Author: David Lesky

It’s becoming abundantly clear that the Royals are involved in all sorts of discussions on the trade front this offseason, which makes sense. The free agent market is lacking in marquee players and the team claims they’re lacking in money. Put it together and trades are the name of the game. Whether it’s to help […]

The baseball world, fresh from staving off a lockout, will convene in the nation’s capital this week for the annual winter meetings. This is a time that’s really fun for baseball nerds like me (and probably you) because it’s basically constant rumors and a lot of actual action, which is much needed after a month-plus without […]

Baseball continues to have labor peace. That’s a major headline from last night’s news that the owners and the MLBPA were able to reach an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement to keep the game of baseball moving for at least five more years. It’s very good news. But with all CBAs, there’s good […]

After a postseason where bullpens were deployed in ways we haven’t seen for years, if ever, the popular question was if this would change the way bullpens are used moving forward. I’d argue that change already occurred before the postseason. Since 2010, 24 team pitching staffs have failed to accumulate 900 innings from their starters. That’s a […]

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are still so full from all the delicious food that you’re not even thinking about the fact that the Royals have been way too quiet this offseason. The winter meetings are only a couple weeks ago, so the action should get hot and heavy pretty soon, […]

Remember when Ned Yost made a snarky comment about the third base tree a few years back? It seems like that comment may have allowed it some room to grow and the Royals now have Mike Moustakas, Cheslor Cuthbert and Hunter Dozier. Moustakas was pretty darn good in 2015 and looked good to start 2016. […]

On August 1, 2016, the Royals stood pat at the trade deadline. Amidst rumors that they might deal Edinson Volquez, Luke Hochevar or even Wade Davis, the Royals did nothing. A lot of people weren’t happy with that decision, but I understood it even though the Royals had fallen out of the race. Part of […]

Here we are less than a week from Thanksgiving and Dayton Moore and the Royals haven’t really done anything. In a way, I miss the days of the Royals jumping into the market almost immediately after the World Series. But then I remember that moves like that give the Royals pitchers like Jonathan Sanchez and […]

With the date for pitchers and catchers to report being announced as February 14th, I think it’s only fair to look ahead to everyone’s favorite time of year, projection season. As you know, the projection systems don’t tend to be so kind to the Royals. Why that is has been discussed all over the internet, […]