Following a 9-2 victory against the Tigers (it was a sweep!), the Royals announced they sent first baseman Lucas Duda to Atlanta for cash considerations or a player to be named later. As written in this space on Tuesday, the Royals needed to deal Duda for myriad reasons. The expectation wasn’t about receiving a prospect. […]
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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 […]
RECAP: Royals beat weather, Jays to earn split
A two-hour, 14-minute rain delay for these two teams to continue their inexorable march toward 162 games seems downright silly to me. I get it, every effort should be made to always play all 162 unless there are extenuating circumstances. Players deserve the opportunity to stat-pad for contract purposes. Fans bought tickets. If you have […]
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 […]
The bleak reality of the Royals offense
Last month at the mothership, Rob Mains published a pair of articles comparing three of the more accepted advanced offensive metrics. TAv is what we use here at Baseball Prospectus. OPS+ is found on Baseball Reference. And wRC+ is located at Fangraphs. Mains ran the numbers and found that, despite some fundamental differences in how […]
RECAP: We have been forsaken
Christ. I had some real nice stuff here about the Royals making some progress and starting the second half with some fire and vigor and the appearance that they’d like to be a semi-respectable baseball team again and for eight innings, that looked to be the case. Eleven pitches into Brandon Maurer’s relief effort and […]
RECAP: A win! That was fun!
The thing about the return from the All-Star break for a team as woebegone as the 2018 Kansas City Royals is that it’s kind of like hitting a hard reset on the season. Unlike teams that are now fighting for a postseason berth, nothing that happened in the first half matters—everybody on the roster has […]
The Other Guys
You may not be aware of this, but the Royals aren’t very good. In order to avoid 100 losses, they need to finish the season 37-34. That’s the pace of an 84-win season over 162 games. This team has only won three in a row once this year, so it seems unlikely they’ll play three […]
RECAP: These are the times that try men’s souls
Note: I wrote this under the influence of severe nighttime cold/cough medicine, as opposed to my usual glass of whiskey. Recalibrate your expectations accordingly. Jose Berrios and Danny Duffy was a legitimate by-God pitcher’s duel. It was an old-school throwback to the days when the Twins and Royals competed against one another for supremacy in […]
Diamonds in the Rough 6-19-18
HR Roll Call: Lucas Duda (1), Kyle Isbel (1) BPKC Hitter of the Day: Nick Pratto 2-5 HR, 4 RBI – MVP of South Atlantic League All-Star Game BPKC Pitcher of the Day: Jackson Kowar 6.2 IP 5 H 0 R 0 ER 2 BB 13 K 5-2 FO-GO 121 pitches Carolina League All-Star Game – […]