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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 16, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Were you part of the Royals international amateur class? Cole Ragans joined MLB Network Radio to discuss his offseason throwing program: Baseball America has a scouting report on Kansas City’s international amateur class ($): Dominican shortstop Ramcell Medina, signing for $950,000, has been an up-arrow player. Early on, Medina looked like he might end up a...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 14, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Its prospect list season! MLB Pipeline writes about the top international prospect in each farm system. Royals: Yandel Ricardo, SS (No. 8) There’s something to be said for catcher Ramon Ramirez, who has gone from a $57,500 signing to a powerful catcher at 19. For now, we’ll lean on last year’s big international signing in Ricardo. The Cuban na...2025
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• Which version of the Royals bullpen will we see in 2025?

Lucas Erceg #60 of the Kansas City Royals pitches the ball against the Baltimore Orioles during the ninth inning of Game Two of the Wild Card Series at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on October 02, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The good or the bad? You can contextualize why the Kansas City Royals made the playoffs last year in a few different ways. Most of...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 13, 2025

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images Edward Olivares is headed to Japan. Jaylon Thompson writes about the Michael Lorenzen signing. This offseason, Lorenzen considered taking a shot at being a two-way player before deciding to return to the Royals. “I’m always just trying to find a way to get some at-bats, somehow,” Lorenzen said with a chuckle. Lorenzen wanted to be back in Kansas City. He ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 9, 2025

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Captain Biceps is here. The Michael Lorenzen deal is official: “And I think that we’re going to win,” Lorenzen said. “Obviously, that’s another plus. I think they’re going to bring the best out of me, so I think it just makes sense in every direction.” “When I hung up the phone with Michael the other night, he said, ‘Let’s win the division.’” general manag...2025
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• Royals re-sign Michael Lorenzen to one-year, $7 million deal

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals have re-signed right-handed pitcher Michael Lorenzen to a one-year, $7 million deal, according to ESPN reporter Jeff Passan. Anne Rogers has the full breakdown of the deal that will pay Lorenzen $5.5 million in 2025 with a $1.5 million buyout on a mutual option. The Royals acquired Lorenzen at the trade deadline from the Rangers last year and he wa...2025
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• When you win games and spend money, players want to be on your team

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Who knew? Kansas City was once the Siberia of baseball. Free agents only came here if they had nowhere else to go. The Royals got all sorts of veterans looking for one last chance to prove themselves after injuries and bad seasons. Chuck Knoblauch. Juan Gonzalez. Scott Elarton. You never got the feeling any of these guys wanted to be here, only that they stil...2024
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• Royals to target more offense, says Picollo in end-of-the-year press conference

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images A leadoff hitter is the top priority The Royals stunned the baseball world by becoming just the second team to make the playoffs after losing 100+ games the previous season. But their offense fell short in the American League Divisional Series against the Yankees, making it the priority for Royals GM J.J. Picollo as he begins the off-season. “The runs-per-gam...2024
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• The Royals are in a strong position heading back to Kauffman

Photo by Keith Gillett/IconSportswire Kansas City should like their chances. On Monday night in the Bronx, the Royals took down the New York Yankees behind a strong night from the bullpen after Cole Ragans’ shaky start. Two days after missing out on a golden opportunity to steal Game One, Kansas City leveled the series. Now the team will head back home as Kauffman Stadium prepares to host ...2024
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• Nobody deserves playoff baseball more than Salvador Perez

Anthony Gruppuso-Imagn Images Salvy stayed with Kansas City through the wilderness and made it to the other side On a brisk October night in 2010, Citizens Bank Park buzzed with anticipation and nervous energy. The back-to-back National League champs entered the seventh inning down a run against the Cincinnati Reds, facing rookie phenom Aroldis Chapman. They rallied. Chase Utley hustled P...2024
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• Why not us?

Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals have a very real shot at a post-season run. The Royals started out a nice story. In an offseason where few teams spent money, reporters and fans applauded the Royals for actually investing in a team that lost 106 games last year, even though they were probably also thinking the money was probably spent on a lost cause. But ...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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• 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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• Royals win ALDS game 2 with one big inning and excellent pitching

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez (13) reacts after a solo home run against the New York Yankees in the fourth inning during game two of the ALDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images And a Salvador Perez home run! This series was supposed to be a quick and easy one for the New York Yankees. It has not been. New York barely managed to escape the fi...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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• 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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"The Royals traded away Brady Singer, but re-signed Wacha to join a rotation with Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans."

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"The Royals improve to 13-7 and will take on the Orioles again tomorrow evening at 6:10 when Cole Ragans takes on Corbin Burnes."

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"Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Cole Ragans was sharp in Wrigley."

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"Texas placed southpaw Cole Ragans on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to August 23, due to a left calf strain."

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"Left-handed pitcher Cole Ragans, who was the Rangers' Number 1 pick in the 2016 MLB Draft, has a torn ligament in his elbow and will undergo Tommy John surgery."

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"Cole Ragans did not make it a secret when the Rangers made him their first-round pick in the 2016 Draft."

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"The Rangers have agreed to terms with their first-round Draft pick, left-hander Cole Ragans."

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• Which version of the Royals bullpen will we see in 2025?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 13, 2025
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• Royals re-sign Michael Lorenzen to one-year, $7 million deal
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• Haha, the Royals could never trade for Mike Trout. Or...could they?

Mike Trout #27 of the Los Angeles Angels runs during a MLB baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on April 24, 2024 in Anaheim, California. | Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images What if? The Kansas City Royals need a leadoff hitter. What if that hitter was Mike Trout? On its face, that is a pretty wild sentence. And, to be fair, it’s a farfetched scenario to b...2024
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• Royals to target more offense, says Picollo in end-of-the-year press conference
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• Some quick knee-jerk reactions now that the season is over

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images What’s next? The season is over, as the Royals fell in four games to the Yankees in the ALDS. The Royals had an incredible bounceback season after losing 106 games, but also face a lot of questions as we begin the off-season. Just a few quick thoughts. The Royals did have an amazing season that they should be proud of, and no one expected them to get thi...2024
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• Royals stymie Blue Jays bats, win yet another 3-2 game

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Starter Alec Marsh left the game early, but the bullpen had his back. I had a good feeling when Wednesday’s game started off with a 1-2-3 inning from Alec Marsh. Then Salvador Perez started the scoring, and I had a great feeling. The Kansas City Royals held the Toronto Blue Jays in check, thanks to another scoreless Marsh start and so...2024
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• The Royals have a real shot to win the AL Central now
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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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• The Royals’ offense could be better than you think

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Can last year’s second-half resurgence continue into 2024? The Kansas City Royals have spent the entire offseason building around their young core of talent. There’s Cole Ragans and Brady Singer in the rotation, but there’s also a lineup full of young hitters. Outside of a couple of role players, the Royals haven’t done much to overhaul their offense fr...2023
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• “We’re going to push forward,” says J.J. Picollo after 106-loss evaluation season

J.J. Picollo looks to the future after wrapping up the season The Royals ended the 2023 season last week with 106 losses, tying a club record for losses in a year, and finishing with the second-worst record in baseball. It was not a season they had expected to contend, with the focus on developing young players. Still, the rough season was “an eye-opener”, according to General Manager J.J. Picollo...2023
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• What’s a guy gotta do? Take a look at MJ Melendez

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images He’s been really good for months now. The 2023 season started off miserable for much of the Kansas City Royals offense. MJ Melendez, “Merv” for short, as his teammates would call him, was front and center during those offensive woes. He’s hitting just .237 this season but that number has actually risen drastically as the season has gone on. From Opening Day t...2023
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• Royals lose 100th game in spectacular fashion, 5-2

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Cole Ragans (55) is looked at by the trainer after throwing consecutive wild pitches against the Toronto Blue Jays during the sixth inning at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Nick Turchiaro | Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports Cole Ragans bit the dust before Toronto swept it up For the first five innings, this was a reasonably entertaining baseball game. Co...2023
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• Royals lose seesaw affair, 6-5

Kansas City Royals pitcher John Schreiber (46) reacts during the fifth inning against the New York Yankees during game one of the ALDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images Neither team’s best MVP candidate could come up with a hit in this one From the first inning it was obvious that neither team was going to be content to have one of the low-scoring affa...2024
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• Game 1 of the Wild Card series was played on the Royals’ terms

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The momentum has shifted. The Royals won 86 games in the regular season, fewer than any team in the post-season except the Tigers. Twelve of those wins came against the embarrassing White Sox - the Royals went 74-75 against everyone else. For most of the year, they had one of the worst bullpen in baseball, and in September they had THE worst offense in base...2024
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• Frustration and change give way to October, at last

Pinch me, I’m dreaming. It took 3,253 days for the Kansas City Royals to find redemption. That’s how many days we’ve seen since the Royals won the World Series on November 1, 2015. In the eight seasons following the team’s victory over New York, the win-loss record finished at 499-695. From 2016 through 2023, the team saw three Managers, two General Managers, and two team Owners. Long-time owner, ...2024
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• Lugo shines in 5-0 win over Yankees

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images Can’t look much better than that! Behind a dazzling start from Seth Lugo, the Royals evened up the series with a 5-0 shutout over the Yankees. It’s Kansas City’s third shutout in the last week. Even though Lugo didn’t need much run support on Tuesday, the Royals made sure Yankees starter Marcus Stroman was dealing with a lot of base runners. After failing t...2024
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• The Royals’ new Community Benefits Agreement lacks one important element: the community benefits

Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman is seen on Opening Day prior to a gam against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium on March 30, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals may have been negotiating on both sides of the agreement and have provided only the vaguest promises which they will enforce themselves. The Royals and Chiefs announced they have c...2024
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• Royals resume unwatchable status, lose 7-3

Zack Greinke #23 of the Kansas City Royals high-fives teammates in the dugout after exiting a game in the fifth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Kauffman Stadium on August 28, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images It was fun while it lasted The one thing we’ve been able to say about the Royals this season is that at least they played quick games. Of course...2023
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• Tigers 3, White Sox 2: More of the same

Michael Kopech’s outings keeps getting shorter and shorter. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Another uninspiring performance leads to a sweep on the South Side Yet another embarrassing home loss for the Chicago White Sox comes this afternoon, as the Detroit Tigers secure a sweep with a 3-2 win. Now 31 games worse than .500, the White Sox sit at 53-84. Will they get to 60 wins, or avoi...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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• Braves break out of slump in 12-0 beatdown of Rangers
Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports The Braves got back into the win column and did so in incredibly emphatic fashion with a huge night at the plate and a shutdown night on the mound. While tonight's game between the Atlanta Braves and the Texas Rangers may not have had anything to do with what transpired over the weekend in Canada, it sure was gratifying to see the Braves snap their losing strea...2023
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• Cole Ragans, Bobby Witt Jr. lift Royals to 4-0 shutout win over Athletics

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Ragans is throwing fire! Cole Ragans pitched perhaps his best MLB game, tossing six shutout innings while Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-for-3 with a walk and a home run as the Royals shut the Athletics out 4-0 to salvage the series in Oakland. The Royals got on the board in the third inning off A’s starter Adrian Martinez when Dairon Blanco hit a solo home run, the...2023
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• Rangers Acquire Aroldis Chapman
The Rangers announced they’ve acquired Aroldis Chapman from the Royals. Left-hander Cole Ragans and outfield prospect Roni Cabrera are going back to Kansas City in return. It’s the biggest trade of the season thus far. It’s one that has seemed a natural fit for some time. Chapman was arguably the top rental reliever available this summer. Texas has…...2023
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• Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...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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• First-round left-hander Ragans signs for $2M
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• Royals lose seesaw affair, 6-5
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• It’s okay to believe once again

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Maybe this year is different. Blind optimism isn’t easy to find for fans of the Kansas City Royals. The team hasn’t finished above .500 since 2015 when they won the World Series. Although the losses have far outweighed the win total, there has still been some reason for hope to close out nearly every season in that span. Just as the Royals have an uncanny a...2023
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