Buried somewhere between a turkey carcass and whatever grandma does with those sweet potatoes, the Royals made a couple of moves Thanksgiving weekend. Even amateurs know you use the Friday after the holiday to bury the bad news, so it wasn’t exactly surprising that the Royals chose that day to announce Mike Matheny would be […]
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Merrifield’s Aging Curve
Whit Merrifield is a legitimately good baseball player. That fact was debated for awhile, but the only people debating that today are those who argue for the sake of arguing. That he is good has been a really nice development for the Royals, one they should probably take advantage of in an effort to expedite […]
And now Mike Matheny is here
It is probably important to remember that Mike Matheny has nothing in the way of real power for the Kansas City Royals right now. As I have it from the Royals press release, Matheny will be a special advisor for player development, which I know has many who observed his Cardinals tenure in stitches. He […]
Friday Notes
I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving. For those of you who are like me and have two full Thanksgiving meals with two families, I hope you’re not nearly as full still today as I am. Worth it, though. I always think about how Thanksgiving is a day where nothing in baseball happens, but then […]
Royals Add Three to Roster Ahead of Rule 5 Deadline
With teams meeting the deadline to add players to their 40-man roster, the Royals added three pitchers on Tuesday in Scott Blewett, Josh Staumont and Arnaldo Hernandez. The three prospects find themselves on the roster after different career paths to date. In Staumont and Blewett, the Royals have a pair of 2nd round picks from the […]
The Long and the Shortstop of It
At various times over the last few seasons, the Royals have gone without a true backup shortstop on their roster. It’s usually not for terribly long, but it’s long enough that you at least wonder what would happen if the shortstop would go down. But for the Royals, the shortstop never went down. I’m not […]
Four Potential Statistical Bargains
Even with an unlimited budget, a bargain is a nice thing to find. Sure you might be willing to spend $200 on groceries for the week, but you definitely don’t mind a good deal walking down the produce aisle. The same is true for big league teams. Any kind of bargain on the free agent […]
Friday Notes
If you’re using Friday Notes to count down days until there’s real baseball again, you’ll find that it seems much closer than the reality. Just 14 to go before spring training games start. Yeesh. Anyway, at least there’ll be some baseball news soon as free agents will likely begin to sign. I still stand by […]
Searching for the bullpen solution
Hey, the bullpen was a problem for the Royals in 2018. To be fair, there were a lot of problems for the Royals. April, for example. That entire month was a problem. June was grim, too. Hell, the whole first five months of the season were wretched. Still, pointing the finger at the bullpen and […]
Keeping the rebuild on a timetable
It’s not even the middle of November and we’ve already reached the winter of our baseball discontent. Last off season, at least we had the Eric Hosmer saga to follow. True, it had the allure of a multi-car pileup on a snowy morning (Seriously, it’s mid-November and we’re talking snow? Get me out of here.) […]