Kansas City Royals Bold Predictions for 2015

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Here are a couple of quick thoughts. First, two more from Ethan:

The Kansas City Royals will have an even better bullpen than last year with the addition of Luke Hochevar. It almost doesn’t matter who you put out there on the mound to start the game. Almost.

I also think that Alex Gordon will be completely unaffected by all of this “should he have tried for home” nonsense and have his best year as a professional in 2015 maintaining his stellar defensive prowess and regaining his offensive dominance while hitting 25 home runs.

Brian Henry had a quick thought about the Kansas City Royals offense:

Since last year’s prediction on home runs went horribly wrong I might as well double down this spring.  I believe that Eric Hosmer, Kendrys Morales, and Alex Rios are going to propel this offense to a new level by combining for 60+ HRs after only managing 21 together last year.  Both Hosmer and Morales will go over 20 and Rios in the 15 to 20 range.  Both Rios and Morales had rough years last year, but there is no reason to believe they are done as players in my opinion.  Projections are putting Hosmer in the upper teens in HRs so I am not as far out on a limb for him.

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