Yosted/Royals 2K14

Sam Mellinger @mellinger
Ned Yost on facing Chris Sale: "He throws a lot of strikes. That's good for us, because we swing at a lot of balls."

Lindbergh on BP podcast wondered if Yost was trolling w/ those Sunday billpen comments

ned yost has said and done way too many dumb things to really credit that

unless he's playing a *really* deep troll game, which i would suggest is misguided

it's like the 'long game' of a certaiin president

no

As a Brewer fan I assure you, the guy is not trolling

Finally-full stadium, pulled starters: 2014 Kansas City Royals

Yost!

Kansas City - Bottom of 1st				SCORE
Max Scherzer pitching for Detroit			DET	KC
A Escobar doubled to deep left.				0	0
N Aoki sacrificed to pitcher, A Escobar to third.	0	0
J Willingham struck out swinging.			0	0
A Gordon struck out swinging.				0	0

@jazayerli
You mean moving the strikeout-prone hitter facing one of the game's top strikeout pitchers didn't bring the runner home from 3rd with 1 out?

Yost!

Kansas City - Bottom of 3rd						SCORE
Max Scherzer pitching for Detroit					DET	KC
J Dyson singled to right.						0	0
A Escobar singled to left, J Dyson to second.				0	0
N Aoki sacrificed to pitcher, J Dyson to third, A Escobar to second.	0	0
J Willingham fouled out to first.					0	0
A Gordon struck out swinging.						0	0

yeah i heard some boos in that first inning.

I think we are going to hear a lot about that Perez blunder.

yea that was wild

Guess we're still wondering what Nathan has to do to lose his job.

pretty much. 14 swings-and-misses in his last 13 innings, i'm told

lol aoki has 13 hits in his last 18 at bats, so naturally bunt him twice

there goes the Cinderella costume

"We wanted a professional hitter in a professional at-bat." -- Ned Yost

(Hear that, Billy Butler?)

Kahrl:

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/51636/royals-botching-both-little-big-things

Kansas City - Bottom of 4th					SCORE
Rick Porcello pitching for Detroit				DET	KC
O Infante walked.						2	2
M Moustakas singled to right, O Infante to second.		2	2
A Escobar bunt popped out to pitcher.				2	2

Escobar was two-for-two prior to this at-bat. Infante and Moustakas were the Royals' ninth and tenth base runners against Porcello, whose stuff has been LOUSY today.

Luckily for Yost, Aoki tripled after Escobar's pop-out (which occurred on a second attempt; there were boos the moment Escobar squared the first time).

And Jim Johnson is Ausmus' first choice from the pen. OK.

Aoki bunted on his own at least once on Saturday btw

jazayerli:

Afterwards we learned that Aoki bunted on his own his first time up. Sorry, but that’s no excuse. It’s the manager’s job to make sure when his players should NOT be bunting, and man oh man was that a situation in which the batter should not be bunting.

And anyway, Yost did put the bunt on with Aoki his second time up, proving he had learned nothing from how the first inning ended.

yes i wd agree

KC crowd booed the bunts too

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/96076652/royals-2014-success-translate-to-2015

royals

yostseason

your skepticism is yosttoast

ok, where is the Central playoff if there is a tie on Sunday night?

I propose the Big O.

^^^pvmic

pvmic?

oh i get it

am i the only one who still doesn't really count the new one game playoff as the "playoffs"

fuck you, fan of a team that's won two championships without ever winning a division

if the first wild card series was three games or something i'd count it, but one game feels too impermanent to me

cool for the royals though (go A's nonetheless)

it's the postseason, "the playoffs" are that 2-month NBA joke perpetuated with everyone who's .400+

also the primary benefit of the one-game 'play-in' crapshoot was to make a first place finish meaningful

lol that was like benefit #15

the rest of the benefits are about $$$$$ and bud's sense of self-importance

and even then "allowing more teams to contend" was the biggest line given

and the one-game playoff is a fucking travesty

Compared to the previous system, I disagree. Allowing more teams to contend -- nothing was gonna stop that.

anyway:

http://www.royalsreview.com/2014/9/26/6842301/royals-playoff-scenarios-and-tiebreakers

Sorry, Royals -- the Tigers have Lobstein going tonight.

Season head-to-head should break the tie, not determine the damn location of the tiebreaker.

otm

no.

^^^

if first place is important yes let's use some willynilly cumulative BS to determine it, huh?

anyway, looks like all the AL CONTENDERS MAY LOSE AGAIN TONIGHT! I don't think they understand last-weekend clutchiness. At least that would eliminate Seattle.

You think the result of one game is less willynilly than the results of 19? OK.

I think the entire 162-game season record should have primacy, howzthat?

(or 163)

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