Our AA affiliate is pretty stacked with prospects. I realize most prospects never pan out, but they are all we have to hang our hat on at this point. Our major league club is a dumping ground for aging, mediocre players with no upside.

Ownership should have totally cleaned out our statistically challenged front office this offseason, but instead they kept our GM and fired our manager, then offered our fired manager continued employment with the club. We could lose 100 games 10 years in a row and ownership wouldn't truly fire anyone. Most professional teams are far too results oriented and way to quick with the hook, but our GM really deserves to have been fired by now.

Anecdotally our medical staff is also terrible. Every time someone gets hurt it is the same story. "He will be fine he doesn't need to go on the DL." Then a week later he isn't fine and he ends up going on the DL. "He will be ok in a few weeks." 2 months later he isn't ok. Also the medical staff seems to underestimate the effects of brain injury.

Our organization also consistently fails to develop pitchers that throw hard. Last year, our major league staff collectively threw only 1 pitch at 97+ mph. KC led the majors with 2287. Oakland was second to last with 75 pitches.

We probably won't draw 2m fans this year and most people I talk to are apathetic towards the team. The 2000s were great for us and the post 1991 world series 90s were terrible. The 2010s are looking to be a repeat of the 90s minus the world series. All of this despite having recently opened a taxpayer funded new stadium which was supposed to make us more competitive (same old BS which I never believed).

You looking for an Oakland style parking lot stabbing?

I couldn't find any links prior to the end of last season but the ones I quoted said the same thing. Making up **** again. I've just been trying to point out why the postseason is different and which areas are more important in postseason play. You seem to think that there's no difference in play between the two.
That was baseball reference from last year. KC had a pitching WAR of 20.1, Detroit's was 18.9. Keep saying how bad our pitching was last year. Quote that post please. I have no idea to what you are referring.
You being constantly wrong doesn't make me clueless.

A good pantsing might suffice

lol and read my post. BR doesn't have them above KCR in pitching in wins above average.
http://probaseballinsider.com/recipe...yoff-baseball/
http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/201...076.1386041427

You linked those articles... you didn't read them did you? Embarrassing.

Your quote: "baseball-reference has DET above KCR in pitching in wins above average"

What is RD? Did you mean RP - run prevention? Be more clear in what you're trying to say. And I said nothing about starting pitching, just pitching.

I predict this is going to be a fun thread this year.

dude that's perfectly clear. You quoted an article that measured teams by run differential to point out how good they are. You also quoted an article that required 4 starting pitchers that can go deep into games.

You're not even reading this **** you're posting are you?

It's the return of semantikes. It's hard to know what you're referring to when you don't use quotes.

Those articles were there to back up my claims ITT. You pick a sentence out of each one and go off on some tangent.

How about you come up with something to prove me wrong instead of just dismissing stuff out of hand?

lol they list a got damn set of ingredients in one article and use run differential for the entire basis of their analysis in the other. You either didnt read the article or are completely clueless about what they're actually saying. Instead, you got stuck on a sentence in the article and threw your bull**** up on here. Those articles directly contradict the case you're trying to make, and it's because you're so casualfan you don't even know why that's so.

lol at the bolded. Just because you say that, doesn't make it so.

Here's an easy question for you: Is playoff baseball managed differently than in the regular season?

- You say the royals are built for the playoffs
- You post an article saying that you need 4 starters that can go deep into games
- Royals starting pitching was not good last year

Other article:
- You post an article that measures how good a team is based on their run differential
- Royals finished 6 in the AL by RD

You have no idea what you're talking about, and aren't worth anyone's time.

No wonder you are featured so prominently in bad poster threads. You pick and chose which facts and stats to use and dodge questions that you can't answer. And then when it doesn't go as you like it, resort to insults and name calling. Grow the **** up.

1. Royals 11-3 +35

1. Detroit 11-3
1. Kansas City 11-3

Know your place

Royals with 6 comeback wins in a row.

built for comebacks obviously.

Which are more important in the playoffs

true true... obviously comebackability is a crucial playoff trait.

In a short series you need to know how to comeback. Also the extra game off gives players on the losing team time to think more about how they got totally faced.

lol nh

Still the gold standard for curse words per minute:

A KC victory tonight would mean a winning record against the Twins. We all know that's not gonna happen, so Det could be alone in 1st place again.

sing it with me grear...

we got the power and we got the speed
to be the best in the american league

Go sox go, go sox go, hey chicago what do u say
Sox are gonna win today

Yeesssss