Season 9 underway!

Kansas City--

The Kansas City Bluebirds have high hopes for the upcoming season. Despite finishing last season 80-82, KC finished 1st in the division and put up a good fight in the ALDS.

The major area of concern with KC has to be the quality of pitching in the organization which has been evident in the first two games. They have some capable hitters, but the pitching needs to really step it up in season 9 as a lot of teams are improved.

Manager Buckeye86 expects his team to compete within the AL West, but is also very realistic. "We may have to score a 1,000 runs to have a chance" he said during his post game news conference after falling to Honolulu in back to back games 4-12 and 2-10.

So far, 2 games into the season, the bullpen has been tattooed and we've already seen some roster transactions with Domingo Pascual being called up to replace Rock Clayton who had given up 8 earned runs, including 3 homers in 1.2 innings of work.

If this continues, the Bluebirds may need to score 10 runs a game to have a chance; and we don't see that happening.