The Boston Red Sox signed Mitch Moreland to a two-year deal yesterday. That, in itself, is relatively meaningless for Royals fans. But it does eliminate yet another contender for the services of one Eric Hosmer. Before the 2017 season began, I believed there could be as many as 12 or 13 teams in the market […]
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Friday Notes
We’re really cooking on the hot stove now with moves for Doug Fister and Yusmeiro Petit in the books and a couple of non-descript relievers getting traded. The big names are already flying off the shelves, and the Royals have done nothing! Well, not nothing. They did bring back Seth Maness on a minor league […]
Hard Hittin’ – 10 Hardest Hit Balls by the Royals in 2017
This may surprise you, but the Royals actually hit the ball relatively hard in 2017. They weren’t the best. That distinction belonged to Oakland. But they found themselved nestled at 11th in baseball in exit velocity right between the offensive powerhouse that was the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers, who finished fifth in […]
What A Relief
The 2017 Winter Meetings will take place in Orlando in two weeks, but that doesn’t mean action can’t start up a little bit on the hot stove. We’ve already seen one move with the Rangers agreeing to a deal with Doug Fister, which could break the seal on the action around baseball prior to the […]
This is not about free-agency*
* – This is totally about free-agency I’ve tried to avoid talking about the impending free agency loss of every recognizable Royal for two reasons. It’s no fun to get a head start on pretending that Logan Morrison, Jarrod Dyson and Yunel Escobar manning positions that used to be owned by Eric Hosmer, Lorenzo Cain […]
Friday Notes
If this was a few years ago, I think there would be a new Royals blog called Ned Yost’s Broken Pelvis already up somewhere on the internet. Instead, the Royals manager just had to recover from a terribly painful sounding injury. Thankfully, the word is he’s going to be just fine, but man, that doesn’t […]
Friday Notes
We’re somewhere between two and five days away from there being no more baseball to watch, which is both sad and also sort of refreshing. Once this silly little World Series comes to a close, there might actually be something worth talking about for the teams who aren’t a part of this postseason. I personally […]
A Brief History of Why Lavish Spending on First Basemen is Bad
I’d like to talk to you today about why it’s a bad idea to give a first baseman a lot of money for a long period of time. Obviously, this has a lot to do with Eric Hosmer, but before we talk about him, I’d like to talk about Ryan Howard. In 2010, Ryan Howard […]
Dayton Moore Press Conference Review
Below are some of the questions that Dayton Moore was asked at his year end press conference, and while you can go back and hear his answers, I thought I’d give a few comments on what was asked or answered by him. Why didn’t the team perform to the level of what they had expected? […]
Friday Notes
I imagine various events will remind me of just how special the 2015 Royals were throughout the rest of my life. Wednesday night’s fifth game between the Yankees and Indians was one of those events. To lose game seven the way the Royals did in 2014 and then to come back and win a title […]