Thank you to all the fans who voted for the All-Star Game! It’s an honor to represent the Royals and the AL in Philadelphia!
It was even more special to get the news on America 250. Grateful and proud!! 🇺🇸
Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This is an outlier and their data team needs to immediately look to see what caused it. Do not re-introduce Perez (hard to say it) into the line up! @Royals#FountainsUp
@BHIndepMO No player is going to blame the coaches for their problems. But being a purely “stat and analytically driven organization” you shouldn’t need to ask - the data says it itself
Someone tell the @Royals that exit velocity isn’t a good statistic when it’s coupled with hitting directly at infield/outfield opponents. Who cares how hard it comes off the bat, you’re getting out EVERY TIME. #Royals
Cags has bad analytics against lefties yet he has little data on it due to his play compared to others on the team. You pitch hit him yet recency bias shows he might be a hot bat - you HAVE to factor that in. It’s insane that we have no real feelings to analytics 2/2
This is analytics. @Royals have analytics but no one “feels” them out. Numbers are nothing but context and reaction to said numbers are everything. When you have a plethora of data but react the wrong way, you lose. Period. #Royals need to learn to feel out the data.
Furthermore, hitting/pitching/manager need to be able to understand recency bias is acceptable in baseball. You go with a hot hand sometimes, you don’t immediately surrender to analytics if you KNOW recently it’s been different. Players get hot and cold - take Lynch/Cags 1/2
Man @Royals game plans are just ridiculous. They are too aggressive at the plate now and lead into easy outs with little given to the opposing pitchers pitch count. This season can’t be won unless they settle down into a rhythm and trust themselves over the numbers sometimes
Not sure why there hasn’t been any firings among the @Royals. It’s been trending worse for 2 years with no end in sight. Yet nothing from Sherman/JJ. #Royals
Can anyone tell me why the @Royals only seem to be hitting line drives, pops and not trying to finesse the game? We have fast players but we constantly get the bases loaded with little to no payoffs. #Royals
No excuses @SportingKC - do better. Don’t care if your roster is crap, you don’t lose 5-0 and 6-0 in the span of 3 games. Ownership did us a disservice by not giving time to fill out the roster. It’s gonna be disastrous this year and frankly you should give STM a free pass.
.@Royals lose by a thousand cuts as their opponents take the pitches for what they are - not forcing power. #Royals need to start getting back to that play