If this franchise goes on a championship run in the next five years, it’s a good bet we will flashback to this week as a pivotal moment in The Process 2.0. Not only did the Royals stock up on college arms via the draft, they executed what figures to be the first of several trades, […]
Tag: Jon Jay
Thanks Jon Jay, Royals add a pair of pitchers for the outfielder
The Royals exercised a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight, dealing Jon Jay for a pair of minor league pitchers, Gabe Speier and Elvis Luciano. The prospect that we are more likely to see the soonest is left-handed reliever Speier, currently at Double-A Jackson. Via 2080 Baseball – Not a guy with real big stuff, Speier has a pitch-to-contact […]
RECAP: Andrew Heaney threw a one-hitter
Here’s what makes me think Brad Keller might wind up being alright: It’s the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game against Anaheim. Keller had been cruising along all night, but back-to-back singles by Mike Trout and Justin Upton suddenly had the Angels in business against a guy making his second career big league start. So what […]
RECAP: Here’s to the future!
On the same night the Kansas City Royals front office was drafting the team of the future (a future which appears to have little need for bats), the 2018 version was some 1,300 miles west of 1 Royals Way to take on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Surrounding Municipalities Including But Not Limited […]
RECAP: Hip-Hip! Jorge’s blast lifts Royals late
By virtue of not surrendering seven runs in an inning even once, let alone twice, in Saturday’s matinee, the Kansas City Royals were already in higher cotton than they were after Friday’s game. Being able to fend off the A’s and even the series at one game apiece was just a sweetener. Despite tying the […]
Strikeouts and Homers and Hits, Oh My (BP Kansas City Episode 102)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2018/06/01/strikeouts-and-homers-and-hits-oh-my-bp-kansas-city-episode-102.mp3 The Royals had some success this week, including some solid pitching performances by Brad Keller, Danny Duffy, and Jason Hammel. We covered some of the recent DL moves and the way it’s shifted the pitching staff. We also discussed Jon Jay’s successful May, Hunter Dozier’s adjustment to the big leagues, and took another look […]
Royals Progress Report
The 2018 season for the big league Royals was never meant to be a championship season. It was never meant to provide thrilling moments in August and September. It was never meant to provide even a glimmer of hope that the team could even be in contention at the one-third mark. Sure nobody in the […]
RECAP: Jon Jay was good!
A lot of people celebrate Memorial Day (or as it’s known in the Deep South, the Official Start of Grilling, Drinking and Wearing American Flags Somewhere On Your Person Day) with a baseball game. I am not some people; I celebrated it with two. First, there were my hometown Nashville Sounds, who had a 12:05 […]
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 […]
Friday Notes
I think I underestimated just how bad the bottom of the roster would be for the Royals this season, and while it’s really difficult to lose 100 games, it’s remarkably easier when you start off with three times as many losses as wins in the first 20+ games. The Royals sit at 5-18 right now, […]