How did the KC Royals go from world series champs to worst team in baseball in under 3 years?
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How did the KC Royals go from world series champs to worst team in baseball in under 3 years?
Baseball is a funny sport. We lost the fantastic deGrom start and the quality Wheeler start but won the sub-par Matz start...
It's why I love the sport. Unlike football and basketball, the best team on paper doesn't usually win.
well the red sox will win 150 games but thats neither here nor there
This late night baseball is exposing me as an old.
Also, John Farrell possibly managing in 2018 this quickly?!
This is just flat out insane the turnaround. Our pitching coach is like a magic elixir or something.
How did the KC Royals go from world series champs to worst team in baseball in under 3 years?
We stayed relevant for quite some time though. Injuries and lack of young talent depth fucked a few of our chances to go further.Ask the Giants.
This Jose Berrios fella can pitch eh? Aside from his start against Seattle he's been pretty filthy thus far. 29Ks/1BB in 27.2 innings should have some people turning their heads.
Random but figured I'd take it to my ERA brehs.
So if anybody here wouldn't mind emailing Nick Cafardo, the Sox beat reporter for the Boston Globe, about his blatant lies and misinformation in his latest piece comparing Betts to Trout and whom a team would rather have, I'd appreciate it. A buddy who works at MLB advanced media tipped me too it and a few others have noted it's patent and bold faced lies, he just makes up random quotes from "scouts" it's quite bad.
Piece in question:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2018/04/17/mookie-betts-mike-trout-who-gets-nod/
One such quote:
"I'd go with Trout," said a National League evaluator. "Close though. Betts is a year younger and has a better OPS over the last two years."
Which is quite literally factually incorrect and takes a 2 second google search to disprove.
Really badly done.
We stayed relevant for quite some time though. Injuries and lack of young talent depth fucked a few of our chances to go further.
Hear me out:How did the KC Royals go from world series champs to worst team in baseball in under 3 years?
Hear me out:
2014 and 2015 were fluke years and we have actually always sucked.
Yes, partly. He is past the date for when the Braves can call him up and not lose an extra year. Was a few days back.Im just curious, why dont they just call up guys like Acuna already, why do they wait until later in the season
Is it a "you're a rookie so you dont deserve yet to be on the immediate roster" thing?
Im just curious, why dont they just call up guys like Acuna already, why do they wait until later in the season
Is it a "you're a rookie so you dont deserve yet to be on the immediate roster" thing?
Breh no we didn't lol. We beat the best two teams in the NL.I don't think they were too much of a fluke. Going back and looking at who they played in the postseason, I think the AL was weak both years. Then the Mets fluked into the series in 2015, which made it practically a slam dunk that year once they got through the AL. Only team that I would say they played that was for sure good was the Giants and they almost won that. The Angels and the Orioles were both paper tigers.
Sometimes teams just coalesce and have a really strong run for a few years. Also the shenanigans against the Astros and the Blue Jays were good times.
Clearing room for Mr. Acuna:
The Cincinnati series would be my guess for a callup. Also here's hoping Wisler isn't his usual horrible self. He hasn't been half bad in AAA this year.
We had 3-4 years prior of being relevant and we did trades/signings (some which made our draft picks go away) for the now that impacted our future which bites us in the ass now.That's the thing though, 2014 WS year, 2015 was injury plagued, 2016 was a post ASG meltdown and then 2017 which I'm trying to forget. That was a span of 3 years.
2015 Royals win, 2016-17 they were decent (81-81 and 80-82 respectively) and I doubt they'll turn this year around. Span of 3 years.
The difference is we all knew KC would have to tear it down because there was no way they could keep their FAs in town so the rebuild was imminent, whereas SF has kept the players who were successful but aside from Posey they've been spiralling for the past 2 seasons. Its been hard trying to be optimistic about this team for a few seasons now
How did the KC Royals go from world series champs to worst team in baseball in under 3 years?
I don't think they were too much of a fluke. Going back and looking at who they played in the postseason, I think the AL was weak both years. Then the Mets fluked into the series in 2015, which made it practically a slam dunk that year once they got through the AL. Only team that I would say they played that was for sure good was the Giants and they almost won that. The Angels and the Orioles were both paper tigers.
Sometimes teams just coalesce and have a really strong run for a few years. Also the shenanigans against the Astros and the Blue Jays were good times.