Hello and happy holidays and happy new year and all that good stuff. As you know if you’ve been following along, this is the last Friday Notes on BP Kansas City and the last Friday Notes for at least a little while. It will be back somewhere. I just don’t know where yet with a […]
Author: David Lesky
Friday Notes
Yep, still here. And so are the Royals, though you’d probably know that given the number of national articles written about how fast they’re going to be. I suppose we’ll find out in a few months whether it’s better to have an identity that doesn’t really help all that much or it’s better to meander […]
Friday Notes
I bet you thought you wouldn’t get your regular dose of Friday Notes, huh? Well you’re wrong. With BP Kansas City still up and running for at least a couple more weeks (we’re actually done at the end of the month), I’m going to make like the orchestra on the Titanic and continue to write […]
Friday Notes
Allow yourself to dream a little with me to a time at this time next week when the Winter Meetings are over and we have all sorts of moves around baseball to talk about and maybe a Rule 5 pick or two to be way too hasty to judge for the Royals. It’s a better […]
The Commish is Full of Shift
It’s Rob Manfred szn! Yes, folks, it’s time to get excited for the annual word from the commissioner’s office that the $10 billion plus industry he oversees is in need of an overhaul because it’s just so awful. Okay, that’s probably not fair. Yes, baseball is worth a crapload (sorry for the technical term there), […]
DRC+ Tells Same Story Different Way for 2018 Royals
There’s a new stat in town around the Prospectus universe. And it’s Deserved Runs Created Plus. You probably know what Runs Created are and this basically takes it a step further to look at what you’d expect to see from each hitter. You can learn more about DRC+ by clicking here and here and finally […]
Friday Notes
I know I need to loosen up a little bit and just enjoy it, but as an adult, I just see snow as an inconvenience. But even with that in mind, I inexplicably love the pictures of a snow-covered Kauffman Stadium. I’m an enigma, what can I say? On a real baseball note, it sure […]
Merrifield’s Aging Curve
Whit Merrifield is a legitimately good baseball player. That fact was debated for awhile, but the only people debating that today are those who argue for the sake of arguing. That he is good has been a really nice development for the Royals, one they should probably take advantage of in an effort to expedite […]
Friday Notes
I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving. For those of you who are like me and have two full Thanksgiving meals with two families, I hope you’re not nearly as full still today as I am. Worth it, though. I always think about how Thanksgiving is a day where nothing in baseball happens, but then […]
The Long and the Shortstop of It
At various times over the last few seasons, the Royals have gone without a true backup shortstop on their roster. It’s usually not for terribly long, but it’s long enough that you at least wonder what would happen if the shortstop would go down. But for the Royals, the shortstop never went down. I’m not […]