This is a little more like it. There’s some youth and some athleticism in the lineup and even if they still aren’t very good, it’s at least a bit more fun to watch than the plodding team we saw in April and May. There’s still far too much Alcides Escobar, but any Esky is too […]
Tag: Ned Yost
RECAP: Coming to a theatre near you!
In lieu of yet another downer recap of a Royals—(Fill in the opponent) game, I wanted to do something new. Something fresh. Something you aren’t getting from any of our competitors, something that encompasses the game but also maybe brings a bit of culture and panache to the proceedings. With that in mind, I present […]
Friday Notes
You know spring training is already in full swing when Ned Yost is giving out snarky quips to reporters like it’s candy on Halloween. It sort of seems like it’s going to be a fun year of listening to Ned snap at questions that he doesn’t deem are worth his time. Maybe it’s because he […]
Moore Stays, Yost Is Alive And Other Notes From The GM Meetings
The dominoes finally tumbled. With Atlanta announcing Alex Anthopoulos as their new general manager, both the Braves and the Royals can now move forward with their offseason plans. In Anthopoulos, the Braves get a young general manager who engineered a successful rebuild in Toronto and worked the last couple of years in the Dodgers front […]
Balancing Act
Once the game starts, it seems managers have very little impact. They can call on bits and pieces of strategy – a stolen base, a sacrifice bunt, etc. – or they can move personnel incrementally with a pinch hitter or a pinch runner. The area where all managers make their mark is with the bullpen. […]
Friday Notes
If this was a few years ago, I think there would be a new Royals blog called Ned Yost’s Broken Pelvis already up somewhere on the internet. Instead, the Royals manager just had to recover from a terribly painful sounding injury. Thankfully, the word is he’s going to be just fine, but man, that doesn’t […]
Times They Are A-Changin’ (BP Kansas City Episode 74)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2017/10/12/times-they-are-a-changin-bp-kansas-city-episode-74.mp3 One thing we’re sure of is that the 2018 Royals will look quite different than what we’re used to. How different? We’ll see. The big free agents are likely to go elsewhere, but with an opening in Atlanta, Dayton Moore’s name has come up again as a candidate for GM. Would he leave Kansas City? […]
#Yosted
Ned Yost is many things—World Series-winning manager, possessing a sub-.500 career record, even after presiding over the best stretch seen by the Kansas City Royals in 30 years, whose unconventional ways often bamboozle the casual observer. But, as the key phrase there indicates, he has won a World Series. And he has presided over a […]
Royals Offseason Already Providing Questions
After years of certainty regarding the Royals as an organization, the last three days have brought about just the opposite. First, much of the Royals core played what was potentially their final game for Kansas City. Then, the Royals announced that they were moving on from their bench coach, pitching coach, bullpen coach and assistant […]
Processing (BP Kansas City Episode 72)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2017/09/27/processing-bp-kansas-city-episode-72.mp3 The Royals will not go to the postseason. In a week, there will be no more games for Eric Hosmer, Lorenzo Cain, Mike Moustakas, Alcides Escobar, and Jason Vargas as teammates. We took a look at this season, what’s left, and the legacy of this Royals run, Dayton Moore, David Glass, and Ned Yost. […]