I’m not sure if he’s getting weirder or if I’m just appreciating it more, but Scott Boras time is just awesome. I’m sure it’s at least partially intentional, but some of the things he says absolutely crack me up. I’m not sure if Boras is good or bad for baseball, but his beginning of the […]
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2018 Royals Offensive Statcast Leaders
We took a look at this at the break, so let’s dig in to the final numbers now that the season has been put to bed long enough for us to not hate the team quite as much as we once did before the trade deadline. All numbers come from the insanely awesome Baseball Savant. If […]
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 […]
PECOTA Position Player Hits and Misses
For a long time, Royals fans thought PECOTA was the devil for projecting the team to finish far worse than they probably should have and ultimately did. I think a big issue here is that the biggest critics of projection systems don’t exactly understand what they are. They’re limited to the data available. So for […]
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
On the list of things I expected to see this season, a Royals starter taking a perfect game into the ninth inning was not anywhere to be found. So Jorge Lopez’s flirt with perfection was possibly the highlight of a horrible season, and if it’s not the highlight, it’s somewhere in the top five for […]
Friday Notes
The trade of Lucas Duda to the Braves along with September starting gives Royals fans something to be excited for at the end of a long, difficult season. I’m guessing the Royals won’t bring up everybody everyone wants to see, but it’s another opportunity for them to add some younger talent to the roster to […]
Roster math enters advanced trigonometry phase
With the dawn of September baseball peeking over the horizon along with the Omaha Storm Chasers formally eliminated from postseason consideration on Tuesday night, thoughts may turn to those who could soon join the big league club. As you’re daydreaming of expanded rosters, keep in mind the Royals have been judicious in the past with […]
Friday Notes
I can very much appreciate consistency and the consistency with which people argue with the lineups the Royals put out is pretty fantastic. The fact that people still have that kind of passion for a team on the fast track to 110-plus losses is really pretty impressive and I do think speaks to how much […]
Revisiting Preseason Predictions (BP Kansas City Episode 108)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2018/07/19/revisiting-preseason-predictions-bp-kansas-city-episode-108.mp3 The Royals limped…crawled…technically made it to the All-Star break and are on pace for a franchise-worst record. There weren’t a lot of positives in the first half, but Jeff and Mike made some predictions in March and had to check on the status of those calls at the break. We discussed Jorge Soler, Alex […]