We’ve all been there, flying along at 30,000 feet, sipping on a drink, headphones on, doing your best to ignore all of your fellow passengers and then there’s bump. Then maybe another one, little bigger than before. A little clear air turbulence: no big deal. The seat belt sign flashes on. If you’ve flown at […]
Author: Clark Fosler
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 […]
Bad Luck, Bad Offense and the Sun Still Shines
Three games, seven runs, one win: not the exact way the Royals expected to break from post-All Star gate, but the world did not come to a screeching halt either. Yes, we all know that the Royals’ post-break schedule featured or features 14 out of 17 games against teams with losing records, but the Rangers […]
The Line In The Sand
Here lie our beloved Kansas City Royals, one of five teams in baseball with a winning percentage under .400. Now, if you had projected the Royals, Blue Jays and Giants to be lumped in with the Braves as the worst teams in baseball, go ahead and sell the wife, kids, cars and house and head […]
Returning to a Dominant Bullpen
For those out there in the world who, for reasons unknown, took the Royals’ being a winning team the last four years personally, there is apparently no sample size too small for them to crow about this year’s team not being good. Whether the Royals are a 75-win team or a 91-win (gasp! 91!!?) team […]
Raul Mondesi and Friends
A real chance exists that Raul Mondesi’s hot spring that won him the Royals’ second base job was all just a mirage. After all, if spring stats made for regular season success, Angel Berroa would be revered in Kansas City. One can look into the matchups and the ratios this spring and garner evidence to […]
February’s Opening Day Twenty-Five
One month ago, I revealed my first guess as to what the Kansas City Royals’ Opening Day roster might look like. At best, such an exercise is an educated guess, and certainly subject to variables that could not be foreseen. Since that post, for instance, the Royals signed Brandon Moss, Jason Hammel, Travis Wood, Peter […]
Turning Terrance Gore Into an Everyday Weapon
Over the past few months (months, only because I am lazy!), I have been conversing with Derek Johannsen with regard to his thoughts on the Royals’ Terrance Gore. Derek was routed my way as a result of a handful of articles I wrote over the course of 2016 on the subject of Gore. As some […]
Chris Young Matters
Last week our esteemed Mr. Lesky pointed out that the three players most important to a successful 2017 Kansas City Royals campaign might be Joakim Soria, Jorge Soler and Nate Karns. I think he is right. In particular, should Karns step forward as an every fifth day solid starter (or more) it not only makes the […]
January’s Opening Day Roster
The bulk of this column was drafted late last week, before the terrible news about Yordano Ventura. Part of me feels like these thoughts are insignificant and maybe they are or even maybe they were. That said, life and even the insignificance of baseball goes on. Spring Training will come whether we want it to […]