Jose Abreu

I’m shocked

Giolito is getting a lot of swings and misses early

I don’t think the Royals starters are particularly good, but rather our lineup, save for like 3 hitters, is just bad

If alleged defensive wizard yonder Alonso doesn’t bobble that, Anderson doesn’t have to rush and they probably turn two

Because he’s bad

Nope, never. Natural shortstops who can play any infield position and slug .500 in AAA don't deserve playing time.

The throwing error on Anderson did pretty much nothing to affect the score of the game. I’m not sure why you are always so reliant on an inherently subjective statistic

I'd also like to point out how smooth he has looked at 3rd. The transfer on this play is unbelievable

Nice reverse jinx

Literally none of the 3 called strikes to Eloy were strikes

Assuming no improvement from what he is now, then yeah that's probably accurate. I think he can get up to a .280/.315/.425 guy in his prime though, with the good defense that we saw for most of last season

He's still not at 100% in his recovery IIRC

Nice debut for Kelvin

If you aren't on it already, I'd jump on the Yoan Moncada 2019 all-star train pretty soon. It's about to leave the station...

That inning wasn't even on Fry anyway. It was more Banuelos/Jones, Fry just allowed the one hit

Jace Fry was one of the best relievers in baseball last year. 12.3 K/9, 6.5 H/9, 0/7 HR/9.

The bullpen- Fry, Colome, Herrera, Frare, Hamilton (when healthy), will be good. The Jones/Banuelos types are another story

Exactly what I was about to post

If it's May/June and Lopez is still pumping 93, I'll be right there with you. For now, I'm gonna wait and assume his velo will pick up as it warms up and as he gets more reps

I stand corrected on Junis' velocity drop. But I still don't think that anyone should be freaking out on Lopez averaging ~93 on a 39 degree day in March. As @Jake recently posted, he had a ton of weird fluctuations in velocity early last season too. The sample size is far too small

He should have Hector Santiago's role but be a little more effective with it, hopefully

So because he hit 92.9 on one pitch in the 2nd inning, his overall fastball velocity is at last season's average?

That's not what I said, but I knew that strawman was coming. I was responding to a post about velo being down.

It's 39 degrees with 17 MPH winds.