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• Outfield bats the Royals could pursue

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Could it be a short-term or long-term option? The Royals are still four games back of a playoff spot on the eve of the July 31 trading deadline. With the acquisitions of Adam Frazier and Randal Grichuk and the signing of top trade candidate Seth Lugo to a long-term extension, the Royals are signalling they are more likely to be buyers rather than se...2025
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• Will the Royals commit to a trade deadline direction?

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The trade deadline is upon us and the Royals have sort of bought, but seem to be hesitant to decide anything. With the trade deadline looming, the Royals have made three moves, none of which change what this team is fundamentally. There could be a bigger move coming, but we are not hearing about much of anything, and time is running ...2025
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• TWitM: Ben Kudrna strikes out a season-high

Photo by Braeden Botts/Minor League Baseball Plus Carter Jensen keeps the power surge going. 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?” Note: This installment covers all nine games since the All-Star break. Triple-A Om...2025
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• Could the Royals be targeting Jarren Duran?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Ken Rosenthal dishes on the trade deadline. The trade deadline is soon approaching, and the Royals could be taking a number of different approaches. Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic features the team prominently in his latest article on trade rumors and suggests that despite their place in the standings, the Royals could look to add a long-term piece such as...2025
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• TWitM: First-half heroes

Hunter Patteson pitches for the Quad Cities River Bandits | Chris Sheppard Who were the best Royals minor leaguers in the first half? 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?” The minor leagues had their All-Star brea...2025
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• TWitM: Carson Roccaforte is rockin’ the bat

Carson Roccaforte, playing for the Quad Cities River Bandits | Chris Shepard The outfielder has been on fire this month. 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?” Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers (5-13, 9.5 games back) Th...2025
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• TWitM: The Columbia Fireflies are first-half champs!

Columbia runs into a playoff spot behind Asbel Gonzalez’ 50 stolen bases 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?” Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers (31-43, 13.5 games back) The Storm Chasers finished off the first half by losing ...2025
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• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden

Jim Rassol-Imagn Images Could the Royals be eyeing some Marlins outfielders? The Royals have lost six in a row, all at home, and their offensive woes have continued to be front and center. The team averaged less than two runs-per-game in their winless homestand and only the Pirates have scored fewer runs-per-game among all baseball teams this year. Still, the Royals sit just three games b...2025
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• Game thread LXV - Royals at White Sox

Jac has spent a lot of time in the dugout watching others to start his MLB career | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The Royals need a win after last night’s brutal loss The Royals lost their worst game of the season, perhaps their worst loss of the Picollo/Quatraro era, last night. It was not made better by Q’s flacid argument that essentially boiled down to, “It could have worked.” Giv...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 30, 2025

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Soon. Jeff Passan has a piece at ESPN about what the Royals are looking for from Jac Caglianone before a promotion. For the most part, yes. Before his promotion to Triple-A, the Royals impressed upon the 22-year-old Caglianone the importance of swinging at the right pitches. Caglianone is so talented, so dexterous in his bat-to-ball...2025
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• TWitM: The Naturals toss a no-no

The Naturals and River Bandits are tossing up some goose eggs. 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?” Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers (10-9, 2 games back) The Storm Chasers took 3 of 5 from Norfolk, with the series finale can...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 Royals are shopping for corner outfield help and realize they’ll probably have to trade one of their top catching prospects — Blake Mitchell, Carter Jensen or Ramon Ramirez — to make it happen."

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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 Rumblings - News for July 14, 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images All-Star Break time! The Royals ended the first half of the season 47-50, but just 4.5 games back of a playoff spot. “It’s clearly not the way we wanted the first half to go as far as the standings or what our record is,” Quatraro said. “And we know we have to play better consistently in the second half to get back in this and make September an interesting mon...2025
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The halfway point

Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals are 38-43, what do we make of the first half of games? We are officially at the midpoint of the season, with the Royals sitting at 38-43. They’ve lost 15 of 22 this month, including nine games in a row at home. We gathered our writers together to discuss what was wrong with the club and what they might do going forward. T...2025
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• Revisiting preseason Royals trade ideas as the trade season approaches

Cedric Mullins #31 of the Baltimore Orioles runs the bases after hitting a home run | Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Maybe one of these deals makes more sense now I know it seems obvious in hindsight, but the Royals badly needed some extra offense coming in to this season. Oh, wait. We knew that even before the season started? And I wrote a whole piece suggesting potential trades? Wel...2025
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• Game thread LXV - Royals at White Sox
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• Royals vs White Sox Game 64 Gamethread

Seth Lugo gets the start. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Royals could use a sweep here. The lowly 20-43 White Sox, though not as lowly as the Rockies, welcome the 33-30 Royals to Chicago for a three-game weekend series. Coming off a series win against the Cardinals, the Royals offense has been showing signs of life by scoring 10, 5, and 7 runs in the three games. Of course, eyes remain o...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 30, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 14, 2025
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• Is it time for the Royals to get a new hitting coach?

Photo by Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Alec Zumwalt has been running the hitting show in Kansas City for a long time. The Royal’s hitting results have not been very good. It is probably time to discuss a new voice. Going into the 2022 season, the Royals decided to hire Alec Zumwalt as their director of player development and hitting performance. Hitting coaches come and go wi...2025
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• Royals fans, let us enjoy the ride in 2025

Ragans deals. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images Each time I find myself flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race Welcome to 2025, Royals fans, the first time since—what?—2016 that there are high expectations for our beloved franchise. That’s the blessing and curse of winning baseball: itt leads you to believe that more winning baseball is on the horizon. And it very well might b...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 12, 2025

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Wake me up when spring training ends. Royals Data Dugout reveals their second roster projection ahead of Opening Day, with southpaw Kris Bubic winning the final rotation spot. It’s the fifth spot where questions and competition remain. Even though Daniel Lynch has been the best pitcher in camp, at least in game action, I’m still giving the nod to Bubic h...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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden
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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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• TWitM: The Columbia Fireflies are first-half champs!
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• What a difference competent leadership makes

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images Kansas City Royals pitching has gone from an expectation of bottom feeding to the top half of the MLB very quickly. Fangraphs finished their positional power rankings for 2025 last week and the one thing that really stood out to me was the opinion on the Royals pitching as a whole. Royals pitching has been bad to terrible for a very ...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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• 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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