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Anouncing Our BBA All-Star Ballot

Michael Engel — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:09:09 +0000

Kings of Kauffman is a proud member of the Baseball Blogger’s Alliance – a website founded to foster community among baseball blogs. One of the activities we do every year is formally announce an All-Star lineup, compiled from votes by all blogs within the BBA.

This is that ballot for Kings of Kauffman. Instead of a full roster, top to bottom, we’ll submit a starting American League lineup as our vote. My rationale behind the choices wasn’t based much on deep regression models and variable ratios or other big mathematical figures.

I just looked at who’s been the best at each position:

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Billy Butler Makes FanSided All-AL Central Team

Michael Engel — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:03:00 +0000

I mentioned the ambitious project we’re working on throughout the entire FanSided network last week – crafting an All-Star team for each division in baseball, as determined by FanSided baseball writers.

After multiple points, counterpoints, and a productive discussion about the merits of the players within our division, the Royals landed Billy Butler at the DH spot over strong cases for Chicago’s Adam Dunn and Detroit’s Victor Martinez. Perhaps it’s a biased decision on my part, but Butler got my vote because he’s been within the same levels of production as Dunn and Martinez, but as a 24-year-old (25 in April), he’s only going to improve, while Dunn and Martinez, going into 2011, have a greater chance of collapse.

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Caught Up in a Catching Situation

Wally Fish — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:28:16 +0000

The Royals had a three-headed monster at catcher for parts of the 2009 season. It seems safe to assume that heading into 2010 they will have a more conventional approach to the position and carry just 2 catchers, but who those catchers will be remains very much up in the air. (more…)

Crickets in Kansas City, Rest of AL Central Busy

Wally Fish — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:04:05 +0000

While the rest of the division was pulling off deals to make a run at the division or having a fire sale to improve in the near future, the Royals sat on their collection of, pardon the use of the term, talent. Queue the crickets! (more…)