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Friday, March 12, 2010

Royals and Southpaws: A History.

(Okay, so this piece was meant to look at the various quality left-handed pitching prospects the Royals have in their system. But first I wanted to give a little background about the Royals’ inability to develop left-handed pitching over the years, and…well…you know me. One thing led to another, and before I knew it I had written over 3000 words and still hadn’t gotten around to the present day. So consider this a prologue – a really, really long and depressing prologue – to my uplifting next post.)

If the Royals have their deepest minor league system in over a decade, it’s a testament to the amount of left-handed pitching they’ve uncovered. It’s not an exaggeration in the slightest to say that right now the Royals have the most left-handed pitching in their farm system in the history of the franchise. While that’s a testament to the scouting department, it’s also an indictment of the team’s past. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the Royals have as many elite left-handed pitchers in their system today as they’ve developed in the last 41 years combined. Seriously.

The Royals have a long-standing tradition of developing All-Star right-handed pitchers, a tradition that began with Steve Busby and Dennis Leonard* in the 70s, continued in the 80s with Bret Saberhagen and Mark Gubicza and David Cone, then with Kevin Appier in the early 90s, and then after an embarrassingly long gap, has once again resurfaced with Zack Greinke.

*: Leonard never actually made an All-Star team, but he twice received votes for the Cy Young Award, which is even better.

But when it comes to southpaws, the organization has been astonishingly unproductive. In the entire history of the franchise, the Royals have had just four left-handed pitchers make even 120 starts with the team, the equivalent of about four full seasons in the rotation: Paul Splittorff, Larry Gura, Charlie Leibrandt, and Bud Black.

Splittorff had a decent strikeout rate his first few years in the majors, but after 1973 he became a pure junkballer, never again striking out even one batter per two innings in his career. In 1978 he won 19 games, despite striking out just 76 batters in 262 innings. He holds the franchise record with 167 166 wins – famously one more than Sandy Koufax – but never made an All-Star team.

Gura was even more of a soft-tosser; he had washed out of the Cubs and Yankees organizations before the Royals acquired him in 1976 for Fran Healy, their backup catcher. The same year that Splittorff won 19 games, Gura went 16-4 for the Royals, with just 81 whiffs in 222 innings. During his time in Kansas City, Gura struck out just 633 batters in 1701 innings. That type of extreme pitch-to-contact pitcher simply doesn’t exist anymore. In the decade that just ended, 73 pitchers threw at least 1200 innings. The lowest strikeout rate of those 73 guys belonged to Paul Byrd, with 4.67 Ks per 9 innings. Gura’s career rate was 3.52; Splittorff’s was 3.72. They were both very successful pitchers, but don’t try this at home, kids.

Leibrandt was, by those standards, a power pitcher. By any other standard, he relied on smoke and mirrors: his career K rate was 4.37 Ks per nine. His stock had fallen so low when the Royals acquired him from the Reds that all they had to give up to get him was Bob Tufts, who would never appear in another major league game after the trade. Leibrandt went 76-61 with the Royals, was a key part of the 1985 Championship team, and when the Royals thought he was washed up and traded him to Atlanta after the 1989 season, he rebounded to be the fourth starter on another two World Series teams in 1991 and 1992.

And finally there’s Bud Black, another finesse lefty with a low profile when the Royals got him as a PTBNL from the Mariners in a trade for the immortal Manny Castillo before the 1982 season. Black’s strikeout rate with the Royals was the best of the bunch: a towering 4.68 Ks per nine innings. He gave the Royals the better part of four seasons as a slightly above-average starter, two more seasons as a swingman, and after he was traded away for Pat Tabler in 1988, he hung around long enough to pitch for the 1995 Indians team that went 100-44.

These four guys all have something in common: none of them was remotely a power pitcher. The Royals acquired three of them in trades for virtually nothing. The fourth, Splittorff, was drafted by the Royals in their inaugural draft of 1968 – in the 25th round.

The best power lefty the Royals ever developed is almost certainly Danny Jackson, who they got with the very first pick of the 1982 draft – the weird January supplemental draft, which was long ago disbanded and whose eligibility rules were so arcane that I honestly don’t know why some players were eligible and some weren’t. Jackson threw hard – not mid-90s hard, but hard enough – and had a wipeout slider, and struck out a respectable 5.43 batters per nine innings with the Royals. He was an above-average starter for three straight years from 1985 to 1987, and is the forgotten star of the championship run – twice he pitched in a Game 5 with the Royals staring down the barrel of a 3-games-to-1 deficit, and twice he threw a complete game, allowing just one run, to get the Royals back into the series.

But in 1987 he had the misfortune of getting the worst run support in the league – the Royals scored just 3.46 runs a game for him, and in 17 of his 34 starts they scored two runs or less. Despite a 4.02 ERA – a well-above average mark in the original Year of the Homer – Jackson went 9-18. The idea that a pitcher’s won-loss record is as dependent on his run support as his own pitching is so deeply ingrained in even casual fans today that it’s easy to forget that, a generation ago, this was considered radical thinking. It was certainly consider radical thinking by the Royals, who were as hidebound by tradition then as they are today.

So thinking Jackson a failure, they traded him to Cincinnati that winter for Kurt Stillwell. The following year, Jackson’s ERA dropped to 2.73, the Reds averaged 4.75 runs a game for him, and he went 23-8. He was a shoo-in for the Cy Young in late August before Orel Hershiser decided he didn’t feel like giving up any more runs the rest of the season.

In the quarter-century since Jackson came through the system, the only left-handed starter to star for the Royals has been Jose Rosado. As a draft find, Rosado represents a victory for stats over scouts – he was the MVP of the Junior College World Series, yet lasted until the 12th round of the 1994 draft because he didn’t throw all that hard. He was in the majors within two years, and as a rookie posted a 3.21 ERA in 107 innings and finished fourth in the Rookie of the Year award balloting even though he didn’t debut until June.

If Rosado had come along five years later, I’m convinced he’d still be pitching today. Unfortunately for him, he arrived in an era when pitch counts were still largely ignored around baseball, and definitely ignored by Bob Boone and Tony Muser. In 1997, Rosado had a fantastic 3.39 ERA at the All-Star Break, and made the All-Star team as a 22-year-old in his first full season. He had also thrown 115+ pitches five times, which relative to its time wasn’t a criminal workload, but for a young pitcher of slight build (Rosado was listed at 6’ even and 175 pounds), it was too much. After the Break, Rosado was awful, allowing 99 walks and 36 hits in just 79 innings, with a 6.75 ERA.

He started the next season in the bullpen, and while he worked his way back into the rotation, he was hit-or-miss all year. But in 1999, he was back. At the Break he had a 3.01 ERA in 114 innings, with good peripherals (106 hits, 38 walks, 72 Ks). He made the All-Star team for the second time. (Rosado has more All-Star appearances (2) than all other Royals’ left-handed starters (1, by Gura) combined.)

But he also had the following pitch counts over a 12-start stretch from May 25th to July 28th:

117, 119, 70, 107, 122, 124, 83, 123, 125, 122, 120, 132.

Rosado was still just 24 at the time. Muser had confused experience with age, and rode Rosado like he was a much older starter. Earlier that year, Kerry Wood’s elbow had snapped in spring training after his sensational rookie season. That summer, Rick Ankiel’s agent (the ubiquitous Scott Boras) got into a little snit with the Cardinals over limiting the phenom’s pitch count. In Detroit, the Tigers publicly announced they were keeping rookie Jeff Weaver on a pitch limit, and stuck to it – Weaver’s season high was 110 pitches. On the interwebs, a snotty outfit called Baseball Prospectus had unveiled a new stat called Pitcher Abuse Points. But the pitch count train hadn’t rolled into Kansas City yet, and Rosado paid the price.

Rosado’s ERA after the break was 4.89, but more to the point, early the following season he complained of a dead arm. The Royals skipped his turn in the rotation once, but waited on getting an MRI. He was sent back to the mound on April 30th, and gutted his way through 5.2 innings and picked up the win. His arm pain was worse afterwards. The Royals finally got the MRI. The verdict: his shoulder was shredded. He would never throw another pitch as a professional. Rosado’s career was over at 25.

Rosado threw 693 innings through his age 24 season. Only two Royals pitchers have thrown more: Saberhagen and Gubicza. All three had their careers cut short by arm surgery. Rosado was not the first young Royals pitcher to have his career ruined by throwing too many pitches at too young an age. Thankfully, he might have been the last.

(Or at least the next-to-last. Two years later, Muser rode a 23-year-old Chad Durbin hard, and Durbin tore his UCL the following year. It’s questionable whether Durbin would have become a quality starter regardless, but he has reinvented himself as a key middle reliever for the Phillies the last two years.)

Aside from Rosado, only two other left-handers in the last quarter-century have made even 60 starts for the Royals: Darrell May and Chris Haney. May was signed out of Japan after the 2001 season, and sandwiched one well-timed good season in 2003 between poor seasons in 2002 and 2004 before he was shipped away for Terrence Long. Haney was acquired from Montreal for Sean Berry, and had a career 5.24 ERA for the Royals (meanwhile, Berry had some terrific seasons in Montreal and Houston.)

Aside from Rosado, the Royals may not have developed a single decent left-handed starter in 25 years, but it’s not for lack of trying. Most notably, in 1993 the Royals used the 5th overall pick in the draft on Jeff Granger, a college left-hander out of Texas A&M who was supposed to be ready for the majors almost immediately. Granger did, in fact, make it to the majors by September – but only because his contract stipulated a promotion. (I believe that Granger and Bo Jackson are the only two Royals to play in the majors the same year they were drafted.) Granger wound up pitching all of 32 innings in his career, with a 9.09 ERA. His main contribution to the Royals came as a throw-in to the trade that brought Jay Bell and Jeff King to Kansas City.

Seven years later the Royals used the 4th overall pick on Mike Stodolka, a high school left-hander from California. Stodolka would eventually reach Triple-A – as a first baseman. As a pitcher he struggled to a 4.93 ERA in the minors over five seasons before he was moved to first base, where he was considered a 2nd/3rd round talent out of high school. He was an on-base machine, with a .287/.394/.444 line in three seasons, but rather than chase the dream of becoming the next Ross Gload, he elected to retire after the 2008 season. (In fairness to Stodolka, the 2000 draft is widely considered to be the weakest draft of the last 20 years. While Adrian Gonzalez went #1, the two picks in between were Adam Johnson and Lou Montanez.)

The Royals also spent late or supplemental 1st round picks on Chris George, Jimmy Gobble, Matt Campbell, and J.P. Howell this decade. Campbell struggled in the minors and then tore his rotator cuff, but the other three all reached the majors to much fanfare. Howell did finally achieve a measure of success, but it took a trade to Tampa Bay and a move to the bullpen to find it.

George and Gobble had eerily similar career paths; both drafted out of high school in the supplemental first round a year apart; both had great seasons for Wilmington as 19-year-olds; both ranked as Top-50 Prospects by Baseball America the following season; both entered the Royals rotation at the age of 21; and both were ultimately done in by a complete lack of an out pitch, and were out of a major league rotation for good by the time they were 24. Gobble got the chance to remake himself as a lefty reliever and failed even at that; George disappeared from the majors completely, and was last seen pitching in Mexico. (Both Gobble and George are non-roster invitees to spring training.)

And that leaves Jeremy Affeldt, a third-round pick in 1997, a projectable high school arm who slowly advanced up the chain without doing anything to distinguish himself, and then showed up to spring training camp in 2002 with a 94-mph fastball and a curveball that dropped out of the sky like Icarus. After his first spring training outing, which consisted of five strikeouts and a popup, multiple writers gushed – knowing full well how ridiculous they would sound – that he looked Koufaxesque. And in their defense, at times he did. The problem was, at times he didn’t, and those were the times when he’d get beaten to a pulp. Affeldt made the team out of spring training, pitched reasonably well as a swingman, and then the following season was the team’s #2 starter when the 2003 Royals came out of the game gate like a house on fire. He struggled to a 4.82 ERA as a starter despite two great pitches; he moved to the bullpen in the second half and, his fastball touching 96-97, was terrific: in 42 innings he allowed just 28 hits and 12 walks.

This being the Royals, nothing was as easy as it looked. Affeldt spent the better part of two seasons fighting a blister problem that eventually required nail surgery, and while the surgery fixed the problem, it also seemed to affect his pitching. He sucked as a reliever in 2005, and in 2006 the Royals finally pawned him off on the Rockies in the Denny Bautista trade. At the time of the trade Affeldt had walked 42 batters and struck out just 28.

Naturally, almost from the minute he was traded Affeldt settled down as one of the better left-handed set-up men in baseball; last year, pitching for the Giants, he had a 1.73 ERA and coaxed a ridiculous 18 ground-ball double plays in just 62 innings. In retrospect, if the Royals had just made him into a reliever from the beginning, they would have gotten better value out of him. But when he was on his game in 2003, he had the best stuff of any left-handed starter the Royals have ever had, and I don’t blame the team one bit for dreaming on what could be.

So after 41 seasons, not only have the Royals received pathetically little production from left-handed pitchers, most of their best ones had to be imported from other organizations. With the caveat that I might have missed someone along the way, I tried to put together a list of the 10 best left-handed starters signed and developed by the organization. As you’ll see, I tried, but I did not succeed.

1) Paul Splittorff. I’m still not sure how he did it, but there’s no questioning that he did it. Over 2500 innings, 167 wins, and a solid 101 ERA+ over 15 seasons.

2) Danny Jackson. 112 career wins, an ERA+ of exactly 100, two All-Star game appearances, and a second-place finish in the Cy Young balloting gets him this spot.

3) Jose Rosado. His career lasted less than four full seasons, and he went only 37-45 in his career, but his 4.27 ERA came at the height of the juiced ball/bat/batter era, good for a 114 ERA+.

4) Atlee Hammaker. The Royals’ first-round pick in 1979, Hammaker was foolishly traded to the Giants as one of four players in the Vida Blue trade. Hammaker quickly became the pitcher the Royals hoped Blue would be. As a rookie in 1982, he went 12-8 with a 4.11 ERA, and in 1983, Hammaker led the NL with a remarkable 2.25 ERA. He blew out his arm the next year, and while he came back to pitch in the Giants’ rotation for three more seasons, he was never again dominant, or even above-average. Final numbers: 59-67 record, 97 ERA+ in 1079 innings.

5) Greg Hibbard. The Royals’ 16th-round pick in 1986, Hibbard was foolishly traded to the White Sox as one of four players in the Floyd Bannister trade. Hibbard was a pure finesse pitcher, sort of like Jeff Ballard without the panache, but fooled enough hitters to win in double digits in four straight years from 1990 to 1993. He then signed a three-year contract with the Mariners, and won exactly one game for them before he blew out his arm. Final numbers: 57-50 with a 98 ERA+ in 990 innings.

6) Bob McClure. The Royals’ pitching coach was selected in the 3rd round in 1973 – in something called the June Secondary draft, and I won’t even pretend to know what that was. After just 19 innings with the Royals, he was traded to Milwaukee in the traded that brought Darrell Porter to Kansas City. While he spent the bulk of his career in the bullpen, McClure was made into a starter by the Brewers in 1982. In 73 career starts he went 27-23 with a 4.41 ERA, which in the early 1980s was not particularly impressive, and after 3 seasons he returned to relief work.

7) Glendon Rusch. Drafted in the 17th-round in 1993, Rusch quickly climbed the system, as his tremendous control mitigated his propensity for the home run. After two disastrous years in the rotation in 1997 and 1998 (he went 12-24 with a 5.68 ERA), the Royals traded him to the Mets for something called “Dan Murray”. Rusch has alternated between being borderline useful (he went 11-11 with a 4.01 ERA in 2000) and a complete disaster (he went 1-12 with a 6.43 ERA in 2003) for a variety of different teams since. Remarkably, he’s still in baseball – he pitched for the Rockies last year, allowing 35 hits in just 19 innings.

That’s a theme for Rusch, who has generally been ineffective despite pretty strikeout-to-walk ratios throughout his career. He seems to be on a crusade to single-handedly disprove DIPS theory. For his career, Rusch has allowed a .331 average on balls in play. Not only is this the highest mark of any pitcher with 1000+ innings in the last 50 years, it’s ELEVEN POINTS higher than the second pitcher on the list, Paul Quantrill. The difference between Rusch and Quantrill (.320) is the same as the difference between Quantrill and Dave Weathers (.309) – who ranks 25th on the list.

For his career, Rusch epitomizes the replacement-level starter, with a 67-99 record, and an 88 ERA+. But he’s stuck around for nearly 1500 innings, and that’s more than enough to make this list.

8) Jeremy Affeldt. No, really. Jeremy Affeldt, who made all of 42 starts for the Royals, whose career ERA with the team was 4.77, is the 7th-best lefty starter they’ve ever developed. Would you prefer Jimmy Gobble (43 starts, 5.23 ERA)? Chris George (44 starts, 6.48 ERA)?

It’s a biologic fact that left-handed pitchers are harder to find than right-handers. But the Royals have still done an inexcusably poor job of finding and developing them for their entire existence. That, though, may finally be about to change. I’ll explain why in my next post.

Anonymous said...

I read these posts, I read these posts, and I read these posts, and I still can't figure out why I'm still a Royals fan. Sigh.

Well done, as usually, Rany.

Jeremy McNeal said...

At this point. I think I'd be a fan of whatever team Rany was talking about. He's particularly good at pointing out faults in organizations, I'm glad he's not writing about me. :)

Rany: The Fans Bulldog.

Go get 'em tiger.

Anonymous said...

I know he was long ago fired, but after reading the story of Jose Rosado, it must be said again...

Tony LUSER should not have been fired. He should have been burnt at the stake!

christopher said...

Let me ask you Rany--do we focus too much on the dumb moves the Royals make at the MLB level and ignore all the much more important good they are doing in the lower levels? I realize Hosmer and Mous look like mistakes, but you have to admit that DMoore took action there by firing Ladnier after the Hosmer pick. And lower in the draft, the royals are taking the action they so desperately need to take by spending waaay over slot to get kids who can play. I say this because no matter how smart/not-smart you are on the margins--at the end of the day you need superstar talent to win. This is why the Twins are successful and the As have struggled recently. This is why the Rays are good. Making smart moves in FA and with marginal players can help, but the effects are completely overwhelmed by the effects of having or not having evan longoria or chase utley. the royals are doing what is truly necessary to win. kendall or guillen are pointless decisions. signing montgomery, myers, dwyer, cuban defectors etc are what will make or break this team either way.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for mentioning Durbin, in addition to Rosado, as pitchers ruined by Tony Muser.

Granted, he might not have been as good, but the fact is we will never know.

All I can remember was him allowing Durbin to throw something like A HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR (!!!!!) pitchers in a game at Oakland in August - and this was WELL after EVERYBODY in baseball should have been aware of the dangers of pitch counts for young arms.

Ben F said...

Good article, though I can't help but rib about the double-typo that made for a pretty funny image:
"Royals came out of the game like a house on fire"

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 8:51am

You take baseball way too seriously if you think someone deserves to be burnt at the stake for leaving pitchers in too long! Lord knows what you want done to Dusty Baker!

Andy G. said...

I am not positive it was Boone or of the year, but I was there. Bob Boone does believe in pitch count. I think he was manager opening day in 1995 and he pulled Appier who was pitching a no hitter after five innings. I think that ruined the season.

Jim said...

I need some help. Since outs are the most precious thing in baseball, NOT MAKING OUTS should be very important, right?

Is there any stat that does this? I am thinking there should be a stat that counts the number of outs made by a player (strikeouts, flyouts, groundouts, GIDP=2, caught stealing, tag outs on close plays). To make it a ratio stat, it could be # of Plate Appearances divided by # of Outs Made.

Is there any stat like that? That would seem to be something the average fan like myself could understand.

Anonymous 8:51 am said...

Lord knows what you want done to Dusty Baker!

Not Jennifer Gibbs said...

Reading about Rosado made me want to cry.

Trey Hillman's Chin said...

I don't mean to nitpick, but Splittord had 166 wins (not 167). Saberhagen had 167. Koufax had 165. Not that 1 pitcher wins means anything...

Jeff Parker said...

I'm surprised you failed to mention that the team record for strikeouts in a season by a LHP is held by Bill Butler who did it in the franchise's first season, 1969. 150+ K's has only been achieved 3 times in team history.

Rany said...

Butler had two decent seasons with the Royals, but like his teammate Jim Rooker, both entered pro ball before the Royals even existed. They were *original* Royals, but they weren't *originally* Royals, if that makes sense. So they don't count for purposes of making a list of left-handers the Royals developed.

Anonymous said...

Rosado had superstar written all over him. Danny Jackson was nasty, everything you wanted in a left hander. There was just something the organization didn’t like about him.

Quality said...

Just want to say thank you again for the effort you put into these posts. I'm a Mets fan but I follow the Royals because of your blog.

Anonymous said...

I totally agree - but apparently this kind of thinking is beyond the royals... anyway, 1 - OBP = Out Percentage is good enough for me.

Kansas City said...

I loved Charlie Leibrandt when he pitched for the Royals. He pitched a great game 2 of the 85WS, when Pendleton beat him with a soft line drive down the left fied line (fell right in front of me sitting just short of the ball boy in the front row).

I don't know how he was go good, but I remember two things: (1) batters used to break their bats frequently when they faced him; and (2) he was quoted in the paper once after a good game as saying he pitched same as normal, about 80% fast balls and the rest change ups.

In anyone knows how Leibrandt was so successful, let me know.

Jeff Parker said...

You missed my point. The team record for K's that was established their first season still stands because none of the leftys they've developed have been able to surpass it. I wasn't knocking your list.

ChaimMKeller said...

I don't think the Royals undervalued Danny Jackson, they probably just felt they had a surplus of pitchers and really needed a catcher.

It could also be that the Royals didn't like the fact that Danny was a solid union man. He was one of the holdouts from Topps baseball cards because Topps signed contracts with each player individually and had no contract with the players union, whereas Fleer and Donruss had agreements with the MLBPA.

John said...

Kansas City,

As I recall, Leibrandt's "fastball" was actually more of a hard sinker; he didn't throw all that hard, but the movement on his pitches gave him an advantage. He had that working for him, and he was a master at changing speeds. He was also a groundball pitcher who pitched for teams in K.C. and Atlanta who had some pretty good infielders backing him up. And last but not least, he was a very intelligent man who knew how to pitch.

I believe what turned his career around was that he got to K.C. and suddenly realized that he could trust his defense. Dick Howser always put good gloves out there, even if they couldn't hit. Leibrandt started throwing with more confidence than he had with the Reds and good things followed. Note that when he first came up, with the 1980 Reds, he was decent, but then he went into the toilet in '82 along with the team, and ended up back in the minors.

Anon 8:51 AM 3/12: I don't know that Muser should be burnt at the stake for what he did to Rosado, but I do think a lifetime ban from managing was called for. (The same goes for the current Royals mismanager and his handling of Meche.) Fortunately, I think the other teams are smart enough to never give Muser another opportunity.

Anonymous said...

John hit the nail on the head with Leibrandt. He was a master at changing speeds and keeping the hitter off balance. His motion was very deceptive and even though he didn't throw hard he pitched inside.

Those things are easy to say but pretty hard to pull off. I think John is also correct in that he was a pretty smart dude.

Chaim, I think your point is that Jackson was outspoken and didn't always agree with the company line. That was true and probably why he got traded before he should have, but he was traded for a shortstop, Stillwell.

That trade was not a good one for the Royals, but both players made the All Star game the year the trade was made. A weird bit of useless trivia.

Cone also got ran out of town after the strike because he was influential in taking on the owners during the strike. I never understood that. I know he was taking an unpopular stand as far as the owners were concerned, but as an owner I would want guys on my side who were opinionated and fought for what they believed in.

As a Royal, you are not supposed to have an opinion and heaven forbid if you are not shy about airing that opinion.

Which brings me to Lou Piniella. The Royals really need someone like him to manage. I know he is with the Cubs, but the Cubs have the deep pockets and the Cubs are underachieving and I don't think Piniella is very well suited for the Cubs. Piniella would be the perfect guy to light a fire under these guys and to expect more out of them. This team really needs to instill the take no prisoners attitude of Piniella or Hal McRae. I am just waiting for one of our guys to put someone in centerfield while breaking up the double play. That hasn't happened in years and this team won't win much until they start doing those types of things.

And hiring Lou would maybe payback some of the kharma that was spent when Lou was traded to the Yankees mostly because he was a little brash and outspoken.

Ron Rollins said...

Actually, Jackson was traded for a much needed short stop. The Reds has two at the time, and no one was sure which one would be a star.

The Royals chose Stillwell, as much for the fact that he was a switchhitter than anything else.

So they felt that Barry Larkin wasn't good enough to replace Onix Concepcion, Buddy Biancialana, and David Howard.

ChaimMKeller said...

(slaps head)

Of course, I meant to say shortstop. David Cone was our surplus pitcher who we traded for a catcher.

Rany said...

Ah, I see. Your point about not having any lefty power pitchers is well taken, although that goes along with my point - the Royals have been so unlikely to develop a lefty starter, period, so it's not surprising that when they have, they've almost always been finesse pitchers.

Jeff Parker said...

Agreed, I was adding to your point, not disputing it.


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reminds me of a peacook n luvvv da contrast n colors its just an amazingggg abstract design idk wat 2 say--fav n collect!

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So beautiful. colourful, creative, flary style :)

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lovely design!

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Amazingl and beautifully done. Love the color combination and those eyes. 5h

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wonderful design, colourful creative and simply Gorgeous. 5♥s and fave..

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love the burst of coloures, really creative! 5 :)

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I'd love to see more abstracts from you, Laura. This one is gorgeous! The flow and combination of warm and cool colors is very nice :) 5 ♥s and fav

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very creative and beautiful design! 5♥s

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You're a really talented artist. I love this design and I love the colors! 5/5 ♥

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Rima is a girl from Damascus who cannot stop walking.  She has no control over her legs that are automatically set in motion the moment she is free to walk. This strange characteristic has determined her life. Because her mother was always afraid of losing her, Rima grew up tied to her wrist by a thick rope. Or, when her mother was busy cleaning the school, she was confined to the school’s library under the supervision of the librarian. When she got a little older and her mother couldn’t take her along anymore, Rima was tied to her bed at home, this one room where she lived with her mother and brother. The rope was long enough for her to explore the entire room, but it was short enough to ensure she would never leave it. Rima is a hungry reader, continuously nourished by the friendly and generous school librarian, but she refuses to speak and her tongue has a mind of its own. It will not utter a word or scream when she wants it to. Rima draws skillfully, and her favorite stories are Saint-Exupery’s “Little Prince” and “Alice in Wonderland”.

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Looking at Our Hitters: 2008 Vero Beach Devil Rays (A+)

Vero Beach Devil RaysThe next team in our look at batters-by-level from last year is the Vero Beach Devil Rays (high-A ball, which will be the Charlotte County Stone Crabs in 2009). First, here are the definitions of the stats used from the StatCorner Glossary:

PA: Plate Appearances. This is how much they hit.

wOBA: "wOBA or weighted on base average is a statistic developed by and used with the permission of Tom Tango. In a nutshell, wOBA uses linear weights on certain batting events to come up with a metric that is more statistically sound than OPS and is scaled onto an OBP scale. According to Tango "An average hitter is around 0.340 or so, a great hitter is 0.400 or higher, and a poor hitter would be under 0.300." This is how well they hit.

bRAA: "Stands for batting runs above average. It is computed by taking the hitter's RV/PA (Run value per PA above average = (wOBA for player - wOBA for league) / 1.15.) and multiplying by the number of plate appearances he has had that season." This is how much 'value' they added (or cost) their team based on the quality and quantity of their hitting.

Vero Beach Devil Rays (A+)
Hall, J.T.24.6A+253.38111.2
Matulia, John22.3A+331.3423.3
Jennings, Desmond22.1A+102.3622.8
Powell, Pedro24.6A+153.3512.8
Ashley, Nevin24.3A+385.3300.3
Royster, Ryan22.3A+462.323-2.5
Stewart, Quinn25.3A+150.300-3.8
Fields, Matthew23.4A+530.319-5.0
Gimenez, Hector26.2A+152.272-7.5
Walton, Neil24.8A+296.293-9.5
Groce, Garrett25.6A+403.301-10.1
Suarez, Cesar25.3A+512.296-14.9
Callender, Joey25.0A+301.258-18.5

Comments: Hall (drafted in the 41st round in 2004) played well and was sent to the Arizona Fall League, but was too old for high-A ball and didn't do as well after being promoted to AA. Matulia (10th round in 2005) has decent on-base skills (.343 OBP) but little power (.357 SLG). Jennings (10th round 2006) is one of our top position prospects and will receive a full write-up here soon, staying healthy next year is the key. Powell (18th round in 2003 by Pittsburgh) is a speedy CF (29 SB in 84 G), but again, too old for high-A. Ashley (6th round 2006) gets a bit of a pass on age and production since he's a catcher. He gets on (.348 OBP) but has little power (.315 SLG).

Royster is still young but was a disappointment last year after an '07 in low-A where he put up a .329/.380/.601 line and was named the Class A Offensive Player of the Year and a Baseball America Low Class A All-Star. Stewart (non-drafted free agent signed on 5/29/06) struggled after a promotion from Columbus and at his age is minor league filler. Fields (44th round in 2004) didn't impress but will get another chance next year. Gimenez is a minor league free agent, Walton (16th round in 2005) actually hit better after a promotion to AA, and Groce (41st round in 2005) was released and is a free agent. Suarez (signed as a minor league free agent on 6/3/05) and Callender (21st round in 2006) were not impressive but should fill slots somewhere in '09.

Notes: Age is as of today. Hitters are listed by level, so some appear in other posts. I only included those who had many plate appearances or are high profile (top prospect, ex-prospect, in the news lately). StatCorner only covers down to full-season A ball, so no Hudson Valley, Princeton, DSL or VSL players are included in these summaries.

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Friday Reads: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

I must admit, my friends, that this is an exceedingly difficult review to begin.  THIS book was so incredible.  So amazing.  Oh, and oh so very difficult to describe.  And, before we go any further - this is NOT to be confused with Fifty Shades of Grey.  You will never find a review for that book here.

As far as post-apocalyptic dystopian stories go, this is BY FAR the most imaginative and original one I have yet encountered.  400-plus years previous, Something Happened.  No one really knows much about it, but a man named Munsell wrote a whole bunch of rules (books and books of them) to tell how the world would operate going forward.   People were separated based on the true colours they could see and the hierarchy of society fell in line.  Those who can see the most real colour automatically became the leaders.  Those with the lowest true colour perception became the labour class and those in the middle fell into approriate roles for their levels.

The story begins with Edward Russet starting the tale of how he ended up in the belly of a carnivourous Yateveo tree and how it all began with the wrongspotted man in the paint store and the girl with the most interesting/cute nose he encountered shortly after (who obviously knew who the man was).   Eddie and his father, a relief swatchman (kind of like a doctor specializing in colour healing) are headed to the Outer Fringes, where his father will be relief swatchman for East Carmine's swatchman who died in a very suspicious way.  Eddie quickly learns that things are much different in the Outer Fringes.

Ok - I'm doing a terrible job recapping the plot...let's take a look at what the dust jacket says. After all, THAT is what hooked me:
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. And Eddie Russet wants to move up. But his plans to leverage his better-than-average red perception and marry into a powerful family are quickly upended. Juggling inviolable rules, sneaky Yellows, and a risky friendship with an intriguing Grey named Jane who shows Eddie that the apparent peace of his world is as much an illusion as color itself, Eddie finds he must reckon with the cruel regime behind this gaily painted façade.
Quite frankly - I love this rich world that Fforde has crafted.  I was overjoyed to hear he plans more novels in this world - even if they won't technically be a series quite yet (the next one will be a prequel).  The societal hierarchy is really cleverly described and it is interesting to see the temperaments align with the colour perception of the characters.  More importantly, however, the character development is absolutely phenomenal!   The story is told from 20 year old Eddie's point of view and as he moves through the world and experiences new things, it isn't hard to see how his brain works differently from the rest of the people in his world.   A delicious mystery forms the basis of the storyline and is revisted throughout until the answers are found.

I am not sure that this book is for everyone, but I enjoyed it so much.  I do recommend giving it a chance and see if the first few chapters aren't enough to hook you for the whole book.  Leave your preconceived notions of the world we live in behind because this book delves into a much different place with very little relation to our own.  I am so happy the publisher gave Fforde the chance to write a book like this (something he, himself, acknowledges in the end notes that he wasn't sure he was up to the challenge of). Look for the pop culture references from our world and see the creative ways they have been used and, most importantly, buckle up and get ready for an fascinating ride through Chromatacia.

And, if you need a little help along the way - Fforde has a great reference section on his website.

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  1. Fforde has quite a different take on things. I love his Thursday Next series, though I haven't been able to get into the most recent one yet. The Nursery Crime series isn't quite to my taste.

    I didn't know what to think of Shades of Grey. It was different, and I didn't know where it was going, which I liked. I struggled a bit to understand the rules of the world, but that's to be expected. I enjoyed it at the end, though I haven't been back to re-read it. I agree with Cori, give it a chance, it's a fun different read.

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It is hosted by Steve-O who is from Jackass and Dee Snider from Twisted Sister is the announcer.

Killer Karaoke starts on Comedy Channel starts on Sunday June 9 at 7.30pm

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Barry Manilow discussed his album 15 Minutes and announced the Barry Manilow Live on Broadway show in January 2013.

Kathie Lee said the album is all about fame and getting it, enjoying it and then losing it. Barry said he has done three American Idol shows and he looks at these young singers who suddenly have become household names and how do they handle that. He said even though he was an adult when “Mandy” hit, it still knocked him over and he wasn’t expecting it.

He said he loved doing the new album and this album is a more up-tempo, rock and roll feel to it and more than he has ever done before and that is a big challenge for him. Kathie Lee said it is and she was surprised.

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Hoda wanted to know how the Fanilows feel about the new album and new songs. He said they are ecstatic about it and you can read about it on iTunes and Amazon. Barry said he is so grateful because the album is kind of different for him.

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Kathie Lee said he has said that when fame first happened to him that he became a person he didn’t like anymore. Barry said everyone goes through this and you turn into a brat for a little while and it is all fear and everything changes over night for you and people are treating you different, so everyone turns into a brat.

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Barry said they have been trying to make plans for next year and he has been playing some arenas and wonderful places and dates and he got to New York and he thought it would be great to play a Broadway Theater. His advisors told him not to do it, but he said the idea of playing a Broadway Theater is huge to him. He will be playing at the St. James Theater starting January 23 2013 and will be playing until they stop coming.

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St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 Completes Refueling Outage

Florida Power & Light Company's St. Lucie nuclear power plant Unit 2 returned online January 4 following a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage.

Unit 2 was taken offline September 30 for its 17th refueling since it began commercial operation in 1983. During refueling outages, scheduled about every 18 months, FPL also performs preventive and scheduled maintenance work that cannot be done when the plant is operating.

Work performed during the plant shutdown ranked among the most ambitious and complex projects of its kind in the nuclear power industry. In addition to routine maintenance and replacement of one-third of the unit's 217 uranium fuel assemblies, workers replaced the unit's two massive steam generators, the reactor vessel head, one of four reactor coolant pump motors and modified the containment sump system.

"This is the most significant project work conducted since original construction," said Site Vice President Gordon Johnston. "The completed work represents an investment of more than $300 million in capital improvements at St. Lucie. These upgrades will increase the reliability and efficiency of the unit so that our customers can continue to benefit from safe, clean and reliable nuclear electric generation."

To support this effort, the plant utilized the talents and expertise of employees throughout FPL's nuclear power plant fleet and more than 2,500 specialized contract workers.

A major goal of the project involved replacing the unit's two massive steam generators, which are 63 feet tall, 19 feet in diameter and weigh close to 500 tons each. Steam generators are large components that transfer heat to make electricity. Hot water from the nuclear reactor is circulated through thousands of tubes within the steam generators. A separate supply of water flows outside of the hot tubes, turning the water into steam to drive a turbine-generator to make electricity.

Another major operation was the replacement of the unit's reactor vessel head, a large metal lid that is secured to the reactor vessel by dozens of large bolts. The reactor head is about 8 feet high, 16 feet in diameter and weighs more than 70 tons.

Other significant work included replacing a 6,500-horsepower reactor coolant pump motor and modifying the containment sump, a system inside the containment building that is used to collect and filter spilled coolant for reuse in the event of an accident.

The Unit's return to service was delayed due to some equipment issues identified during a series of tests and inspections that are conducted to ensure that all equipment is operating properly. These included repairs to an electrical component on one of the unit's 91 control rod assemblies.

There are two nuclear power units at St. Lucie, each with an electrical output of 839 megawatts. Together, the units generate enough electricity to meet the electric needs of approximately 500,000 homes and businesses. The St. Lucie nuclear power plant is located on Hutchinson Island on Florida's east coast near Ft. Pierce.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, nuclear power is the largest source of energy that does not produce greenhouse gas emissions which scientists have determined contribute to climate change. Nuclear generation avoids 1 million tons of nitrogen oxide, 3.1 million tons of sulfur dioxide and almost 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually in the United States. In addition, the cost per kilowatt-hour for nuclear power is about one-third that of natural gas or oil. Fossil fuel prices typically are far more volatile, so the use of nuclear energy helps stabilize fuel costs for FPL customers and reduces our dependence on foreign fuel sources.

Florida Power & Light Company is the principal subsidiary of FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE:FPL), nationally known as a high quality, efficient and customer-driven organization focused on energy-related products and services. With annual revenues of nearly $16 billion and a growing presence in 27 states, FPL Group is widely recognized as one of the country's premier power companies. Florida Power & Light Company serves 4.5 million customer accounts in Florida. FPL Energy, LLC, FPL Group's competitive energy subsidiary is a leader in producing electricity from clean and renewable fuels. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.FPL.com, www.FPLGroup.com and www.FPLEnergy.com.

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Business News at a Glance: Airtricity Takes on Italian Job

AIRTRICITY, the renewable energy division of Perth-based Scottish & Southern Energy, has entered into a 60/40 joint venture with Italian wind farm development company Entropya.

The joint venture company will be based in Lecce in Puglia, southern Italy, and will develop a portfolio of wind farm sites across Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily. It has a development pipeline of more than 2,000 megawatts and follows a similar deal between Airtricity and Swedish Gothia Vind in April.

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April 24, 2009

Double-Action Power Stations

Gas power plants could be cheaply retrofitted to generate hydrogen as well as power, chemists say in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

A catalyst would convert methane into hydrogen gas and combustible coke, allowing the power station to produce hydrogen alongside electricity.

Gadi Rothenberg and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam and at IRCE Lyon report in Green Chemistry that the catalyst could be cheaply installed into existing plants.

This kind of technology could ease a transition to a hydrogen economy, reducing the need for heavy investment in large hydrogen-focused plants.

Generating hydrogen and power together "is a conceptual change," says Rothenberg.

"When you're going to produce hydrogen, you needn't build a huge new power plant to do that. Diverting some of your existing methane feed to produce hydrogen just makes sense."

The group tested many new catalysts based on ceria doped with other metals. One nickel-based form shows excellent catalytic activity and would cost only $10 per kilogram.

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