This isn’t a worse-case scenario. (That would’ve been a sweep.) But this feels pretty damn close. One night after doing everything right against the worst team in baseball, the Royals left the bats in the rack and stumbled to another shutout loss. We’ve seen this kind of action before. I think back to the Astros […]
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Looking Into My Royals Crystal Ball
We are now less than a week from the Kansas City Royals opening up their championship defense. I know we all love baseball and will watch the season unfold, but there’s no need. I’ve taken a look into my crystal ball to determine what will happen during the 2016 season. I won’t give you the […]
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 […]
Dillon Gee And The Quest For Pitching Depth
The 2015 season was pretty much an annus horribilis for right-hander Dillon Gee. A starter for all but three appearances for the Mets in his career, he was squeezed out of their rotation in spring training. Gee earned a reprieve when Zack Wheeler went down with injury and had Tommy John surgery. His time in the […]
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 […]