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• Is 2025 Salvy’s swan song with the Royals?

Brad Penner-Imagn Images With only a club option left on his contract, 2025 could be Perez’s last as a Royal. Salvador Perez’s time in Kansas City may be winding down. Perusing Spotrac the other evening, I noticed that this upcoming season is Salvy’s final guaranteed year on his contract. Now that wasn’t a secret, and I probably knew this already but I had forgotten that fact. Still, that’...2025
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• Jac Caglianone headlines Royals Spring Breakout roster

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The March 14 game will showcase the future. Top Royals prospects will get their moment in the spotlight in the annual Spring Breakout game, to be held March 14 at 7:10 CT against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jac Caglianone will show off his prodigious power on a roster that also includes former first-round picks Gavin Cross and Frank Mo...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 7, 2025

We don’t usually see Orioles in my neighborhood. Lots of blue jays, though. | Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images Today’s Rumblings is for the birds Yesterday, the Royals announced Workout Day at The K: As the Kansas City Royals prepare for the start of the 2025 season and Opening Day, we are giving all baseball fans the opportunity to watch the boys in blue warm up before the big day. On We...2025
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• Ranking non-roster invitees in order of their chances of making the team

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Will they make the cut? The Royals have 27 players in camp as non-roster invitees, players not on the 40-man roster. These players face an uphill battle to make the Opening Day roster, as the team would have to open up a spot on the 40-man roster for them. But there are still some team needs in the outfield, on the bench, and the bullpen that ...2025
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• Spring Training Game thread II - Royals at Dodgers

Salvador Perez #13 poses for a portrait during Kansas City Royals photo day at Surprise Stadium on February 19, 2025 | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Salvy gets another day off. Spring has sprung and baseball is being played by MLB professionals once again. Today’s Royals matchup will be against the Dodgers. Today’s game will not be broadcast on television but can be listened to for fr...2025
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• Royals top prospect Blake Mitchell out 4-6 weeks with broken right hamate bone

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images The former first-round pick suffers a setback. Blake Mitchell is in big league camp for the first time, but the former first-round pick will be out of action for awhile. MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers reports the catcher will miss 4-6 weeks with a broken right hamate bone. Mitchell is scheduled to have surgery later in the week. According to reporting from Jayl...2025
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• Royals top prospect Blake Mitchell out 4-6 weeks with broken right hamate bone
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• Give us your Royals Opening Day roster predictions!

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Who do you have on the team by the March 27 opener? Royals pitchers and catchers have begun workouts in Arizona, and hitters will report on Monday. The Royals will spend the next six weeks preparing for the season and shaping the roster that will take on the Guardians in the season opener on March 27. That gives us some time to speculate on who might be o...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 7, 2025

I was just searching for random stuff and came across a grinning Salvy from 2021 | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Pitchers and catchers report next week! Guys (and gals), we’re to this point of the offseason: Here’s three minutes and twenty-seven seconds of Vinnie Pasquantino hitting sacrifice flies.Because why not? pic.twitter.com/c9WhyjG0mh— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) February 6, 202...2025
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• Kansas City Royals: The state of the farm system

Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos via Getty Images We dive into the strengths and weaknesses of the Royals farm system Over the last few weeks, we have dove deep into the Kansas City Royals' top 15 prospects and honorable mentions who just missed the cut. Each one of the articles linked below includes an in-depth analysis of each player, including scouting grades and more. Honorable Ment...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 29, 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Bobby Witt Jr. isn’t the video game cover boy? MLB.com’s Anne Rogers detailed how the rotation stands now. She writes as if five pitchers, including Kris Bubic, are competing for the final rotation spot. The Royals are confident in Bubic’s potential return to the rotation, even after seeing how much success he had in the bullpen last year when he returned from...2025
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• Kansas City Royals Top 15 Prospects: #1-5

Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports We continue our dive into the Royals top 15 prospects with 1-5 We have reached the top of our Royals prospect rankings. You can read previous entries here. Honorable Mentions #11-15 #6-10 Next week I’ll give my overall thoughts on the state of the farm system. Here is the best of the best in the organization. Caglianone is by far the most talented prosp...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 17, 2025

I couldn’t find any good “Uecker Royals” pictures, so how about Bob Uecker interviewing Hank Aaron? | Photo by 1975 Diamond Images via Getty Images We have reached the winter lull of the baseball season Oh, boy. We’ve really hit the winter doldrums. The last story from The Star was last week when Lorenzen signed. There hasn’t been a new story on the Royals site since Tuesday. Their last ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 23, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Salvy is playing some defense this year! Craig Brown was a bit worried about a long inning from Cole Ragans Saturday. I’m no sports scientist. In the discourse from earlier this month about the rash of elbow injuries among pitchers and talk about the impact of the pitch clock on those injuries, I found it interesting that there was discussion about load on t...2024
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"The big name to consider is Blake Mitchell, who the Royals nabbed with the eighth overall pick in the 2023 draft."

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"Without free agency looming in 2028, top prospects Jac Caglianone and Blake Mitchell could make their way to the big leagues and spend many years playing alongside Witt."

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"They drafted Blake Mitchell eighth overall in a ridiculously risky draft move and, lo, he’s hitting ."

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• Royals top prospect Blake Mitchell out 4-6 weeks with broken right hamate bone
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 20, 2025

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images Is MJ about to turn a corner? J.J. Picollo talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the club with Jaylon Thompson. Still, Picollo believes there is room to grow. It’s the sweet spot in having a young core that is learning to win at the big-league level. “I think from an offensive standpoint, I think we produced well last year,” Picollo said. “There is...2025
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• Royals sign catcher Luke Maile to minor league deal

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images The nine-year MLB vet will provide catching depth. The Royals announced they have signed catcher Luke Maile to a minor league deal with an invite to spring training. The 34-year-old Maile is a nine-year MLB veteran as a backup catcher with a lifetime line of .208/.274/.319. Maile was originally drafted by the Rays in 2012 out of Kentucky. He made his MLB d...2025
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• Give us your Royals Opening Day roster predictions!
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• The Royals (good) catching prospect problem

The Royals are loaded with catching prospects and this is a good thing For a couple of years, the Kansas City Royals farm system has been trying to rebuild itself from the graduations of many top prospects, including Bobby Witt, Jr., Michael Massey, Vinnie Pasquantino, and many others. Today, they are slowly getting back there with the addition of many top prospects like Jac Caglianone. Their real...2025
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• Spring Training trade targets

Heston Kjerstad #13 of the Baltimore Orioles bats against the Kansas City Royals of Game Two of the Wild Card Series | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Which outfielders might be available for the Royals and what might it take to get them? At the Royals Rally a couple of weeks ago, General Manager JJ Picollo indicated that the team had made real efforts to sign a free agent outfielder t...2025
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• Royals offseason rankings

A dynamite battery. | Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports With spring training around the corner, let’s check some vibes, both good and bad. They’re running it back. That’s my biggest takeaway from the Royals offseason. Moves were made, including trading a former first-round draft pick for a former Rookie-of-the-Year and adding another late-inning reliever, but nothing overly dramatic. No big sha...2025
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• Evaluators still rank Royals farm system near bottom of baseball

Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos via Getty Images Director of scouting Brian Bridges still has work to do. The Royals farm system is making slow progress, but according to organizational rankings from evaluators this month, it still ranks near the bottom of baseball. Baseball America, ESPN, and The Athletic all released farm system rankings, with the Royals finishing among the bottom ten ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 28, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Will Zack Greinke get in the Hall of Fame? Trevor Powers at Pitcher’s List ranks Royals prospects for dynasty leagues with Blake Mitchell at #2. There were two sides to Mitchell’s first minor league season. On the good side, he showed the ability to tap into his power consistently in game. In just 111 games, he hit 18 home runs and 16 doubles. For such a you...2025
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• What Cam Devanney brings to the table for Kansas City Royals

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Could the career minor leaguer help out the big league team? With less than a month until the first spring training game, the clock is ticking for the Kansas City Royals to finalize their roster down in Surprise, Arizona. The current roster includes 63 players heading to big-league camp, with many of them well-known to fans. Bobby Witt Jr., Cole Rag...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for January 25, 2025

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images New year, new swing? Anne Rogers writes about the outfield situation. Melendez is the most interesting part here, because he still boasts tremendous power potential. It hasn’t clicked in his first three seasons, and the 26-year-old slashed .206/.273/.400 with 17 homers in 2024. The Royals, thinking back to Melendez’s 41-homer Minor League season in 2021, b...2025
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• The Royals have a decision to make about Salvador Perez

Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals looks on during Game 3 of the Division Series presented by Booking.com between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Should he return after next year? Salvador Perez is a Kansas City Royals institution. The fu...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 18, 2024

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images What’s the top off-season priority for the Royals? David Lesky writes about off-season priorities for the Royals. JJ Picollo and Matt Quatraro spoke on Monday in their season-ending press conference. A year ago, they did the same thing and told us that they were going after two starting pitchers, some veteran bullpen help and a corne...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 19, 2024

Photo by Justin Berl/MLB Photos via Getty Images A much needed day off. The Royals are not panicking about their recent struggles: Time to worry? A two-game lead for a playoff spot is a lot dicier than a four-game lead, which is what the Royals (82-71) would have had if they won Wednesday. But they’ve got nine games left, and getting back on track with some wins is the quickest way to avo...2024
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• TWitM: Jac Caglianone heats up

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Plus Spencer Nivens hits more home runs in August than anyone in the minors. This Week in the Minors is our weekly look at notable performances from all over the system, from big-name prospects and less-heralded guys alike. The mission is to answer this simple question: “Who had a good week?” This Week in the Minors: Tuesday, August 27 to Sunday, September 1 ...2024
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• What Cam Devanney brings to the table for Kansas City Royals
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 17, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 10, 2025

Sadly, there is no picture of the Royals Spring Training truck so we’re stuck with nonsense from Boston | Photo by MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Pitchers and Catchers report in a little over a month The Royals tweeted out some gorgeous pictures of Kauffman Stadium in the snow. ❄️ pic.twitter.com/5fDgNwVQbQ— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) January 9, 2025 Max covered t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 4, 2024

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Kris Bubic will be a starter next year. Anne Rogers writes about Royals' priorities heading into the Winter Meetings. But that doesn’t mean they view their lineup as complete. They’d still like to add depth down the order, including fortifying their bench and adding a hitter who might be able to slot into the No. 5 or 6 spot behind Bobby Witt Jr., Vinni...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 19, 2024

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Is Matt Quatraro Manager of the Year? Anne Rogers makes the case for Matt Quatraro to win Manager of the Year, which is revealed tonight. In his second season as Kansas City’s manager, Quatraro led the club to a remarkable 30-win turnaround and an 86-76 record. The 2024 Royals were just the third team to make the postseason following...2024
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• J.J. Picollo and the front office have their work cut out for them

Michael Wacha #52 of the Kansas City Royals reacts after being taken out of the game against the New York Yankees during the fifth inning in Game One of the Division Series at Yankee Stadium on October 05, 2024 in New York City. | Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images What to do? Almost immediately after the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals in the American League Divisional Seri...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy dominates in Emperors opener

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Murphy pitched into the seventh as Rome won their first ever game as the Emperors It was a glorious Friday for Atlanta Braves fans, as up at the big league level they won an exciting home opener. Then down at the minor league level the final three affiliates had their opening days, giving us our first full slate of baseball of 2024. There we...2024
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• After a season this bad, the front office still needs shaking up

Nov 3, 2022; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals general manager J.J. Picollo talks with media during a press conference at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports No new talent in the front office is bad news There were a lot of things about the 2013-2015 Kansas City Royals that were wonderful. Yes, there was the American League Pennant, the World Series Championsh...2023
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• Royals select prep catcher Blake Mitchell in the 2023 draft
Angela Piazza/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK The Royals add a left-handed catcher to the organization. With the eighth overall pick in the 2023 draft, the Royals selected high school catcher Blake Mitchell out of Sinton High School in Texas. Mitchell is a two-way player who some feel would have been drafted early as a pitcher, but will likely begin his pro career behind the plate. He bri...2023
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• Bobby Witt Jr. season should net Royals extra draft pick

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images A top three MVP finish would bring the Royals a PPI Pick. Entering the season, it seemed possible but unlikely that Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. could bring an MVP to the City of Fountains. Sure, he was fantastic over 2023’s second half, but I’m not certain anyone expected him to become this good, this fast. Witt’s age-24 season has seen...2024
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• Royals hire Brian Bridges as scouting director

Photo by John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images Bridges helped the Braves find their championship core. The Royals have hired Brian Bridges to be their new director of scouting, according to Keith Law of The Athletic. Bridges was scouting director for the Atlanta Braves from 2015 to 2018, overseeing the department that found players like Austin Riley, Kyle Wright, Ian Anderson, and AJ...2023
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• Royals take gambles on risky prospects in the 2023 Draft
Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Three prep prospects at the top accompany numerous interesting college players Last year, the Kansas City Royals went chalk at the top of the draft before taking a mix of the typical college mid-rounders and some interesting late round flyers. In the 2023 Draft, the Royals spread out their money a bit more by taking chances on some high ri...2023
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• TWitM: The pitchers shine, Omaha’s offense stays hot

Photo by Adam Glanzman/MLB Photos via Getty Images This Week in the Minors: Noah Cameron and Hunter Patteson looked fantastic and the Omaha offense was red-hot. ‘This Week in the Minors’ is our weekly look at notable performances from all over the system, from big-name prospects and less-heralded guys alike. The mission is to answer this simple question: “Who had a good week?” This “week” ...2024
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• Royals Sign First-Round Pick Blake Mitchell
The Royals have agreed to a deal with eighth overall pick Blake Mitchell, according to MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis (via Twitter). Mitchell will receive a $4.9MM bonus, below the $5,980,100 slot price attached to the eighth overall selection. The 18-year-old Mitchell is a high schooler from Texas who had committed to LSU, but he’ll now…...2023
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• Despite risks, Royals bank on high school players in draft
Angela Piazza/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK The Royals are banking a lot on their player development. The Royals head into the All-Star break with the second-worst record in baseball, well on their way to setting a club record for most losses in a season. There is little help on the way, as many evaluators rank the farm system near the bottom of the league. The amateur draft provides an...2023
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• Royals top prospect Blake Mitchell out 4-6 weeks with broken right hamate bone
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• What to know about Royals’ 2025 spring training

Photo by Jennifer Stewart/Getty Images Get ready to baseball! Happy Pitchers and Catchers Report Day! The winter in Kansas City may be especially cold with several inches of snow on the ground, but in warm and sunny Arizona, Royals players are assembling to begin spring training. It is a season of renewed hope after a surprising post-season run last year, with the highest pre-season expect...2025
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• Braves Prospects Weekly Report: Nacho Alvarez hits two home runs

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Gwinnett swept their series last week behind the bats of Alvarez and Drake Baldwin The minor league season is quickly coming to a close, as the two lowest level Atlanta Braves affiliates will be playing their final regular season home series of the season this week. At the upper levels the near-MLB players are starting to find their stride, as Nacho Alvarez and...2024
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• An early look at this summer’s draft prospects

Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals will pick sixth overall this year. The college baseball season is well underway and many of the top prospects have started to stand out above the crowd. The MLB Draft lottery awarded the Royals the sixth overall pick in this year’s draft, but the team owns the fourth-highest draft bonus pool, thanks in part to owning picks 39...2024
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• After a season this bad, the front office still needs shaking up
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• MLB Mock Draft: Where do Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford end up?
Looking at how the top three stack up, along with the rest of the first round The 2023 MLB Draft is just days away. And the Pittsburgh Pirates have a fascinating decision on their hands. Do they add Paul Skenes, the LSU pitcher who was dominant this season and looks like he could step into an MLB rotation right now? Or do they draft his teammate Dylan Crews, the outfielder who brings five tools to...2023
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