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Chapter 1: What events are happening at Advent Health Sports Park?
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Fourth quarter of the program begins right now as we finish strong here on a Thursday. Thanks for joining us here on Sports Radio 810 WHB. Still to come. Still even more to come. David Leske from inside the crown will be with us to talk some Royals baseball. Petro Siebel, Collier, Thunderdome with you here on a Thursday. Let's get started with some Royals baseball.
Royals back at it tonight against the Cardinals 640 on Royals TV. Royals minus 118 favorite Noah Cameron on the bump. He goes against Matthew, excuse me, Liberatore. Noah Cameron getting a little respect finally.
Absolutely. I've seen a number of pitching matchups over the last couple of weeks that I would have thought would have been a little more favorable to the Royals. Obviously, that's people not really having faith in the team as a whole.
Chapter 2: What insights do Matt Quatraro and Taylor Twellman share?
That's the first I was surprised that he was favored. I thought they'd be a dog tonight. Yeah. At least a slight dog. St. Louis is good. They are good, but so is Noah Cameron. Yeah, and they'll be backed by some fans.
You think there's going to be a little red in the stands?
I think there's going to be quite a bit of red.
Chapter 3: What is the current status of Royals baseball?
I think people are going to be, Royals fans who make it tomorrow night are going to be dismayed at how much red there is.
A bit of a throwback to the yesteryear of when the stadium was quite red. You know, we had a stretch there where the Royals were kicking dirt in the Cardinals' face because they were the better team. That has flipped quickly this year.
And it could be even worse because... With no game on Saturday, any fans from St. Louis who wanted to see a game this weekend and wanted to see a night game are going to go tomorrow night. So it could be a lot. Yeah.
Well, we'll see where it goes. Like we said, Noah Cameron, a mild favorite.
Chapter 4: How does Noah Cameron's performance impact the Royals?
Royals got a fine pitching performance yesterday from Luinder Avila, one that I did not expect. I thought, you know, cat was out of the bag. They'd figured him out. He was walking away too many guys.
Chapter 5: What are the pitching matchups for the Royals against the Cardinals?
Didn't make it out of the first his last time out. Instead, he goes five and two-thirds, three hits. One run, one walk, five strikeouts, 91 pitches, 59 strikes. Luinder Avila. Game and outing, you know, I don't even know how to say it anymore. Well, it's an outing they really needed. For what? Right, right. To get to the next day? Yeah. To post nine innings? To avoid a sweep. Right.
But Matt Quattro was impressed with Avila's outing.
First hitter of the game, he gets to a three-ball count, really executes an off-speed pitch, 3-2. And I think that, at least in that moment, kind of settled him in a little bit. And his efficiency was a lot better, obviously. Stuff looked outstanding throughout.
If he walks the leadoff guy, who knows where it goes, but maybe it's a sign of growth.
Night and day, the difference between what he was last time out versus what he was yesterday. Matt Cotero was asked about the biggest difference for Avila compared to that start Friday against Houston.
Command, I mean, or control. I mean, he's not a guy that's on every corner all the time. He's got power stuff, but he used the slider looked better today for sure, and it got swing and miss. When you get a lead, too, and you attack and you get an easier inning, the second inning, I mean, I think he was at 27 after two, something like that, and Yeah, I think he knows he's good.
I mean, he had a rough outing last time. There's no reason to keep dwelling on it. It's over. I mean, that happens to everybody in the big leagues.
He didn't really give himself a chance to pitch with the big league on Friday because he gave up nine in the first. He's gone.
Yeah, exactly. And you said, you know, earlier in that statement he said, well, he's not a guy that pitches on the corners. Yeah. We could tell. Hence the walks. I mean, he's not, you know ā He's more throwing than pitching, right? And so can you refine that, or do you need to say, we're not going to get there. Let's strip these two things down. Just get these two things working.
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Chapter 6: What recent changes have affected the Royals roster?
Kylie McDaniel, you hear on the zone on a regular basis. His 2026 from ESPN. His 2026 MLB mock draft is out. The Royals picking six. Eric Booth Jr., center fielder, Oak Grove High School in Mississippi. Right up, the Royals can afford to wait and shoot for upside given their big league team payroll and pass draft tendencies.
With everyone on the table and one player left in the consensus top six talents, Booth is the best option here. Right behind this pick, sorting through the Similar options will become very difficult.
Chapter 7: How are trade candidates evaluated for the Royals?
So the thing that I take away from that, from Kylie McDaniel, is there are six premium talents. So no excuses. This isn't the four pitchers. Well, we better take Bubba. At least according to Kylie McDaniel's eye. As we know in the Bubba Starling draft, well, there's really just four guys. And, you know, of course, we're stuck picking fifth. We could have had any of those fourth.
You're right, because George Springer and Francisco Lindor, who went right after, they weren't good. You know, I had a general manager tell me there are good players in every draft. It's our job to find them. And I'm sure that will be the mindset of the Kansas City Royals going in. And I feel pretty good with the way they've been picking the last couple of years.
And upside high school talent, Bridges goes that direction maybe more than the analytic world would like. But if the premium college talent is off the board... then taking the best high school guy is a worthwhile gamble. Yep. But they're still trying to fill that system. For sure. But I would say that if they take a high school player... They're not thinking about a regime change.
They're not worried about their jobs. Or they're just like, I'm going to fire what I think is right to the very end, whether people like it or not. Because if you take another high school player, they already took high school guys up at the top last year. Like, that's a slow burn, right, to get those guys to the big leagues.
It's not Jack Caglione where less than 12 months later you're like, get them up, get them to the big leagues.
You've got to know you're going to be around a while or, as you said, not really care about it. We're doing the right thing.
Yeah. By the way, Jeff Passan reporting that Major League Baseball proposed widespread changes to its amateur entry system that would cut signing bonuses by more than $150 million annually, make high school players ineligible for the first domestic draft and institute an international draft.
The proposal, made at a collective bargaining meeting with the MLB Players Association today, called for the domestic draft to be shortened from 20 to 12 hard-slotted rounds and the amateur signing bonus pool to be nearly halved to $200 million. What do we think? That's a lot to get your arms around when I say it to you.
I'm going to read it again. I've always wanted the international draft.
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Chapter 8: What challenges does the Royals management face moving forward?
Now, the idea is, I'm sure, as you move further down the road into what the negotiations are, and that $150 million we'll bring up and spend as part of the salary cap. So instead of us... I'm just going to say it, pissing away $150 million, which is what they're going to probably point to. Look, here's all the money we spent on guys who get 50 big league at-bats or 15 innings or less.
All that money goes to them. We don't want to give that to them anymore. We'll give it to you because you guys can play. The old guys always sell out the young guys. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And so I think this will happen. Now, the flip side is the players are going to push for free agency in quicker than six years. Maybe stricter rules about massaging that.
Maybe it'll be a, OK, your service time starts when you're drafted. If we're not going to have high school guys, it starts when you're drafted and your control now becomes seven years total. So if you draft a guy at 19, at 26 he's a free agent. You draft him at 20, 27 he is. Or maybe it'll be, okay, we'll give you the six years, but it's six years from the time he's drafted.
If he's going to go to college and maybe he plays two years and he comes out and he's 20, you have six years of control from when he's drafted. Or the rest of that season in five. Right. That's what I think is going to be the the fight on that could be which which I'm I think there's a I think there's a common ground to find where it could be good for both sides.
Yeah, but it's still even something that both sides agree on is going to amount to pretty fundamental change. One of the first that that significant for that part of Major League Baseball.
Yeah, no doubt. No doubt. All right. A little World Cup action for you tonight. Tonight we've got, what, Canada and Qatar. That is at five. Is that just started? Is that up underway right now? That just got going. Canada and Qatar. Canada minus 340. 1-0 bottom of the first.
Just kidding. When you say underway, it's like a baseball game.
Canada minus 340. Qatar plus 950. The draw plus 450, if you want to bet that. Then Mexico versus South Korea at 8 in Guadalajara. That one is on Fox. FS1 for Canada and Qatar. Big Fox for Mexico and South Korea. They want the big Mexican audience. I think we can see what's going on there. Earlier today, South Africa and Czechia won one. They have a draw.
And then Switzerland 4-1 over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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