Even with the extremely low expectations I had for this Royals season (my preseason prediction of a 72-90 record looks ridiculous now), this has been a bummer of a year. The boys in blue are on pace for 114 losses. In my defense, even the mothership’s PECOTA preseason projections had them at 66-96. They really […]
Tag: Adalberto Mondesi
RECAP: Kelvin Herrera was traded and it got worse
By the way, the Royals played a baseball game Monday night. It was easy to lose sight of that, considering what was going down even as warm-ups were wrapping up. Kelvin Herrera was gone; yet another franchise mainstay would be wearing a different uniform. Another link to the glory days gone; HDH officially in the […]
Friday Notes
I’m not sure it’s safe to say there’s any point in the 2018 season that’s a rock bottom for the Royals, but I think we all have to hope that this week is it. Getting outscored by one of the worst teams in the National League 12-1 at home when your two struggling veteran arms […]
Diamonds in the Rough 6-9-18
HR Roll Call Adalberto Mondesi (5), Kort Peterson (8), Seuly Matias (20) BPKC Hitter of the Day Gabriel Cancel 3-5 2R, 2b, 3 RBI BPKC Pitcher of the Day Jake Kalish 5 IP 2 H 0 R 0 ER 0 BB 5 K 1-0 GO-FO 64p/48k Game 1 Asheville Tourists 7 Lexington Legends 1 Game […]
Diamonds in the Rough 6-3-18
HR Roll Call: Paulo Orlando (5), Meibrys Viloria (2) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Meibrys Viloria 2-4, HR, 4 RBI BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Tyler Zuber 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 23p/14k Lexington Legends 6, Augusta GreenJackets 5 The Lexington bats struggled early against Giants starter Jose […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-30-18
HR Roll Call: Ryan O’Hearn (6), Adalberto Mondesi (4), Alex Liddi (6), Elier Hernandez (3), Jecksson Flores (2) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Elier Hernandez 4-5, 3R, HR, 3 RBI BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Richard Lovelady 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 2-0 GO-FO, 28p/23k Transactions IF Corey […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-3-18
HR Roll Call: Frank Schwindel (4), Adalberto Mondesi (2), Seuly Matias (8), Nick Pratto (3) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Nick Dini 3-4 2R, 2b, RBI, BB BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Dan Tillo 6.1 IP 1 H 3 R 3 ER 3 BB 10 K 6-2 GO-FO Columbia Fireflies 4 Lexington Legends 3 F/10 […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-2-18
HR Roll Call: Paulo Orlando (1), Alex Liddi (2), Chase Vallot 2(4, 5) BPKC Hitter of the Day; Chase Vallot 2-5 2HR, 4 RBI, 3K BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Matt Wynne 1 IP 0 H 0 R 0 BB 1 K Columbia Fireflies 9 Lexington Legends 1 The Legends were limited to one run […]
Diamonds in the Rough 5-1-18
Commentary I see quite a bit lately that fans are already tiring of watching Jon Jay, Lucas Duda and a few other veterans while asking to see some young guys in their place. I don’t understand that line of thinking as someone who watches the “young guys” every night. Who are you wanting to watch play? […]
Third Annual BP Kansas City Predictions
As we do every year at BP Kansas City, we’re here on Opening Day to predict the future. This doesn’t mean that you should skip watching this season, you just know ahead of time how things will turn out. If you’re okay with spoilers, read ahead. In addition to division winners, wild cards and World Series […]