Takeaways from the MLB Draft | Kansas City Royals Podcast

Takeaways from the MLB Draft | Kansas City Royals Podcast

The MLB draft is in the books. So, what do we make of the Royals selections? We’ll tell you in this edition of Locked on Royals. You are Locked on Royals, your daily Kansas City Royals podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. You are tuned in to another edition of Locked Ony and the Locked On Network. I’m your host, Jack Johnson, and you can find me on Twitter at johnnyj_15. That is JHNYJ_15. You also can catch us on wherever you listen to podcasts. That can be Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, Google Podcast, Odyssey, and YouTube. Just be sure to hit the follow button and subscribe. For you firsttime listeners wanting to know how you can find us, well, I bring you episodes every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Those will be 30inut episodes. We also have 60-second YouTube shorts. Though with this being the All-Star break, you won’t be seeing any of those until the weekend. Same goes for the Lockdown Royals postcast, which is hosted by Chance Lebo. So, of course, a different host than me. He comes to you live for about 15 minutes after each and every Royals game. So, if you’re looking for that immediate reaction, Chance is the best person to go to. Now, before we get started, want to tell you that today’s show is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code locked on MLB for $20 off on your first purchase. For the first time in a long time, couple of months, we’ll be going through an entire week. I guess we can say they play on Friday cuz they do. But 4 days out of this week, we will not have a Royals game to talk about. The good news, we’ll be able to discuss a little bit of the Major League Baseball draft. Today we’ll talk a little bit about the all-star game, maybe what some of the Royals do and Chris Bubich, Mikel Garcia, Bobby Wick Jr., and Carlos Estz. So, we might have more of a breakdown on that tomorrow. If there’s any moves that are made, uh, we’ll definitely be talking about that throughout this week and even as early as tomorrow. I’m going to throw another name out there. Apparently, has been linked to multiple teams. Feel the Royals might be one of those teams. So, we’ll dive into that in the next uh next uh today’s episode and then we might do it a few more times throughout the week just depending on what’s been going on. But fortunately for us to kick off this week, we do have the Major League Baseball draft to talk about. We’ll probably be highlighting more of the first couple of days. Um I shouldn’t say first couple of days, first couple of picks the Royals made because it was only a two-day event. Won’t be spending too much time on the round 15 through 20 picks. will more so be highlighting the first four to five picks that the Royals made. So, let’s go to picks one and two that happened last night. If I liked them, if everybody else out there was liking them, it was Shawn Gamble and Josh Hammond. Now, if you had listened to us in the weeks leading up to the draft, we discussed that going the prep route is probably the best course of action for the Royals in picking 23 and 28. When you are that late in the first round, you’re not going to have a surefire pick. There’s not going to be a campmiss guy that has fallen 20 plus spots right into your lap. And I’m not sold that there was any camp miss guy in the top five selections. That’s why it’s so rare when scouts bring that up. It’s not that every single year you get these can’t miss guys. Like every pick one, two, and three is can’t miss in each of these draft classes. That’s not the case. when they say can’t miss guy, it’s very rare. And I think there’s some really talented players like uh an Ethan Holiday. I really like Seth Hernandez. Um you also had Kate Anderson, the top college arm coming out of the draft. He falls to Seattle of course of all teams, but there were very talented and very good upside players taken early on. I’m not going to go as far to say that they were camp miss players. They could be very good players, but when I think of camp miss, I give it a 0% chance, maybe a 0.1 to 0.5% chance that guy does not get to the big league level and contribute to some level. But with the picks the Royals made, I’m far more in favor of the Hammond pick over the Gamble pick. Uh there were guys that I liked like a Cruz Schoolcraft. We talked about him in one of our mock drafts. I really liked Devin Taylor out of Indiana, but he ended up going in the second round of the Athletics. So, it’s not that he was right there for the Royals and then he was taken a few picks later on. Schoolcraft was I believe that can be a huge upside arm, a prep arm, 68, tons of heat, but the Royals need some offensive help and they need some some clay, let’s call it, to mold in their minor league system. And I’ll give credit where credit’s due. Brian Bridges, you know, usually goes the prep route and he likes to go with the prep arms. That’s kind of what was always said about him. He loves to talk about prep pitching and stuff like that. Maybe I shouldn’t say that he’s always going after prep pitching because in the last two years, he didn’t do that in the first round. He went Jack Kaggleon and then you had Gamble and then Hammond. All three are bats that he took in the first round. Um, but what he did in Atlanta, I I feel you can correlate a little bit to what the Royals have done the last two years with Kaggle Leone. They didn’t need to overthink it. You just take who was available there, who fell into your lap, the best possible player. Was Jack Kagleion the perfect fit for the Royals at that point? He wasn’t. There were other guys that made some sense, JJ Weatherhold being one of them. But they went Jack Kaggleó. and I’m not going to overreact to his first 140 plate appearances, but you have somebody you drafted last year that’s playing every day in the big league level. So, we’ll see what his career ends up being. And the same thing with Gamble and Hammond, like you didn’t need to overthink it too much. They really liked Gamble. And last night in the press conferences, they said Gamble was number one on their board. And when he was there, don’t overthink it. That’s who you wanted to go with. If Gamble would have gone 20, 21, 22, maybe they go with Hammond at 23 and then look to somebody else at 28. But I feel that the Hammond pick is more exciting to me because of what his bat could eventually become. I think he’s a big kid who could get a little bit bigger in terms of, you know, a 61, 220, 225. Saw some comps for Austin Riley. Don’t believe that’s a coincidence with where Brian Bridges is coming from, but Hammond’s got the power bat, 20 to 25 home run potential, maybe even right now being an 18, 19 year old kid. But you can take your time with two of these guys. So with Gamble, I’d rather him play center field than second base. I want to see that speed be utilized at a higher value position. Where with Hammond, instead of shortstop, I’d rather him be at third. I’d rather him go to Lowey Colombia when he’s ready. and then you’re just playing third base over there. Now it comes to the other picks here and these next two I’m really excited to talk about because I feel Michael Lombardi is one of those interesting picks where we’re going to be talking about him a lot like this point next year. like Michael Lombardi felt at the time like one of those picks where you go Tain um didn’t hear much about him throughout the college season, but then you hear what all these advanced scouts are saying, what those you know uh draft experts are saying. They love this pick. And by the way, day one of the draft, the Royals got a lot of praise for what they did. They took three prep guys and they took or excuse me, yeah, they took three prep guys, two college guys. The two college guys were both pitchers. And I have a lot of confidence in the Royals developing that type of pitching. But you go with Lombardi there, who I believe has excellent spin on his breaking pitches. He’s also got incredible and elite run on his fastball. And that was the same thing for Malar, the prep pitcher they took with their final pick of the night. So you had the&m kid as well in Lamin, I believe, was was the name coming out of&M. A lefty with a a funky angle. Justin Lanin had the funky angle from the left side. Nothing overpowering. Um, didn’t have quite the run or the spin that Lombardi and Malar have, but still, you look at a college arm like that, funky angle, could profile into more of a reliever, but you might try him out as a starter because that’s what he was at&m. Lombardi was a closer for Tain. who was a two-way player as well, but he’ll be pitching uh predominantly pitching, I should say, and only focusing on that over being a two-way player. So, Lombardi, you’ve got some of these advanced characteristics of of his pitches, and he’s got great spin, he’s got good run. Then you’ve got a guy like Lampin, great control, really was a late riser. And then you’ve got, in my opinion, my favorite pick of that first day, which was Malar. you know, you have a guy that you did have to go overslot for to keep him from signing with Arizona. So, if you were curious why they took some of these guys in day two that weren’t top 25 or top 250 prospects, they weren’t top 100 in day two. You weren’t going to see many top 100s, if any. But you weren’t going to see some of these guys in the top 250. That’s because they went over slot and Brian Bridges talked about that last night, going overslot with a guy like Malar. Now with Cameron Cameron Malar, a guy out there on the West Coast a little bit, pitching in Arizona, pitching in California. Uh Brian Bridges was raving about him. And this kid has major league spin on his pitches already. Like that type of ridiculousness to his arsenal. I mean, you look at the fast ball spin, it’s already like 2500, which some big leaguers don’t even have that. His slider, good spin. Bridges talked about it being a bullet slider once they properly develop him. That’s what Chris Bubich was telling me about in spring training. The bullet slider where it’s a combination of a slider and a cutter. It spins like a bullet and it’s just kind of dives off the table at the last minute. So, that’s what they’re uh preparing with him. That’s what they’re envisioning with him. And I believe that might have been their best pick of the day. There there’s there’s a few other people out there saying that was their best pick, which is why they had to go overslaught. And I love the fact that it’s a prep arm. I love love love the fact that to go over slot there on day one, you’re going with a prep arm with that type of arsenal that can top out at 97. He’s got good spin on it. He had incredible run like Lombardi did with the the the horizontal movement there on his fast ball. Not a lot of high schoolers have that. And Bridg has said that he’s got that swagger to him, the good type of swagger, not arrogance, that many prep guys just don’t have anymore. So you get him there with the overslaught. You get your two big prep bats in the first round there, and then you got guys like Lombardi and Linen that are more of the higher floor guys, but still have some intriguing stuff about him. So day one, I give the Royals an A minus. I I was really pleased with the route they took. Day two, there were a couple of college bats they took early on that had great numbers. Uh my favorite was the shortstop out of Baylor. Um I’m blanking on his name at this point in time because I don’t have the sheet in front of me, but the shorts stop out of Baylor might be one of the better defenders in all the college level. Uh he’s going to be a shortstop, might be a second baseman, but I just think that was a good value pick for day two in the draft. And the Royals will be releasing, I believe they already put a tweet out there of all the players they took. I just more so wanted to highlight what they did in day one. Thought it was a really good day. Very, very high on that Cameron Mar pick. You want to let us know what your favorite pick was? Respond below in these YouTube comments or you can let me know on Twitter as well. For our next segment, we’re going to talk about the strength of schedule for the Royals in the second half. They have the easiest one in the American League and the second easiest overall. Is it going to matter much? I’ll give you my opinion next on Lockown Royals. You are tuning in to Lockdown Royals and the Lockdown Podcast Network. I am your host Jack Johnson. You can find me on Twitter at johnnyj_15. That’s jhnyj_15. Our title sponsor again is Game Time, and we’ve all been there. 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And I know that this episode wasn’t out um before 12:30 as I usually try and plan to do. So wanted to see if the Royals did anything truly extraordinary or truly interesting in day two of the draft. Didn’t really happen. So that’s why it wasn’t out at 12:30 today, but I do expect tomorrow to have another uh morning time episode and we are going to be talking about a player that could be a potential fit for the Royals if they choose to buy at the deadline. So let’s go right into that. the trade deadline, the second half, what we can expect from the Kansas City Royals. I saw this tweet put out there about 1 to 2 o’clock earlier this afternoon. And this is from one of those those bigger baseball accounts. It’s from Thomas Nestico, TJ Stats on Twitter if you want to follow along. They do phenomenal work. It’s uh very intriguing every time they put out some some stat that we all know is incredibly hard to find. So, this one is about strength of schedule in the second half and it lists 1 through 30 hardest schedules, easiest schedules, and the Royals had the second easiest schedule in all of baseball in the final 65 games. The Cubs have the easiest in their own division. Speaking of the Royals, the Twins have the third easiest schedule. Cleveland has the 25th uh ranked schedule left, which is incredibly easy as well. Uh the Tigers have the 24th easiest schedule. And then you’ve got uh the White Socks, which are all the way up at third. Uh so the White Socks could be in for a much worse second half than they already showed. So right there you can see that in the American League Central if the Royals hope to to catch Detroit or hope to just run away from Minnesota and Cleveland, it’s going to be pretty tough to do because these teams are playing easier schedules as well. What I’m really focused on is the team with the number one strength of schedule remaining and a team that’s been on a 10-ame winning streak is the Boston Red Sox. They have the toughest remaining schedule. Another team the Royals are chasing, they’re a half game back of, the Texas Rangers. They have the sixth toughest schedule. Another team they’re tied with, but have been chasing for the for the uh the majority of the first half, the Los Angeles Angels. They have the seventh hardest schedule in all of baseball for the second half. The Blue Jays, another team that they are chasing, though they are the front runners in the American League East. They have the 11th 11th toughest schedule. The Mariners are 21. That’s another team in the wild card race that the Royals are still four and a half games back of. Is that going to mean much when it’s all said and done? Well, I can tell you right now that the Royals in the first half were brutal against teams with winning records and very good against teams that had losing records. Um, so you have the record against the winning teams, the teams that were over 500. They were 21 and 35. 14 games below 500. And 56 of their 97 games were against teams with the winning record. So you had 57ish 58% of your season was against winning teams. When they played the sub 500 teams, they went 26 and 15. So you had a much better record. You were 11 games over 500 when playing those bad teams. and say what you want about that, you’re doing what you need to do against those bad teams. And that record includes a a sweep at the hands of the the athletics. So even with that sweep, you were playing more than 10 games over 500 against those bad teams. And the Royals in this second half, I went back and did the math. They got 21 or 22 series left on the season. Only eight of them are against teams with a winning record right now. The reason I say right now is because you’ve got teams like Minnesota and Cleveland that are on the cusp of 500. So that could flip to to 10 a few games into the second half. So that can always be a little bit in limbo. But overall, they’ve gotten a lot of their tough opponents out of the way. I mean, I look at the National League side, they’ve played the Dodgers, they’ve played the Giants, they’ve played the Padres’s, they’ve played the Mets. The toughest team they play on the National League side will be the Cubs. as they get them out of the way two series into the second half. They’ll then see the Phillies later on in September, I believe, and that’ll be in Philadelphia. So, those are the two really tough teams they have both away from Kaufman Stadium. But not only do you get the easier schedule, you get a lot of opportunities to knock off the teams that are ahead of you, you still have to play the Angels, you still have to play the Blue Jays. You still get seven, I believe, against the Guardians. You still have more than a few series against the Twins. You still have Seattle coming to Kansas City. So, these are huge games for them that are directly ahead of them and they’re four and a half games back. I understand that the deadline is approaching and there’s 12 games to go before the trade deadline. Here’s an important part for me because I got asked this question on Twitter earlier this afternoon. Is it realistic they could be a playoff team? I’ve broken this down into steps for everybody just so you can hold me to it. The first thing that needs to happen is in these 12 games, they need to be at minimum one game under 500 at the deadline. They can make a move before the deadline for all I care. They can make it at at 255 p.m. on deadline day. They can wait that long. I believe it’s what is it? 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, whenever the deadline day is, they can wait till the last minute as long as they get it done. But to be a buyer on deadline day, I feel at worst they need to be one game under 500. And that could be them four and a half games back still, or maybe they’re one and a half games back or two games back. I really don’t care. That means they need to go seven and five in the first 12 games out of the break. They’ve got Miami, they’ve got the Cubs, they’ve got the Guardians, and they’ve got the Braves. So, you’ve got a Marlins team that has played much better of late. Still, it’s a Marlins team that is not a winning ball club. The Cubs are incredibly good. So, depending on what you do in Miami, let’s say you go in there and do to Miami what you did to Pittsburgh. Well, now all I’m asking for is to take one from Chicago. And then you got to find a way to play competitive baseball against the Guardians and the Braves at home. You get to the deadline at 54 and 55. You can now have that first step completed. The second step, I believe you need to acquire a league average bat. I don’t care where that comes from, but a league average bat and a swing starter, a number five starter. We’ll be talking about Michael Lorenzan here in a few minutes going to the IIL. Cole Reagan’s on the IIL as well. You’ve got four starters. I need that number five. I need to have a depth piece just in the same way you got Lorenzan last year. So, a league average bat and then a swing starter at the deadline or just by the deadline if you make that move earlier. The third step that I’m going to be talking about, they have to have Jack Kaggle be a league average bat. And that might be the toughest thing to do because I feel the Royals can be seven and five in those first 12 games. I believe that they will go after a bat and an arm if they are within contention by July 31st. The third part to this is critical because if Jack Kaggle has a second half where he’s a league average bat, has a stretch where he’s playing like Curts for the Athletics, then you can start to see this offense click. And here’s why. You’ve got three above average bats in your lineup right now. That’s Garcia, that’s Pasquantino, and that’s Bobby Wood Jr. Bobby Wood Jr. has been a great second half player. He always has been. last two years. A phenomenal second half player. I expect Vinnie to do much of the same. Mikel Garcia, I expect much of the same. Even though that might be my bias creeping in here, I feel that everything he’s done and the advanced metrics would tell you he is bound to have a good second half as well. If Salvi heats up, great, thumbs up there. If Jonathan India is a league average bat, great, thumbs up there. But if you acquire an outfield bat who already is hitting at a league average rate and Jack Kaggleó can be a league average bat just for those 65 games. I’m not asking for him to get his numbers up to league average just for these 65 games. You need him to be league average because that can give you five bats that are performing at that level. If you have more than 50% of your lineup at a league average rate or better, you’re going to have a good chance to go on a pretty good run. And that’s why I want that extra starter for depth. If you get Cole Reagan’s back, all the better. But those are the things that need to happen, the three steps for this team to have a chance to compete for a wild card spot late in the season. We’re going to take our final break of the show. When we come back, Michael Lorenzan got placed on the IIL. How long do we expect him to be out and what can the Royals do in the meantime? We’ll dive into that next on Locked on Royals. You are tuning in to Locked on Royals and the Lockdown Podcast Network. I’m your host, Jack Johnson, and you can listen to us on wherever you listen to your podcasts. For our final uh segment for today’s show, we are going to talk about a roster move the Royals had to make today. It is good timing, I would say, just with it being on the All-Star break. And also, this this injury goes back to July 11th, so it’s retroactive to the 11th, which means Lorenzan can come off the injured list on the 26th. The unfortunate part is that it’s an oblique injury. And oblique injuries are so so so tricky. And when you have an oblique injury, it’s it’s tough for a hitter, especially if it’s on your dominant side and you’re swinging and you just constantly feel that pull. The the tricky part is it can flare up at any point. You could be feeling great, you’ve rehabbed, you’re feeling 100%, and then the slightest tug and you’re back to square one. for Lorenzan. This could be one of those injuries that lingers a little bit longer. And the Royals, I’m sure, are are already focusing on on putting a plan in place. They’ve got this week. I mean, the the draft is now wrapped up, so their focus can be on the second half, can be on the deadline. They have to have a plan in place, though. And there are going to be people commenting saying, “Well, what about Rich Hill? What about Dallas Kel? What about Daniel Lynch? What about some of these guys that we’ve heard of being options and being candidates? Is this their their time to get a an opportunity, their time to shine? We’ll start it off with Rich Hill because Rich Hill has been in the system longer maybe than some people thought he might be. He’s coming off of a 10 strikeout performance, which is incredible in its own being a 45 year old guy pitching against guys that are 20 years younger than him. And then you bring in Dallas Kel who’s not 45 years old but feels pretty close to it with how long he’s been around. But for Rich Hill, I’m all right with him getting one start. Here’s the the part where I would maybe push back a little bit. if you went back to the beginning of your rotation because you have these these five days off. I want to say if you acted like, you know, these pitchers were throwing on each of these days during the All-Star break. What I mean by that is Noah Cameron threw on Sunday, which means that if the Royals played on Monday, it would have been not Waka, but Lugo, I believe. I want to say Seth Lugo was lined up to throw on Monday and then on Tuesday it would have been Chris Bouic. On Wednesday it would have been Michael Walka and then on Thursday it would have been Lorenzan and then you would have Noah Cameron lined up for Friday. If they stay the course for that, just so everybody’s on their regular rest, that would have Cameron, Lugo, and Bubich throwing in Miami. And then you’d have Waka throwing game one in Chicago. And then someone would be due up on Tuesday or Wednesday, whatever day it would be. I can’t remember if it’s an off day. I doubt it is against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. So Tuesday, that would be Lorenzan’s turn in the rotation. Do you want to throw Whit Rich Hill against one of the better lineups in the National League? Um, it would be a cool opportunity for him. He’s a former Cub himself. Uh, there’s no book on him this year at the big league level, but if you’ve been around as long as Rich Hill has, there’s clearly some tape on you, even though they’d likely be using the tape from his his time down with Omaha this year. That’s the the dice roll you have. And if you lose game one in Chicago, you want to turn to Rich Hill for for game two without any major league experience this year. I mean, he’s got tons of it in his career. Not this not this year, though. And maybe it comes down to what you do in Miami. If you win all three games in Miami, you win game one in Chicago. Why not? You would be one game over 500. Yes, you’d be trying to go for a series win, but if you didn’t want to do a bullpen game and save him for Wednesday, I’d understand it. But Rich Hill would likely only be making one start because even if uh Michael Lorenzan’s not ready to go the next time around, I’m anticipating the closer we get to the 31st, a move would be in place. If Michael Lorenzan’s oblique injury is more serious than a 15-day IIL stint, the Royals already have to be thinking about who they want to start, who they want to go after. Like a name that comes to mind is Jeffrey Springs for the Athletics. A guy that has good numbers this year has thrown over a 100 innings. Very, very similar advanced metrics to what we saw last year with Michael Lorenzan. That feels like the move to make if they were to make one. Cheaper. The athletics are out of it. This could be one of those moves to get you that swing starter or someone to take over that spot for the foreseeable future. It’s not going to be Dallas Kel. Dallas Kik’s not built up enough to be pitching in the big leagues at Wrigley Field for that goaround. So if it was between Kel or Rich Hill, it’s going to be Rich Hill because he’s stretched out enough. It’s not going to be Daniel Lynch, he’s hurt. So Daniel Lynch is hurt and then you’d have to get him stretched out. In my opinion, if they’re just looking at one start, I’m leaning toward bullpen game. I’m leaning to more so of what they did on Saturday against the Mets, which was Serpa for one inning. They got bowling for three, then you turn to Shriber. I mean, that bullpen game was very effective to be honest with you. Yeah, you got burned by Juan Sto a two-run home run, and then Ersk gave up a run in the eighth inning or the top of the ninth inning. You gave up three runs on on six hits with a bullpen game against a really good offense. I’m fine doing the same thing with a bullpen game if you have a plan in place for that next turn in the rotation, which will be against Cleveland. A series you have to play well in. A series you absolutely have to take two of three from because now you’re getting closer to the deadline. And I’m not expecting great baseball against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Prove me wrong, though. I would love to be wrong in that spot, but that would be the next time Lorenzan’s do up in the rotation. And oblique injuries just aren’t as simple as a bruise. You let it heal, you’re good to go. You’re fine, or a contusion, which is, you know, just a deeper bruise. Of course, you look at one start being made. I’m not turning to Rich Hill or Dallas Kel. I’m just not. I’m saving that for September. If you’re out of it and you just need someone to spot start, by all means, let let’s get him that opportunity to pitch in the big leagues again. Say he threw a couple of innings as a 45-year-old. Same thing goes for Dallas Ko. If you’re still in it and you’re trying to win a pivotal series, I’d rather go with a bullpen game. I really would. If you disagree with me, I would love to know why and who you would want to go with. If it’s Rich Hill, if it’s Dallas Kel, if it’s Daniel Lynchwin healthy, if it’s stretching out Jonathan Bolanmore, let me know your thoughts in the YouTube comments below or let me know on Twitter. That’ll do it for another edition of Lockdown Royals and the Lockdown Podcast Network. I have been your host, Jack Johnson. Thank you for making Locked On Royals your first listen today. For your second, check out the allnew Lockdown MLB Game Night. Every game, every night, all season long. Get local analysis on a national scale and find MLB game night on Locked on MLB on YouTube or wherever you listen to your podcast. Tomorrow I’m going to go over a trade candidate the Royals could be taking a look into and also maybe a little bit more of a breakdown of any player I liked in day two of the Major League Baseball draft. But until tomorrow morning, you take it easy, Kansas City.

We give our takeaways on the Day 1 selections for the Royals in the MLB Draft. Next, we dive into the second half schedule for the Royals and where it ranks. Lastly, what should the Royals do next after Michael Lorenzen was placed on the IL?

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