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Anyway, from a Royals fan's perspective, have you given up on Hosmer and Moustakas?I personally put Moustakas in the bust column a long time ago and am running out of patience with Hosmer.
Quote from: Iveus on July 18, 2013, 08:30:52 AMAnyway, from a Royals fan's perspective, have you given up on Hosmer and Moustakas?I personally put Moustakas in the bust column a long time ago and am running out of patience with Hosmer.Actually as bad as it looks it was almost even worse. For most of the year Moose was hitting under .200 and Hosmer was hitting a weak ass .240 or so on mostly all singles to the opposite field (having only 1 homer for most of the year). We fired a very good hitting coach during the offseason (Kevin Sietzer) because Ned wanted to "pull the ball and hit more homeruns" lol. So we were hitting even less homeruns with that strategy and the hitting coach got shitcanned. Then, a miracled from the baseball God of Kansas City. George Brett rode in on a white chariot to rescue the Royals from the pits of hell. He took a job as hitting coach and suddenly Hosmer became a beast! Hosmer hit like 7 homeruns in one week and damn near got his average to .290 before the break. The joke around town was that if Brett could now fix Moose they would have to retire his number in the baseball hall of fame all over again. Before Brett was hired we had gone on a streak where we lost something like 24 out of 29 games.
Okay, I get it... so last year the problem was we had the worst starting pitching in all of baseball. Okay, I get it. Of course if you have the worst starting pitching in baseball your team is going to fucking suck.WE STILL FUCKING SUCK!!!..this fucking blows, the Royals will never be good as long as Mr. Wall-Mart is running our organization. We have a fucking manager and GM from the stone ages who refuse to get with the times and go sabermetrics/Rany Jazerli/baseball prospectus/Money Ball --THEY NEED TO GET WITH THE TIMES. Ned Yost goes on a damn hunch every game and just shoots from the hip with all his damn lineups and coaching moves. I'd rather higher some stat geek who has never played baseball in his life and have him sit on the bench with a damn laptop and play the percentages on each pitch!!!..thanks for listening to my rant. I live in the worst baseball city in America and my team has had only 1 season above .500 in the last 20 years. I think I'm entitled to an All-Star break rant.
As for the last couple comments...I've never been a believer in rebuilding. I'd rather fill holes in the roster with veterans at the end of their career then take chances on young, unproven guys. Case in point, Miguel Tejada is like 39 and has outplayed Moose at 3rd base this year. His batting average is nearly .100 points higher! I think the "rebuilding" line is a marketing thing to give fans of teams like Mariners and Royals hope when they are on their way to losin 90 or 100 games.And Iveus, I think you got me wrong. I wasn't being sarcastic about George. Brett truly is a saint here in KC. I'm not exaggerating. When your team is as bad as we are all we have to feel good about in this city is George Brett. He did really help save the team when he came on. He finally got Hosmer going, but I agree with you that I think Moose is a bust, but at least with George there is hope around here.