2014 Kansas City Royals

[ChrisP]

You're going to the game, and I'm not ???

You bastard.

My original post should have said Ned.. not "New Yost". If anyone else is actually reading a Royals thread, I'm sure they know that. Yes, free tickets, free food, a Royals t-shirt, AND a chance to see the Royals move into first place...couldn't pass it up.

[ChrisP]

First place!

[Barnaby Graves]

This will easily be the story of the year if they win the division. Especially after the Tigers got Price. Wow.

[Palmoripken]

This will easily be the story of the year if they win the division. Especially after the Tigers got Price. Wow.

I'm honestly conflicted. I don't want to face a red hot KC team making the playoffs for the first time in 29 years but the Tigers on paper are the more scary team. It's a nice story though. LOL at the Tigers though.

[OFFNY]

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Royals Rev Up the Radar Gun, Move into 1st

(By E.S.P.N. Stats & Information)

http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/94208/royals-rev-up-the-radar-gun-to-move-into-1st

Highest Average Fastball Velocity Bullpens in 2014

Braves O 94.0 M.P.H.

Pirates O 93.6 M.P.H.

Royals 93.4 M.P.H.

Mariners O 93.4 M.P.H.

[SouthRider]

Here is a fun fact. Starting from the Royals existence in 1969 all the way up to 1985, either the Royals or Orioles made the playoffs every year except for 1972, 1975, and 1982. That's 14 out of 17 years. And yet the two franchises never made the playoffs in the same year. Pretty amazing considering how good both teams were in the 70's and early 80's

[Palmoripken]

Here is a fun fact. Starting from the Royals existence in 1969 all the way up to 1985, either the Royals or Orioles made the playoffs every year except for 1972, 1975, and 1982. That's 14 out of 17 years. And yet the two franchises never made the playoffs in the same year. Pretty amazing considering how good both teams were in the 70's and early 80's

Yeah seems we were either playing the A's and they had the Yankees. Wonder how

things would have gone had we went up against them. They had some good players. Always liked Brett.

[backwardsk]

Maybe keeping Shields at the deadline wasn't a bad idea after all.

[ChrisP]

I was in the "dismantle" the team crowd. Build around Perez, Ventura, and Gordon..

[OFFNY]

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The Royals try to take 3 out of 4.

AUGUST 14th

OAKLAND ATHLETICS

Coco Crisp - DH

John Jaso - C

Josh Donaldson - 3B

Brandon Moss - LF

Stephen Vogt - 1B

Josh Reddick - RF

Alberto Callaspo - 2B

Sam Fuld - CF

Eric Sogard - SS

Jeff Samardzija - RHP (5-8, 2.91 ERA) *

* CHICAGO CUBS (2-7, 2.83 ERA) OOO OAKLAND ATHLETICS (3-1, 3.08 ERA)

KANSAS CITY ROYALS

Nori Aoki - RF

Alcides Escobar - SS

Alex Gordon - LF

Billy Butler - 1B

Josh Willingham - DH

Mike Moustakas - 3B

Erik Kratz - C

Christian Colon - 2B

Jarrod Dyson - CF

"Big Game" James Shields -RHP (11-6, 3.25 ERA)

http://www.baseballpress.com/lineups

[OFFNY]

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8 innings of 1-run ball.

Of the 27 batters that Guthrie faced, he threw first-pitch strikes to 19 of them.

JEREMY GUTHRIE O (vs. RANGERS, 8/23)

IP:O 8

H:o. 5 (1 Home Run, 4 Singles)

R:O. 1

BB:. 1

SO:. 2

Pitches: 111 (72 Strikes, 39 Balls)

2014 ERA: 4.32

[25 Nuggets]

My opinion on whether or not I like other clubs at this point is boiling down to "can you beat the Yankees for me?"

I can understand that the White Sox are a bad ball club... but tonight, KC is letting me down.

[notyourbuddy]

Quite the season Wade Davis is having out of the Royals pen. In 60+ innings:

4.4 H/9

0.0 HR/9

3.1 BB/9

13.1 SO/9

0.827 WHIP

ERA 0.73

ERA+ 549

[OFFNY]

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Big Game, James ......

Big Game, James ......

Big Game, James ......

"BIG GAME" JAMES SHIELDS O (vs. YANKEES, 9/05)

IP:O 8.33

H:o. 3 (3 Singles)

R:O. 0

BB:. 0 *

SO:. 6

Pitches: 97 (68 Strikes, 29 Balls)

2014 ERA: 3.23

* Shields had 1 Hit Batsman.

[OFFNY]

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A Second Chance for Ned Yost?

(By Jerry Crasnick)

In his second managerial job, the Royals' skipper has his team pushing for a spot in the playoffs.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11495935/kansas-city-royals-manager-ned-yost-lightning-rod-criticism