Oh boy, you probably recently found yourself saying about the Royals prospects for an impending firesale and the bountiful harvest of prospects sure to be heading their way. I can’t wait to see how the future is impacted by these necessary if unfortunate trades we’ll see soon, and hopefully what a wonderful impact they’ll have […]
Tag: Jorge Soler
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 […]
RECAP: It’s never easy, even in victory
This was supposed to be so easy. The Royals jumped to a nine-run lead. Nine runs. Nine. In two innings! And it (almost) didn’t matter. Last night’s 14-inning affair was as thrilling a moment as the Royals have provided all season. Surrendering a nine-run lead a day later would not have fit into the plan […]
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 […]
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 […]
Remembering the 2002 Royals (BP Kansas City Episode 100)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2018/05/11/remembering-the-2002-royals-bp-kansas-city-episode-100.mp3 This week is pretty special. One hundred episodes ago, we joined up with Baseball Prospectus Kansas City, so to commemorate the occasion, we dove into the vault and dug out some info on another notable 100: the 100-loss 2002 Royals. We discussed the plight of that injury-riddled, pitching-starved, manager-changing team and how it fits […]
RECAP: Because 10 runs in the first inning, that’s why
Sometimes you score four runs in three games against Cleveland, and sometimes you get to face Dylan Bundy. The Baseball Gods repaid the Kansas City Royals for many of the travails they suffered in April, gifting the Royals 10 runs and four homers against a clearly overmatched Bundy in a 15-7 drubbing at Camden Yards. […]
Friday Notes
You guys want this or Gladiators? This season has basically been a season-long blowout, but as I’ve said before, it’s probably a good thing. If they had started off well and were sitting at, say, 17-14 instead of their miserable 9-22, would we really believe this team was actually any good? Of course not, but […]
RECAP: Nope, not this one either
Y’all thought this was gonna be the one. I’ll admit it, I did too. When the Kansas City Royals took that early lead, Danny Duffy was showing faint traces of old Danny Duffy and the Red Sox looked unable to cope with whatever was going on during the first three or so innings, it seemed […]
RECAP: Matt Davidson might be a god
Pray tell, what aside from absolute madness would compel a man to spend his Friday night watching the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox endeavor to baseball? Well, part of it is that hey, the Royals may win one. I hold no illusions about this most of the time right now, as we’re all […]