Gamethread II: Rangers at Royals
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It sure is nice to have baseball back, isn’t it? What’s also nice is to have a competitive team. Be sure to enjoy it while you can, there’s no telling if the Royals will be keeping pace with everyone as they are now by this time, next week.
The Royals pitchers will hope for a better outcome than we saw on Thursday where they combined to allow 10 runs. Free-agent acquisition and old friend Mike Minor will lead the charge on this effort. The 33-year-old left-hander did not have a particularly good 2020, amassing a 5.56 ERA for the Rangers and Athletics. The Royals will be hoping that was a COVID-induced fluke as they signed him to a two-year deal during the off-season. Spring Training brought at least a little positivity. His ERA of 4.42 wasn’t spectacular but also not awful. He also managed to strike out more than a batter per inning while also limiting opponents to fewer than one runner per i