There's a lot of love going on in the clubhouse right now.
Varsho and Chapman
Schneider and Tim Mayza
Kirk and high-carb foods
Vlad and reckless base running, etc.
I love the Royals attempts to "stack the lineup" with their lefties when it's guys like M-ASS-ey, Pratto, Nicky Lopez and JBJ lmao
"Watch out guys, we are STACKING the lineup with a bunch of .600 OPS slap-hitting lefties!"
What a trash team
Dude is an elite framer, above average blocker and last year had an average arm.
If anyone should be DHing it should be our backup Catcher Danny Jansen. Dude gets hurt constantly and DHing more might help him stay healthy.
Same. Maybe they want to see what they've got with him for a week or two.
I love these lefty mashers though. Great depth pieces to have around to patch up the roster when you inevitably need them.
His defense (particularly his arm; he has a cannon) and base running look okay too so he's not just a one trick pony.
Looks to be pretty good against lefties and his defense in the corner OF looks to be pretty decent as well.
He seems like a better fit for the roster than Lukes given 2 of our 3 starting OFers are lefties. But more than anything he's probably good depth. If an OF were to go down we could probably platoon him and Lukes in an OF corner spot and get passable production.
This year could very well be it for him. He needs to have a good year or he's done since he's a FA at the end of the year. I can't imagine teams will be banging down the door to bring in a 38 year old coming off a bad year and his reputation.
Yeah the Royals just stacked their lineup with garbage lefties and they teed off on him. Hard line drive contact all night. They just have very little power in their lineup. If he throws like that against a good offense it would have been even uglier.
Maybe instead of dying his hair and getting rocked for Puerto Rico in the WBC he should have been working on locating his fastball. Garbage player and I hate him for ruining my night.
It's like he has the yips.
But instead of not being able to find the plate, he's incapable of throwing his fastball for anything other than middle of the plate belt high.