00:00Boy, the bust-out season for Jack Caglione, it took a while, Tom, like a real long time.
00:06You know, everyone wanted him to come up last year and just scorch.
00:09It didn't happen, didn't happen at the beginning of the season,
00:11but you could say from about May on, Caglione has delivered what we thought he would when he got drafted.
00:20Unfortunately, his buddy Vinny P did not have the same season that they thought he would,
00:24and so that's part of it. Witt's injury is part of it.
00:26The Royals' disastrous bullpen has been part of it, but a shining light for Jack Caglione.
00:32I'm going to guess going into next season, I think Jack Caglione is going to be a very interesting player
00:39to watch
00:40in terms of his home run totals, his average totals.
00:43Sometimes it just takes a while, a young player finally clicking.
00:46Yeah, that's all it is. It's not going to happen over 50 plate appearances or 100 plate appearances.
00:51It's going to take a couple hundred plate appearances for him to finally get settled,
00:55finally get acclimated at the MLB level.
00:58I wanted to believe in the Royals this year.
01:01I really did with Michael Garcia and Bobby Witt and Caglione and Vinny P and Sal Perez.
01:07I wanted to believe that their offense was going to be great, especially with them moving the fences in.
01:11I was like, okay, we're going to see some real run production out of the Royals.
01:15The pitching was always going to be an issue.
01:17I was like, okay, the Royals are going to be in a spot to truly compete for the wild card,
01:20given the dynamic of the AL Central and the other teams around them.
01:24And Caglione stepping up and leading the team was not something I expected,
01:27given the fact that they had a bunch of other injuries.
01:29But if they can be healthy, the Royals can be a super fun lineup next year.
01:33That's just what it comes down to.
01:34Stay healthy and you've got power, you've got speed, you've got average.
01:37They're going to check all the boxes that you want.
01:39They're going to check all the boxes.
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