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Chapter 1: What recent achievements have the Royals accomplished against the Tigers?
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On 1-1, Beerling hits it in the air for left field. Collins racing into the alleyway. That ball hits the fence and bounces back in. Lee is home. Short is home. It's a triples derby for the Tigers here in the second inning in a 3-0 Detroit lead. Workman in the air to right field. Caglione is back at the track and the wall. And Gage Workman sends it up and out.
And it's five to three out of nowhere. Swing and a miss. Strike three. And Kenley Jansen finishes off save number 483 in his major league career.
And now, not here to talk you off the ledge, but to tell you to stop going out there in the first place, Sir and Petro.
Right you are, Kay. Right you are. Petro on the program on Sports Radio 810 WHB. Thank you for joining us on a... Are we borderline hot now? I wouldn't say hot. Bring on the heat. The pools are opening soon. Let's go. What do we got going on?
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Chapter 2: What lineup issues are currently affecting the Royals' performance?
Gotta heat them up. Pools aren't heating themselves unless, you know... you're a Richie, then I guess maybe it is.
True story. 78 with the average temperature for May 11th is here.
Probably in that neighborhood.
Yeah, maybe a little cooler than that. Are we getting to the 80s? Yeah, it's going to be June in three weeks. 78's pretty good.
End of the week, we're halfway through May.
78's nice. It's a nice day.
Yeah, beautiful day. Hopefully you get a chance to get outside and enjoy it. We've got a lot coming your way today. Matt Derrick will be with us talking some Chiefs football. I'm going to start making some predictions, I think, maybe on what they're going to do, how they're going to play. What style, percentage of times under center. Yeah. Rashe Rice.
Anybody want to throw some numbers down on what they think Rashe Rice is going to be this year?
I'll throw some numbers down. I don't know what. Are we going to like it? Probably not. Probably not, okay. All right, good to know. By the way, average high temperature in KC on May 11th, 73.5. So we're a little over average.
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Chapter 3: How is the Royals' rotation performing this season?
Okay, so. But I still run there.
We'll take it. Hell yeah. We'll talk Chiefs football with Matt and Eric coming up in the 3 o'clock hour. Matt.
By the way, I was on sound off with Matt last night, and it took every bit of self-control I had to not say Matt about five times.
Okay.
I really wanted to.
Okay. Is it okay if I continue now? Sure.
All right. Occasionally, I'll have free association with things as we go through the day, but that's just who I am. Okay. You good? For now.
Two-minute drill at four, visiting exotic ports of coal like? Cleveland, L.A., Tampa. Cleveland, L.A., Tampa. Okay, okay. No Indy? No answer. No answer? Take care of that. Well, it's too late now. Now he's on the air. He didn't get back to you, huh? Did you reach out to JMV? Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What frustrations are fans expressing about the Royals' recent games?
A little irritated here. A little bit irritated. A little bit. Two-minute drill coming up in the 4 o'clock hour with at least those exotic ports of call. Jeff Passan in the 5. We're doing a little switcheroo. Jeff Passan is moving to Mondays. David Leske is moving to Thursdays. Why, you might ask. I might. And I would tell you, mind your own business. None of your freaking business.
Just don't worry about it. You don't, it's like not for you to know. Why? Shut up, that's why. It's on a need-to-know basis. Just sit back and enjoy that Jeff Passan's coming your way today.
It is on a need-to-know basis, but it would not necessarily be included in need-to-know later today. Because it may not be something you need to know. Boy, you're on fire. So if we say it, then you'll need to know it.
Okay.
Sure. If that's got you going there. A little bit. Okay, I'll take it. It's all this warm weather.
The Royals have this way of seemingly being able to, you know, get us excited, let us down, but still be succeeding to where, I'm not going to say it's annoying, but they keep like winning early and losing late in series, which is creating frustration.
I heard someone said they were 3-10 in series finales this year.
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Chapter 5: What are the predictions for the Royals' upcoming series?
Is that right? I would buy it. One of the reporters asked Matt Quattaro that yesterday. He was not thrilled with the question, but he said, I don't think of it. It's just we lost today. I don't care about that stuff. But 3-10, that checks out. If you had to guess what it was in 13 series, you'd probably guess around 4-9 or 3-10.
So, I just... You know, 4-3 is what we wanted out of this, right? Yeah. I mean, 5-2 would have been great, but when you go into the final game of the homestand and you have a chance to go 5-2, you really want to get there. When you go up 2-0 in a four-game series, you really want to get the third win. You want to win the series, not just push. So, it's been a letdown twice.
They get done what they needed to get done, yet... We're frustrated?
A little bit. I think some fans are a little frustrated.
I mean, I'm frustrated but optimistic. I'm not pessimistic. I do think they're playing better baseball. They are, what, now 12-6 in their last 18? Mm-hmm. So they've knocked six games. They were nine games under .500. They're now only three games under. And 11-5 in their last 16. Yeah, I think part of it is I would feel better if they could get above .500.
Yeah.
That's what's annoying is, like, just get above 500.
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Chapter 6: How can the Royals improve their offensive lineup?
Get firmly above 500. Get to where, like you said, you can drop a couple in a row. Let's get three over, and then I'll feel good. But should we feel like this team, are we out of the it's going to be a bad year zone? I think so. For you, yes. Kyle, are you out of the bad year zone? This is not going to be a bad year.
Yeah, I am. I'm just... Every year, it seems that the offense starts slow, pitching starts hot, and then the belief is just not there just because how bad the offense looks, especially the three and four hitters. Now, I know that has not exactly been cleaned up yet because the rest of the lineup is producing, but... There's still a little bit of a hole there.
But, no, I am not on the ledge right now.
Okay, I'm not on the ledge either. I'm done thinking that the season's going to go to hell in a handbasket. If they drop the first two on this road trip in Chicago, I'm not going to be doom and glooming it. I'm going to expect them to get the third win, and then I'm going to expect them to go fight towards 2-1 against the Cardinals. I expect them to go 3-3 on this road trip.
Probably two out of three with the White Sox. Probably one out of three with the Cardinals would be my expectation. I'm now there. My question, though, is what we would hear from most baseball executives is like, well, you know, we just got to see where we are when we get to the deadline. If I'm John Sherman and my general manager is telling me, well, we'll see what we are when we get to July.
I would be like, what do you mean? Explain that. What are you not sure about? Injuries? Okay, yes, we never know what injuries might befall a team. So, okay, injuries. But what else don't we know about?
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Salvador Perez's performance for the team?
Let me just pose that question right now. If you said this, which I think most execs would say because everything needs a deadline to get something done, but you can trade any time.
Mm-hmm.
You can make a deal right now. Somebody just shipped a catcher over the weekend around. Giants to Giants.
Patrick Bailey.
Yeah. Moved a catcher. You can make a deal any time. So what are we not sure about right now? With this team, within this organization, what are we not sure about? I'm not sure about Cole Reagan's health. Were you sure about it coming in? No, I wasn't.
It's one of the reasons why I said, listen, all this about, like, we can't move Cole Reagans in a deal for one of the Red Sox outfielders, I'm fine if you say Cole Reagans is worth more than Jaron Duran, who's not hitting very well, or more than William Abreu, you know, the two names that were being kind of thrown around. I'm fine with that, but the idea that, no, we have to move Bubich...
It was erroneous. And let me, you know, we talked about this last week. Cole Reagan's being down. Injuries have been a part of his history. So, like, what do we not know about? Well, we don't know how many innings he's going to pitch. But if we said, listen, here's what we got to do, boys. I want everybody to write down the stats for every player at the end of the year.
Anybody putting 200 plus strikeouts down again for Cole Reagan's? I'm not. No. 120 innings, maybe. I'm hoping for?
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Chapter 8: What strategies should the Royals consider for future trades?
I don't think I'll ever put 200 strikeouts next to his name again.
I mean, so the point of this exercise is, why do you have to wait? The things you mentioned. Whatever you are missing right now, which right now could be a starting pitcher. We're getting to Noah Cameron here in a second. Could be a starting pitcher. It could be a big strikeout bullpen piece. Mm-hmm. It could be a right-handed cleanup hitter. Because Salve sucks.
All this hand-wringing about, I don't need a mental break. Okay, start hitting. It's professional baseball. It's not like, hey... The Career Achievement Award goes to Salvador Perez. And your prize? Play as long as you want, no matter how bad you are. And where you want. Is a gift given to nobody in professional baseball. No. The worst spot in their lineup is the cleanup spot.
Coming into yesterday, the cleanup spot had a 580 OPS. 41 games, Salvador Perez. And before yesterday, 40 games, Salvador Perez had batted cleanup 38 times. So he is the one who has put together basically the worst spot in the lineup. The worst. So hand-wringing about Lane Thomas hitting third. No, this is it. There's one guy who's made one premium spot. It's this guy, and he's not hitting.
So, like, my statement to J.J. Bacola would be, like, well, what are you not sure about? Well, we don't know if Salve's going to come around. Okay. Okay. He's 36 coming into this year. Why was this a mystery? Am I like, Cole Reagan, is he going to be healthy? He's had two Tommy Johns and was on the shelf for a big chunk of last year. Why is this something you're trying to get your arms around?
The one thing I'll listen to is, well, we're not sure about second base. Because that's why we brought Jonathan India back. We gave him $8 million. We know it was kind of pricey. But we're not sure what Michael Massey, we're not sure he's ever going to be an everyday player. And so the combination of him and Nick Lofton, we're not sure. Okay. Let's look for a second baseman. Exactly. You know?
The bullpen. Well, what are you missing? Well, we don't know if Carlos Estevez is coming back. Granted, that's a new one. But it's one that you've known now. And the idea, let's just go ahead and set him on the, if we get anything from Carlos Estevez, it's a bonus. Yeah. Right? Because he is not to be factored into the bullpen until he throws 95 miles an hour on a registering radar gun.
Until then, he's done. That's it. You assume the worst. You hope for the best, prepare for the worst. We're going to prepare like he's not coming back. So, to me, like, all these baseball adages, you've got to wait until 40 games. Well, you don't know what you are until ā which, by the way, we passed 40 games. You don't know what you are until Memorial Day. All these different things.
1,500 at-bats before you know what a hitter is. You know, that's all great, but they're kind of like these markers that just buy you time. And so, to me, you're data-driven. You have ā you know, algorithms that'll tell you, this is what this guy is. This is what that kind of bat speed and this, this much time in the, and use them and let's go to work. Let, let's start looking around.
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