I’m not sure what the Royals did to anger Frankie Montas, and I’m not sure how to rectify it. Should they go for a team-wide exorcism? Sacrifice an animal? Find a pagan god of some kind and ask his favor? Whatever it is, the Royals need to do it ASAP before they see Montas again. […]
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Series Preview: Royals at Oakland Athletics, June 7-10
The Oakland Athletics missed the Royals so much after their weekend stay in Kansas City that they’re inviting the boys in blue to the bay for a four-game set to hang out some more. We just learned about the A’s last weekend, so there’s nothing I can tell you here that you didn’t read six […]
RECAP: The phenom leaves early, but the Royals lose anyway
If the Royals broke Shohei Ohtani, I’m gonna be mad. There’s no real modern-day precedent for Ohtani, the young Japanese dual-threat who likely cost himself armfuls of money by coming over as an international amateur rather than waiting a couple of years, when he could’ve secured a contract akin to an armored car backing up […]
Your Draft Pick Goes to College
If you have followed the MLB Draft during the first two days, you certainly noticed the seemingly strange trend that the Royals drafted a whole lot of college players in the first 10 rounds. In all, they picked up 13 players, 12 of whom were drafted out of college. And while they did go seemingly […]
RECAP: Andrew Heaney threw a one-hitter
Here’s what makes me think Brad Keller might wind up being alright: It’s the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game against Anaheim. Keller had been cruising along all night, but back-to-back singles by Mike Trout and Justin Upton suddenly had the Angels in business against a guy making his second career big league start. So what […]
RECAP: Here’s to the future!
On the same night the Kansas City Royals front office was drafting the team of the future (a future which appears to have little need for bats), the 2018 version was some 1,300 miles west of 1 Royals Way to take on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Surrounding Municipalities Including But Not Limited […]
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: Good God Almighty, what was that?
Last year, one of my first acts at my previous site was watching the early-season Royals-A’s contest. Jharel Cotton tossed the finest game of his career; it was brought up roughly 173 times that he was one of the players acquired from the Dodgers for Rich Hill and Josh Reddick in one of the real […]
Strikeouts and Homers and Hits, Oh My (BP Kansas City Episode 102)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2018/06/01/strikeouts-and-homers-and-hits-oh-my-bp-kansas-city-episode-102.mp3 The Royals had some success this week, including some solid pitching performances by Brad Keller, Danny Duffy, and Jason Hammel. We covered some of the recent DL moves and the way it’s shifted the pitching staff. We also discussed Jon Jay’s successful May, Hunter Dozier’s adjustment to the big leagues, and took another look […]
Friday Notes
As All-Star balloting opens today, it’s fair to start to think about who the Royals representative for the game could be. And yes, it seems likely we’re back to the days of having no need to put an “s” on the end of that. The obvious answer is Kelvin Herrera, who has made 23 appearances […]