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| Recent Blog Post: Long Game Extra: Live-tweeting the Auction |
| My home AL-only keeper league auction is today (12 teams, 5x5, pretty standard roto ultra rules with the addition of an in-season salary cap), and I figured I might as well live-tweet the thing. Why? For reasons!
If you want to follow along, my Twitter handle is @AntonSirius. I'm starting it out with $173 (only three teams have more, with the big stack carrying $208), and the following roster:
C: Salvador Perez $3B, Tyler Flowers $3C
1B: Eric Hosmer $17Y
SS: Eduardo Nunez $6C
CI: Chris Carter $8B
OF: David Murphy $4B, Jonny Gomes $1B
P: Yu Darvish $31B, Matt Moore $10B, Brett Anderson $2B, Felix Doubront $2B
Minors: Bubba Starling, Michael Choice, Jonathan Schoop
(Note: for long-term contracts we bump the letter designation to the end of the alphabet so that they expire at the end of their 'Z' season.)
As you can see, I'm set at catcher and don't have to worry about scarcity there, but I've got no closers so I'll have to pay full retail for a couple. Third base is also an issue, as there are only three good ones (Miguel Cabrera, Adrian Beltre and Evan Longoria) available. All the young middle-tier guys are protected, so the drop-off in talent after the big three is STEEP. If I don't land one of them, I could be looking at a Matt Dominguez as the fallback. That's scary.
Nunez was the only really difficult choice, but with Jeter out for a bit, the other injury issues the Yankees have and me lacking steals, $6 didn't seem like much of an overpay and I could easily see him going for more at auction. The alternative would have been something like Eric Sogard at $1, and that seemed like a much bigger risk.
Posted by Erik Siegrist at 3/30/2013 6:39:00 AM |
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Recent Kansas City Royals Player News
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| Jeremy Guthrie (P) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Guthrie fell to 5-2 on the season after giving up six runs over five innings against the Astros on Monday. |
Guthrie carried a 5-0 record and 2.28 ERA through seven starts but has seen those numbers fall to 5-2 and 3.49 after consecutive shaky outings. He has given up 13 home runs already, and has a 32:20 K/BB ratio through 59.2 innings, indicating that there could be more tough times ahead. Guthrie's next outing is scheduled for Saturday against the Angels. |
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| Miguel Tejada (SS) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Tejada hit a home run for the first time since July of 2011 in Monday's 6-5 loss to the Astros. |
Tejada is 9-for-27 at the plate this season, with four runs and six RBI. He started at third base Monday night and has also seen limited playing time at first base and second base. It would be rather surprising if the 38-year-old former all-star manages to maintain a high level of production over a larger sample size. |
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| Salvador Perez (C) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Perez left Monday's game with discomfort in his right hip after running into a post while pursuing a foul ball, Bob Dutton of Kansas City Star reports. |
The 23-year-old catcher was chasing a pop up near the Astros' dugout when the injury occurred. George Kottaras stepped in to replace Perez, who should be considered day-to-day until more information becomes available. |
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| Mike Moustakas (3B) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Moustakas is out of the Royals' lineup Monday at Houston, FOX Sports Kansas City reports. |
In his absence, Miguel Tejada will man the hot corner and bat eighth in the order. Moustakas has just one hit in his last eight games, a span of 33 at-bats, causing his average to fall below the Mendoza Line to .178. |
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| Sam Selman (P) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Selman worked five innings, giving up just one run on three hits while striking out six on Sunday for High-A Wilmington. |
Selman has struggled most of the season (5.35 ERA), so the strong performance was sorely needed. Walks have been a huge problem for Selman thus far with 29 in 35.1 innings with Sunday being just the second time this year he has struck out more than he has walked (6:1). |
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| Johnny Giavotella (2B) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Giavotella has played the last three games at third base for Triple-A Omaha but is just 1-for-12 in that span. |
The one hit happened to be a home run, so that was, at least, a bit encouraging. The Royals are trying to shake things up and are looking at all possibilities at third base given Mike Moustakas' current .178 average. Giavotella has had his struggles at the dish as well, but right now, he seems like a logical choice. |
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| Mike Moustakas (3B) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Moustakas went 0-for-5 with one strikeout and left seven men on base during Sunday's loss to the A's. He is now hitting a woeful .178 on the season. |
Moustakas had one small outburst earlier in the month where he homered in three straight games. In the eight games since, he is 1-for-33 with seven strikeouts and just one run scored. He doesn't even have a sacrifice fly to show for his efforts. It's not yet known just how much longer Ned Yost is going to stick with his under-performing third baseman, but it might not be for very much longer. While the team may not want to go with Miguel Tejada on a full-time basis, it should be noted that Johnny Giavotella has been moved off of second base at Triple-A Omaha and has played the last three games at the hot corner. A promotion of Irving Falu is also a possibility. |
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| Eric Hosmer (1B) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Hosmer went 2-for-4 with a double, one RBI, a run scored, a stolen base, and a walk during Sunday's loss to the A's. |
The season trudges along for the the underwhelming Royals first baseman. Through 16 games in May, he is batting .254 with one home run, four RBI and seven runs scored. In addition to the one long ball, he has just one double and one triple for a disappointing .095 ISO for the month. With such minimal production and an apparent lack of growth, Hosmer has become one of the more disappointing up-and-comers and is barely worth a fantasy roster spot as a corner infielder. If he doesn't find a way to break out soon, the Royals could begin to seek out alternatives at the position. |
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| Chris Getz (2B) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Getz returned to the starting lineup and went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI against the A's on Sunday. |
Getz had been on a 0-for-14 run and was losing significant playing time to both Elliot Johnson and Miguel Tejada, so the offensive outburst was much needed for him. Manager Ned Yost said that it wasn't a platoon situation and that he would continue to ride the hot bat, so perhaps Getz earned himself another start here as Johnson is currently on an 0-for-8 skid over his last two and a half games. |
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| Alex Gordon (OF) KC |
5/20/2013 |
| Gordon went 4-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a run scored against the A's on Sunday. |
The double was Gordon's 11th of the season and his 20th multi-hit game of the year. He had just 60 multi-hit games in all of 2012. He's batting .343 through 40 games this year with six home runs and 29 RBI and is on pace to set career-highs in each of the standard roto categories save for stolen bases. Now that the power has kicked in, Gordon is easily earning his keep as a top-20 outfielder. |
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5/31/2006 |
| The Royals fired GM Allard Baird on Wednesday, hiring Braves assistant GM Dayton Moore to take his place. |
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5/2/2006 |
| Hitting coach Andre David was let go on May 1 after the Royals finished April last in the American League in hits, runs and home runs. He will now be the Royals' minor-league hitting instructor. Mike Barnett, the team's former minor-league hitting instructor, has been promoted to fill the major-league job. |
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4/21/2006 |
| The Royals are arguing against a recent Forbes article that said the team made $20 million profit last season, while losing over 100 games. "Once again, Forbes is not accurate in the information they are reporting on the Royals," said Mark Gorris, the club’s senior vice president for business operations, in The Kansas City Star. |
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Roster
Majors
Butler, Billy 1B
Cain, Lorenzo OF
Chen, Bruce P
Collins, Tim P
Crow, Aaron P
Davis, Wade P
Duffy, Danny P(15D DL)
Dyson, Jarrod OF(15D DL)
Escobar, Alcides SS
Francoeur, Jeff OF
Getz, Chris 2B
Gordon, Alex OF
Guthrie, Jeremy P
Gutierrez, Juan P
Herrera, Kelvin P
Hochevar, Luke P
Holland, Greg P
Hosmer, Eric 1B
Johnson, Elliot SS
Kottaras, George C
Lough, David OF
Mendoza, Luis P
Moustakas, Mike 3B
Paulino, Felipe P(60D DL)
Perez, Salvador C(DTD)
Santana, Ervin P
Shields, James P
Tejada, Miguel SS
AAA
Adcock, Nathan P
Bueno, Francisley P
Coleman, Louis P
Colon, Christian SS
Dwyer, Chris P
Falu, Irving 2B
Giavotella, Johnny 2B
Hayes, Brett C
Joseph, Donnie P
Marks, Justin P
Moore, Adam C
Nady, Xavier OF(DTD)
Ramirez, Max C
Sanches, Brian P
Severino, Atahualpa P
Sherrill, George P
Smith, Will P
Taveras, Willy OF
Teaford, Everett P
Verdugo, Ryan P
AA
Adam, Jason P
Arguelles, Noel P
Baumann, Buddy P
Canham, Mitch C
Eibner, Brett OF
Evans, Terry OF
Fields, Matt 1B
Lamb, John P
Melville, Tim P
Navarro, Reynaldo SS
Orlando, Paulo OF
Pina, Manny C
Pounders, Brooks P
Prades, Yem OF
Rodriguez, Wilmin P
Runion, Sam P
Sulbaran, Juan Carlos P(Out)
Thomas, Charles OF
Tracy, Chad OF
Ventura, Yordano P
A+
Alexander, Scott P
Billo, Greg P
Bonifacio, Jorge OF(Out)
Bonilla, Jose C
Cuthbert, Cheslor 3B
Llanos, Alex OF
Sample, Tyler P
Selman, Sam P
Yambati, Robinson P
Zimmer, Kyle P
A
Antonio, Mike SS
Arteaga , Humberto SS
Brickhouse, Bryan P
Espinal, Yowill SS
Gallagher, Cameron C
Mondesi, Adalberto SS
Starling, Bubba OF
Rookie
Aparicio, Julio OF
Cruz, Fernando P
Diekroeger, Ken SS
Hayenga, Keaton P
Hernandez, Elier OF
Rico, Luis P
Rodgers, Colin P
Santos, Luis P
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