Royals Notes: 4/1

Torture for Gordo 

 

I was begging for that ball to stay fair.  I watched the second half of the game on my DVR last night.  When Gordon hit that shot to left with 2 on in the bottom of the 9^th, I literally got out of my chair and charged the TV.  What better way to start the year (on a night when hits were scarce) than with a walk-off dong—and to demonstrate what you’ve learned, by taking that pitch on the outside corner the opposite way!

It stayed fair a long time—the TV booth got pretty excited.  But it drifted just foul, and the game was effectively over.

161 more to go!

Chris Getz = Carlos Beltran

In Royals math.

I hadn’t really thought about this much, but was reminded of it in Nick Scott’s Royals Preview today. 

The Royals traded Beltran to Oakland and got back Mike Wood, John Buck and Mark Teahen.  We let both Wood and Buck go to free agency (and I don’t think we got a compensatory pick for either—not 100% sure on that), then we traded Teahen for Fields and Getz.  We cut Fields in the off-season.

So all the Royals have to show of the Carlos Beltran era is the presence of Chris Getz at 2^nd base.

That tells you all you need to know about how this franchise has been managed (well, if the record didn’t already tell you that).