Break up the Royals, everyone. Winners of three straight and owners of their first series sweep of the season, they welcome the Detroit Tigers to town. The Tigers are sort of interesting in that they way overperformed for the first two and a half months and got to just one game under .500 after a […]
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For the weekend, everything was coming up Royals
Sure, it’s a three game winning streak, but when the Royals have only won three consecutive games one other time the entire season, it’s a cause for celebration. And when it’s the first three games to open the season’s de facto second half, maybe it seems like rock bottom is in the rear view mirror. […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Minnesota Twins, July 20-22
Even though the Royals play like a minor league team, they don’t get the benefit of the rules of some minor leagues where the second half is a clean slate. That means they bring a horrific record into the first series of the “second half” against the Minnesota Twins, a team that has plenty of […]
Five to watch after the break
The bad news is self-evident: the Kansas City Royals first-half woes leave them on pace for the worst record in team history. That’s pretty bad news though. But if there’s a silver lining in every cloud, it’s that some of the principals involved in the first-half malaise should be better, and the bounce-back could start […]
Friday Notes
The second half of the season, which is really the second 40 percent or so gets underway tonight, and with four days to reflect on the atrocity that has been the Royals season to this point, it feels a little different. Yes, the season was over sometime in mid-April, but being able to take a […]
Royals Offensive Statcast Fun
This was the longest first half we’ve ever seen in Kansas City, both in terms of the number of games and in terms of how exhausting it is to watch this team every day. But we’re still here, so you should be too. With a team that has already surpassed their loss total of the […]
Extension Candidate: Jorge Bonifacio
The most important thing a mid-market team like the Royals can do is to continue to churn out prospects who can contribute on the big league level. Somewhere not far behind that is locking up young talent to deals that control their costs over the next few seasons. And sometimes in locking up that young […]
Pitching Prospects at Lexington-Andres Sotillet, RHP
Signed as a free agent in 2015 out of Venezuela, Andres Sotillet has been somewhat under the radar when compared to the virtual logjam of talent now residing in Lexington. However, fans are starting to become very aware of him, as he has steadily built a reputation for pinpoint control and versatility. Sotillet began his […]
Back In Time – 1974
Unless you are talking trades or prospects, it is hard to get interested in the 2018 Royals. In case you hadn’t noticed, I have been absent from the writing pool for a bit and it mostly stems from this being one of the most dismal of Royals seasons. There was a point in time when […]
Series Preview: Royals at Chicago White Sox, July 13-15
The scorching hot Royals, winners of one of two, take their show to Chicago to take on the White Sox on the road for the first time this season. As you know the White Sox had their way with the Royals early in the year before the Royals were able to salvage the final two […]