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Even after last night\u2019s disappointing loss, the Royals have still won five of seven coming out of the All-Star Break. That\u2019s not nearly enough to get them back into contention, but at least potential trade pieces like Seth Lugo<\/a>, Michael Wacha<\/a>, and Matt Strahm<\/a> have performed well.<\/p>\n One player who sadly hasn\u2019t rebounded is tonight\u2019s bulk reliever, Noah Cameron<\/a>. Beck Way<\/a> will open the game for him as the Royals continue to push the righty into more important relief work while they scramble to see if they have anyone who can be counted on even half the time in their bullpen.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n I tried looking into Noah\u2019s body of work earlier this week to see if I could find a glaring flaw with him that led from his terrific May into the awful June and July, and I really didn\u2019t see much of use. His sinker is awful, and I don\u2019t understand why he throws it, but he\u2019s not throwing it more than usual. His average arm angle has ticked back up after dropping nearly 10 degrees from last season at the start of this year. The curveball lost about 100 RPMs from the good stretch to this bad stretch, which is probably a big part of the problem. If it were up to me, I\u2019d have him ditch his sinker and four-seam fastball, lead with the cutter, throw a lot of sliders and changeups, and try to figure out what happened to his curveball. But those are probably far too simple and far too significant changes to make, especially in the middle of the season. So we\u2019re just going to have to hope Brian Sweeney has a better idea than me.<\/p>\n The Tigers are going to pitch Tarik Skubal<\/a> instead, in what might be his final start in Detroit as a Tiger. Or it might not. The Tigers have been winning a lot lately and might decide to go ahead and see if they can finish off the miraculous comeback. Your guess is as good as mine. What is<\/em> clear is that Skubal is still one of the best pitchers we\u2019ve ever seen. So good luck to the offense.<\/p>\n The offense, in need of luck in the best of times, will still be without starters Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> and Maikel Garcia<\/a>. But Jac Caglianone<\/a> will also miss a third straight game after injuring his shoulder in Tuesday\u2019s contest. Salvador Perez<\/a>, the third-worst qualified hitter in all of MLB, will bat third for the Royals today as he continues his hunt for career home run 318. I guess getting him some extra at-bats before his body completely falls apart to chase that record makes sense. Somewhere. Speaking of Salvy\u2019s body falling apart, this will be his first start at catcher in almost a month. He\u2019s been hurting but still played first or DH for almost that entire time. He did slash .250\/.325\/.485\/.810 over that span.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even after last night\u2019s disappointing loss, the Royals have still won five of seven coming out of the All-Star Break. That\u2019s not nearly enough to get them back into contention, but at least potential trade pieces like Seth Lugo, Michael Wacha, and Matt Strahm have performed well. 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