2015 KC Royals Projected Opening Day Depth Chart

Since the Royals always have a propensity to make it interesting the last 2 years, I’m going to hope that they were not absolutely destroyed as a team, and became a one hit wonder after Baumgardner came in to save the day. Let’s hope that the bad taste left in their mouths from last October fuels them to get back to the World Series and win it all this time. They were 90 feet away from immortality. We didn’t get beat by the San Francisco Giants. We got beat by one singular individual. Let’s finish what we started Royals, and take your rightful place in baseball history!

As always, there are 162 games in a season for each team. That’s one every day starting usually the 1^st Sunday in April, and going until the last day of September. Playoffs and the World Series are in October. There are 25 men on the roster. Whenever a game is rained out, or postponed due to lightning, they play what’s called a doubleheader to make up for the game that was lost the day before. So, for those days, teams are allotted a 26th man for the doubleheader. And the last month of September is when the roster is expanded to 40 for the month. The whole goal is to win a series at a time, against the team you play 3 or 4 times in a row until the end of the season. If you win more than 90 games total, you usually make the playoffs.

 
… Also, baseball is divided into 2 leagues with 15 teams each. They’re differentiated by the Designated Hitter in the American League (a position player only bats for the pitcher and never plays defense), and in the National League, the pitcher bats last in the batting order. Someday soon, I have a feeling both leagues will have a universal DH because the pitchers don’t practice batting very often and are always an easy out. I also believe, much like the DH, the 26th man will be permanent years from now.
 
Here is my projected 2015 KC Royals Opening Day Roster:

Starting Lineup:
LF: Alex Gordon *favorite current KC Royal position player
CF: Lorenzo Cain
RF: Alex Rios
3B: Mike Moustakas
SS: Alcides Escobar
2B: Omar Infante
1B/DH: Eric Hosmer
C: Salvador Perez

Batting Order:
1. Alcides Escobar
2. Mike Moustakas
3. Lorenzo Cain
4. Eric Hosmer
5. Kendrys Morales
6. Alex Gordon
7. Salvador Perez
8. Alex Rios
9. Omar Infante
 
Bench:
OF: Jarrod Dyson
OF: Paulo Orlando
1B/DH: Kendrys Morales
C: Erik Kratz
IF: Christian Colon

Starting Pitching Rotation:
1. Yordano Ventura *favorite current KC Royal pitcher
2. Danny Duffy
3. Edinson Volquez
4. Jason Vargas
5. Jeremy Guthrie

Bullpen:
Chris Young
Jason Frasor

Franklin Morales
Kelvin Herrera
Ryan Madson *Set up man
Wade Davis *Closer

Brad Freeman's All-Time Baseball Legends Team

My all-time baseball legends team:

LF Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox)

CF Willie Mays (New York/San Francisco Giants)

RF Hank Aaron (Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves)

3B Mike Schmidt (Philadelphia Phillies)

SS Cal Ripken Jr. (Baltimore Orioles)

2B Ernie Banks (Chicago Cubs)

1B Lou Gehrig (New York Yankees)

C Johnny Bench (Cincinnati Reds)

P Babe Ruth (Boston Red Sox/New York Yankees) *94 wins before all the homers

DH Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds)

Try facing that lineup. What do you think baseball oriented friends?

2014 KC Royals Projected Opening Day Depth Chart

Even though I’m more football oriented, I thought I’d try to give my general baseball observation of my hometown Royals this year.

 

In the seventies and eighties, the Royals were a model franchise. They represented how you build a young team from the ground up. And then around 1994, we were cellar dwellers. Ever since then, the Royals have been uneventful.

With all that being said, there are 162 games in a season for each team. That’s one every day starting usually the 1^st Sunday in April, and going until the last day of September. Playoffs and the World Series are in October. There are 25 men on the roster. Whenever a game is rained out, or postponed due to lightning, they play what’s called a doubleheader to make up for the game that was lost the day before. So, for those days, teams are allotted a 26th man for the doubleheader. And the last month of September is when the roster is expanded to 40 for the month. The whole goal is to win a series at a time, against the team you play 3 or 4 times in a row until the end of the season. If you win more than 90 games total, you usually make the playoffs.

 

… Also, baseball is divided into 2 leagues with 15 teams each. They’re differentiated by the Designated Hitter in the American League (a position player only bats for the pitcher and never plays defense), and in the National League, the pitcher bats last in the batting order. Someday soon, I have a feeling both leagues will have a universal DH because the pitchers don’t practice batting very often and are always an easy out. I also believe, much like the DH, the 26th man will be permanent years from now.

 

I really like our young team this year. And even though we didn’t have a winning season in 2013, you could see us start to win some games. So, I hope we are at least really competitive this year.

 

Here is my projected 2014 KC Royals Opening Day Roster:

Starting Lineup:
LF: Alex Gordon *favorite current KC Royal position player
CF: Lorenzo Cain
RF: Norichika Aoki
3B: Mike Moustakas
SS: Alcides Escobar
2B: Omar Infante
1B/DH: Eric Hosmer
C: Salvador Perez 

Batting Order:
1. Norichika Aoki

2. Omar Infante
3. Eric Hosmer
4. Billy Butler
5. Alex Gordon
6. Salvador Perez
7. Mike Moustakas
8. Lorenzo Cain
9. Alcides Escobar
 
Bench:
OF: Jarrod Dyson
OF: Justin Maxwell
1B/DH: Billy Butler
C: Erik Kratz
IF: Danny Valencia
 
Starting Pitching Rotation:
1. James Shields
2. Jason Vargas
3. Jeremy Guthrie
4. Bruce Chen
5. Yordano Ventura
 
Bullpen:
Tim Collins
Luke Hochevar
Louis Coleman
Aaron Crow
Kelvin Herrera
Wade Davis *Set up man
Greg Holland *Closer