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We love the 2014 Royals and 2015 Royals, don't we folks? They had a brand. Kansas City Royals small ball. Royals basestealing. Royals defense. Royals bullpen. Those were the ingredients to Royalball, twice winning the pennant and a Royals World Series win. And there were so many notable players: Alex Gordon, Lorenzo Cain, Jarrod Dyson, Terrance Gore, Wade Davis, Greg Holland, and Kelvin Herrera get the most shine in this video.
We have quite a few topics to cover in this episode of Baseball Bits, a Foolish Baseball production. What place do the Royals have in the MLB Statcast Era? Was the 2014 World Series or 2015 World Series just a Royals fluke? I wish we had more time for Madison Bumgarner, but we'll save it for another day.
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"The Statcast era and its consequences have been a disaster for baseball" Giving a new meaning to the Bronx Bombers
Too bad Ted Kluszewski never played for the Royals
@@FoolishBaseball I swear you think of everything lmao
Bombing baseballs into the stands and bombing ratings on TV.
Sabermetrics and it’s consequences have been a disaster for baseball
@@JeremyWashington1489 give examples. Do they prevent guys from doing well or getting to the majors? Some sabermetrics are useful.
They had six starters with an OPS+ over 119, the best bullpen in the last 30 years, elite defense and baserunning, and always put the ball in play, making opponents actually play the game.
To quote Andy McCullough: “The entire point of the Royals is that baseball is a hard game and if you make your opponent do things, sometimes they will screw up.”
as shown in game 5 in the top of the 9th with the mets throwing error.
The 2014-2015 Royals was one of my favorite teams ever. They were very unusual, and its quite possible we may never see their like again :(
I don't think I have ever yelled as much profanity at a television than I did during the 2015 World Series. Thank you for making me relive that.
- A Mets fan
All we know is pain.
same
@@dorkknight42 you like huey lewis and the news?
Your timing is perfect. So far this year, the royals bullpen is looking just as good as the old H-D-H bullpen
Holland - Herrera - Davis : Lights Out! Always.
(I am a royals fan btw)
“Enter the 2014 and 2015 Kansas City Royals”
*distant memories*
I was at game 5 of that World Series the throw to home gets me every time. But if there was ever a team to beat my Mets I’m glad it was the royals. Looking back they were so much fun to watch.
As a lifelong Royals fan, this video makes me smile! I was so happy with them even getting to the championship series in 2014, but to go to back to back World Series? Unreal!
I heard Barry Bonds took a similar approach to Ruths proclamation of hitting suckers over the fence. Something with to do with balanced breakfasts.
Nobody ate breakfast like Bonds, he was the Joey Chestnut of early 2000’s eating.
Bailey please do a video on Chase Headley winning back to back player of the month awards
You can always tell a winning team by the fact that they win games more often than other teams.
Wade Davis also leads all ballplayers in board GETS. Possibly the all time record as well.
Quick shoutout to an unsung member of the Outfield Track Team - Paulo "Tripolo" Orlando! He was a ton of fun to watch in 2015 and 2016!
Good shit! Thank you and GO ROYALS!
Reminds me of the old twins teams in the dome with the piranhas, punto, Bartlett, tyner. Great defense along with pitching from Santana, radke and nathan seemed to be all you need.
Buxton has said in many interviews that he never steals 3rd because he knows he can score from 2nd on any ball that leave the infield
ranked 25th this week but number 1 in my heart. KC MO
Former White Sox HOF play by play announcer Hawk Harrelson would nickname bloop singles "Kansas City Specials" as an ode to their hitting approach in 14-15😂😂😂
That's unironically a compliment. -Royals fan
Two words to describe the Royals in those years... It was a age old thing called "small ball". Base hits score runs. Combine that with outfielders with range and boom 💥. Winner winner chicken dinner!
Dude i’ve watched this 3 times already and didn’t realize it was only a month old, thought it was multiple years old😂
TIL a good team consists of good pitching and good hitting which allows them to score more runs than their opponents.
You single handedly got me interested in baseball again, thank you for your videos. Have you made any videos about Roger Clemens yet? I saw he had this really high Game Score.
The 2022 Cubs offense looks a lot like this. Just a lineup of nothing but high contact guys who give you a pesky at-bat but don't really hit it over the fence. It's working marvelously so far on the offensive side of the ball.
As a visual learner, love the graphs!
Tim Keefe finally getting the recognition he deserves.
Tim Keefe jokes will never get old
For me, it's the ultimate extension of moneyball. Moneyball was a question of economics, being able to take something undervalued and build around it. Just because on base and conservative baserunning how they did it, doesn't mean that defines real moneyball. Winning in smaller markets is all about identifying undervalued skills and assembling a reasonably priced roster around that. The royals valued creating runs, putting the ball in play and playing defense.
Woooooooo! New bits!!!!! Just rewatched a few last night lol
thanks!
YESSSSSS FINALLY HE DOES ONE ON THE ROYALS!!!!!!
Really thought we were getting the Foolish Dorktown collabo everybody wants.
Congrats on trending and 250k!
Living in Omaha had the pleasure of watching this team move up one by one to KC from AAA, I knew them long before the rest of the world did.
Hey Foolish, any chance we will ever see a video about Todd Helton’s 2000 season?? That season is arguably the best season by a hitter I’ve seen in my lifetime and it was crazy how he finished 5th in MVP Voting.
Midweek Baseball Bits™️? Bless up fellas
Baseball Bits are best enjoyed on days that end in D-A-Y
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This is how I feel the current Guardians team plays. Get on base and hand the reins to the next guy up. Its been working so far!
our defense still rocks but we lost a good bullpen. we’re kinda hitting the ball far nowadays especially with salvis breakout last year and soler in ‘19. but stolen bases are not as common
Hopefully we get back to being good there is a lot of promise with the arms in the bullpen and young hitters coming up. The pitching is the main focus and hopefully Brentz, Barlow, Garette can become a trio. They’re doing pretty well so far. Spiere was a good pickup. I just want the hitting to come around.
I feel bad for Nori Aoki. Lost the WS in 2014 as a Royals vs the Giants, then joins the Giants in 2015 while the Royals won the WS.
10:20 😂😂go me off guard
Love the rays respect
LMAO the linear regression at 3:30
Tim keefe really had a 293 era+ in 1880 dude grew up during reconstruction
As a blue jays fan, this team was a nightmare. They didn’t make sense and I’m still scratching my head about this team
Just like Bailey and Juan Soto
Can you do a video on Yankees analytics malpractice since the 2010s
You could make your graphs in R if you want
Please make a video about a lesser known Detroit Tiger. Perhaps a video about how Lou Whitaker should be in the HoF? 🥺
A great video would be Johan Santana and his dominance in the 2000s to a career ending too soon… kinda like the Tim Lincecum/Tulo video
I hope a lot of people caught that joke about Blake treinen, that was good lmfao
Let's Go Royals!!
That blake treinen bit was hilarious
the video we needed
Had no idea Carlos Beltran has the highest SB success rate of min. 300 attempts
your forgot the 2018 red sox approach of “fuck it put someone out there”
Instead of running a correlation between defense and wins, we need to isolate the value of defense
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To this day I am irate that they didn’t send Alex Gordon.
Even if the ball would’ve beaten him by a mile that would’ve been one of the craziest endings in WS history.
Love the Blake Qnein reference
ayyyyy lets go tim keefe, always on top
HELL YEAH BLAKE TREINEN! The greatest pitcher in all of OOTP 16
We also weirdly don’t have any pitchers with unnatural increases in spin rates as far as I can tell. How weird 🧐
New baseball bits baby!!
Glad you're excited!
Blake Treinen LMAO
thanks mlb
Crazy to think that Terrance Gore has two World Series rings and one AL championship ring despite having less than 100 career plate appearances.
I just want a Brewers video… maybe how they built the best three headed monster of pitchers in the league?
Mom , foolish posted !!!!
Royals break the rules oh boy I’m gonna be angry on twitter now!
Next cheating scandal confirmed
@@FoolishBaseball wait what was that about 2018 Blake treated fan boys??
i love your videos thank you sir :)
I swear these videos are as good as crack
Im from Kansas City and I think that you're from Houston and Houston is the one who broke the most rules.
He's a braves fan
@@dawg7846 but what if they cheat too?
@@JohnCognito yeah what if ur mom had an abortion too bro!
Can you do the rise and fall of Paul Dejong
Herb Washington
0 AB
31 SB
4:50 what are guardspiders 🙃
I actually enjoyed watching the royals but I did hate them for sweeping my Angel's on their world series run. RIP Ventura
Terrance gore has been 1000% more electric in the postseason than mike trout. Let that sink in.
Tim Keef is my great uncle. If he could've seen this video he'd have laughed. I don't see why everyone is so mad about the Keef joke.
Guardspiders, LMAO
hot take: the 2015 kansas city royals are one of the greatest teams ever created
lil uzr vert lmao
do a rich hill video pls
Does anyone notice that MLB TH-cam guy is stalking this channel?
Lil UZR Vert, my favorite rapper
I had finished an exam for a stats course today and only now does R Squared get mentioned in a baseball bits vid(that i've seen)... wtf
"That's a healthy piece of real estate".....Homsar?
I was raised by a cup of coffee
The Kansas City Royals are pretty good, but what if they get taken over, become the Kansas City Republics instead but then change their name to the Kansas City Protectorates after that?
*A crazy stat not mentioned:* These royals won *111* consecutive games when leading after 7 innings.
Wow so true
@@cameronburke4836 can't tell if it sarcastic or not but it is true
I wonder what the record is when leading after 6 innings. It has to be ridiculous also.
@stenobro A loss to the Tigers August 12, 2015
That bullpen was untouchable. Danny Duffy, Wade Davis, Greg Holland, Kelvin Herrera. Ballgame was over before the 7th.
You have no idea what it was like being in KC during that two year run, I’ll never forget being at the wildcard game against the A’s. I’ve never hugged so many strangers in my life. Forever Royal!
Hell yeah! What a time it was to live in Kansas City!!! I've never felt the city so alive!
I believe in those two years, Kansas City was the most sleep deprived and happiest city in America.
Kc fans have always been some of the most loyal. Chiefs fans included
As an Orioles fan I remember that Royals run unfortunately.
@@AeriykTheRed those O’s ain’t royal my friend :)
A Royals Baseball Bits?!?! I must be dreaming!
I don't know how all your comments spawn in with 20 likes. Fuzzy commented right before you and he has NOTHING.
I want a new Rockies video to help me forget the last one 😅
@@FoolishBaseball it confuses me as well Mr. Foolish, I literally have no idea.
@@FoolishBaseball got your 20th like 👍
@@RetroBaseball Comment again, I want to see if this is legit
Man do I miss my Royals being this good. "Keep the line moving"
This made my week. Thanks Foolish Bailey!
We’re gonna get back there within the next year year plus. Confident
Thank you Andrew!
Haha, shouldn’t be surprised to see you here I guess. Bailey is awesome and 2014/2015 was a magical ride.
Those were fun times.
Those 2 years were amazing for the Royals, we had such a great team! It really sucks that players follow the money and we couldn't keep the team together. I do get to laugh at my co-workers in San Francisco when they complain about Hosmer doing great against the Giants.
They timed their rise perfectly. Just before the Astros core formed and took over and while the Red Sox and Yankees were aging and declining teams. The AL Was wide open for a new contender and it just so happened that the Royals made their push perfectly
Well, we had 30 years of not timing it properly.
The Astros came into the league and were like "nice place you got here, mind if I make myself at home for the next decade or so? great"
@@dfp_01 oh no we can’t even beat the royals time to cheat
@@dfp_01 You know how I know you're from H-town?
@@matthewtaylor1927 I would love to hear your explanation, considering I've never even been to Houston
The Blake Treinen fan club bit was subtle yet hilarious.
They're just as bad as the Tim Keefe fan club
@@FoolishBaseball Nobody disrespects chief keefe! Nobody!
@@FoolishBaseball I'm an admitted Blake Treinen Fan Club member
@@TryPuttingItInRice oh no
I am a Bartolo Fanboy
As a diehard fan, videos about these Royals teams keep me going. Great defensive plays, steals, and extra base hits are the lifeblood of entertaining baseball. Hope we can recapture this magic in the years going forward.
Teams will naturally play in what they feel is the most efficient way possible, so (imo) it comes down to the league to incentivize aesthetically pleasing baseball on the field.
@@FoolishBaseball definitely. No shade intended towards teams that value OBP and FIP- the way organizations adapt to the ever-changing philosophy of baseball is what makes it such a great sport!
Loved playing you guys in 2014 as a Giants fan, definitely the two teams with questionable rosters for a WS and game 7 was wild
@@FoolishBaseball I say MLB adopts banana ball rules - after a walk, all 9 fielders have to touch the ball before they can tag a runner out. The batter that walked can advance to second or even third while the fielders throw around the horn
@@FoolishBaseball that’s what I’ve been saying. Thank you
He’s back
He sure is!
Just in time for the season to start! Oh wait it's been going on for two weeks? Gee where does the time go.
ily
@@FoolishBaseball season is practically over at this point
@@TryPuttingItInRice Yes, lots of crowned champions in April. And how.
The 2014-15 Royals are one of my favorite teams ever, even as a non-Royals fan.
The 2022 Phillies might be the anti-Royals
@@FoolishBaseball I mean you're not wrong
@@FoolishBaseball 100% agree. We have a slow team who only tries to hit for power with a bad bullpen and bad defense. We’re the bizarro version of that team.
I rooted heavily for them in 2014, but ehhhhhh not in 2015, though my Mets did it to themselves to with critical errors and terrible defense
The most balanced team I ever saw was the 2011 Texas rangers. They really really blew that series. They should have won game 6 of the world series. Josh Hamilton's to run home run in the 11th should have been enough to win it.
What really killed them was Nelson Cruz's error in the 9th inning.
Everyone talks about the four aces of the 2010 Philadelphia Phillies. However, the 2011 Texas rangers had pitchers near or over 200 innings with era's under 4. And CJ Wilson was a monster that year as their Ace. They were also scoring six runs a game.
I have so much to say about this video, thank you so much for doing this.
I was working, delivering pizza during these years. Im from Kansas and I would listen to the Royals off and on throughout 2014. In 2015, I listened to every single game while I worked. I didn't think they were going to the world series or trying to immulate some sort of bandwagon. Was just more interested in baseball and decided to listen to it on the radio, game 1.
Game 5 of the World series, wade Davis on the mound to close out the game, I'm sitting in the dark in our pizza hut dinning room. We have the game on but it's just me and my good buddy who was the manager. We would go out for smoke breaks between innings. He had his hand on my shoulder, we watched in silence , "Strike 3!" We both leaped up and yelled! A tear ran down my face because I felt a part of the team. I knew people in KC that were celebrating, it was just a great moment for us Kansas people.
Love that you highlighted the bullpen. When it got to the 7th with a lead... You knew it was over.
Thanks again. 🙏💙
R.i.p Ventura
Thank you for sharing this. That was an incredible read.
making me tear up
Beautiful read. Thanks. What a couple of years.
Remember when the MLB nearly canceled the Allstars voting cause nearly every position was filled with Royals players? Yeah, that was 2015
There’s a great quote from Joe Buck during the 2015 ALCS when the Royals were playing Toronto - “They just keep coming.” These teams were relentless, and were hyper focused on putting as much pressure on opposing team’s defense as possible. Good-not-great starting pitching, an elite bullpen, and an offense that continually put the ball in play and ran. The greatest speed play was Cain scoring from 1st on a routine single to end up winning the ALCS in 2015, and it was all about pressure.
These are my favorite baseball teams of all-time, and I’ll never get tired of watching postseason highlights of them.
Maybe the only great quote ever by Joe Buck?
Ha, I remember that play! First base and in scoring position! That and the meme that quickly circulated "We gave them 8 innings to let them think they were going to win". Innings 6-9 were so thrilling to watch!
The royals scouting new what Bautista would do in that scenario and pounded it into their players. Given locain's speed/base running potential that was an easy decision to send him home
@@j_gray we'll see you tomorrow is pretty good, and frankly steroid era baseball buck was tolerable