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• The Royals have a real shot to win the AL Central now

Vinnie Pasquantino #9 of the Kansas City Royals reacts after being doused with water by Bobby Witt Jr. #7 after defeating the Houston Astros at Kauffman Stadium on April 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images They’ve started brilliantly This offseason, the Kansas City Royals wanted to compete in 2024. Not in the technical sense of the word; the 2023 Roya...2024
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• Questions (and some answers) from the first three weeks of the Brewers’ season

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports What have we learned so far? The Milwaukee Brewers are off to a good start, at 11-6 and leading the NL Central at the end of play on Wednesday, despite dropping their first series of the year this week against San Diego. Their offense, even after a couple of down days, has looked far better than almost anyone expected. What can we glean from the team’s first thr...2024
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• Good luck pitching to Bobby Witt Jr.

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports There are almost no more holes in Bobby Witt Jr.’s swing If you follow baseball, you hear about pitchers exploiting holes in a player's swing quite often. Pitchers don’t have perfect command and cannot hit those spots every time, but you can see in how they attack a player where the holes (or perceived holes) are. Last season Bobby Witt Jr. seemed to struggle...2024
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• The Three Sox Positives Method

Celebrating a much-needed White Sox win! | Quinn Harris/Getty Images How I’m learning to embrace the good, with help from my friend Sean Despite my often pessimistic attitude towards the White Sox, I try to find the positives. It can be challenging, of course, but sometimes you find a sliver of hope. My friend Sean gives everyone a dose of positivity after each game, even the shutouts an...2024
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• Singer, Salvy secure series, sweep stalls in successive standoff

Melissa Tamez-USA TODAY Sports A doubleheader split but a series win. The Royals and White Sox split a couple of low-scoring games in today’s doubleheader, with Kansas City winning 4-2 in the first game before losing 2-1 in the second. The first inning was quiet for each team as batters tried to find their footing. Leading off the second, Jonathon Cannon finished a seven-pitch battle with...2024
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• White Sox fall again (yawn), drop first game 4-2 to Royals

The new kid did all that he could do. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images At least we can weep and moan about a bad call this time, even if it’s very doubtful it made any difference Hey, the Sox led most of the game this time! That must count for something, right? Well, er, uh, no. Unless you mean counting for a sixth straight loss and a 2-15 record. On the bright side, Jonathan Cannon made his m...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 16, 2024

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Salvy is A-OK! Salvy will avoid the Injured List, writes Anne Rogers. Indeed, Perez’s MRI scan taken Monday in Chicago “was the best result we could have hoped for,” Quatraro said. Imaging showed a mild left groin strain that is not expected to require an injured list stint. Catcher Logan Porter traveled to Chicago on Monday to be a one-man taxi squad...2024
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• Vinnie homers, Lugo dominates, and the Royals beat the White Sox again 2-0

Vinnie Pasquantino #9 of the Kansas City Royals tosses his bat after hitting a home run in the fourth inning against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on April 15, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. | Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Vinnie! Vinnie! Man, the Chicago White Sox are so bad. Oh, yes, the Kansas City Royals have been very good this year. I’m just glad that they probably w...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A new chapter in the Ippei Mizuhara betting scandal

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images A freshly released criminal complaint offers shocking details in the betting scandal. Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani has been charged with bank fraud after stealing $16 million from Ohtani. In a newly publicized criminal complaint, texts were released between Mizuhara and his bookie, as well as details regarding how much he won (a...2024
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• Five things that stick out over the Royals’ first ten games

Apr 3, 2024; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro watches action in the first inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. | Mitch Stringer-USA TODAY Sports They’re way better! It takes a long time for just about anything to stabilize in baseball, and just about anything can happen in one game. So while it certainly is fun to react (or ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 5, 2024

Monday is Eclipse Day | Set Number: X161331 TK1 Anne Rogers with a pair of stories about injuries. The first is about Frank Mozzicato’s injury last season: Frank Mozzicato’s 2023 season can be broken into two parts: Before the collision and after the collision... On June 2, a day after Mozzicato struck out 10 in five innings for the Fireflies, he was in shallow center field during battin...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Royals

Michael Soroka gets his second start. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images An extra day of rest in hand, the Sox begin the sisyphean climb to two wins While the weather is still not cooperating with my personal tastes, it’s at least possible to play baseball in it today, which is what’s going to happen in Kansas City at Lame Duck Kauffman Stadium at 6:40 p.m. CT today, provided you consider a ma...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 29, 2024

Good news! There’s more Royals baseball tomorrow! | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The quest for 161-1 begins tomorrow! Ed note: I mentioned this in the comments yesterday - I could probably just write “Hey, yesterday was Opening Day - What do you think?” and we’d get 200 comments here today. I’d like to think I do a marginally better job than that, so you get 2000 characters instea...2024
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• Royals relievers ruin Ragans’s ruby, rupture 4-3

Mitch Stringer-USA TODAY Sports The bullpen collapsed late. In a game delayed over five hours by rain, the Kansas City Royals led for most of the game before collapsing in the eighth and ninth innings as the Baltimore Orioles rallied for a 4-3 walk-off victory. The Royals wasted little time in getting the party started. After Maikel Garcia went down on strikes, Bobby Witt Jr. roped a doubl...2024
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• Who is John Sherman?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Like the guy next door, except richer In the past, I’ve written stories critical of how the Royals organization has handled their downtown stadium negotiations. And while I don’t back away from the ham-handed way that process has been going, I did start to wonder if perhaps I have gotten the wrong idea about Royals owner John Sherman. After all, I’ve never m...2024
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• What to know about 2024 Royals Opening Day

Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball begins Thursday! Baseball season is back and Royals fans have reason to be hopeful for the first time in several years with a legit MVP candidate in Bobby Witt Jr., a Cy Young Award candidate in Cole Ragans, and one of the bigger spending sprees in free agency this off-season. The Royals will begin the 2024 season on Thursday, Mar...2024
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• Ragans rejects runs, relievers repel rallies, Royals romp 4-0
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Outstanding pitching offset many missed opportunities offensively Cole Ragans shoved and Kansas City rode early offense to a 4-0 win over the New York Mets this evening at Kauffman Stadium. Ragans got off to an inauspicious start, putting the first two batters of the game on base. However, he managed to bear down and retire the next three to snuff the threat....2023
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• Corbin Carroll, 2023 Fantasy Outlook
A fantasy baseball It Was A Good Day. Just wakin’ up in tha mornin’, gotta thank Junior Vlad, I don’t know but today seems kinda odd, No barkin’ from any pitchers’ elbows makin’ me look for replacements, And momma cooked a breakfast and left it by my door — her basement’s, I got my grub on, but didn’t pig out, My insulin, I didn’t need to dig out, Rollin’ around in a field of daffodils, Not even ...2022
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• Bobby Witt Jr., 2022 Fantasy Outlook
A fantasy baseball It Was A Good Day. Just wakin' up in tha mornin', gotta thank Junior Vlad, I don't know but today seems kinda odd, No barkin' from any pitchers' elbows makin' me look for replacements, And momma cooked a breakfast and left it by my door -- her basement's, I got my grub on, but didn't pig out, My insulin I didn't need to dig out, Rollin' around in a field of daffodils, Not even ...2021
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"Free-agent right-hander Yovani Gallardo is negotiating with the Rockies, Orioles and Astros, representative Bobby Witt said Friday."

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"Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco allowed just one hit over nine scoreless innings during Tuesday's 2-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels, becoming the first American League pitcher since Bobby Witt in 1994 to throw nine innings and allow two or fewer hits in consecutive starts, per ESPN Stats & Info."

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• Outside The Confines: A new chapter in the Ippei Mizuhara betting scandal
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• Royals 2, White Sox 1: How bad can it get?

Time to bring out the bags. | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports Now Luis Robert Jr. is injured. Is this rock-bottom? Another humiliating loss is in the books for the White Sox. The game remained 1-1 until the eighth inning when the Royals moved ahead. What happened next? Pain. But we’ll get to that later. The Royals struck first when Salvador Pérez doubled to center to send Vinnie Pasquantin...2024
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• Royals 10, White Sox 1: Smart Baseball

Despite getting hit with a screaming meemie in the first inning, Michael Soroka opted to stay in the game. He later regretted not taking an early shower and leaving the ballpark entirely. | Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Siri, what’s the definition of milquetoast? I kind of miss when more TV shows gave us 24 or more episodes every year, instead of eight hour-long episodes every three years....2024
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• Eight-run 7th powers Royals past White Sox in 10-1 win

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Seth Lugo looked pretty good again, too With two outs in the 6th, Royals starter Seth Lugo gave up a double to Korey Lee, putting the tying run on 2nd. Matt Quatraro ended his night, turning to a struggling Royals bullpen. This was a similar script to Kansas City’s series in Baltimore. One White Sox out and two Royals outs later, a nervous 2-1 game ha...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 4, 2024

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images 4/4/24 No game due to weather yesterday, so let’s round up the reactions to Tuesday’s landslide election defeat for the Royals: Sam McDowell at the Star ($): Less than week ago, even after agreeing to keep Oak Street open, Sherman acknowledged he didn’t know what that meant for a surrounding entertainment district that he said the team isn’t really calling ...2024
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• Royals 3, White Sox 0: It was boring, until it wasn’t

Oops. | Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Another abysmal offensive day does not go the South Siders’ way If you couldn’t gather in the gamethread, the energy that I have for this team is in the basement. Which is why I spent the first six innings of today’s game both watching the game and playing a video game with a friend. I looked up after an hour and fifteen minutes to realize that six innings ...2024
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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Baseball Musings Pledge Drive continues. If you love Beat the Streak Picks, please consider a $5 or $10 donation to help defray the cost of the statistics used here. The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.274 — Bobby Witt Jr. batting against Chris Flexen. 0.273 — Spencer Steer batting against Luis Severino. 0.272 […]...2024
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• Royals 2, White Sox 0: This team might not be any good

Pedro Grifol: The scapegoat, or the real problem? | Jason Miller/Getty Images I’m struggling to find anything witty to say these days The White Sox had a team meeting this afternoon, however, Pedro Grifol didn’t feel the need to elaborate on what was said. I’m sure it’s exactly what the team needed to get pumped up, though, right? Wrong! What?? A loss after the big team meeting? I’m st...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 3, 2024

It is once again Wednesday. Obviously the big news is that Question 1 was defeated at the ballot box last night. Max wrote that up last night if you missed it. But last night’s win in rainy Baltimore was also pretty cool. From Byron Kerr at Royals.com: Marsh was in the zone all night, allowing only two doubles on 76 pitches, 54 for strikes. The right-hander struck out five and walked one. It was...2024
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• There is no such thing as a good owner

Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman prior to a game against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Last June, the Oakland Athletics were in the midst of yet another terrible season. With an Opening Day payroll of under $57 million, they were dead last in spending—the third time in the past six years that they were last or second to last in total pay...2024
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• Royals defeat the best team in baseball in wild 6-5 comeback victory
Jun 22, 2023; St. Petersburg, Florida, USA; Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman (54) walks off the field after pitching against the Tampa Bay Rays in the eighth inning at Tropicana Field. | Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Fun game! These two things we know very well. One, that the Tampa Bay Rays are the best team in baseball and the Kansas City Royals are just about the w...2023
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• Sean Murphy powers Atlanta to a 9-3 victory
Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Braves’ new catcher raked in big moments for the Braves. With Bryce Elder on the mound, the Braves looked to seize a series victory in game 2 against Kansas City. The Braves started off hot as their first four batters all hit a ball over 100 MPH, but it was a single from Austin Riley and a double from Sean Murphy that put the Braves on ...2023
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• Seven in a row! Royals top Phillies 7-5

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Another Bobby blast puts him in the 20/30 club again. Bobby Witt Jr. and Michael Massey each homered to lead the Royals to their seventh win in a row, a 7-5 victory over the Phillies Friday evening. Bobby’s blast was his 20th of the year, making him the first player in MLB history to hit at least 20 home runs and steal at least 30 bases in each of his fi...2023
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• Cubs 6, Royals 4: A tale of two games

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs appeared to be on their way to an easy win... until they had to hang on for dear life. Drip... drip... drip... That was what today’s 6-4 Cubs win over the Royals felt like, after the Cubs zoomed out to a 6-1 lead after four innings. KC runs scored off just about every Cubs reliever until Adbert Alzolay finally put a stop to that in the ninth inning wit...2023
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• Braves hit five homers in 10-3 romp over Royals
Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Matt Olson and Austin Riley hit back-to-back homers in the first inning and the Braves never really looked back as they easily took Game 1 of their weekend series against the Royals. If you tuned in tonight wanting a close, competitive baseball game, like the kind the Braves played three nights in a row when sweeping the Reds earlier this week... this game ...2023
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• Bobby does it again! Homer lifts Royals to 4-3 win over Cubs

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Cole Ragans was sharp in Wrigley. Cody Ragans was strong for six innings but it was a Bobby Witt Jr. two-run home run gave the Royals a lead they would not relinquish in a 4-3 win over the Cubs Friday afternoon. The Royals got on the board in the third inning off Cubs starter Jameson Taillon when Drew Waters led off with a single and stole second, setting...2023
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• Royals pummel Mets 9-2 for 6th straight win
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Two straight sweeps! We’re the hottest team in baseball! For the first time in over two years, the Royals have won six consecutive games. Brady Singer logged one of his best starts of the season and a Drew Waters three-run homer in the 7th broke open the 9-2 sweep-clinching win. The Royals improve to 35-75 while the Mets drop to 50-58. Kansas City didn’t hit ...2023
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• Cubs 4, Royals 3: More drama than we needed

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images This looked like a fairly easy win for a while, but the Royals made it close in the ninth. Thank you, Miguel Amaya, for hitting a home run in the eighth inning. This is why they call runs like that “insurance runs,” because that gave the Cubs a 4-1 lead that seemed fairly safe. Unfortunately, Adbert Alzolay wasn’t on his best game Sunday and allowed the ...2023
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-March 2, 2024
Around the League Matt Chapman-Giants-3B Matt Chapman signed late Friday night with the San Francisco Giants on a 3-year, $54 million deal. Chapman is coming off a down year in Toronto in which he hit .240 with 17 HR, 66 R, 54 RBI, and 4 SB in 140 GP. The power dropping off was the biggest surprise. He posted a career-low .185 ISO. Digging deeper into his underlying skills reveals that he was ...2024
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - March 2, 2024
Bryce Miller, SP, Mariners Bryce Miller showed off a new splitter in his recent spring training start. Already featuring a six-pitch mix, adding a splitter might not seem like a big deal. However, it may be exactly what he needs since his secondary offerings were underwhelming in 2023. He actually got the most whiffs on his fastball (27.1%), followed by his slider (24.4%), changeup (17.9%), and sw...2024
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• Too much of a good thing

Yesterday while shopping for furniture I knew that this would be my chance to finally get to Target to see if the 2024 cards were there.I had checked for cards once before last week during a quick spin through Walmart. The area where the cards were was being replaced by Easter baskets and decorations for sale. The new card station was vacant except for some fantasy something or other.So I do...2024
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 23, 2024
Kodai Senga, SP, Mets Kodai Senga has been shut down with a moderate posterior capsule strain in his right shoulder. He is coming off of an impressive rookie year where he struck out 202 batters in 166.1 innings with a 2.98 ERA and 1.22 WHIP. He had issues with walks, giving up free passes at an 11.1% rate, but his 29.1% K rate was able to offset it. He was being drafted as a high-risk, high-rewar...2024
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• 2024 Fantasy Baseball Sabermetric Notes: Shortstops
In our continuing series on the Sabermetric analysis that shapes our Player projections in our 2024 Player Projections Draft Advisor. Today we'll take a look at some of the indicators that are defining our 2024 Shortstop projections: CJ Abrams Abrams finished 2023 with 18HR/64RBI/83RS/.276BA/47 SB. It's encouraging to see his power emerge as the season's progressed, making him a terrific fantas...2024
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• 2023 Top Keepers – Shortstops
One week ago, I was lamenting the state of the second base position in Major League Baseball and thus fantasy baseball. Outside of a few top players, it is now overrun with utility players and doesn't have much depth. This week, however, we talk about one of the deeper positions in baseball. Today we unveil the 2023 Top Keepers - Shortstops edition. Unlike second base, the shortstop position is ...2022
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• Gunnar Henderson, 2023 Fantasy Outlook
I said something in my Corbin Carroll fantasy the other day, that people might take the wrong way, so to clarify. I think Gunnar Henderson can be better than Bobby Witt Jr., especially in real baseball. I think Corbin Carroll can be excellent, a top 25 overall type bat. When I said I thought Julio Rodriguez was better than Carroll, and Witt Jr. was better than Gunnar, I meant their rookie 2022 sea...2022
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• Top 100 Hitters: The July Heat
Welcome to July where we are only two weeks away from the All-Star game and fantasy baseball owners are trying to gear up for the second half. This week, our rest of the season rankings take on a little shake up thanks to injury (sorry, Bryce Harper and Salvador Perez) and the continued breakout of young stars like Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt Jr. In the coming weeks, we also hope to welcome b...2022
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• Open Up The Season & Let The Love Shine In
*digs nose into an open field of grass, lifts head, eyes filled with tears* This smells of my youth! Passerby, "My dog just peed there, so probably because you used to wet yourself." Baseball is back. "Hello, Genie, I have three wishes for this baseball season. My first wish: No one I roster get hurt. My 2nd wish: Everyone I roster do well. I drafted Bobby Witt Jr., Julio Rodriguez, and Seiya S...2022
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• BreakingT unveils new “Hey Hey Hey Hey” shirt for Royals fans

You’re hearing a lot more of that after games these days! The Royals are off to a pretty good start for a change, with a core of exciting young hitters and perhaps their best group of starting pitchers since the team was in the World Series in 2015. More Royals wins means more playing of the Beatles song “Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey” after victories, as is the custom at Kauffman Stadium. BreakingT...2024
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• You can buy in on these Royals

Kyle Isbel #28 of the Kansas City Royals is congratulated by teammates after scoring a run during the third inning against the Houston Astros at Kauffman Stadium on April 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images The Royals have played fewer than 10% of their games, but it’s still had a huge impact Before the season started, I was the only Royals Review wri...2024
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• Streak snapped, Royals fall to Mets 6-1

Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images Apparently the Royals won’t win all the rest of their games this year. The lineup managed just three hits and Michael Wacha could not close out a few key innings, as the Royals snapped a seven-game win streak with a 6-1 loss to the Mets in the series opener Friday night. Wacha gave up five runs in five innings on ten hits, earning his first loss of the yea...2024
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• Spencer shelled, Seth stymies ‘Stros, series secured 11-2

William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports A complete victory to win the series. The Kansas City Royals took a big lead early on over the Houston Astros tonight and did not let up as they secured a series victory with an 11-2 win. I was unable to watch most of this game as I was recording a podcast on my primary computer and my backup computer was being absurdly slow, but I tried my best to follow a...2024
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• Brady Singer As A Royals X-Factor

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals brought in a lot of pitching help, but a Singer rebound might be the best help they have The Royals were as active this offseason as any offseason in recent memory, specifically with their pitching rotation. In 2023, Kansas City starters finished with a 7.6 fWAR and a 5.17 ERA, both the second-worst mark in the American League. They responded by si...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 23, 2024

Photo by Aaron Doster/Getty Images The last weekend before regular season baseball. Jaylon Thompson writes about the Royals demoting Nick Pratto despite a hot spring. “Frankly you know, Vinnie (Pasquantino) is going to play first (base) most of the time,” Quatraro said. “Nick had a phenomenal spring. It was just a little bit of a logjam. He can do other things in playing the outfield. But ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 22, 2024

Sure, it’s not the KBO, but it’s in Korea | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images I tried to write as much as I could of this ahead of time, but if it descends into madness by the end, I blame basketball Max and Jeremy already covered the big stories yesterday. I guess I’ll just link to other stories below that cover the same ground. First, Max: Alec Marsh makes the rotation, Jordan Lyles to th...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for January 20, 2024

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Are the Royals plotting one more big move? The Royals and Chiefs respond to Jackson County Executive Frank White’s veto of the sales tax extension for the stadiums. In a letter sent late Friday to attorneys for the county legislature, obtained by The Star, the teams insist the “unresolved” issues on their projects are actually resolved. Or close to it. ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 10, 2024

Sing to us the song of your people | Minda Haas Kuhlmann How about another snow day? In the latest Royals Beat newsletter, Anne Rogers looks ahead to what Bobby Witt, Jr. may have up his sleeve for 2024: So what type of numbers can we expect from Witt in 2024? “I feel like if you set a goal, then there’s no way you can keep going,” Witt said last season. “So whatever happens, happens. Jus...2024
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• The greatest Royals shortstop seasons of all-time

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Bobby Witt Jr. is among the best already, but that is not saying very much Shortstop has been a pain point for the Royals since the beginning of the organization. When Freddie Patek has your only run of more than three seasons over 2 WAR in over half a century, you can tell just how rough filling the position has been for this organization. That dearth of t...2023
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