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They wil hit Moncada to lead off the game or Anderson his first at bat. Probably Anderson. The Royals do whatever they want. After the game Perez dumped the bucked of gatorade on Alex Gordon. But no mention of that. The years they won it they celebrated every base hit like it was the pennant clincher. Now they suck so they complain about Anderson. Plus they really care about their former dominance of the Sox and don't want that to end.

And loving on him last season ... your point?

He also ran the bases very slow. Funny about the "unwritten rules" continue to cause problems. I hate the way KC always bullies us around. Timmy should have never done the handshake thing at the end of the brouhaha.

The guy has 9 home runs. Do you realize how many he projects to hit this year? 55!!!! I love Matt D. I think he gets criticized as Paulie did at points of his Sox career. People get on righthanded hitting Sox sluggers for some reason.

Did they hit one of our guys again? Every single year these bastards start it up against the Sox and it works.

Can the guy play outfield? Catcher actually is a great idea. He doesn't look like a centerfielder to me. He looks like a Manny Sanguillen type old school catcher. Or leave him at ss and assume he'll get better.

Welcome to modern fandom where a guy like Matt D goes off again and instead of unabashed love we're begging to trade him. Sad. I prefer to praise Matt for his excellence in Kauffman. This doesn't happen often and we yawn and pray we can trade him. Great to be a fan in the 2018s

Too bad I didn't go tonight. The last 2 games I've seen in KC Kauffman were KC-Sox games and the Sox won both in 13, 14 innings. This was before the Royals were good. I did not go to one game during their mini dynasty the last few seasons.

One of the reasons our ceiling is 8 wins per month for a total of 48.

I hate that nickname. Did it stick?

I still love him. Just didn't like the stretch from Game Two until five minutes before last night's game.

He's good. Case closed is the way I see it.

That's all u got out of that great post? I'll try to stop the third person but it is difficult apparently to stifle that.

Rick Renteria has as much chance of being Sox manager in 2020 as does Balta or Fathom. Well, not literally but in reality, yes. Bank on some name manager who gets axed before then becoming our skipper or simply Omar V. My odds of 2020 manager Ricky: 5 percent chance Omar V: 80 percent chance. Famous guy from another team: 15 percent chance. That said, take care of yourself Mr. Renteria. Sad to lose one's mother. Bless u Rick R. Take all the time u need to honor her. Take another week off if you need the time. Mothers are precious folks.

I think he's going to excel hitting lefty and righty. I think any concerns about Moncada should be relaxed. Greg uses the eye test and he passes it big time, folks. No need to discuss Moncada except in terms of how he does in a given game. He's a star obviously.

Not trying to be Debbie Downer again but if we're going to have a real rotation by August and real lineup by August, isn't it a shame we didn't try to hover around .500 til then? Are we assuming all the young guys we call up are going to suck for a year and a half before 2020? I don't see why that has to be the case. If they are ready for the bigs, suddenly our new era is saying they may need 2 seasons before they get good. Very weird. Before the tank/rebuild era when a guy got called up, he was supposed to be good right off the bat or start losing his elite status.

Wonder boy managers rarely work out. Remember Trey Hillman and Terry Bevington?

This is why I hate rebuilds. If so many guys ultimately fail, guess what, we'll be finding out they failed in big league games. And we'll be losing those big league games as we find out. If we need 2-3 starters in our rebuilt WS contending team(s) to come from other organizations, then what the hell are we rebuilding this way for? Considering the length of time this rebuild is to take, we're only going to have 2-3 nice pieces on the mound? Very very sad. Fire everybody. Yes I've advocated adding veteran relievers and a starter for the rebuilt Sox, but this kind of talk is ridiculous. We're going to need to hit free agency big time?? That's what us non rebuilding types wanted to do in the first place.

Sounds like the stat people go by the eye test just like us non advanced statniks. Like Caulfield said it's all selective IMO.

The Royals are definitely as bad as the Sox but they do have Moose, Perez and Soler is hot so I see this series 3-2 KC or 3-2 Sox. Would be nice to see Davidson keep hitting HRs in Kauffman.

You may have your wish. Looks like Ricky isn't as dumb as I thought. Now that he's used to leading off, might as well leave him there for the next 17 seasons. Maybe Avi was getting used to the 2 slot as well. I thought RR was crazy. I saw Moncada as a somebody lower in the order driving the ball and driving in a lot of runs.

I love Matt Davidson.

Cause he's in the minors. If we had a GOOD FA veteran starter he wouldn't be blocking Kopech at all.

Well, yeah I'm serious. Balta listed these pitchers to educate me. We're developing, he said, Gio (true), Lopez (true), Fulmer (true), Rodon (?) and Kopech (?) Who else on our staff are we actually developing? Miguel and Shields, no. Those bullpen hacks, no. Report post Posted 1 hour ago

I thought that was a good pitch. Narvaez shouldn't complain, but swing.