http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2018/08/02/the-new-guys-bp-kansas-city-episode-110.mp3 Mike Moustakas has been traded, but the world keeps turning. While we say goodbye to Moose, we say hello to Brett Phillips and Jorge Lopez, two former top-100 prospects who are ready for the big leagues right now. Is it the right move? Should the Royals have gotten younger prospects? And anyway, how does […]
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RECAP: Royal beating administered in Chicago
Dannnnnnng y’all. The White Sox are really bad now. I’m not saying this as a good development, although the Royals won a game (and the series!) by defeating the White Sox 10-5. But for the grander scheme—bottoming out, securing draft position, the hallmarks of rebuilding baseball teams—it’s a bad development. The Royals have six more […]
RECAP: Royals split a doubleheader in the Bronx
The Royals and Yankees played two Saturday, and so did we here at BPKC. That allowed me to kill two birds with one stone and give the people what they really want: the first look at a post-Moustakas world in Kansas City. Game One It’s weird how sometimes you lose an integral part of the […]
They’re all gone
Everybody’s gone now. After Mike Moustakas joined forces with Lorenzo Cain in Milwaukee, the 2015 cupboard has officially been cleaned. Eric Hosmer is underperforming in San Diego. HDH is scattered to the four winds. RIP Yo. A whole eight players from the 2015 title team remain in the organization, and that’s counting Terrance Gore (he […]
RECAP: BERTO boots two in series opener
Well I hope everybody is excited for more Alcides Escobar, because he just signed a two-year extension. I expect to see that announcement Friday after Adalberto Mondesi, a young and talented shortstop, made two errors in the series opener against the Yankees. That’s not the sort of performance you can afford to have when you’re […]
RECAP: A sad end to a decent homestand
By the time the Royals return to Kansas City, the team could look significantly different. By August 6, the trade deadline will be ancient news. Any (or all!) of Mike Moustakas, Whit Merrifield, Danny Duffy, Lucas Duda and others could be suiting up in different uniforms. Half of Omaha could be in Kansas City by […]
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: Break up the Royals
The difference between a game like what we get to observe when the Royals and non-Cleveland American League Central opponents get together and when Kansas City tries (and usually fails) to go toe-to-toe with the Tribe is that there is some actual fun to be had. Oh, I’ll grant you that Cleveland’s run as (ironically?) […]
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 […]
Five to watch after the break
The bad news is self-evident: the Kansas City Royals first-half woes leave them on pace for the worst record in team history. That’s pretty bad news though. But if there’s a silver lining in every cloud, it’s that some of the principals involved in the first-half malaise should be better, and the bounce-back could start […]