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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73350 on: December 14, 2017, 09:13:56 PM »
Picked up two Rule 5 guys today. I assume that still means we have to keep them on the roster all year or lose them.

A couple of pitchers. And, yes, that is accurate.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73351 on: December 14, 2017, 11:27:53 PM »
Picked up two Rule 5 guys today. I assume that still means we have to keep them on the roster all year or lose them.

A couple of pitchers. And, yes, that is accurate.

Neither are overwhelming. Closer to underwhelming than overwhelming.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73352 on: December 15, 2017, 08:28:59 AM »
Rule 5 tends to be a bit of a crapshoot.  And the pitchers they got have some upside. I wouldn't call it underwhelming.  Burch Smith was ranked as the #1 Rule 5 prospect by Baseball America.


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Smith missed all of 2015 and 2016 recovering from Tommy John surgery but came back looking like the player who was once an intriguing prospect. Both at the end of the season at Triple-A Durham and in the Arizona Fall League, Smith sat 94-96 mph with his fastball, flashed a knee-buckling 74-76 mph curveball and showed a swing-and-miss 79-81 mph changeup. Though he’s 27 and has had serious arm health issues, Smith is major league ready and has the stuff to help a team as a back-end starter or move to the bullpen.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2017-rule-5-draft-preview-v-1-9/#zb5z2bsO5frd2iyp.97

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73353 on: December 15, 2017, 08:54:06 AM »
Royals should be taking every cheap crapshoot signing they can right now

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73354 on: December 15, 2017, 11:00:51 AM »
Royals should be taking every cheap crapshoot signing they can right now
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73355 on: December 15, 2017, 11:05:46 AM »
I'm fine with that theory, but there's no way we're money balling this bitch

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73356 on: December 15, 2017, 11:26:12 AM »
I'm fine with that theory, but there's no way we're money balling this bitch

We're definitely going to suck.  Everything we do should be for either some young talent that will be part of a good team in 2+ years or a trade asset.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73357 on: December 15, 2017, 01:43:27 PM »
I'm fully on board with a burn it down and rebuild strategy.  I think it's the best way for a team like KC to compete.  I just hope we fully embrace it.  My fear is that we'll try to ride the fence in hopes of staying somewhat competitive during the rebuild and end up in no man's land for another decade.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73358 on: December 15, 2017, 05:39:15 PM »
The projection systems are very up on Keller.
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73359 on: December 15, 2017, 06:10:20 PM »
I'm fine with that theory, but there's no way we're money balling this bitch

We're definitely going to suck.  Everything we do should be for either some young talent that will be part of a good team in 2+ years or a trade asset.
Agreed. Maybe a decent former all star to bring up ticket sells as well. Juan Gonzalez style.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73360 on: December 15, 2017, 06:17:01 PM »
Need those ticket sells
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73361 on: December 15, 2017, 06:17:15 PM »
I'm fully on board with a burn it down and rebuild strategy.  I think it's the best way for a team like KC to compete.  I just hope we fully embrace it.  My fear is that we'll try to ride the fence in hopes of staying somewhat competitive during the rebuild and end up in no man's land for another decade.
I'm all for it, but what's going to be annoying is all the new $ fans at the K and at work bitching about it. Some fans don't deserve nice things. They'll never understand what it took to make that run.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73362 on: December 15, 2017, 06:18:43 PM »
Sales 8man. It's nice to look at one shiny thing at the K. No matter how old and smelly they are.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73363 on: December 15, 2017, 06:23:20 PM »
I would hope that baseball fans as a whole are now smarter than being sucked in by something like a Ryan Howard or Chase Utley signing in 2018
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73364 on: December 15, 2017, 06:25:41 PM »
They're not unfortunately. This city turned so quick after the all star break losing streak. I had a bunch of dumbasses asking me why we sucked now. They don't get it.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73365 on: December 15, 2017, 08:37:40 PM »
I did some checking and canco these two pitchers suck.

Good royals rule 5 finds i recall:
Soria?
Jon Nunnally
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73366 on: December 26, 2017, 10:43:30 AM »

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73367 on: December 29, 2017, 10:24:48 PM »
Wader gettin paid :bigtoke:
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73368 on: January 03, 2018, 07:34:41 AM »

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73369 on: January 03, 2018, 07:38:49 AM »
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73370 on: January 03, 2018, 08:00:52 AM »
I guess I don't know what else is in play but this feels like exactly the opposite of what we should be doing.
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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73371 on: January 03, 2018, 09:29:46 AM »
Good grief, Dayton.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73372 on: January 03, 2018, 10:24:56 AM »
someone take away Dayton's phone and internet privileges. this is a terrible move if they do it and will cement our status as a doormat for a decade.

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73373 on: January 03, 2018, 10:55:05 AM »
it feels really good though

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Re: The Royals
« Reply #73374 on: January 03, 2018, 10:59:26 AM »
Maybe Dayton knows Eric secretly already has a better offer from somebody else and is just making this offer so the Royals faithful know that he at least tried or something.