Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Edinson Volquez struggles in the first. The Royals bats go limp. Chien-Ming Wang eats it. The Royals lose by double digits. Yep. The Royals two game winning streak comes crashing to an end in Tampa. I don’t know why I just don’t cut and paste these recaps. […]
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The Royals’ Coming Roster Crunch
How many players would you say are listed on the Royals’ 40-man roster right now? Obvious guess: 40. Maybe you suspect a trick question and think the answer is 39 or 41. Nope. Through the magic of roster rules, the Royals actually have 43 players on their 40-man roster. But changes are coming soon. Players […]
Early Season Roster Manipulation – Part One
The casual fan and, to some extent, the hardcore fans and even writers often gloss over the early season schedule with a ‘they can probably go without a fifth starter for a while if they wanted to’ and move along. To be fair, that approach is not without merit as the Kansas City Royals have […]
Royals Roster Coming Into Focus
One thing I like to do at the beginning of spring training is take a look at the whole spring roster and pick out my 25-man roster. It’s sort of like an NCAA tournament bracket, though, because slowly but surely the real thing begins to look very different than what I predicted. This year was […]