Comments on: Friday Notes http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/04/08/friday-notes-april-8-2016/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: David Lesky http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/04/08/friday-notes-april-8-2016/#comment-166 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:23:52 +0000 http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2919#comment-166 Diamonds in the Rough will return. We’re unfortunately getting a late start, but it will be back in short order.

]]> By: Scott Young http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/04/08/friday-notes-april-8-2016/#comment-165 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:10:04 +0000 http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2919#comment-165 Your new website does not report the daily performance of the Royals ‘ minor league affiliates? Does anyone?

]]> By: Anita Parsa http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/04/08/friday-notes-april-8-2016/#comment-145 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:57:05 +0000 http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2919#comment-145 Yay! Perfect time for Fuentes to get his first hit :)

]]> By: Anita Parsa http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/04/08/friday-notes-april-8-2016/#comment-143 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:58:40 +0000 http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2919#comment-143 Yeah, I didn’t mean to make it sound like you were down on Fuentes. I just felt bad for the guy at Tuesday’s game because people around me were getting down on him and I thought it would suck to come up like that and immediately face Harvey and Syndergaard!

]]> By: David Lesky http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/04/08/friday-notes-april-8-2016/#comment-139 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:23:59 +0000 http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2919#comment-139 I’m a fan of Fuentes. I was just kind of pointing out the unfortunate reality that he doesn’t have much time to make an impact on the coaching staff before Dyson returns. I agree that he has a much better shot at a big series against Twins pitching than anyone would against the Mets staff.

]]> By: Anita Parsa http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/04/08/friday-notes-april-8-2016/#comment-138 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:59:25 +0000 http://kansascity.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2919#comment-138 I think Fuentes will show his stuff offensively this weekend against the Twins :)

Consider that prior to Opening Night, Fuentes had 33 big league at bats, all in 2013.

Then he comes up with the Royals and faces Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard in his first six plate appearances with the Royals. They were hitting Harvey pretty well, but by all accounts Syndergaard was incredible.

Defensively, that bailout of the ball Cain lost in the sun was even more remarkable considering that they hadn’t played next to one another very many times. I’d put the odds that Rios makes that play near zero even at the end of 2015 when they’d played next to each other for hundreds of innings. (No disrespect to the huge impact Rios had with timely post-season hitting; he’s #ForeverRoyal and totally earned his ring. But a defensive star he was not.)

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