Author: David Lesky

You can point to any number of reasons why the Royals watched the playoffs from home this season, but one of the big reasons, and the one I’d say deserves the majority of the blame, is the offense. With runs per game up, on average, by about a quarter of a run per game per […]

I guess we’re one Friday closer to the start of spring training, so there’s that. We have a long way to go, but at least the hot stove starts to heat up with the general manager meetings this week. That means we got some quotes from Dayton Moore, which allowed us to at least think […]

For the better part of the last three seasons, the idea has been that the Royals window to contend was open through the 2017 season and then would slam shut. After spending the majority of my life watching failed rebuilding projects, I’ve been of the belief that you win when you can because you never […]

We all know that one of the biggest issues facing the Royals this offseason is their starting rotation. They need both quality and quantity after a season that saw them struggle to find consistency in the back of the rotation (and the front, actually) due to both injuries and ineffectiveness. Unfortunately, the starting rotation isn’t […]

Just like that, baseball is done for the year and we turn our attention completely to the game off the field, the hot stove. But first, man, that Game Seven was absolutely incredible. Game for game, I still think it probably ranks behind the Wild Card game in 2014, but in terms of the meaning, […]

As you’ve probably heard by now, the Royals are facing an uncertain future when, after the 2017 season, much of the core that has brought winning baseball back to Kansas City will be up for free agency. I don’t have to remind you of the names, but I will anyway. Lorenzo Cain Wade Davis Danny […]

The Cleveland Indians are one win away from winning the World Series, and a lot of that is because they’ve had a dominant bullpen this postseason that Terry Francona has used early and used often. That’s led to a lot of conversations about both the dominance of the unit and the brilliance of Francona as […]

Payroll talk is a necessary evil for a team in a market like Kansas City, but we get tired of it. We’ve talked about the payroll here at BP Kansas City quite a bit, mostly because of the comments made by Dayton Moore at his season-ending press conference. I still don’t buy it. Craig Brown […]

Allow yourself to take a mental journey. Back to a simpler time when the Royals were full of hope. That time was May 1, 2016. The Royals won that day by a margin of 4-1 over the Seattle Mariners to push their record to 13-11. They were four games back (trailing the White Sox) in […]