman Chris Owings makes the play for an out against the San Francisco Giants in the first inning during a spring training game at Scottsdale Stadium.
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It’s almost baseball! Woohoo! And you guys have been killing it with the Fanposts. Lots of great stuff. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at what was written.

A Roster Based on Spring Training OBP

posted March 17 by gprescott

Who ought to make the last few roster spots for the 2019 Royals? gprescott examines who, indeed, should get those spots by looking at everyone’s favorite offensive statistic, on base percentage.

Former Teammates Praise Maldonado

posted March 14 by bgparks

When Salvador Perez went down with an injury, the catcher spot for the 2019 Royals went up in flames. Or...did it? bgparks points out that many of Martin Maldonado’s former teammates have high praise for the new catcher.

Mitch Maier Writes Home From Baseball Summer Camp - Seven Years Later

posted March 14 by ConnorMoylan

MITCH

Read this. Former Kevin, Connor Moylan, writes the first new entry in Maier’s letters home from summer camp in, literally, years.

Don’t Count Out Cam Gallagher

posted March 13 by bgparks

bgparks is here with another Fanpost, this time pointing out that Gallagher’s pitch framing is pretty good, a skill that might help with new pitchers.

Salvador Perez Dubs Brad Keller the Royal’s “№1 Pitcher”

posted March 13 by bgparks

Once again, bgparks writes about the report from the Kansas City Star that Perez dubbed Brad Keller as the staff ace.

Salvy’s Injury May be a Good Thing

posted March 11 by rjones28

Is there a silver lining in the Perez injury? rjones28 doesn’t only think that there’s a silver lining, but that Maldonado is actually an improvement over Perez in one important way.

Simulation of 2019 Season With OOTP19 Shows Kansas City Improvement.

posted March 9 by kcstengelSr

There aren’t many better ways to predict a season than to have a baseball video game for you. kcstengelSr ran a simulation, and shockingly discovered that OOTP19 thought the Royals would be an even .500 on July 1. Read on to find where that led.

Why the Royals Won’t Take Rutschman If He’s There At #2

posted March 8 by jackie ballgame

The top of the 2019 MLB Draft consists of Adley Rutschmann, Andrew Vaughan, and Bobby Witt Jr. jackie ballgame suggest that Kansas City won’t draft the consensus #1 pick even if he falls to second overall.

Mr. Brett Goes to New York

posted March 7 by rjones28

In this fanpost, rjones quotes a famous black and white film in the title while discussing Game 3 of the 1978 ALCS.