The 2018 Royals are a train wreck. Or perhaps, a dumpster fire occurring on top of a train wreck. This is no secret. But let’s ignore all the many, many negative things that have happened this year and focus on some positives. Yes, there are some. I promise. In no particular order, here are 10 […]
Tag: Adalberto Mondesi
Introducing Your 2021 Kansas City Royals
Hey why not? The season is boring and 2021 seems to be what the front office is pushing for, so let’s have a little fun and see who could be on that roster when the team expects to be contending for division titles again. That’s an interesting year because the White Sox should theoretically be […]
Forget the past, focus on the future
Watching the Royals game on Tuesday night, it was as if the 2015 championship version melded with the dreadful 2018 club. A bizarre night, indeed. The Royals channeled the 2015 vintage as they kept the line moving with six doubles and four steals. The 2018 Royals manifested in a pair of double plays and, as […]
RECAP: BERTO boots two in series opener
Well I hope everybody is excited for more Alcides Escobar, because he just signed a two-year extension. I expect to see that announcement Friday after Adalberto Mondesi, a young and talented shortstop, made two errors in the series opener against the Yankees. That’s not the sort of performance you can afford to have when you’re […]
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 […]
Friday Notes
We’ve reached a point that is familiar to all of us who were following the Royals before the 2014 season where we count down the number of games left that we have to endure. That number is at 70, if you were curious. It’s a vicious cycle because once those 70 games are over and […]
RECAP: I don’t know what to do with a win
Bah Gawd, that’s a Royals win that is! All it took was the exact opposite of what we’d been treated to all season—namely, competent bullpen work and solid hitting lower in the lineup—but a win is a win and with it, it’s safe to spend at least one evening not worrying about the Royals increasingly […]
Friday Notes
Now that the Royals finally have Jorge Bonifacio back, they can prepare for their second half push to the pennant. Stop laughing. Seriously, stop. Okay fine, so getting him back won’t change anything, but it will make the team a little easier to watch and maybe a little more fun. I keep thinking back to […]
RECAP: Another loss, but read anyway?
Was the worst part of Tuesday’s loss in Milwaukee… A. Being one-hit by Freddy Peralta over seven innings B. Jakob Junis allowing three home runs C. Both D. Other It’s C, obviously. Don’t make this more difficult than it needs to be. The Kansas City Royals sauntered into Milwaukee and didn’t exactly cut a powerful […]