Going back to KC, and I’m glad. Gordon in a another team’s uniform would be weird. The KC blue just seems to suit him.
The Royals gave the 32 year old, gold glove outfielder, a lot of money, $72 million over 4 years, pending a physical.
Here’s a link to cbssports.com.
FYI: I have to agree with Sark, Gordon’s homer in game 1 of the World Series, pretty much ended the Mets chances.
(I know I’m late with this post but the last month has been a whirlwind for me. I finally have a chance to catch my breath and collect my thoughts.)
tying run in game five of the World Series is one of the best plays I’ve ever seen in my 35+ years of watching baseball. I would have thought it was a good idea even if he was thrown out.
Congrats to the Royals!
FYI: I don’t see a date for Tigers’s pitchers and catchers to report. However, Cardinals’s pitchers and catchers report on February 17th, 2016. Using that date as an estimate, we have 87 days until Spring Training 2016.
goes to Jose Bautista. Did anyone see the interview with Ryan Goins and Jose Bautista after the game two debacle in the ALCS on Saturday? If you needed anymore evidence that Jose Bautista is a classless, jackass, visit THIS link.
Even though I have the Blue Jays in a pool, I am now pulling for the Royals.
Hat Tip, again, to Nebraska for this link.
It looks like some Royals fans are not happy with Ned Yost.
Congratulations, Ned Yost, you just managed the worst inning of the season.
The situation: The Kansas City Royals trailed the Cleveland Indians 4-3 entering the top of the ninth. The Indians summoned closer Chris Perez from the bullpen, a guy who has been awful of late. In his previous 13 appearances Perez had faced 60 batters and allowed 18 hits — including four home runs — and four walks. In September, he’d pitched four innings and allowed eight hits.
Salvador Perez led off with a base hit to left field. Mike Moustakas walked on four pitches. Pinch-runners for both were on base. Lorenzo Cain, Jarrod Dyson and Alcides Escobar — the bottom of the order — were due up. You have a struggling pitcher who just walked a batter on four pitches. What do you do?
Here’s what you don’t do: Give Perez an out.
David Lough pinch-hit for Cain and sacrificed. Didn’t take a pitch. Didn’t make Perez throw at least one strike. He bunted the first pitch.
Look, it’s not just the sabermetric crowd who is anti-bunt. Managers have become anti-bunt, not sacrificing nearly as often as they used to. It’s a one-run strategy with minimal payoff in a world where more hitters than ever can drive the ball for extra bases or out of the park. A bunt may slightly increase your chance to score one run but it also decreases your chance for multiple runs. It’s a strategy from an era when singles were more common, but in this age of increasing strikeouts and declining batting averages, singles are less likely than ever to occur.
In this specific instance, though, why give an out to a pitcher who has been a train wreck of late? Why make him get only two outs in an inning instead of three?
You can read the entire post here.
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