One of many nice things about being a very good baseball team, like the Royals are, is that when spring training opens, you have a pretty good idea about perhaps 22 or 23 of your 25 roster spots. In general, you know what your starting lineup, rotation, and back of the bullpen will look like. […]
Day: March 23, 2016
Over/Under Jamboree – Kansas City Baseball Vault Podcast
Click here to listen to the first BP Kansas City episode of the Kansas City Baseball Vault! In this episode, hosts Mike Engel and Jeff Herr give their predictions on whether Eric Hosmer, Salvador Perez, Lorenzo Cain, Ian Kennedy and Yordano Ventura do better or worse than their projected stats. They also both make bold, […]
Kelvin Herrera’s Electric Slider
Heat. Smoke. Gas. Pick your favorite baseball adjective for an amped-up fastball and it applies to Kelvin Herrera’s heater. Over the last three seasons, Herrera’s fastball has averaged a tick over 98 mph. That’s convection oven hot. Of the 532 pitches he threw that PitchF/X classified as a four-seam fastball, 143 – or over a […]