Anne Rogers writes how Carter Jensen is still developing behind the plate.
Jensen has just 173 2/3 career innings behind the plate with Kansas City, and mistakes are going to happen for any player in this game, no matter how young and inexperienced they are. What matters most is how they respond, and Jensen is focused on learning from all of his mistakes.
“A lot of it is with Hoov, going over my game,” Jensen said. “We’re looking at strikes stolen, strikes lost. The throws I make. The blocks. Looking
at everything as a whole and reflecting on pitch-calling and all that stuff. Learning how we attack guys and putting that to use for the next time.”
David Lesky is puzzled by the Royals’ road woes.
But leave Missouri and it gets real dark. They go from fifth-best to worst. And while they’ve closed the gap a bit, their wRC+ is 68 on the road. Next worst is at 75. They’ve averaged 2.6 runs per game on the road. Some of this is explained by opponent. They’ve played the Braves, Guardians, Tigers, Yankees and now A’s on the road. Just looking at ERA, those are the second-best, seventh-best, 11th-best, best and 17th-best pitching staffs in baseball, respectively. The A’s are the one meh staff there, and the Royals at least had some better at bats against them. At home, they’ve had the Twins, Brewers, White Sox, Orioles and Angels. Only one of those staffs is in the top half of the league.
Michelle Bogowith at Fox4 talks to Royals analytics head Daniel Mack on the decision to move in the fences.
But the biggest factor was the wind.
“On average, the way the wind patterns blow in Kauffman, makes the walls play as if they were 5 feet further back. So, it makes an already large stadium, even larger. That gave us an opportunity to say, ‘let’s start modeling what different stadium dimensions might do to account for that,” he described.
“Because we can still look at all those fly balls and looking at what the weather did to them, we can neutralize that, to show us what the impact of the wall is, so that we could find a good balance in left field and right field.”
Andres Chavez at Royals Keep writes that Seth Lugo has been the Royals’ most reliable pitcher so far.
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