The Royals, for years, had an identity of the team that would make you go nuts. They made tons of contact, resulting in not striking out much and then they ran. That strategy, along with a ridiculous bullpen, led to them becoming World Series champions in 2015. It was a good strategy, especially with offense […]
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The Power Surge Continues
Maybe you’ve heard this tale before. Monday night saw another late win fueled by back-to-back home runs. It was the sixth consecutive win for the Royals and the third straight game where they’ve hit two (or more, this is an important caveat) dingers in a row. The Royals. Yes, the Royals. They are mashing. This […]
Selling Now Would Be A Mistake For Royals
At the beginning of the 2017 season, the Royals went through an offensive funk you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. Well, maybe the Yankees. Anyway, the drumbeat began then, increasing in volume with every strikeout, popup, and weak grounder. Sell. Sell. Sellsellsell! After 30 games, the Royals were 10-20 and had scored a grand […]
Pennant Racing
Throughout the course of a baseball season, there are a few points that people like to look at to determine what exactly a team is. The end of April is the point when it’s still too soon to make judgments but enough baseball was played to start to get an idea. Memorial Day is the […]
Speed Thrills
If you’ve been following along with the data revolution that is Statcast, you’re aware that they released a new metric on Tuesday. Sprint Speed is a measurement in terms of “feet per second in a player’s fastest one-second window.” A full explanation can be found here, but the ft/sec calculation makes sense, given that baseball […]
Crazy Eighth
In every season, a successful team will have a handful of signature wins. These aren’t wins that kick off a winning streak or jumpstart a successful patch of baseball. Rather, these are wins that are larger than that. They are moments that define a season. We witnessed one of those moments yesterday afternoon at The […]
Road Warriors
A hallmark of this Royals team through the first couple months of the season was their inability to beat the lesser teams of the American League. Before they embarked on their West Coast road trip, the team held an 8-10 mark against teams with a sub-.500 record. That’s not particularly good, even with the small […]
Friday Notes
The Royals are on the verge of averaging four runs per game for the season. If you round up, they are averaging four per game. After that brutal April, I knew there was obviously a chance they’d turn things around and be able to score some runs, but I didn’t think they’d be approaching that […]
The Juice From The Kansas City Power Company
On Wednesday in San Francisco, the Royals went 1-14 with runners in scoring position. If you didn’t know anything from the game other than that tidbit, you’d probably assume there weren’t a lot of runs provided by the Kansas City nine. Except it didn’t quite work that way. The Royals plated seven runs total. The […]
Rebounding To Average
It was a dark and stormy April. That reads like the opening line of some poorly written fiction, doesn’t it? Except it wasn’t fiction. It was reality for the Royals in the season’s opening month. Blame it on the offense, of course. An average of 2.7 runs per game was a drag on some strong […]