Even with an unlimited budget, a bargain is a nice thing to find. Sure you might be willing to spend $200 on groceries for the week, but you definitely don’t mind a good deal walking down the produce aisle. The same is true for big league teams. Any kind of bargain on the free agent […]
Tag: Jorge Bonifacio
Royals Rumors Ready to Pop at GM Meetings
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 […]
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 […]
RECAP: This one was special even by Royals standards
That the Royals scored six runs in an inning didn’t just lose—they relinquished the lead in the very next half-inning, before even recording an out—is some real Royals BS, even for the 2018 version of the franchise. The mind fairly reels at the myriad ways Ned Yost’s hapless band has strolled to [checks notes] sweet […]
Friday Notes
Turns out winning is actually pretty fun. You’re forgiven if you had forgotten that because before this week, the last winning streak longer than three games for the Royals came back in spring training. In the final win of a seven-game Cactus League winning streak, Ryan Goins started at shortstop. I have somehow forgotten the […]
Free Your Mind
A great many times this season, I’ve sat down to try to come up with an angle about the Kansas City Royals that might be considered fun or interesting or anything other than an attempt at click-baiting my way to a semi-interesting take that even I only half-believed in. Occasionally, I’ve been able to grit […]
RECAP: Salvy wore a sombrero and somehow it gets worse
Nobody, but nobody, snatches defeat away from the jaws of victory quite like the Royals. The incredible part is that they can do it against the White Sox, nobody’s idea of a Murder’s Row offense, and make it look so charmingly easy. Matt Davidson wasn’t even involved, which is the true irony of ironies. Royals […]
Five to watch after the break
The bad news is self-evident: the Kansas City Royals first-half woes leave them on pace for the worst record in team history. That’s pretty bad news though. But if there’s a silver lining in every cloud, it’s that some of the principals involved in the first-half malaise should be better, and the bounce-back could start […]
Extension Candidate: Jorge Bonifacio
The most important thing a mid-market team like the Royals can do is to continue to churn out prospects who can contribute on the big league level. Somewhere not far behind that is locking up young talent to deals that control their costs over the next few seasons. And sometimes in locking up that young […]
RECAP: The Duffy of Yore returns to stymie Chicago
Danny Duffy pitched well, Jorge Bonifacio drove in all three runs and most importantly, Matt Davidson was 1-for-4 with two strikeouts, taking off his Royals-killing superhero cape for an afternoon to allow the Royals a 5-0 win at Not-Comiskey Park. The thing about a series between two utterly abysmal teams is that both have hope. […]