Suddenly, that big play at the deadline doesn’t look so amazing, does it? When Dayton Moore went out and got Melky Cabrera and a trio of arms before the start of August, the proverbial push of the chips to the middle of the table, it signaled a point of no return for the Kansas City […]
Day: August 8, 2017
Missing Salvy
Sometimes life has an odd sense of timing. I recently, after chasing several millennials from my yard, did a very moderate amount of research with regard to the current ‘core group’ of Royals. You know the guys: Perez, Hosmer, Moustakas, Cain and Escobar. Basically, the group that came on the scene at roughly the same […]
Cool August
With temperatures in Kansas City that have felt more April than August, the Royals bats have similarly cooled. It’s never really fair to judge anything in baseball with monthly arbitrary end points, and it’s just as unfair to judge something on a small sample size of just seven games. Still, a trend is a trend […]
Diamonds in the Rough 8-7-17
A 3-3 Monday for the minor league affiliates. HR Roll Call: Travis Jones (1), Randor Vargas (2) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Travis Jones 2-3, HR, 3 RBI, BB BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Robert Garcia 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 77p/46k, 2-4 GO/FO Omaha Storm Chasers 8, […]