Royals leading AL Central!!!!!!

[drmwevr08]

Let the Royals fans enjoy the moment. I am totally sympathetic and am doing the same for my O's, while not thinking too much about how things will go even as far away as June. First place is first place!

[peteypie]

If you factor in the "we are the Royals" factor into the equation, we are already mathmatically out of it.

[BryceC]

only people that have 0 idea about recent Royals dealings have this opinion. The Royals signed Greinke, Soria, Dejesus and Butler long term. They dealt Greinke who is a career 60-66 with an e.r.a. over 4, for four high level talent guys. The dealt Dejesus for a two high level prospects. This is what the Twins and A's do every year. They have the number 1 rated minor league system in all of baseball and it isn't even close. The Royals ownership is as committed to winning now as they ever have been and are doing a much better job. There are just so many fans that don't know anything that talk jibberish and end up looking like idiots.
Are the Royals going to win the central, no. But will they be competitive? Yes. And the cavalry is coming, and when it does watch out.

The Royals have always been this committed to winning? Could've fooled me. They may be competitive but just about everybody, including SI, picked them to finish last in the AL and I bet they pay pretty close attention.

[jdoggivjc]

If you factor in the "we are the Royals" factor into the equation, we are already mathmatically out of it.

You mean kind of like during a Presidential election, when the polls in California close and the media calls the state for the Democratic candidate when the Republican candidate is still up by several hundred thousand votes?

[peteypie]

You mean kind of like during a Presidential election, when the polls in California close and the media calls the state for the Democratic candidate when the Republican candidate is still up by several hundred thousand votes?

Exactly. If the season was one month long, we'd be good.

[capitalcityguy]

Poor Royals. Even their fans don't have enough respect for them to put a thread about them in the Pro Sports section of the forum. Instead, they are relegated to the catch-all "off-topic" setion amongst discussions of "favorite beers" and Marty Terrill blowups. No respect.

[cayin]

only people that have 0 idea about recent Royals dealings have this opinion. The Royals signed Greinke, Soria, Dejesus and Butler long term. They dealt Greinke who is a career 60-66 with an e.r.a. over 4, for four high level talent guys. The dealt Dejesus for a two high level prospects. This is what the Twins and A's do every year. They have the number 1 rated minor league system in all of baseball and it isn't even close. The Royals ownership is as committed to winning now as they ever have been and are doing a much better job. There are just so many fans that don't know anything that talk jibberish and end up looking like idiots.
Are the Royals going to win the central, no. But will they be competitive? Yes. And the cavalry is coming, and when it does watch out.

this is great to here. Not a huge baseball fan, but the Royals are the team I root for. I'm sure if they keep this up it will draw me in more. It just that....well, it has been so many years.

[Klone]

I go through this every 2 years or so when the royals come out hot living in southwest iowa. I just tell them to enjoy it for the moment and drink their kool-aid but just realize that in a while they'll start feeling groggy and wonder what the Sox, Twins and Tigers were doing next to the punch bowl with that bottle in early May.

[capitalcityguy]

only people that have 0 idea about recent Royals dealings have this opinion. The Royals signed Greinke, Soria, Dejesus and Butler long term. They dealt Greinke who is a career 60-66 with an e.r.a. over 4, for four high level talent guys. The dealt Dejesus for a two high level prospects. This is what the Twins and A's do every year. They have the number 1 rated minor league system in all of baseball and it isn't even close. The Royals ownership is as committed to winning now as they ever have been and are doing a much better job. There are just so many fans that don't know anything that talk jibberish and end up looking like idiots.
Are the Royals going to win the central, no. But will they be competitive? Yes. And the cavalry is coming, and when it does watch out.

The problem with using the Twin's comparison is that they now have a payroll in the top 15 or so(yeah….I didn't realize this either) . Something like $115M for 2011. The Royals remain near the bottom at something like $36M. That is quite a disparity. I'm to lazy to find the link, but there was just a story in the Register a couple days ago about all the MLB teams' payrolls.

[balken]

only people that have 0 idea about recent Royals dealings have this opinion. The Royals signed Greinke, Soria, Dejesus and Butler long term. They dealt Greinke who is a career 60-66 with an e.r.a. over 4, for four high level talent guys. The dealt Dejesus for a two high level prospects. This is what the Twins and A's do every year. They have the number 1 rated minor league system in all of baseball and it isn't even close. The Royals ownership is as committed to winning now as they ever have been and are doing a much better job. There are just so many fans that don't know anything that talk jibberish and end up looking like idiots.
Are the Royals going to win the central, no. But will they be competitive? Yes. And the cavalry is coming, and when it does watch out.

There is nothing in the history of this ownership that suggests the Royals are committed to winning. This includes the quality of prospects in the farm system. The Royals have had above average prospects for some time now. Allard Baird spoke of the great prospects in the fold from the time he took the GM job over ten years ago and now Moore does the same. Yet the template remains the same. Sign a few affordable, quality players like Butler or Soria or Greinke, and if they increase in value deal them for prospects. Win just enough games to keep people coming and stay in the black financially. Repeat cycle.

[thatguy]

The problem with using the Twin's comparison is that they now have a payroll in the top 15 or so(yeah….I didn't realize this either) . Something like $115M for 2011. The Royals remain near the bottom at something like $36M. That is quite a disparity. I'm to lazy to find the link, but there was just a story in the Register a couple days ago about all the MLB teams' payrolls.

this is because the twins have signed Mauer and Morneau long term. When Hosmer and Moustakas and the other studs get here, and if they produce like those guys, then they will get signed long term as well.

[thatguy]

The Royals have always been this committed to winning? Could've fooled me. They may be competitive but just about everybody, including SI, picked them to finish last in the AL and I bet they pay pretty close attention.

Yes but those same publications, including SI who just had a full spread on the Royals minor leagues, have said they will be the AL Central champs in a year or two.

[thatguy]

There is nothing in the history of this ownership that suggests the Royals are committed to winning. This includes the quality of prospects in the farm system. The Royals have had above average prospects for some time now. Allard Baird spoke of the great prospects in the fold from the time he took the GM job over ten years ago and now Moore does the same. Yet the template remains the same. Sign a few affordable, quality players like Butler or Soria or Greinke, and if they increase in value deal them for prospects. Win just enough games to keep people coming and stay in the black financially. Repeat cycle.

YOU ARE SO WRONG IT ISN'T EVEN FUNNY.

When Baird took over there were a few top level prospects, but the rest of the system was a complete waste. That is why they had to sign worthless veterans to fill out the roster because the minor league system couldn't fill out a utility infielder or 8th inning guy. The template is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NOW. They only signed Francouer and Cabrera to one year deals and have been told they are just keeping the seat warm till the system is ready. When Baird was here they minor league system was AWFUL and they had little to no international presence. Now the Royals have spent the second most money in the DR of all teams in baseball. Have one of the nicest academias down there and continue to sign prospects for over slot money in the draft. In the Baird years they avoided Boras clients and ended up with Chris Lubanski and Mitch Maier in the first round. It takes a very long time to rebuild an entire minor league system that was depleted and it is about to come to fruition, and the long term deals will come for the guys that show they can play in the major leagues.

Please if you have no idea, and just want to hate, keep it to yourself because you look like an idiot.

[EddieISU]

Keep winning Royals!!! Can't wait til we sweep the Cubs this year at home too!!!

[CloneIce]

The problem with using the Twin's comparison is that they now have a payroll in the top 15 or so(yeah….I didn't realize this either) . Something like $115M for 2011. The Royals remain near the bottom at something like $36M. That is quite a disparity. I'm to lazy to find the link, but there was just a story in the Register a couple days ago about all the MLB teams' payrolls.

36M this year, but they are up around 75M last year, so its not as if that 36M is a yearly payroll. With all the young talent we have, we will have a very cheap payroll for the majority of the team for the next several seasons, and we will have flexibility to hopefully sign a couple of impact free agents (please no Jose Guillens).