Don’t look now, but all around baseball, there are baseball activities happening. Pitchers and catchers are stretching. Catches are being had. Even some cracks of the bat can be heard in Arizona and Florida where position players have reported early. In fact, a lot of the Royals seem to have reported early, which seems par […]
Author: David Lesky
Spring Training Questions: What About Cheslor?
Spring training has finally arrived. While there’s joy in Mudville surrounding that development, eventually the happiness will turn into intrigue as spring is a time for teams to mold the roster that they hope becomes world champions. Every team has questions right now. Some are more important than others, but every team has them, so […]
Friday Notes
This is the last fully offseason edition of Friday Notes, which makes me very happy. By this time next week, pitchers will be stretching and maybe even playing a little catch. We’ll get tired of that pretty quickly, but for now, anything resembling real baseball is a sight for sore eyes, and I’m thrilled about […]
Strahm Should Relieve…At Least to Start
In a few days, Royals pitchers and catchers will report to spring training, which is the first step in ending the long national nightmare that is the offseason. When they do report, there will be a few new faces to go along with some that we’ve grown to know and love over the past few […]
Three Royals are Keys to a Playoff Push
With the Royals offseason shopping now seemingly close to complete (I think they’ll still pick up a bullpen arm), the question now becomes whether or not this Royals team is a playoff team. My short answer is that they certainly could be. I’ll give you a few minutes to recover from the heat on that […]
Friday Notes
We’ve almost made it, everyone. In just 11 long days, Royals pitchers and catchers will arrive in Surprise ready to stretch like there’s no tomorrow. In just 22 days, the Royals will play an actual game, or at least as actual a game as a charity spring training game can be. And then in just […]
Danny Duffy, Royals Great
As we sit here today, about two weeks from pitchers and catchers reporting for the 2017 season, Danny Duffy does not rank among the best of the best in Royals history. In fact, here’s where he ranks in some key categories: Category Rank ERA 13 Wins 28 WHIP 11 Games 43 Innings 29 Strikeouts 14 […]
Royals Gather Moss
According to pretty much any source worth anything, the Royals have agreed to terms on a two-year deal with free agent Brandon Moss. The deal is said be worth $12 million and is backloaded, which is to be expected given the Royals budget concerns for the upcoming season. He will reportedly earn $3.75 million in […]
Friday Notes
This week has been immensely difficult. When tragedies hit elsewhere, you always feel for the people impacted but you’re just never quite prepared for how you would feel if the tragedy directly impacted you. Unfortunately, we now know and I wish we didn’t. But at some point, the healing needs to begin. For some, it’s […]
RIP Yordano Ventura
For nearly 30 years, the Royals were a laughingstock. This isn’t new information to you. They lost in ways that many fans didn’t even know existed. It was really hard to be a Royals fan. This isn’t about those dark times, but it’s about how the Royals emerged from those dark times. Many might argue […]