In rapid fire succession on Thursday, the Royals announced they had come to terms with their three players still on the roster eligible for arbitration. And just like that, the offseason became a little more drab. Not that there was much drama to be had anyway. All three: Cheslor Cuthbert, Brian Flynn and Jesse Hahn […]
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2018 Royals Pitching Statcast Leaders
We looked at the offensive players yesterday, but now we turn to the pitching staff. Cover your eyes. It’s actually not all bad. Some guys were actually pretty good. You’ll see why Brad Keller was as successful as he was last year and why Brandon Maurer, well, wasn’t. Let’s just get to it. All these […]
Let’s Talk 40-Man
With the World Series now in the books, we’re on to the offseason and that means the Royals have some massaging to do in order to make the 40-man roster one with, well, 40 or fewer players. There are currently 44 players on that roster including players on the 60-day disabled list and two free […]
Friday Notes
We’ve now passed the magical 40-game mark that Dayton Moore has mentioned so many times, so hopefully now we can start to see some moves to turn this team into a lean, mean contender. I kid, of course, but I do think we’ll start to see even more movement over the next few weeks. We’ve […]
Remembering the 2002 Royals (BP Kansas City Episode 100)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2018/05/11/remembering-the-2002-royals-bp-kansas-city-episode-100.mp3 This week is pretty special. One hundred episodes ago, we joined up with Baseball Prospectus Kansas City, so to commemorate the occasion, we dove into the vault and dug out some info on another notable 100: the 100-loss 2002 Royals. We discussed the plight of that injury-riddled, pitching-starved, manager-changing team and how it fits […]
Friday Notes
You guys want this or Gladiators? This season has basically been a season-long blowout, but as I’ve said before, it’s probably a good thing. If they had started off well and were sitting at, say, 17-14 instead of their miserable 9-22, would we really believe this team was actually any good? Of course not, but […]
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 5-1-18
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? […]
Diamonds in the Rough 4-22-18
HR Roll Call: Nick Dini (3), Sebastian Rivero (1), Cal Jones (1) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Cal Jones 2-5, 2R, 2b, HR, 3 RBI BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Nolan Watson 5 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 4-4 GO-FO, 88p/55k Transactions – Lexington placed Dennicher Carrasco and Ricky […]
Diamonds in the Rough 4-17-18
HR Roll Call: Seuly Matias (5), Dennicher Carrasco (1,2) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Dennicher Carrasco 2-3, 2 HR, 4 RBI, BB BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Jason Adam 2.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 4-0 GO-FO, 31p/23k Transactions Kansas City – Optioned Scott Barlow as 26th man from […]