Even with an unlimited budget, a bargain is a nice thing to find. Sure you might be willing to spend $200 on groceries for the week, but you definitely don’t mind a good deal walking down the produce aisle. The same is true for big league teams. Any kind of bargain on the free agent […]
Author: David Lesky
Friday Notes
If you’re using Friday Notes to count down days until there’s real baseball again, you’ll find that it seems much closer than the reality. Just 14 to go before spring training games start. Yeesh. Anyway, at least there’ll be some baseball news soon as free agents will likely begin to sign. I still stand by […]
Top 50 MLB Free Agent Predictions
There’s not much going on right now, so let’s take an expanded look at baseball. Everyone else seems to be doing it, so why not me? I decided to rank 50 free agents and make predictions for where they’d land. I personally am very excited to look back at these and see how ridiculously dumb […]
Friday Notes
I’m not sure if he’s getting weirder or if I’m just appreciating it more, but Scott Boras time is just awesome. I’m sure it’s at least partially intentional, but some of the things he says absolutely crack me up. I’m not sure if Boras is good or bad for baseball, but his beginning of the […]
2018 Royals Pitching Statcast Leaders
We looked at the offensive players yesterday, but now we turn to the pitching staff. Cover your eyes. It’s actually not all bad. Some guys were actually pretty good. You’ll see why Brad Keller was as successful as he was last year and why Brandon Maurer, well, wasn’t. Let’s just get to it. All these […]
2018 Royals Offensive Statcast Leaders
We took a look at this at the break, so let’s dig in to the final numbers now that the season has been put to bed long enough for us to not hate the team quite as much as we once did before the trade deadline. All numbers come from the insanely awesome Baseball Savant. If […]
Royals Rumors Ready to Pop at GM Meetings
There’s a general thought around the game that this season is going to be different than last in terms of action during the offseason. With so many free agents lingering into even spring training, it seems that players will be quicker to jump at contract offers rather than holding on to them and waiting to […]
Friday Notes
I had the opportunity yesterday to hit for my seats at Kauffman Stadium. And while I used to be a pretty good hitter, that was a long time ago. Long story short, I do not get my season tickets for free. But hey, I did get to hit a few balls at Kauffman Stadium, so […]
PECOTA Position Player Hits and Misses
For a long time, Royals fans thought PECOTA was the devil for projecting the team to finish far worse than they probably should have and ultimately did. I think a big issue here is that the biggest critics of projection systems don’t exactly understand what they are. They’re limited to the data available. So for […]
Let’s Talk 40-Man
With the World Series now in the books, we’re on to the offseason and that means the Royals have some massaging to do in order to make the 40-man roster one with, well, 40 or fewer players. There are currently 44 players on that roster including players on the 60-day disabled list and two free […]