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Post by KC Royals Nation on Jul 23, 2007 0:01:14 GMT -6
It's 2003 all over again. Go, go Jason Jennings!
Geez, they stuck with the sidewinding soft-tosser Chad Bradford for three innings.
Pena now has 3 homers! That's on pace for about 25 on the year!
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Post by agordon4 on Jul 26, 2007 11:46:50 GMT -6
I also use the Royals on MLB 07, I am currently in 2013 and have brought 3 World Series Trophies home 2 KC-AG has collected the ROY and 2 MVPS also added a 40-40 season and drove in a record 196 runs one season, Butler added a ROY and 3 MVPs,Teahen hit safely in 65 straight games and I just added A-Rod for $6.5 Million a season!
I only thing about the game i don't like is the inability to be able to keep players from really wearing out and playing everyday.
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Post by plotty on Jul 26, 2007 12:01:44 GMT -6
I also use the Royals on MLB 07, I am currently in 2013 and have brought 3 World Series Trophies home 2 KC-AG has collected the ROY and 2 MVPS also added a 40-40 season and drove in a record 196 runs one season, Butler added a ROY and 3 MVPs,Teahen hit safely in 65 straight games and I just added A-Rod for $6.5 Million a season! I only thing about the game i don't like is the inability to be able to keep players from really wearing out and playing everyday. The whole thing w/players wearing out...I like that aspect. I don't want my starting guys playing everyday, it wouldn't be real. Now is my 9-3 start real...probably not. But oh well. And some of those stats are just too ill. And you signed A-Rod? My goodness. Where did Sweeney end up in the end...retiring after the 07 season? |
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Post by mtroyals on Jul 26, 2007 12:29:36 GMT -6
I also use the Royals on MLB 07, I am currently in 2013 and have brought 3 World Series Trophies home 2 KC-AG has collected the ROY and 2 MVPS also added a 40-40 season and drove in a record 196 runs one season, Butler added a ROY and 3 MVPs,Teahen hit safely in 65 straight games and I just added A-Rod for $6.5 Million a season! I only thing about the game i don't like is the inability to be able to keep players from really wearing out and playing everyday. Wow! Did you adjust the settings? |
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Post by plotty on Jul 27, 2007 13:50:53 GMT -6
Royals Sweep O's
Teahen Two HR's Lift KC.
Mark Teahen hit two solo home runs, and Odalis Perez allowed one run in seven innings to aid in Kansas City's 4-2 win over Baltimore.
After Perez spotted Baltimore a 1-0 lead on a solo home run by Nick Markakis, Teahen led off the fourth inning with a smash that cleared the right field wall. "It was good to see us answer right after giving up the homer," said Manager Buddy Bell, whose Royals are a Major League best 10-3 after 13 games.
Teahen also homered in the seventh inning to break the 1-1 deadlock.
But small ball would end up being the winning recipe for Kansas City. Back to back singles by Alex Gordon and Ross Gload started the Royal rally. John Buck sacrificed Gordon and Gload over to second and third bases. Then unexpected back to back bunt singles by Joey Gathright and Tony Pena, Jr. sealed the deal. They each drove in runs.
Not all was peachy for the victorious Royals. They left nine on base and were caught stealing five times.
Octavio Dotel threw a scoreless inning to notch his four save in as many chances.
Kansas City Royals 10-3
Batter - Pos AB R H RBI BB SO
DeJesus CF 3 0 1 0 1 0
German 2B 4 0 0 0 0 0
Teahen RF 4 2 2 2 0 2
Eldred DH 4 1 1 0 0 1
Gload 1B 4 1 2 0 0 0
Gordon 3B 4 0 3 0 0 0
Buck C 3 0 2 1 0 0
Gathright LF 3 0 1 0 0 0
Pena, Jr. SS 3 0 2 1 0 0
Totals 32 4 14 4 1 3
Batting
HR: Teahen 2 (3)
RBI: Teahen 2 (11), Pena, Jr. (8), Buck (10)
SAC: Gathright, Pena, Jr., Buck
GIDP: DeJesus
E: Pena, Jr. (3)
CS: DeJesus (2), Gordon (4), Gathright (2), Buck (1), German (1)
Pitching IP H R ER BB SO
Perez 7 5 1 1 0 5
Soria (W, 2-0) 1 1 1 1 0 1
Dotel (S, 4) 1 1 0 0 0 1
Totals 9 7 2 2 0 7
Baltimore Orioles 5-8
Batter - Pos AB R H RBI BB SO
Patterson CF 4 0 0 0 0 1
Markakis RF 4 2 3 2 0 0
Bako C 4 0 2 0 0 0
Bynum 3B 3 0 0 0 0 2
Payton LF 4 0 2 0 0 1
Fahey SS 2 0 0 0 0 2
Huff DH 4 0 0 0 0 1
Millar 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0
Gibbons PH 1 0 0 0 0 0
Roberts 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0
Hernandez PH 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mora PH-2B 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 7 2 0 7
Batting
HR: Markakis 2 (3)
RBI: Markakis 2 (3)
HBP: Fahey, Bynum
SAC: Fahey
Pitching IP H R ER BB SO
Trachsel 6 8 2 2 0 2
Williamson (L, 0-1) 2 1/3 4 2 0 1 1
Cardwell 2/3 2 0 0 0 0
Totals 9 14 4 2 1 3
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Post by plotty on Jul 27, 2007 14:48:32 GMT -6
Arrrrrghhh! I have some serious bad news on the dynasty front. I accidentally saved over my dynasty file with a new roster (just some edits to Billy Butler). I will try to pick up w/the road trip in Detroit...but my record and stats will be completely different. Ugh doggone it....sorry guys. Man do I feel like an idiot. This is mad worse by the fact that my Eldred & Matos for Shealy and Brown trade won't work now...but made better by adding in Berroa for Matt Capps. So, the new trade is Eldred, Jose Hernandez (for Matos) and Capps for Berroa, Shealy and Brown. I also broke down and traded away my beloved Royal, Mike Sweeney (had a log jam at 1st w/Butler and Eldred) to Colorado for Rodrigo Lopez.  So I simmed up to the Detroit road series....and my record is the EXACT opposite of what is was before....3-10. Ouch. For my mess up, I simmed the rest of the season because I would rather just start fresh. Here was the monthly breakdown: April: 10-17 May: 14-14 for month; 24-31 overall *DeJesus out for season -- ruptured disc in back** June: 8-19 for month; 32-50 overall July: 11-14 month; 43-64 overall August: 7-21 month; 50-85 overall Sept/Oct: 12-15 month; 62-100 overall World Series: Yankess defeat Padres. This is made worse...because now I have to slash payroll (sounds familiar) to get my head above water. I was well below $0 for funds. Anyways...offseason stuff. DeJesus retired due to the injury. So did Justin Huber. Others that retired include Mussina and Rivera (Yanks), Stairs (Tor), Rogers (Det), Ibanez (Sea), Lofton (Tex), Alou and Hernandez (NYM), Myers and Moyer (Phi), Biggio (Hou), Kent (LAD), Hoffman (SD), Bonds (SF). With the slashing of payroll I let Buck (2.2 mil per) and Grudzielanek (1.2 mil per) go in hopes to find a catcher and 2B in the draft. And sure as crap, I did in Dorsey Roland. Then, to fill a massive hole in LF, I drafted In-Ho Kwon, a switch-hitting slugger. My third pick also was of the international flavor in 2B Osamu Sasaki. My other two picks were Issac Walter and Amado Montano (SP). Each draft pick signed with no problem. So came the off-season signing market. I didn't have much in the way of money to work with, but I did manage well. I signed CF Chris Duffy (2 mil over 4 yrs), 2B Tadahito Iguchi (3 mil over 3 yrs), and RP Mike Myers (600K over 3 yrs). I also added a couple of no-named prospects in C Shiro Miura (130K, 3 yrs) and UTIL Monty Mudd (550K, 3 yrs). Two huge signings I also had were SS Orlando Cabrera (9.51 mil over 5 yrs) and SP Esteban Loaiza (5.26 mil, 5 yrs). So, hopefully the 2008 season works out better than the 2007 crash and burn. |
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Post by KC Royals Nation on Jul 27, 2007 15:32:55 GMT -6
Oh, man. That's a crushing blow. Don't worry - I've been there before. In fact, I was managing a Boston Red Sox dynasty last week and the game completely froze on April 30. Don't worry though, it's a long, long season. Hopefully we can make up ground and win the World Series this year.
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Post by mtroyals on Jul 27, 2007 15:57:37 GMT -6
Dang, Plotty. That's a tough break.
I'm actually pretty happy with the Sweeney/Lopez deal.
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Post by plotty on Jul 27, 2007 16:38:42 GMT -6
Well, here's the low down for the 2008 season...the short, short version...as I want to get a game or 2 in before my wife gets home. LOL! Notice a lot of the usual names are not on the roster for the year, however I managed to keep the core group that I wanted.
Kansas City Royals 2008 Lineup
CF Chris Duffy
SS Orlando Cabrera
1B Brad Eldred
RF Mark Teahen
DH Billy Butler
3B Alex Gordon
C Dorsey Roland
2B Tadahito Iguchi
LF In-Ho Kwon (Watch out for this guy!)
Bench
OF Joey Gathright
SS Tony Pena, Jr.C Ken Huckaby (had to send TPJ back to Omaha)
1B Ross Gload
Util Esteban German
Rotation
SP Gil Meche
SP Jason Jennings
SP Brian Bannister
SP Esteban Loaiza
SP Odalis Perez
RP Zach Greinke
RP Mike Myers
RP Joel Peralta
RP David Riske
RP Joakim Soria
RP Matt Capps
CP Octavio Dotel
Spring Training -- the mighty fighters in Blue went 13-17. Leading the way offensively was second year stud 1B brad Eldred. Eldred batted .277 with 6 HR and 16 RBI. Not too far behind was rookie LF In-Ho Kwon. The rookie from China batted a team-leading .323 with 5 HR.
Pitching was a bit on the tedious side. Each starter won at least one game, led by Gil Meche, Jason Jennings and Odalis Perez notching two wins. But it was relieved Joakim Soria that led KC with three total wins and a 3.98 ERA.
Onto the regular season!
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Post by ror1fan on Jul 27, 2007 16:39:03 GMT -6
Great how many more 100 lose seasons must we go through?
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Post by plotty on Jul 27, 2007 16:45:06 GMT -6
Great how many more 100 lose seasons must we go through? Hopefully this will be the last of them. I have a real strong, young nucleus that is built for the long-term. |
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Post by ror1fan on Jul 28, 2007 22:35:11 GMT -6
Optimisum? Nope.
By Cowboy Nick
Kansas City Herald
Well here we are the start of the 08 season sure their is reason to be optimistic every team has that right baseball is just starting up every team has a clean slate but our Royals coming into 2007 hoping for great things goes 62-100. Ouch.
Yep our good old buddy's the Yankees won the ring. Again. And on top of that we lost our budding superstar David DeJesus to a career ending injury. And add a spring training record of 13-17 not worth jumping for joy that's for sure.
Let's grade the players,
CF Chris Duffy
( Not to sure but the Gm must see something I don't in this guy who screams average)
SS Orlando Cabrera
( Proven vetran who needs to lead the team.)
1B Brad Eldred
( The budding star let's hope he doesn't get ko'ed like DeJesus)
RF Mark Teahen
DH Billy Butler
3B Alex Gordon
( 3 hopeful stars)
C Dorsey Roland
( A rookie don't excpect much this year)
2B Tadahito Iguchi
( Can't belive he's here for 3years what was GMMP thinkin when he signed him for 3years?)
LF In-Ho Kwon
( This guy could be a stud player let's cross our fingers)
Starting Players for now C in the Future A
Bench Players:
OF Joey Gathright
C Ken Huckaby
1B Ross Gload
Util Esteban German
Just an average bench could see Huckaby get some playing time if Roland can't put it together at the big leauge level.
Bench C
The RotationSP Gil Meche
SP Jason Jennings
SP Brian Bannister
( 3 legit starters)
SP Esteban Loaiza
SP Odalis Perez
( 2 washed up vetrans who could become trade bait at the deadline)
Starting rotation C only because of the first three if the 4 and 5 guys were better it would be a B+
Bullpen
RP Zach Greinke
RP Mike Myers
RP Joel Peralta
RP David Riske
RP Joakim Soria
RP Matt Capps
CP Octavio Dotel
( Pretty good bullpen I see Dotel getting traded before the seasons end and one of the young guys getting a shot at closing
Bullpen C+
Overall I'm thinking 72-90 with the roster constantly changing.
Cowboy Nick
Of the Kansas City Herald
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Post by plotty on Jul 30, 2007 7:02:04 GMT -6
That is one heck of a write-up! Hopefully I won't have another case of stupidity and save over the dynasty again. The GM's thoughts:
That's okay. We had a great start to 07 then it fell apart. Money was scarce and I did not do a good job of running te organization. 08 I swear can and will be different. There is a new aura in the clubhouse. We have signed long term deal with some proven veterans such as Orlando Cabrera. This team will surprise.
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Post by plotty on Jul 30, 2007 7:26:34 GMT -6
08 Starts Like 07
Last season, the Kansas City Royals lit up the American League to start off the season. Looks like things are about the same.
The Royals pounded 15 hits, and four Royals drove in two runs each to aid in a 9-4 Opening Day victory over Toronto.
Alex Gordon and Brad Eldred each hit two- run homeruns for Kansas City, who has now won their last two Opening Day games.
New acquisitions Tadahito Iguchi and Chris Duffy also drove in two runs each. Rookie catcher Dorsey Roland drove in the ninth run on a RBI single.
Toronto was paced by Vernon Wells and Lyle Overbay. Each hit home runs.
Next Game: Toronto (Burnett, 0-0) vs KC (Jennings, 0-0)
Tor 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 8 0
KC 0 1 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 9 15 1
Toronto Blue Jays 0-1
Batter - Pos AB R H RBI BB SO
Rios RF 5 1 1 0 0 1
Overbay DH 4 1 1 1 0 0
Thomas 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0
Glaus 3B 4 1 2 1 0 1
Wells CF 4 1 1 2 0 2
Lind LF 4 0 0 0 0 0
Hill 2B 4 0 1 0 0 1
Zahn C 3 0 1 0 1 0
McDonald SS 3 0 1 0 1 1
Totals 35 4 8 4 2 6
Batting
2B: Hill (1)
3B: Glaus (1), Rios (1)
HR: Wells (1), Overbay (1)
RBI: Glaus (1), Wells 2 (2), Overbay (1)
GIDP: Rios
Pitching IP H R ER BB SO
Halladay (L, 0-1) 3 1/3 10 7 7 3 2
League 2 1/3 4 2 2 1 1
Accardo 2 1/3 1 0 0 0 3
Totals 8 15 9 9 4 6
Kansas City Royals 1-0
Batter - Pos AB R H RBI BB SO
Cabrera SS 4 0 0 0 1 1
Kwon LF 4 1 0 0 1 0
Eldred 1B 4 2 2 2 1 1
Teahen RF 4 1 1 0 0 2
Gordon 3B 5 2 4 2 0 0
Butler DH 5 2 3 0 0 0
Duffy CF 3 1 2 2 1 1
Iguchi 2B 3 0 2 2 0 1
Roland C 4 0 1 1 0 0
Totals 36 9 15 9 4 6
Batting
2B: Gordon (1), Duffy (1), Butler (1)
HR: Gordon (1), Eldred (1)
RBI: Gordon 2 (2), Roland (1), Eldred 2 (2), Iguchi 2 (2), Duffy 2 (2) HBP: Teahen
SAC: Iguchi
E: Iguchi (1)
Pitching IP H R ER BB SO
Meche (W 1-0) 6 5 4 4 1 4
Riske (S, 1) 3 3 0 0 1 2
Totals 9 8 4 4 2 6
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Post by ror1fan on Jul 30, 2007 22:06:19 GMT -6
Dang, Plotty. That's a tough break. I'm actually pretty happy with the Sweeney/Lopez deal. Where is Lopez now? |
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