Last year, one of my first acts at my previous site was watching the early-season Royals-A’s contest. Jharel Cotton tossed the finest game of his career; it was brought up roughly 173 times that he was one of the players acquired from the Dodgers for Rich Hill and Josh Reddick in one of the real […]
Tag: Abraham Almonte
Hitting is Hard
Maybe the Royals offense is bad. It’s not hard to assume that, given what you’ve seen so far in 2018. But what if I told you it didn’t have to be that way? In fact, what if I told you the Royals were (gasp) underachieving? Actually, you’d probably believe that. But what if it could […]
Abraham Almonte was the bright spot, so yep that was a loss
What would you expect to get out of Danny Duffy on three day’s rest? Historically, the answer had been pretty good, depending on your perspective. In two career starts on less than four days of rest he’d pitched seven innings and allowed three hits, one earned run and struck out seven. The problem is that […]
Hammel’s sterling effort wasted in first game of doubleheader
Whoa. Jason Hammel pitched a complete game. Part of this, it’s true, is due to the singular nature of his accuracy and his pitch economy in Friday’s doubleheader opener against Detroit. He was deep into the eighth before he reached 80 pitches, finishing eight innings for the first time since 2015 and his first complete […]
Friday Notes
The season has lasted eight full days and the Royals have played four games. That alone makes any kind of significant analysis difficult, and when you add in the abnormally cold weather, it’s hard to come to any real conclusions this soon. The only thing I think I can say definitively is that I still […]