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• Another night, another win for the Royals; 5-3 over the Athletics

Head coach Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs and former manager of the Kansas City Royals Ned Yost watch a game between the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on May 18, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images They are 2-0 while celebrating the 2014 team. The Royals are now nine games over .500 for the first time this year. I don’t have a...2024
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• How patient should the Royals be with MJ Melendez?

Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Now in his third season, the young slugger has yet to turn the corner. The Royals have an outfield problem. Collectively, their outfielders are hitting .199/.257/.316 with just 11 home runs in 501 plate appearances. Their 61 wRC+ is the worst among all MLB outfields by a large margin. There is plenty of blame to share for the offensiv...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 15, 2024

Nelson Velázquez hit his first home run since April 4 last night, which was a stretch of 109 PAs without visiting scenic dongtown. Old friend mentions: the Rays signed reliever Tyler Zuber and he’ll report to Triple-A Durham. The Cubs designated Richard Lovelady for assignment. The White Sox are moving Brad Keller from the bullpen into the rotation. Jorge Soler was trying to return to batting prac...2024
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• Nelly Nukes leads the way in 4-2 win over Seattle

Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports Snap outta that power slump! Despite a lackluster performance in the first six innings, Nelson Velázquez and the Royals ambushed the Mariners in the later innings with a 4-2 win. The victory secures a winning road trip. Coming off of a poor performance on Monday night, the Royals offense didn’t look much better against Logan Gilbert in Game 2. Through the firs...2024
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• Seth Lugo strikes out career-high 12 in 4-2 Royals win

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Lugo is looking like one of the best pitchers in the game Seth Lugo was brilliant for eight innings, lowering his league-leading ERA to 1.66 and the Royals kept the line moving with a four-run fourth inning to defeat the Angels 4-2 and win the series on Sunday afternoon. Angels starter Patrick Sandoval kept the Royals scoreless over the first three ...2024
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• This game defies witty headlines, Royals lose 9-3

Cole Ragans #55 of the Kansas City Royals walks back to the mound after giving up a two-run home run to Gary Sánchez #99 of the Milwaukee Brewers in the fourth inning at Kauffman Stadium on May 06, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Matt Quatraro made his worst choice of the season so far. I said before the game that I was excited to see what Cole Ragans could ...2024
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• Should the Royals call Brandon Belt?

Photo by Julian Avram/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The veteran could boost the lineup. The Royals have gotten off to a good start, but the season is long, and there are cracks in the edifice. The Royals are scoring 4.60 runs-per-game, good for 14th-best in baseball, but the production has been inconsistent. In 16 of their 35 games, the Royals have scored three runs or less. The offensi...2024
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• Royals refuse to surrender, still lose 9-7

Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals reacts after hitting a home run during the sixth inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Kauffman Stadium on April 20, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Anyone who turned the game off after the second inning missed a heck of a contest. Well, when I wrote in the game thread that we should all expect a good game ton...2024
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• Nitpicking the Royals

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Will Smith (31) throws the ball in the sixth inning during game one of a double header against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field. | Melissa Tamez-USA TODAY Sports The team isn’t perfect. Let’s examine the flaws. The Royals made it as high as sixth on the MLB Power Rankings this week. They’re still projected to 32.5% playoff odds per FanGraphs ...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 20, 2024

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images To be blunt, the Royals are playing well! Before the game, Jaylon Thompson wrote about the return of Michael Massey. “He is still one of those players in a developmental phase in the major leagues, but we believe in his bat,” Royals general manager J.J. Picollo said. “He can provide a spark. He’s got some power. He does a good job defensively as well. ... W...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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• The Cubs bullpen is not okay

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images It’s going to be hard to win games if the bullpen can’t protect an eight-run lead Javier Assad deserved better. The Cubs’ current fourth starter, who wasn’t even supposed to be the fifth starter, threw an absolute gem against the San Diego Padres yesterday. In 5+ innings pitched, Assad struck out seven, giving up only three hits while also walking three...2024
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• 2024 Royals season preview: It’s time to win

Photo by Omar Rawlings/Getty Images The Royals want to win on the field and at the ballot box Royals fans have seen their fair share of rebuild movements. Sometimes they pan out, like when they “flipped the switch” in 2011 with Salvador Perez, Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Alcides Escobar, and Lorenzo Cain, the group that went on to win two pennants and a championship. But more often than n...2024
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• The narrow path to 90 wins

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The path to the playoffs is narrow, and it’s unlikely the Royals will find it. Every year, I put the Royals’ schedule into a spreadsheet and follow a simple formula to create a path to a 90-win season: Win or split series at home. Win or split road series against weaker teams. Don’t get swept. I don’t figure in any sweeps and split all four-game and two-game...2024
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• How does Nick Pratto fit with this team?

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The former first round pick is playing well this spring, but does he have a place on the roster? The Royals aren’t expected to have too many roster battles this spring training, but some performances may be creating unexpected competitions. Nick Pratto has been the talk of camp, turning some heads with his performance. The former first-round pick was disapp...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 16, 2024

Ok, that’s pretty funny | Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images There are baseball players doing real baseball things in Arizona and Florida! Baseball is back (!), which means Anne Rogers newsletter is back! She looks at three storylines for this spring: Vinnie Pasquantino’s return to the lineup It’s been eight months since Pasquantino appeared in the Royals’ lineup after rig...2024
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"After a Nelson Velázquez single, Michael Massey singled off the lefty to drive home two more runs."

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"Another really nice piece of hitting, going the other way, and it scored Bellinger and Nelson Velázquez, who had run for Mancini."

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"Patrick Wisdom was hit by a pitch leading off the inning and Nelson Velázquez singled, with both runners moving up on a throw to third base."

• How patient should the Royals be with MJ Melendez?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 15, 2024
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• This game defies witty headlines, Royals lose 9-3
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• Should the Royals call Brandon Belt?
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 20, 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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• BCB roundtable: 2024 Cubs season preview

Getty Images A discussion of the season to come from the BCB staff. BCB’s front-page writers have done several of these roundtable discussions previewing Cubs seasons and postseasons, so here we are again to kick off the 2024 season. Josh, Sara, Thomas, Duane and I had a lively online conversation Wednesday afternoon. The online chat has been lightly edited for clarity. Ashley was unable t...2024
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• 2024 Royals season preview: It’s time to win
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• Another night, another win for the Royals; 5-3 over the Athletics
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• Game thread XLI - Royals at Angels

Cole Ragans #55 of the Kansas City Royals throws against the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning at Kauffman Stadium on May 06, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Happy Cole Ragans day! The Royals won the first two games of the series against the Angels thanks to some heroics from Adam Frazier last night. During both games, their starting pitchers pitched qui...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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• Game thread II: Twins at Royals

Seth Lugo #67 of the Kansas City Royals delivers a pitch against the Chicago Cubs during a spring training game at Surprise Stadium on February 26, 2024 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images So begins the Seth Lugo era of the Kansas City Royals Good afternoon and welcome back to your regularly scheduled baseball. The Royals got off to a bit of a rough start Thursday, drop...2024
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• The narrow path to 90 wins
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• This game defies witty headlines, Royals lose 9-3
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• Brewers get 6-5 win in dramatic comeback victory

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Willy Adames hits three-run go-ahead homer with two outs in ninth Box Score After Andruw Monasterio popped out against Royals closer James McArthur to record the second out of the ninth inning, the Brewers had no runners on, they were down by two, they were down to their last out, and they had a 1% win probability. Win probability be damned, they said, as they...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 16, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 13, 2024

Photo by Jennifer Stewart/Getty Images Pitchers and catchers report today! Anne Rogers projects the Opening Day roster. The Royals believe Isbel is their best center field option and are counting on power in their corner outfield with Melendez and Renfroe. One major roster battle this spring is that fourth outfielder spot (or fifth, counting Nelson Velázquez below). Drew Waters, who can p...2024
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• Maikel García, Dairon Blanco, and other Royals star in winter leagues

Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images The games have continued overseas. Winter is not a time of year that Americans associate with baseball. Most of the country is hunkered down, watching football or basketball and waiting for the snow to melt and the weather to warm up so we can all get outside again. I’m doing the same. As I type this the temperature outside is in the ...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The Cubs

Photo by Jon Durr/Getty Images Who have the Royals sent to the “friendly confines”? This is a series that looks back at their trade history with each team in baseball. The first entry was a look at trades between the Royals and Atlanta Braves. Today, we’ll look back at the history of trades between the Royals and the Chicago Cubs. Total number of Royals/Cubs trades: 19 The Cubs didn’t call...2024
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• Could the Royals be a landing spot for a free agent on a short deal?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images What better way to get potential voters on your side? Spring training is just a few weeks ago, but many top free agents remain unsigned. The contracts signed after the start of January are typically far less than the amount observers expect, as players settle for less money in the hopes of getting into camp in time. This could provide terrific value for t...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 18, 2024

Photo By Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images This is one of the only photos from LIDOM I can use, and it’s from 2005. David Lesky at Inside the Crown evaluates the other teams in the AL Central: As I said at the top, this exercise is not to show that the Royals are great, but that the AL Central is mediocre and winnable. It’s a high-level view of the other te...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 4, 2024

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Apparently today is the 11th of the 12 days of Christmas. Craig Brown at Into the Fountains projects the 2024 roster: Yeah, Lyles is still in the rotation at the moment. Don’t forget, he started the second game of the year for the Royals last year, so you could say he opened the season as their number two starter. Real improvement would be pushing him out of ...2024
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• Today in Cubs history: The Field of Dreams game

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images A year ago today, the Cubs played in Iowa. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the BCB recap of last year’s Field of Dreams game, which took place one year ago today, Thursday, August 11, 2022, with a few minor bits edited out. Drew Smyly threw really well in that game. Here’s hoping he can get back to that. DYERSVILLE, Iowa — The Cubs, of course, aren’t going to b...2023
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• Cubs 4, Marlins 2: Nick Madrigal saves the day
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The infielder’s key two-run single gave the Cubs an eighth-inning lead. As most of you know, I have been critical of Nick Madrigal on this site in the past. So today I will give him major props for his game-winning single in the Cubs’ eighth-inning rally. Madrigal’s two-run single with one out in the eighth gave the Cubs the lead and Miguel Amaya followed with ...2023
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• Cubs 15, Reds 2: Zach McKinstry, David Bote and Franmil Reyes go deep in this laugher to end the year
David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs had some fun and breezed to win No. 74. It seems like a very long time ago when the Cubs defeated the Brewers 5-4 at Wrigley Field in the 2022 season opener, but in reality, that was just short of six months ago, the length of a normal baseball season. Wednesday, on a lovely October afternoon that spilled into early evening in Cincinnati, the Cubs booke...2022
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• Cubs 5, Padres 2: Some home runs and, at last, the bullpen holds
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs smashed three long balls and won the series from San Diego. This time, Cubs relievers did their job. With four innings to cover for Hayden Wesneski after he departed following a decent five-inning outing, Michael Fulmer, Mark Leiter Jr., Keegan Thompson and Brad Boxberger threw four innings and allowed two hits and a run. Combined with a power ...2023
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• Royals come up clutch with two outs, Marsh sharp in 9-4 win over Orioles

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images The Royals have won nine straight at home. Alec Marsh tossed 5 2⁄3 innings of scoreless baseball and the offense erupted for eight runs in the sixth and seventh innings as the Royals defeated the Orioles 9-4 on Friday evening. The Royals scored all nine runs with two outs in the inning. Marsh hit Gunnar Henderson to begin the game, then gave up a single to...2024
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• Cubs 7, Cardinals 1: The complaint department is closed
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs got solid pitching efforts and timely hitting and defeated their arch-rivals. One day after the Cubs put together one of their biggest stinkers of 2023 in the doubleheader Game 2 loss to the Cardinals, they posted one of their best efforts of the season against the NL Central leaders. They got a solid effort in a spot start by Luke Farrell, shu...2022
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• Cubs 6, Padres 0: The story of the man of Steele and his sidekicks Yan and Nico
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Strong pitching and timely hitting once again led the Cubs to victory. If Justin Steele keeps up this sort of pitching, there will be a case for him to be on the National League All-Star team. From BCB’s JohnW53: With his 5⅓ shutout innings, Justin Steele has allowed no more than two earned runs in 12 consecutive starts, going back to July 22 of last se...2023
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• The Cubs don’t have enough outfielders and have too many guys playing out of position
No. Edwin Rios is not really a first baseman | Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Fix it, Jed. A misplay by Trey Mancini in right field Sunday cost the Cubs two runs. A similar misplay by Miles Mastrobuoni during the opening series against the Brewers also led to two runs, which was the difference in that game. Neither Mancini nor Mastrobuoni is really a right fielder. Mancini did play ther...2023
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• Cubs roster move: Christopher Morel recalled, Nelson Velázquez optioned
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Welcome back to Chicago, Christopher. Christopher Morel has spent the first month of his season at Iowa demolishing Triple-A pitching: .330/.425/.730 (38-for-115) with nine doubles, two triples and 11 home runs. Today, the Cubs recalled Morel to the major league roster and, per Jesse Rogers, they are sending Nelson Velázquez back to Iowa: Yes, sending dow...2023
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• This game defies witty headlines, Royals lose 9-3
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• Brewers get 6-5 win in dramatic comeback victory
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• Gamethread XXXIX - Rangers at Royals

Daniel Lynch IV #41 of the Kansas City Royals poses for a portrait during photo day at Surprise Stadium on February 22, 2024 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Daniel Lynch IV gets a shot at leading the Royals to their second rubber match victory of the season Fresh off of beating the Toronto Blue Jays to win their first previously split series of the season, ...2024
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• Royals have a no-good, very-bad game, lose 15-4

Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals throws to first base during the fifth inning against the Texas Rangers at Kauffman Stadium on May 4, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images This was not a good night for Royals pitchers Well, the Royals couldn’t go the entire season without being blown out. It still only counts as one loss and they still have a ch...2024
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• Big inning turns pitcher’s duel into 8-0 Royals laugher

The Royals put up a crooked number in the ninth inning. The Royals and Tigers were engaged in a tense pitcher’s duel for eight innings before Kansas City broke the game wide open in the ninth inning leading to an 8-0 win in the series opener on Friday afternoon. The Royals got seven shutout innings from Seth Lugo, who lowered his season ERA to 1.66, allowing just three hits and recording a season-...2024
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• Royals refuse to surrender, still lose 9-7
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• The Cubs used to be fun. What happened?
Christopher Morel celebrates a home run on May 23 | Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The team’s struggles continued as they were swept by the Angels The Cubs were swept by the Angels and every loss seemed utterly predictable and inevitable. There was the giving up a four-run lead loss as the bullpen imploded (yet again) on Tuesday, followed by the spectre o...2023
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