Summary[]
Ben and Sam preview the Royals’ season with Craig Brown, and Nick talks to Kansas City Star Royals beat writer Andy McCullough (at 25:35).
Topics[]
- Kansas City Royals preview with Craig Brown
- 2014 fan expectations
- Royals' inability to develop starting pitching
- Danny Duffy's command issues
- Starting pitching regression
- Luke Hochevar
- Offseason free agent signings
- Expectations for Mike Moustakas
- Kansas City Royals preview with Andy McCullough
- Andy's transition from New York to Kansas City
- Getting more power from the lineup
- Omar Infante and Nori Aoki
- Bullpen strength
- James Shields
- Royals' pitching prospects
Notes[]
- Craig, on moving Luke Hochevar back to the rotation: "The impetus is this is the Royals and a lot of times they don't do what you would consider the logical thing to do".
- Craig expects Mike Moustakas to split time in a platoon with Danny Valencia.
- Craig predicts the Royals will win 81 games and finish 3rd place in the AL Central.
- The Royals' starters threw the 4th most innings in baseball in 2013.
- Andy has only spent 4 days in Kansas City since taking the job with the Kansas City Star.