The Royals

[star seed 7]

Alex gordon just doesn't fit the royals way

[Rage Against the McKee]

Trading Gordon would be smart, assuming we could improve our starting rotation.

Trading Gordon would be stupid. We would have to pay most of his contract and not get much in return.

We could get pretty good prospects for him. We need prospects to trade for starting pitching at the trade deadline.

what team are you imagining trading Alex Gordon to? Considering his age, contract size, and how he played so far in 2016. What team, specifically, are you thinking will trade top prospects that we could turn into starting pitching in July?

Beats me. There is always at least one GM that makes a bonehead trade every year, though. Just make him available and see what we can get. Just look at the White Sox. They are actually paying James Shields to play baseball for them right now. It's amazing.

[wetwillie]

send eibner down

[star seed 7]

Trading Gordon would be smart, assuming we could improve our starting rotation.

Trading Gordon would be stupid. We would have to pay most of his contract and not get much in return.

We could get pretty good prospects for him. We need prospects to trade for starting pitching at the trade deadline.

what team are you imagining trading Alex Gordon to? Considering his age, contract size, and how he played so far in 2016. What team, specifically, are you thinking will trade top prospects that we could turn into starting pitching in July?

Great argument on why we never should have signed him and why we should dump him asap

[Cartierfor3]

You can disagree with the signing all you like. But Gordon is a proven player who we just invested more money in than any player in team history. He can bat .188 all year and he's still going to play.

Not sure what is up with the hate for a player who has done for the Royals what Alex Gordon has done

[Rage Against the McKee]

Where are you seeing hate for Alex Gordon?

[mocat]

it would be nice to go back in time and not offer the huge contract, but we can't. he is just going to have to play better. it'll probably be eibner to go down, but alex will probably get injured again after regaining his team lead in strikeouts, and then we can bring eibner back up.

[Cartierfor3]

Where are you seeing hate for Alex Gordon?

every clams and lib7 post

[mocat]

btw is Kendrys getting 4 days off in a row here? that is like the worst thing imaginable for such a hot player 

[star seed 7]

Where are you seeing hate for Alex Gordon?

every clams and lib7 post

I don't think either of us hate Alex gordon

[mocat]

have you guys ever looked at ground ball/fly ball ratios for batters? it's pretty interesting. there are 88 qualified batters in the AL.

GB/FB ratio:

1. Nori Aoki 2.10
2. Adam Eaton 1.56
3. Yunel Escobar 1.36
4. Eric Hosmer 1.33
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11. Alcides Escobar 1.17
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23. Kendrys Morales 0.96
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33. Lorenzo Cain 0.89
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-- League Average 0.82
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85. Ian Kinsler 0.46
86. Nick Castellanos 0.45
87. Evan Longoria 0.43
88. Salvador Perez 0.42

[Cartierfor3]

A stupid answer would be letting that cancer back on the team

Where are you seeing hate for Alex Gordon?

every clams and lib7 post

I don't think either of us hate Alex gordon

you called him a cancer and I didn't much care for it

[mocat]

have you guys ever compared 2016 attendance to 2015 attendance? it's pretty interesting.

2015 through 33 home games: 1,075,586 (32,594 avg)
2016 through 33 home games: 1,078,773 (32,690 avg)

IN YOUR FAT FACE 2015 

[CHONGS]

I hope we can start turning it around tonight guys.

[sys]

send eibner down

yeah.  i don't think he's ready for mlb, if he ever will be.  one specific thing i notice is that he likes to stand pretty straight when trying to hit, while most good baseball players are more crouchy.

[sys]

i don't want to say too straight, but probably too straight.

[pissclams]

Trading Gordon would be smart, assuming we could improve our starting rotation.

Trading Gordon would be stupid. We would have to pay most of his contract and not get much in return.

We could get pretty good prospects for him. We need prospects to trade for starting pitching at the trade deadline.

what team are you imagining trading Alex Gordon to? Considering his age, contract size, and how he played so far in 2016. What team, specifically, are you thinking will trade top prospects that we could turn into starting pitching in July?

i know, right?  what a dumb signing that was.  many argue it was worse than infante's.

[kim carnes]

No one is trading for Alex Gordon even if we just gave him up for nothing other than absorbing all of his contract.  Lol at the idea of anyone trading any good pitching prospects for him.

[WillieWatanabe]

Gordon will be fine. (i hope)

[wetwillie]

I think the next PI victim needs to be Kennedy

[mocat]

I think the next PI victim needs to be Kennedy

yeah he's been sneaky bad for a while now. must be his bad genes, evidenced by the red hair, and tooth gap big enough to walk through

[mocat]

guys that didn't feel right. i like ian 

[kso_FAN]

Cf3, to answer your question, I'd send Flynn down. I don't think we need to carry 12 pitchers and Flynn has thrown like 1 inning in the last month.

[star seed 7]

Cf3, to answer your question, I'd send Flynn down. I don't think we need to carry 12 pitchers and Flynn has thrown like 1 inning in the last month.

Who?

[kso_FAN]

Oops, Ourdano isn't officially on the 25 man right now, so we are actually carrying 13 pitchers. So yeah, Flynn.