"KC hasn't had one rookie make a debut this year."
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Jeff Zimmerman
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While they aren't full-time starters and didn't make their debuts this year
Mitch Maier and Brayan Pena are playing significant roles on a major league club for the first time in their careers.
And Alberto Callaspo is starting full-time for the first time in his career.
Callaspo is a very good little hitter... all kinds of bad at 2B, though.
Still, that’s just bad overall.
by Daniel Berlyn on Aug 20, 2009 8:58 AM EDT up reply actions
It could be worse
Half the infield could be superfluo- oh wait…
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
If Dustin Pedroia played in Seattle, not many people would be talking about him.
GET THAT VORP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
I'm sure things will improve now that they taught Alex Gordon a lesson!
e.g., “110 PAs is a totally adequate sample size.”
(Right, R.J.?)
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It's funny because Gordon -- when healthy at least -- is the exact type of player the Royals need more of.
by R.J. Anderson on Aug 20, 2009 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd wager he's probably better than most of their players...
while injured.
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I think I remember reading that the 1979 Pirates might have gone the season without a Rookie. Could be wrong, though, and I don’t have time to check right now. ;)
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I guess you could argue that since they are so bad, there is no reason to start service time clocks. I don’t know that you could argue that well though…
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@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
They have almost zero in the way of prospects at Omaha
Maier and Brayan Pena were already called up. Ka’aihue hasn’t been, of course, he’s the glaring exception.
On the pitching side, Chris Hayes was promoted from Wichita mid-season, and he deserves a September callup, but there’s absolutely nobody in the rotation there that is a prospect—Lenny DiNardo, Heath Phillips, Brandon Duckworth, Dusty Hughes, Matt Wright. Ugh. Carlos Rosa is a good prospect, but he’s giving up a hit an inning and a walk every other inning, so it’d be nice for him to work some of that out at Omaha rather than in Kansas City.
There is a couple of reasons it is not happening
No talent in AAA or AA
and
team is willing to give known crappy pitchers and hitter way too much time and money
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by Jeff Zimmerman on Aug 21, 2009 1:40 AM EDT up reply actions
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