With 30-plus exhibition games in the books, it’s time to finally (finally!) think about the regular season. With the opener just days away, Ned Yost revealed his probable Opening Day lineup on Wednesday. Alex Gordon – LF Mike Moustakas – 3B Lorenzo Cain – CF Eric Hosmer – 1B Salvador Perez – C Brandon Moss […]
Tag: Joakim Soria
Spring Training Questions: How Good Are The Royals?
By now you’ve probably noticed that the regular season is starting in less than a week. And because of that, there will be no more spring training questions to be asked and for me to attempt to answer. As you know, there will be plenty more questions to be asked during the season, but I […]
Spring Training Questions: Can The Pitching Be Good Enough?
In today’s look at a question surrounding the Royals, I tackle a question that probably won’t get answered during the spring. It may not even get answered in the first part of the season, but it’s still a question that needs to be asked now even if we won’t have a final answer on it […]
Three Royals are Keys to a Playoff Push
With the Royals offseason shopping now seemingly close to complete (I think they’ll still pick up a bullpen arm), the question now becomes whether or not this Royals team is a playoff team. My short answer is that they certainly could be. I’ll give you a few minutes to recover from the heat on that […]
U.L.’s Toothpick: Figuring Out Wade’s Place In Royals History
With Wade Davis on his way to the north side of Chicago, I began wondering if it was possible to assess accurately where he might fit in the history of Royals closers. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about for some time, but I could never quite figure out how to get an accurate […]
Nobody’s Perfect
The pitcher win and the pitcher loss have to be among the very first baseball stats. Like it or not, they are still going to be in the paper every morning long after we are all gone. Thanks to Cy Young wins by Zack Greinke and Felix Hernandez, even the old guard baseball writers have […]
One Week Left
I had forgotten this feeling. It’s a weird one. At the end of a season without the postseason, it’s always sort of a relief that the year is over. If you’re like me, you can’t look away even though there’s not a ton to look toward. But at the same time, while it’s a relief […]
Recap: Indians 2, Royals 1; #IndiansDevilMagic
Things may be mostly academic at this point in the season–the Cleveland Indians are almost certainly going to win the American League Central, and the Royals are almost certainly going to be playing golf in October. But nothing is official yet, and so there was no reason for the Royals not to try and spoil […]
So It Goes (BP Kansas City Episode 25)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2016/09/15/so-it-goes-bp-kansas-city-episode-25.mp3 Have a seat. I don’t want to break this news to you, but the Royals are probably not going to make the playoffs again in 2016. In this episode, we look at why that is. Yes, some of that is Joakim Soria, who, of late, has been bad in key situations. Some of that […]
Soria’s Slider Sabotaged His Season
Ask most Royals fans what’s wrong with Joakim Soria and they’ll tell you that he’s not very good. Some will put it a bit less kindly than that, but that’s the consensus. And they’re right. In 2016, he hasn’t been very good. Sure, there have been stretches. He had a 2.15 ERA from April 29 […]