i love that everyone talks about baniset and meche what about greinke??? had the best stats last year and is their legit number one who is also is 25 dude is gross throws 4 pitches with comand sits at 93 for 7 innings dudes good.. o yea did i mention hes my boy!!!!! come on trying to pick the central and didnt mention the best pitcher!!!
As a life long royal fan, I thought I would throw my 2 cents in.
The Royals have a shot to win this division, and I think at the odds they are getting, it's worth a play. You guys are correct, the Royals big problem is the fact they have 2 number 1 starters and 3 number 5 starters. Davies could be a sleeper, people forget the praise he was given coming into the Majors with Atlanta, and that was the reasoning for Dayton Moore making the move to pick him up for Dotel a couple of years ago. Kyle Davies is the key to the Royals success this year.
As for Bannister and Hochevar, they had options remaining, and had porous springs, and as we all know, 5th starters are rarely used in the early portion of the season, so might as well send them to Omaha to get regular work so they don't go off schedule and miss out on work. I don't like the fact Ponson is gonna be on the hump (probably against the Yanks in the Royals home opener) but I guess I will deal. Hopefully he just gets owned and is cut. As for Ramirez, he signed as a FA, so he is under a guaranteed contract and was never gonna get cut.
My prediction is that Hochevar and Bannister are back in KC by May 15th-June 1st. With one of them probably being called up in late April after Ponson gets rocked.
Meche has averaged 13 wins in the last 3 years on all terrible teams, this year the Royals finally have a legit leadoff man in Coco Crisp, added pop in the middle of the lineup with Mike Jacobs, and a young core of solid hitters that could be ready to break out. I put very little stock in the spring, but as a Royal fan I have to like the way Gordon, Teahen, and Butler have hit the ball this spring.
If I had to put 2 bets on futures for the AL Central, I would put them on KC (value) and Cle as I think they are built to win this division, but we saw how they played just horribly last season.
I do however love KC over 75.5 wins. I feel they get up there in the 80s in wins this year.
GL
The Royals have a shot to win this division, and I think at the odds they are getting, it's worth a play. You guys are correct, the Royals big problem is the fact they have 2 number 1 starters and 3 number 5 starters. Davies could be a sleeper, people forget the praise he was given coming into the Majors with Atlanta, and that was the reasoning for Dayton Moore making the move to pick him up for Dotel a couple of years ago. Kyle Davies is the key to the Royals success this year.
As for Bannister and Hochevar, they had options remaining, and had porous springs, and as we all know, 5th starters are rarely used in the early portion of the season, so might as well send them to Omaha to get regular work so they don't go off schedule and miss out on work. I don't like the fact Ponson is gonna be on the hump (probably against the Yanks in the Royals home opener) but I guess I will deal. Hopefully he just gets owned and is cut. As for Ramirez, he signed as a FA, so he is under a guaranteed contract and was never gonna get cut.
My prediction is that Hochevar and Bannister are back in KC by May 15th-June 1st. With one of them probably being called up in late April after Ponson gets rocked.
Meche has averaged 13 wins in the last 3 years on all terrible teams, this year the Royals finally have a legit leadoff man in Coco Crisp, added pop in the middle of the lineup with Mike Jacobs, and a young core of solid hitters that could be ready to break out. I put very little stock in the spring, but as a Royal fan I have to like the way Gordon, Teahen, and Butler have hit the ball this spring.
If I had to put 2 bets on futures for the AL Central, I would put them on KC (value) and Cle as I think they are built to win this division, but we saw how they played just horribly last season.
I do however love KC over 75.5 wins. I feel they get up there in the 80s in wins this year.
GL
How many teams has he been on now?
