It doesn’t take a great deal of work to find a reliever in baseball these days who can throw the ball 96 MPH or harder. That doesn’t make those pitchers any less enticing when they come around. And yet, even with that the case, the Royals have a guy who routinely lives in the upper-90s […]
Author: David Lesky
Friday Notes
I think there’s a pretty good chance a 25-man roster built with only free agents would be a playoff team in 2018. Alex Avila, Jonathan Lucroy, Eric Hosmer, Neil Walker, Mike Moustakas, Eduardo Nunez, Jon Jay, Lorenzo Cain, J.D. Martinez and Logan Morrison is a pretty salty offense. The rotation of Jake Arrieta, Yu Darvish, […]
Friday Notes
We only have to wait about one more month for pitchers and catchers to report. There doesn’t seem to be the same buzz for spring training in Kansas City this year as there has been in the past with all the changes to the team coming, but I think we all know that I’m pumped […]
Moose’s Murky Market
So much time has been devoted to Eric Hosmer and where he might sign that we’ve kind of lost sight of Mike Moustakas. At the beginning of the offseason, it seemed like a slam dunk that he’d either end up with the Angels or Giants. Then, the Angels signed Zack Cozart and the Giants traded […]
Friday Notes
Up until yesterday’s trade, the rumor mill was a-swirlin’ for a couple days after a report surfaced that the Royals had offered Eric Hosmer a seven-year deal for $147 million. I was skeptical that the report was correct given both the source and the lack of confirmation from any other reporter around the country. The […]
Soler’s Redo
A little over a year ago, the Royals agreed to a deal with the Cubs to send them Wade Davis in exchange for Jorge Soler. The return was underwhelming at the time after what we saw relievers were traded for during the 2016 season, but I thought that in terms of pure value, it could […]
Friday Notes
It’s hard to believe this is the last Friday Notes of 2017. We’ve been through a lot this year with the Royals. Just during the season, we followed a team that was almost eliminated by May but somehow ended up in a playoff position by the trade deadline. Then, well, we know what happened next. […]
Friday Notes
It’s not that moves don’t get made this time of year, because they do. Things get especially slow around now because even those hard working baseball people like to spend time with their families. While I don’t think anyone would ever begrudge them that, it’s going to make for a long couple weeks before the […]
The Hosmer Diaries
The Boston Red Sox signed Mitch Moreland to a two-year deal yesterday. That, in itself, is relatively meaningless for Royals fans. But it does eliminate yet another contender for the services of one Eric Hosmer. Before the 2017 season began, I believed there could be as many as 12 or 13 teams in the market […]
A Boni To Pick With the Royals
It’s now more than five years since the Royals made the incredibly controversial trade of Wil Myers (and some others) to the Tampa Bay Rays. At the time the trade was made, Myers was basically big league ready and the Royals were also about big league ready, so the deal was one that was a […]