Over the past few seasons as catching metrics continue to grow, one thing we’ve seen become more and more prevalent is the framing metrics. On Baseball Prospectus, you can see framing metrics presented as the number of runs catchers either gain or lose their team throughout the course of the season. Now here’s a controversial […]
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Friday Notes
Here we sit with just a weekend and a day between us and the trade deadline and there are questions about what the Royals roster will look like the next time we meet for Friday Notes. Mike Moustakas will almost certainly be in another uniform. He may already be dealt, depending on when you’re reading […]
Diamonds in the Rough 7-12-18
HR Roll Call: Cam Gallagher (4), Brewer Hicklen (12), Nathan Eaton (1) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Brewer Hicklen 2-4 2R, HR, 2 RBI, BB BPKC Pitcher of the Day Kris Bubic 4 IP 2 H 1 R 1 ER 1 BB 5 K 5-2 GO-FO 57p/35k Transactions – RHP Jackson Kowar assigned to Lexington, […]
Diamonds in the Rough 6-29-18
HR Roll Call Frank Schwindel (14), Ryan O’Hearn (10), Cam Gallagher (3), Nicky Lopez (3), Ramon Torres (2), Gabe Cancel (5) BPKC Hitter of the Day Nicky Lopez 4-5 3R, 2b, HR, 2 RBI, SB BPKC Pitcher of the Day Carlos Hernandez 7 IP 3 H 0 R 0 ER 3 Bb 3 K 12-4 […]
Diamonds in the Rough 6-26-18
HR Roll Call: Ramon Torres (1) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Cam Gallagher 2-4 2b, RBI BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Richard Lovelady 2 IP 1 H 0 R 0 ER 0 BB 1 K 3-2 GO-FO 19p/15k Transaction – Rudy Martin activated back with Wilmington. Rumor – Looks as though 18th Rd pick R.J. […]
If The Royals Can’t Be Good, They Could At Least Be Entertaining
Even with the extremely low expectations I had for this Royals season (my preseason prediction of a 72-90 record looks ridiculous now), this has been a bummer of a year. The boys in blue are on pace for 114 losses. In my defense, even the mothership’s PECOTA preseason projections had them at 66-96. They really […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-31-18
HR Roll Call: None BPKC Hitter of the Day: Cam Gallagher 3-5, R, 2-2b, 2 RBI BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Dan Tillo 5 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 10-1 GO-FO, 82p/51k Frederick Keys 5, Wilmington Blue Rocks 2 The Rocks will like to get out of their spacious […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-25-18
HR Roll Call Frank Schwindel (7), Elier Hernandez (2) BPKC Hitter of the Day Elier Hernandez 3-4 2R, HR, 2 RBI BPKC Pitcher of the Day Arnoldo Hernandez 6.1 IP 3 H 2 R 2 ER 3 BB 8 K 2-6 GO-FO 97p/60k Asheville Tourists 6 Lexington Legends 4 The Legends had a reliever struggle in […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-23-18
HR Roll Call: None BPKC Hitter of the Day: Nicky Lopez 4-5, 2R, 2b, RBI, BB BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Yunior Marte 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K, 2-3 GO-FO, 40p/30k Rome Braves 4, Lexington Legends 1 Lexington starter Carlos Hernandez gave his teammates a quality start, tying a career […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-14-18
HR Roll Call: Frank Schwindel (6), Paulo Orlando (3), Seuly Matias (12), MJ Melendez (4) BPKC Hitter of the Day: MJ Melendez 2-3 2R, 2b, HR, 2 RBI, BB, HBP BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Trevor Oaks 5.2 IP 2 H 0 R 0 ER 4 BB 2 K 9-3 GO-FO 89p/49k Greenville Drive 13 […]