Most frustrating years for your team as a fan

George Brett's retirement to the hiring of Dayton Moore (so 94-06). Rarely competitive and never made much of any attempt to retain any of our best talent past their rookie contracts.
 
BigRedMoe said:
George Brett's retirement to the hiring of Dayton Moore (so 94-06). Rarely competitive and never made much of any attempt to retain any of our best talent past their rookie contracts.
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correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't that 1994 royals team not too shabby? they had some pudgy rookie that year that was lighting it up, can't remember his name. but i remember, before that strike, the royals were actually a fun team to watch.

edit: bob hamelin! . . . that's the name of the rookie i was thinking of . . .and i just looked it up, but i'd forgotten that the royals had both kevin appier and david cone pitching that season. they finished 64-51 before the strike began.
 
ojb81 said:
correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't that 1994 royals team not too shabby? they had some pudgy rookie that year that was lighting it up, can't remember his name. but i remember, before that strike, the royals were actually a fun team to watch.

edit: bob hamelin! . . . that's the name of the rookie i was thinking of . . .and i just looked it up, but i'd forgotten that the royals had both kevin appier and david cone pitching that season. they finished 64-51 before the strike began.
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Yeah but they still finished 3rd in the division. That was the beginning of an era for us where the fan base felt like the ownership wasn't interested in winning. Mind you we had some good to great players in that era too. We didn't have another winning season until 2003 and then 2013 after that!
 
Rex Racer said:
The most disappointing years for me as a Red Sox fan were the mid to late 70's when they had a power house team and couldn't win the division because of the Evil Empire and running into the Big Red Machine the one time they did make it to the WS :gaah:
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I'd agree those years are among the most frustrating in the franchise's history, though I tried to keep years I've been around for (I was born in 1991).

ojb81 said:
correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't that 1994 royals team not too shabby? they had some pudgy rookie that year that was lighting it up, can't remember his name. but i remember, before that strike, the royals were actually a fun team to watch.

edit: bob hamelin! . . . that's the name of the rookie i was thinking of . . .and i just looked it up, but i'd forgotten that the royals had both kevin appier and david cone pitching that season. they finished 64-51 before the strike began.
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They also had Mark Gubicza and Tom Gordon. I still think Appier's the most underrated pitcher of the 90's (only Clemens and Maddux had more WAR that decade), and probably one of the most underrated of all-time. I think he had a very good case for the 1993 NL CYA over McDowell.
 
Not even sure you could call McDowell the best pitcher on his team... I think Fernandez had a better year. And I'm not sure he was even that much better than Wilson Alvarez
 
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