Royals in May

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

ROYALS WIN


MOOOOO

[newshock1234]

whew, not pretty by Soria, but ill take it

[RoyalShock]

Whew!

Six in a row!

[SubGod22]

I'll take it.

[martymoose]

Boy that was nerve racking! Guess he just wanted to make Griffey and Sweeney look good before shutting them down.

[newshock1234]

anybody else think our 3rd base coach sucks

[SubGod22]

I do miss Silverio. Always thought he did a very good job at third

[rrshock]

Ichiro grounds out.

That in itself was a miracle. He was 3-3 with a walk prior to that at-bat.

[newshock1234]

Hoch was dominating again tonight with 8 shutout innings, 9 K's and 0 BB. Hes now 5-0 with a .90 ERA. Cant wait til we bring him up

[ShockerGorilla]

Hoch was dominating again tonight with 8 shutout innings, 9 K's and 0 BB. Hes now 5-0 with a .90 ERA. Cant wait til we bring him up

After May 23rd, right? That is the magical date that we get an extra year out of him? That's only 2 weeks away.

[RoyalShock]

Hoch was dominating again tonight with 8 shutout innings, 9 K's and 0 BB. Hes now 5-0 with a .90 ERA. Cant wait til we bring him up

After May 23rd, right? That is the magical date that we get an extra year out of him? That's only 2 weeks away.

That's according to Brian McRae. Rany Jazayerli says it was May 4th.

Hochevar came into the season with 1 year, 17 days of service time. The rules state that 172 service days = 1 full service year, so in order to keep Hochevar from being a free agent until after the 2014 season, the Royals can not afford to give him more than 154 days of service time this year.

Complicating things is that there are, I believe, 182 days (exactly 26 weeks) from Opening Day to the last Sunday of the season. This is why a player can get a full year of service time even though he’s not called up until a week into the season (see, for instance, Kerry Wood’s rookie year.)

Anyway, if you just count from the last day of the season and work backwards, the tipping point for Hochevar was May 4th. If the Royals had called him up before May 4th, then he would have qualified for free agency a year early. (This became a source of concern in the Jazayerli household when Gil Meche’s back acted up, and it looked like the Royals might need Hochevar to make Meche's next start – on May 3rd.) In other words, the Royals have no reason to keep Hochevar on the farm any longer purely from a service time standpoint.

I have a feeling that Ponson earned another start and that Dayton Moore might be considering replacing Davies if his starts don't improve.

[newshock1234]

:banghead: :rant:

[ShockerFever]

[SubGod22]

Due to the fact that I've been without power for the past couple of days I haven't been able to contribute. Now, with that said, Greinke still pitched a heck of a game tonight. You can't complain with a guy going 8 innings and giving up one run. Too bad the offense could pick him up but it sounds like the Angels pitcher had quite the performance.

They need to pick up the win tomorrow.

Have no idea what happend Friday but heard KC lost 4-1. Anyone know how Meche did? Were all four runs on him? Still not much production so far from the offense. Maybe they're due to break out on Sunday...

[ShockerFever]

Sorry for the power difficulties Sub. Hope you guys are alright.