Some positives toward the end of this column if you’re a Kansas State football fan, but Batman said it’s darkest before the dawn, so on that vibe, let’s talk Kansas City Royals pitching first and get it out of the way.
- From 2006 through 2011, Dayton Moore and his staff drafted 153 pitchers.
- That work has turned into the Royals apparently being adamant about adding a “real starting pitcher” through trade. CBSSports.com’s Danny Knobler says to watch Matt Garza.
- I’ve made this reference several times the past few days on Twitter, but if pitching is baseball’s currency, as Moore likes to say, the Royals are now at a major deficit, even if it just feels better that Jonathan Sanchez is no longer with the MLB club.
- All of that drafting also turned into having to call up Ryan Verdugo and Vin Mazzaro to face Seattle last night.
- To recap the past two days: The next-day scheduled starter (Everett Teaford) has to pitch the night before to take over for a soon-to-be DFA’ed starter (Sanchez) you traded for in the offseason, which leads to the second night where the other piece of DFA’ed guy’s trade (Verdugo) gets shelled in MLB debut along with another traded-for AAAA pitcher (Mazzaro), who was also ineffective.
- Trainwreck, Royals. Trainwreck.
- On a bright note, Eric Hosmer hit a double against the Mariners on Tuesday.
- It was his second double for the month of July.
- Progress.
- Early favorite for most entertaining local athlete at media days: T.J. Moe
- The Missouri senior wide receiver had SEC and national media rolling with his blended mix of comedic (“They say girls are prettier here, air’s fresher, and toilet paper is thicker.”) and honest (calling his Missouri team the SEC’s “red-headed stepchild”) answers.
- His head coach would have been better served to go the comedic route, if it were possible.
- Gary Pinkel’s decision to call Joe Paterno a “great man” was jumbo-size cringeworthy.
- Maybe you can do that some years from now, but not now. No way.
- Next time he’s asked that question, maybe Pinkel should take a timeout.
- Or two.
- Then again, that might ice him, so perhaps not.
- The only ice on Kansas State linebacker Arthur Brown is in his veins.
- He’ll need it to avoid melting under the heat and pressure that comes with being named to four preseason awards lists, a pretty unbelievable number that no other linebacker in KSU history had accomplished.
- Overall, K-State’s preseason total is now up to 10 NCFAA candidates, the second most in school history and one behind the 1998 squad that had 11 players in the running for major college football awards.
- Realistically, what K-State fans should hope for is that this is a true nod toward legitimate top-tier talent and not only the byproduct of that great, but pretty surprising, last season.
- Optimistically, that ’98 squad started 11-0 before Texas A&M and then Drew Brees’ Boilermakers happened.
- As much as that hurt (and K-Staters will always remember that shotgun blast to the chest like it was yesterday), I bet all of them would reload the gun in similar fashion and see what happens.
- I know I would.
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