The Royals head west for the final time this season (yes, that’s accurate) and begin by hitting Anaheim to take on the Angels. The Angels have all the looks of a pretty mediocre team this season for a number of reasons, but they also have one of the two best players in baseball, so I […]
Author: David Lesky
Series Preview: Royals vs. Baltimore Orioles, April 20-22
In 2014, the Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles met for the opportunity to represent the American League in the World Series. The Royals swept that one, but the Orioles are out for revenge this weekend as they head to Kauffman Stadium for a three-game series. Okay, maybe they’ve gotten over it and don’t necessarily […]
Friday Notes
After that weird first week of the season, we’ve gotten almost daily baseball for two weeks now, and that makes it feel like we’re in the thick of the baseball season. We’re still a couple weeks away from not having those wild swings in stats from game to game, so we’ll still talk about how […]
Location, Location, Location: True in Real Estate and for Chris Young
When the Royals signed Chris Young during spring training in 2015, I think they expected him to contribute, but not in nearly the way he did during the magical 2015 season. He appeared in 34 games for the champs, including 18 starts. In those games, he had a 3.06 ERA and gave up just 6.6 […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Detroit Tigers, April 19-21
After a 4-3 road trip, the Kansas City Royals return home for a six-game homestand that begins with a visit from the division rival Detroit Tigers. The Tigers had a disappointing season last year, finishing at 74-87 and in last place in the AL Central. That was on the heels of four consecutive American League […]
It’s A Long Season
It’s a long season. Think about just how long 162 games is. That’s about 10 NFL seasons. It’s roughly two seasons worth of games in the NHL and the NBA. It’s four college basketball seasons for a team that goes to the NCAA title game. It’s long enough for a woman to get pregnant at the start […]
Series Preview: Royals at Oakland Athletics, April 15-17
The Kansas City Royals head to the West Coast for the first time in 2016 to take on the Oakland Athletics in a three-game set over the weekend. The A’s have put together kind of a weird team in 2016 with a few important pieces from their impressive three-year run from 2012 to 2014, but […]
Friday Notes
As the Kansas City Royals prepare to head to the West Coast for the first time in 2016 (and strangely the second to last time), they do so on the heels of a really fantastic start to the season. I was listening to Buster Olney on The Border Patrol on 810 in Kansas City yesterday […]
Wait to Worry About Wade
The last thing anybody thinks to do when examining the Kansas City Royals is to worry about Wade Davis. Over the last two seasons, he has a 0.97 regular season ERA in 139.1 innings. He’s allowed 71 hits, walked 43 and struck out a whopping 187. So he’s just your run of the mill unhittable […]
We Still Know Nothing
Baseball is back, and I would highly doubt that anyone reading this would argue that it is not a good thing. After some wonky opening week schedules for everyone, teams will be settling in to the typical grind of the regular season, so we can even get back to just regular, nearly daily baseball. The […]