Royals Nation Confidence Index: January

[KC Royals Nation]

We began the Royals Nation Confidence Index last month, in December. Here were the results.

Now, we have our second installment. Will the scores change? The bonus *questions* will. After roughly two weeks, I'll combine your scores and average them, giving you the results.

Here are the questions. (1-10 is a scale of 1 to 10; 1 being extremely pessimistic and 10 being extremely optimistic).

MAIN QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10)

2. How do you feel about G.M. Dayton Moore? (1-10)

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10)

4. How do you feel about Owner David Glass? (1-10)

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offense? (1-10)

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10)

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10)

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals Minor League system? (1-10)

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason performance? (1-10)

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10)

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009?

2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009?

3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009?

4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009?

[KC Royals Nation]

OK, I'll start.

1. 7
2. 7
3. 6
4. 2
5. 4
6. 7
7. 7
8. 7
9. 3
10. 6

BONUS:

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009? 83
2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009? 217
3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009? Jose Guillen
4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009? Brayan Pena

[Matt]

MAIN QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10) 7

2. How do you feel about G.M. Dayton Moore? (1-10) 7

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10) 5

4. How do you feel about Owner David Glass? (1-10) 5

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offense? (1-10) 5

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10) 6

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10) 6

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals Minor League system? (1-10) 4

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason performance? (1-10) 2

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10) 5

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009? 76

2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009? 200

3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009? Brian Bannister

4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009?
Luke Hocheaver

[ror1fan]

MAIN QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10) 7

2. How do you feel about G.M. Dayton Moore? (1-10) 6

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10) 4

4. How do you feel about Owner David Glass? (1-10) 4

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offense? (1-10) 5.5

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10) 7

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10) 6

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals Minor League system? (1-10) 6

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason performance? (1-10) 2

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10) 6.5

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009? 81

2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009? 284

3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009? Ron Mahay or Coco Crisp

4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009? Lenny DiNardo (jk)
Mike Jacobs

[dejesus9]

Are these the same main questions??

MAIN QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10) 7 1/2

2. How do you feel about G.M. Dayton Moore? (1-10) 6

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10) 6

4. How do you feel about Owner David Glass? (1-10) 4

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offense? (1-10) 7

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10) 8

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10) 6

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals Minor League system? (1-10) 6

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason performance? (1-10) 7

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10) 8

^^ I guess I'm kind of lukewarm on everything. (lots of 6es)

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009? 83

2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009? 302

3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009? Mike Jacobs

4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009? Kyle Farnsworth, not that he'll be that great, just because people expect him to be much worse than I believe he will be.

[KC Royals Nation]

I haven't seen it yet, but I was pondering this question earlier today as I thought about how I added opinion rating of our owner in with NYRoyal's other basic questions.

Glass doesn't deserve exemplary marks. Not with his awful reputation throughout MLB and not by the damage that he caused to this organization that caused us to climb *this* far out of that valley (and the fact that we still need to crawl so much farther). I think a '2' is still a bit generous, at this point, but that's just my opinion.

[sahurst]

1. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10) 8

2. How do you feel about G.M. Dayton Moore? (1-10) 9

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10) 9

4. How do you feel about Owner David Glass? (1-10) 5 I'm a Glass half full kinda guy

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offense? (1-10) 8

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10) 9

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10) 7

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals Minor League system? (1-10) 9

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason performance? (1-10) 9

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10) 9

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009? 85

2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009? 2-many 200

3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009? Bloomquist

4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009? Billy Gordon & Alex Butler

[agordon4]

MAIN QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10) 8

2. How do you feel about G.M. Dayton Moore? (1-10) 10

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10) 9

4. How do you feel about Owner David Glass? (1-10) 7

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offense? (1-10) 8

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10) 8

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10) 9

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals Minor League system? (1-10) 8

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason performance? (1-10) 10

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10) 10

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009? 87

2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009? 300

3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009? Ryan Shealy(But not dissapointing himself)after red hot September he will have good Spring but will still not have a job in KC.

4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009?Robinson Tejeda

[KC Royals Nation]

Thanks to everyone for their responses. I'll wait until the final day of each month to compile the scores. (I plan on releasing each questionaire around the middle to late part of each month).

[gilgameche]

MAIN QUESTIONS

1.How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10) 8

2. How do you feel about GM Dayton Moore (1-10) 9

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10) 7

4. How do you feel about owner David Glass?(1-10) 7

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offens? (1-10) 7 1/2

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10) 9

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10) 7

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals farm system? (1-10) 8

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason moves? (1-10) 10 (not so crazy about the Farnsworth contract or Bloomquist but like the Crisp and Jacobs additions plus signing Greinke long term does not hurt)

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10) 10

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How Many Games will the Royals win in 2009? 84

2. How Many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist recieve in 2009? 185

3. who will be the most dissappointing Royal in 2009? John Buck

4. who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009? Brayan Pena

[KC Royals Nation]

Alright, ladies and gentlemen.

The results are in!



1. 7+7+7+7.5+8+8+8 = 45.5 / 7 = 6.5
2. 7+7+6+6+9+10+9 = 54 / 7 = 7.71
3. 6+5+4+6+9+9+7 = 46 / 7 = 6.57
4. 2+5+4+4+5+7+7 = 34 / 7 = 4.86
5. 4+5+5.5+7+8+8+7.5 = 45 / 7 = 6.43
6. 7+6+7+8+9+8+9 = 54 / 7 = 7.71
7. 7+6+6+6+7+9+7 = 48 / 7 = 6.86
8. 7+4+6+6+9+8+8 = 48 / 7 = 6.86
9. 3+2+2+7+9+10+10 = 43 / 7 = 6.14
10. 6+5+6.5+8+9+10+10 = 54.5 / 7 = 7.79

B1. 83+76+81+83+85+87+84 = 82.7
B2. 217+200+284+302+200+300+185 = 241.1
B3. Guillen, Bannister, Mahay/Crisp, Jacobs, Bloomquist, Shealy, Buck =
B4. B. Pena, Hochevar, Jacobs, Farnsworth, Gordon/Butler, Tejeda, B. Pena = B. Pena?

Here are the scores, and how they compare to last month (Dec. '08):

1. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals? (1-10)
1/09: 6.5
12/08: 6.5625

2. How do you feel about G.M. Dayton Moore? (1-10)
1/09: 7.71
12/08: 7.5

3. How do you feel about Manager Trey Hillman? (1-10)
1/09: 6.57
12/08: 6.5

4. How do you feel about Owner David Glass? (1-10)
1/09: 4.86
12/08: 4.5

5. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals offense? (1-10)
1/09: 6.43
12/08: 5.3725

6. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals pitching? (1-10)
1/09: 7.71
12/08: 7.125

7. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals defense? (1-10)
1/09: 6.86
12/08: 5.875

8. How do you feel about the 2009 Royals Minor League system? (1-10)
1/09: 6.86
12/08: 5.6875

9. How would you rank Dayton Moore's offseason performance? (1-10)
1/09: 6.14
12/08: 7.125

10. How do you feel about the future of the Kansas City Royals? (1-10)
1/09: 7.79
12/08: 8.125

BONUS QUESTIONS

1. How many games will the Royals win in 2009?
1/09: 83
12/08: 82

2. How many plate appearances will Willie Bloomquist receive in 2009?
241

3. Who will be the most disappointing Royal in 2009?
Who knows?

4. Who will be the most pleasantly surprising Royal in 2009?
Brayan Pena