There’s a general thought around the game that this season is going to be different than last in terms of action during the offseason. With so many free agents lingering into even spring training, it seems that players will be quicker to jump at contract offers rather than holding on to them and waiting to […]
Tag: Ian Kennedy
Building a Non-Contender
The Royals are actually, from a practical standpoint, in good position heading into the offseason. For a team that blew past 100 losses, they have actual big-league caliber ballplayers in many spots. I know that probably sounds pretty snarky and mean-spirited, but it’s true: if the Royals took the team that finished the season, lock […]
Don’t call it a rebuild
An October with no baseball means it’s time for Dayton Moore to hold his state of the franchise press conference. Things got off to a rollicking start as Moore insisted the rebuild took hold when they stopped talking about… the rebuild. You know, I think what jumpstarted the rebuild is we quit talking about the […]
Friday Notes
I miss the playoffs. I know they’re happening right now, but what I mean is that I miss the Royals being in them. I miss writing series previews. I miss the graying process of my hair speeding up by years. I miss the nerves. I miss the relief. Maybe we’ll get to experience that again […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Cleveland Indians, September 27-30
This is it. The final four games of the 2018 season are at Kauffman Stadium for the Royals as they welcome in the division champion Cleveland Indians for a season-ending tryst. In spite of their third straight division title, the Indians have to be considered underwhelming this year as they are pretty much living off […]
RECAP: The Royals are bad. But they are not Detroit bad
I know we spend a lot of time in this space waxing poetic about the foibles of the 2018 Kansas City Royals, and that’s partly because the Royals have been pretty bad all year and partly because I’ve always been encouraged to write what I know and I’ve now done [quick math] holy crap, 77 […]
Series Preview: Royals at Detroit Tigers, September 20-23
The Royals take their last trip to Detroit in 2018 to see the Tigers in a battle of the blah as the season comes to a close. I believe the current version of the Royals is better than the current version of the Tigers, though the current version of the Royals isn’t exactly a juggernaut […]
RECAP: Kennedy! Gordon! Esky! Royals turn back the clock to defeat Minnesota
For starters, I want to question the FS1 brass about what possibly constituted Minnesota and Kansas City’s being the featured Saturday night national broadcast. Were you throwing off because it was a college football Saturday? Were you hitting the Willians Astudillo/Effectively Wild demographic? Did y’all just want barbecue? It was the barbecue, wasn’t it? It’s […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Minnesota Twins, September 13-16
The Royals have four more games at home before they hit the road for one last time in 2018 and they welcome in the Minnesota Twins. It’s the final time these two teams will match up, so they know each other well and have been relatively evenly matched this season. We all know what a […]
Roster math enters advanced trigonometry phase
With the dawn of September baseball peeking over the horizon along with the Omaha Storm Chasers formally eliminated from postseason consideration on Tuesday night, thoughts may turn to those who could soon join the big league club. As you’re daydreaming of expanded rosters, keep in mind the Royals have been judicious in the past with […]