La arrancada de Zack Greinke con 6-1 y 0.51 de efectividad quiz\u00c3\u00a1s sea insuficiente para llevar a los Reales a luchar por el bander\u00c3\u00adn de la Divisi\u00c3\u00b3n Central de la Liga Americana o el comod\u00c3\u00adn. Sin embargo las actuaciones de Brian Bannister (3-0, 1.48), Jamey Wright (0-1, 1.83), Mark Teahen, Alberto Callaspo, Billy Butler, Mike Jacobs; hacen pensar que la cosa va en serio.<\/p>\n
Quiz\u00c3\u00a1s habr\u00c3\u00ada que esperar a ver que pasa en los pr\u00c3\u00b3ximos dos meses. La Divisi\u00c3\u00b3n Central de la Liga Americana tiene equipos como Chicago, Cleveland, Minnesota y Detroit que tambi\u00c3\u00a9n tienen las armas para pelear el bander\u00c3\u00adn hasta las \u00c3\u00baltimas consecuencias. Lo m\u00c3\u00a1s llamativo de esto es que los Reales en hipot\u00c3\u00a9ticas condiciones desventajosas hayan empezado jugando a un alto nivel, faj\u00c3\u00a1ndose con equipos como los Yanquis, Medias Blancas, Texas, Cleveland, Toronto.<\/p>\n
Danny Duffy, Luke Hochevar, Devon Lowery y Daniel Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez son cuatro prospectos de pitcheo a distintos niveles de desarrollo. Quiz\u00c3\u00a1s Hochevar y Duffy sean los m\u00c3\u00a1s pr\u00c3\u00b3ximos a establecerse en la Gran Carpa. De hecho ya Hochevar abri\u00c3\u00b3 un juego en el equipo grande y Duffy empez\u00c3\u00b3 con marca de 4-1 para los Blue Rocks de Wilmington de la Liga Carolina A avanzada.<\/p>\n
De seguro, va a ser una tarea de muchas dificultades para los Reales. Sin embargo la determinaci\u00c3\u00b3n de sus jugadores y la filosof\u00c3\u00ada de trabajo del manager Trey Hill hacen pensar que los herederos de los Monarcas de Kansas City del gran Satchel Paige van a dar lo mejor de s\u00c3\u00ad y al menos nadie deber\u00c3\u00ada sorprenderse si terminan dos posiciones por encima de su ubicaci\u00c3\u00b3n en la Divisi\u00c3\u00b3n Central durante la temporada 2008.<\/p>\n
El s\u00c3\u00a1bado 16 de mayo de 2009 Greinke demostr\u00c3\u00b3 otra vez que es esencial en la oportunidad que puedan tener los Reales de trascender a la post-temporada o al menos terminar con marca por encima de .550 desde 2003. Greinke dej\u00c3\u00b3 a los Orioles de Baltimore en 6 imparables, camin\u00c3\u00b3 2 y ponch\u00c3\u00b3 6 en 7 innings de trabajo. Pero los Reales necesitaran que al menos Bannister, Gil Meche y Kyle Davies lancen de manera consistente para que el bull pen de Wright, Robinson Tejeda, Ron Mahay, Juan Cruz y el lesionado Joakim Soria pueda venir a preservar las victorias.<\/p>\n
English Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n Zack Greinke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s season start of 6-1 and 0.51 ERA maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not enough to carry the Royals to fight for the American League Central Division pennant or the wild card. But the performances of Brian Bannister (3-0, 1.48), Jamey Wright (0-1, 1.83), Mark Teahen, Alberto Callaspo, Billy Butler, Mike Jacobs could be sending a message that the Royals will be for real.<\/p>\n Perhaps it will be reasonable to wait for the next two months. The Central Division has teams as the Chicago White Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers which also have the weapons to fight for the pennant until the end of the season. The most interesting of all this, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that the Royals in hypothetical handicap conditions have started the season playing to such a good rhythm. Battling against teams as the Yankees, White Sox, Texas, Cleveland, Toronto.<\/p>\n Danny Duffy, Luke Hochevar, Devon Lowery and Daniel Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez are four pitching prospects at different developing levels. Maybe Hochevar and Duffy could be the closest to establish in the big show. Hochevar already opened a game for the Royals and Duffy started the season wit a 4-1 record for the Wilmington Blue Rocks of the Class A advanced Carolina League.<\/p>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for sure that this will be a very hard task for the Royals. But the hustling of their players and the working philosophy of the manager Trey Hill, give a reason to think that the Kansas City Monarchs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 heirs are going to show the best of them on the field and at least nobody should get surprised if they finish two positions above their place in the Central Division the last season.<\/p>\n On Saturday, May 16th, 2009, Greinke proved again that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essential in the chance that the Royals could have of going to the post-season or at least of finishing with an over .500 record for the first time since the 2003 season. Greinke allowed only an earned run, 6 hits, 2 walks and struckout 6 in 7 innings against the Baltimore Orioles. The Royals won 8-1. But the Royals will need that at least Bannister, Gil Meche and Kyle Davies perform consistently to give the bull pen of Wright, Robinson Tejeda, Ron Mahay, Juan Cruz and the injured Joakim Soria, the chance of saving the victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}