We only have to wait about one more month for pitchers and catchers to report. There doesn’t seem to be the same buzz for spring training in Kansas City this year as there has been in the past with all the changes to the team coming, but I think we all know that I’m pumped […]
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Friday Notes
It’s hard to believe this is the last Friday Notes of 2017. We’ve been through a lot this year with the Royals. Just during the season, we followed a team that was almost eliminated by May but somehow ended up in a playoff position by the trade deadline. Then, well, we know what happened next. […]
Qualified to be Free
Monday, the Royals extended qualifying offers to their top three free agents, Lorenzo Cain, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas. That means those three have the opportunity to accept and sign a one year deal with the team for 2018 for $17.4 million. If they turn it down, they could still come back to the Royals, […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Arizona Diamondbacks, September 29-October 1
This is how it all ends in 2017 for the Royals. They welcome the Arizona Diamondbacks into town for one final series in what feels like much more than a season ending series. It’s really an era ending series, and the Royals certainly don’t have an easy weekend ahead of them. Yes, the Diamondbacks are […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Detroit Tigers, September 26-28
The final homestand begins with the Detroit Tigers, which is kind of sort of fitting as an end to this run for the core of the championship club seeing as they ended the Tigers division title run in 2015. The Tigers don’t much resemble that team that had a stranglehold on the division for a […]
The Doctor is in for the Royals in Toronto
So the big run barrage that happened Wednesday night? The Royals might’ve been better served hanging on to one or two of those for Thursday’s affair. Fortunately, the Jason Vargas of April and May returned to stifle the Toronto bats in a 1-0 win to keep Kansas City’s Wild Card hopes, however faintly, alive. A […]
Series Preview: Royals at Toronto Blue Jays, September 19-21
A little less than two years ago, the Royals and Blue Jays were fighting to determine who would represent the American League in the World Series. Now, both teams are still alive for the second Wild Card, but both are longshots. The shot is a little longer for the Blue Jays, though, as they’ve seen […]
Royals snap streak behind stellar bullpen outing
After last night’s debacle, there was a real chance Cleveland’s streak would reach into next week. And you can excuse Royals fans for feeling a familiar, sinking feeling going into the home half of the ninth on Friday night—bottom of the Tribe order, limited options out of the bullpen. And Mike Minor trotted out in […]
Friday Notes
I guess you can never say never until there’s no way, but last night’s loss was probably the final final nail in the 2017 Royals coffin. In the end, they just didn’t have the firepower to play a full six months with various injuries to more than half of their rotation, some of their bullpen, […]
Series Preview: Royals at Cleveland Indians, September 14-17
The Royals get to play one of the hottest teams in baseball history this weekend, the Cleveland Indians. The good news is that it sure seems unlikely they’ll keep winning forever, but the bad news is that I can’t prove they will lose again. As a four-game set, if they can’t halt the Indians momentum, […]