Good, or maybe great start!

12 and 9. Beats the heck out of 12 and 23! The start of the season has been fun. Winning in walk off fashion. Hitting AND scoring runs. Bull pen has been up and down. Crow has been fantastic. Chen and Francis have been good. Francis got lit in Texas, but that is a no win place for the Royals. Kila is struggling but Alex has been very, very good. His defense has been great. His hitting is hold your breath good right now. Billy still frustrates me. He needs lessons on clutch hitting. He has been good but he could be so much more productive. Alex, Billy, Frenchy, have been very good. There has been a coming down to earth here in the last few games. This team isn't going to win 100 games. They need these young arms in the bull pen to be consistently good. Collins and Jeffress have been pretty good. This pretty good includes awful outings. The Royals can't afford Collins to be a gas can. He is the only lefty out there. That is a problem by itself, but he was bad and he doesn't have the luxury of being bad. Quite a bit of pressure, but that is how it is. Coleman makes 5 of 7 Rookies in the pen. Wood is just awful. He can't throw strikes. He gets rocked because he grooves the 2-0 and 3-1 pitches. He needs to get ahead of the hitters. I don't chart the pitches but Wood rarely, if ever, throws a first pitch strike. That is a recipe for disaster. Luke goes perfect for 5 innings and then gives up 6 in the 6th. Oh brother. Davies has been pretty good in his last two starts. Pretty good. Chen and Francis have been solid. O'Sullivan was good in his last start. I'd say the starters have done all that you could ask. The pen has to be good.
The hitting is good. They can't score in Texas. I don't get that but they can't. They have been running and scoring. Aviles has been dumped. Maier and Dyson don't get PT. Melky has come back to earth. He was smoking for awhile. Not so much now. Hopefully Gordon will keep it going. He has been amazing. I hope it stays that way. Come on Billy. Pick up the two out RBI's. Two out hits help the average. Two out RBI's help win games. He should be better in clutch situations. He is a good hitter, I just have more expectations. Kila has been just this side of awful. Way below 200. Strikes out and looks bad doing it. He looks to be a guess hitter. He will hit a hot streak, but he needs to adjust not guess. That swing is too long.
Math is easy. The Royals won 65 and 67 in the last few years. They were 12-23 last year. 12-9 is good. Not as good as 10-4, but if they can just avoid the real long losing streaks they may reach the 70 win shelf!!

6 games in. 70 wins?

4-2. Sounds good to me. The Royals racked up 4 nice late game wins after the poor opening game. They suffered a loss today when Sorarmia gave up the lead in the 9th. These games have been so exciting. I love it when Royals win in walk off fashion. Kila goes deep. Treanor goes deep. Melky drives Getz home. Nice, very nice. The game today was the opposite. The stone of the bull pen gets rocked and they lose. The bull pen has been fantastic. Crow is making a believer out of me. Collins is a competitor. Tejeda looks sore. O'Sullivan isn't good, folks. He doesn't have good enough location on his fastball and it isn't good enough to miss bats. He needs to go.
Gordon has been very good. Butler has two long ones. Overall it has been an excellent start. Time for a trip to Motown. Verlander will rub them out. The Tigers pitching after him is average. Bull pen won't hold up if they play 12-13 innings every game. The hitting has been much better. They are scoring runs. Keep playing well boys. Hopefully Soria will get back. He looked like Sorearmia today.
GO Royals. 66 more wins!!