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• Royals take crushing 5-4 loss in Minnesota

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Walked off again... The Royals took a loss on yet another walk off hit in Minneapolis this time at the hands of Brooks Lee. Today was the first of two day games this weekend against the Twins in Minnesota and was the second game of the three game series. The Royals started the game up 4-0 but blew the lead in the 5th/6th innings and lost 5-4 in devasta...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 22, 2025

Photo by Emma Bronsteader/MLB Photos via Getty Images Salvador Perez hadn’t homered in a while. Salvador Perez is climbing the all-time AL catcher home run leaderboard: The list of names ahead of him include Hall of Famers Carlton Fisk (376), Yogi Berra (358) and Ivan Rodriguez (281). Eight-time All-Star Lance Parrish (289) is also on the charts. It’s conceivable, and reasonable, to expec...2025
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• Bullpen buttressed by belligerent batting, boys in blue beat bay behemoths 8-2

Photo by Trinity Machan/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals gave Logan Webb his worst outing of the season. The Kansas City Royals scored early and often while bullpenning their way through an 8-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants this afternoon at Oracle Park. San Francisco ace Logan Webb starting by doing what he typically does by coaxing groundballs from the first two batter...2025
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• Game Fifty-One: Kansas City Royals at San Francisco Giants

Photo by Kavin Mistry/MLB Photos via Getty Images Bay area afternoon baseball. The Kansas City Royals will take on the San Francisco Giants this afternoon in the finale of a rematch of the 2014 World Series. Offense has been difficult to come by in this series as the teams split the first two matchups while combining to score nine total runs. Daniel Lynch IV will “start” for Kansas City. ...2025
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• Kris Bubic shines, Vinnie Pasquantino hits go-ahead HR as Royals beat Giants 3-1

Kris Bubic #50 of the Kansas City Royals pitches against the San Francisco Giants in the fifth inning at Oracle Park on May 19, 2025 in San Francisco, California. | Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Bubic! Vinnie! Kris Bubic lowered his ERA to a sparkling 1.47 and Vinnie Pasquantino crushed a two-run, go-ahead home run to power the Kansas City Royals to a 3-1 victory against the San Francisc...2025
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• Royals lose Ragans, Lugo - a pair of Cy Young finalists - to the Injured List

Cole Ragans fails to tag Willson Contreras after a wild pitch. Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans have both been dealing with injuries, both are worse than initially thought. The Royals announced today that both Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans had been added to the 15-day Injured List. Lugo’s addition is retroactive to May 14th, the last day he pitched. Left-handed pitchers Noah Cameron and Evan Sisk wil...2025
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• Royals lose Ragans, Lugo - a pair of Cy Young finalists - to the Injured List
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 15, 2025

Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How much do you trust your starter? Matt Quatraro doesn’t regret leaving Michael Lorenzen in for the eighth inning last night: Much is made of being cautious when a pitcher is going through the order a third time, but Quatraro didn’t hesitate in letting Lorenzen pitch to Dubón, who had doubled in his previous at-bat. Dubón’s s...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 9, 2025

One, two, three, four, five, SIX wins in a row! | Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images One, two, three, four, five... SIX WINS IN A ROW! Anne Rogers penned a touching Mother's Day story about Daniel Lynch, thinking back on his mother now that he’s recently become a parent: Jolie Saunders Lynch died on Sept. 7, 2012, at 43 years old after a ...2025
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• Eight winners and zero losers as the Royals defeat the Orioles 4-0

Maikel Garcia #11 of the Kansas City Royals celebrates on second base after hitting a double | Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images The Royals have shutout opponents in four of their last eight contests The Royals have done it, they have secured their first winning road trip of the season, completing their fourth win out of a total of six planned contests, and fourth out of five completed c...2025
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• Royals add Taylor Clarke to the bullpen

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Noah Cameron is optioned down after his terrific start. The Royals announced they have added right-handed reliever Taylor Clarke to the roster and have optioned Noah Cameron back to Triple-A Omaha. To make room on the 40-man roster for Clarke, the team transferred pitcher James McArthur to the 60-day Injured List. Clarke pitched for the Royals...2025
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• Series Preview: Rays vs Royals

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Twenty-eight games down, one-hundred thirty-four to go We are officially one month into the 2025 regular season and the Tampa Bay Rays have gone through the longest homestand in franchise history and a west coast swing against two of the toughest teams in the National League. They’ve endured playing at the newest hitter’s haven in baseball. They’ve suffe...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 15, 2025

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images What can wake these bats up? Anne Rogers writes about the success of Daniel Lynch IV. Lynch has 29 strikeouts during his scoreless streak. The streak is the third-longest scoreless streak ever by a Royals reliever, only trailing Kelvin Herrera (31 innings in 2014) and Wade Davis (31 2/3 innings in ‘14). “It’s really cool to be a part of w...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 9, 2025

William Purnell-Imagn Images The Kansas City Royals are cooking in Kauffman. MLB.com’s Anne Rogers catches up with Kansas City Royals starter Michael Lorenzen after crossing the coveted ten-year mark in MLB service time and picking up the win on Monday. Lorenzen allowed just one run on five hits, struck out three and didn’t walk a batter in his second start of the season, all en route to h...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 24, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images We will have real baseball this week! Vinnie Pasquantino exited Saturday’s game with a hamstring strain. “I feel fine,” Pasquantino said as he got ready to leave with the team for the airport and then fly to Texas. “I don’t want to put any timeframe on it, but I don’t think – my gut tells me it’s not going to affect anything. But my gut is not the medical st...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images One week until Opening Day. Daniel Lynch IV’s last Spring Training outing could hint at his role this season: Lynch will get a few appearances out of the bullpen this week as the Cactus League schedule wraps up, with an inning Wednesday and two scheduled on Friday, while Kris Bubic remains in the rotation and is scheduled for his sixth spring game (fifth st...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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"– 2-3, with a sac fly to give the Royals the lead Jonathan India – 1-4, but a 10-pitch AB in the bottom of the seventh led to a hit and tied the game Daniel Lynch – Still has not allowed a run after a key relief appearance today Royals bullpen – No earned runs today, continuing their dominance on the back end Tyler Tolbert – Forced an error on the bases and took two bases in the bottom of the eighth Losers: MJ Melendez – Struggles at the plate continued as he finished 0-4, but was solid on defense with a big diving highlight play Final Thoughts: Today, the Royals didn’t look perfect but did just enough to get the win."

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"com/UCDXw4lU7L— Bally Sports Kansas City (@BallySportsKC) August 27, 2024 Daniel Lynch IV gave the Royals three solid shutout innings to preserve the win and the doubleheader sweep."

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"Daniel Lynch immediately gave some of those runs back in the second, however."

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"The Royals finalized their season-opening rotation yesterday, with manager Mike Matheny telling reporters (including Alec Lewis of the Athletic) that southpaw Daniel Lynch will claim the final spot behind Zack Greinke, Brad Keller, Kris Bubic and Carlos Hernández."

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"Southpaw Daniel Lynch was placed on the 10-day…"

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"That said, Flanagan points to a few Royals starting prospects – Brady Singer, Daniel Lynch and Jackson Kowar – who could push for a spot in the team’s rotation during camp."

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"Kansas City, which has five picks on Day 1, took Singer's Gators staffmate, right-hander Jackson Kowar, 33rd overall and selected a third college pitcher, Virginia lefty Daniel Lynch, at Number 34."

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• What if this is just who the Royals are?

Freddy Fermin #34 of the Kansas City Royals is doused with water by Jonathan India #6 and Bobby Witt Jr. #7 | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The offense might never improve, but that doesn’t have to mean trouble. Much ink, digital and otherwise, has been spilled on the topic of the Royals... shall we say inconsistent offense. Methods of improvement that have been suggested include, but...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 7, 2025

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Comebacks are fun, no matter how easy the opponent makes them. David Lesky reacts to Monday’s series opener against the Chicago White Sox. But in this one, they got great pitching, just enough offense and one defensive play that I may be thinking about for a long time. And if you doubt that, I can still picture a double play started by Alcides Escobar in Houston ...2025
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• Royals add Taylor Clarke to the bullpen
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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 officially set 2025 Opening Day roster

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Here are the 26 Royals ready to do battle on Opening Day. The Royals have announced the 2025 Opening Day roster, with the final few bench spots and last starting pitcher spot falling into place over the last few weeks. The roster is as follows: Catchers (2): Freddy Fermin, Salvador Perez Infielders (6): Cavan Biggio, Jonathan India, Maikel Garcia, Michael...2025
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• 2025 Royals season preview: They didn’t come this far just to come this far

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals had a surprise run, but the taste of the post-season left them wanting more. A year ago, even the most optimistic Royals fans would have had a hard time envisioning the season playing out the way it did. The team was coming off its seventh consecutive losing season - three of which were 100-loss seasons, including a 2023 se...2025
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• Royals take crushing 5-4 loss in Minnesota
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• Eight winners and zero losers as the Royals defeat the Orioles 4-0
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• Royals finish the sweep with a 6-2 win in game two of the Rockies double header

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Royals offensive success continues as they put up 13 runs on the day and come away with a sweep against the Rockies. In game two of their doubleheader, the Royals look to secure their first sweep of the year and to win their fourth in a row to establish their longest win streak of the year. The offense came alive in game one of the doubleheader, and they ...2025
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• Royals 4, Rockies 3: Ryan Feltner dazzled, but the offense was dull

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Although there was some action at the end, the Rockies continue to struggle at the plate. The Colorado Rockies are desperately trying to get their offense on track but despite some late-game scoring were unsuccessful (again) tonight at Kauffman Stadium as they lost to the Kansas City Royals, 4-3. Feltner dazzles Ryan Feltner was in top form, getting into...2025
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• 5 things that stick out over the Royals’ first 10 games of 2025

Hunter Renfroe #16 of the Kansas City Royals takes the field during the game between the Cleveland Guardians and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, March 30, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The bullpen? Nice. The outfield? Not exactly so. There’s a metaphorical magnifying glass hovering above the beginning of each MLB s...2025
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• The path to 90 wins is still narrow

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Royals are still counting on pretty much everything going right. No one really saw last year coming. The 2023 Royals lost 106 games. Despite an aggressive offseason, it was absurd to believe that the 2024 Royals could truly compete. So when I wrote an article suggesting that there was a path to contention, however narrow, most of the comments ridiculed the no...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 22, 2025
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The 2025 season

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals walks to the on-deck circle | Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Time to figure out which of the RR writers has the juice! Last year, the Royals went to the playoffs for the first time in almost a decade. This year, they have an opportunity to advance past the Division Round for the first time in a decade. The offseason wasn’t nearly as busy...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 24, 2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 22, 2025

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images The Royals rotation is old school. In case you missed it, the Royals acquired veteran hitter Mark Canha. Kyle Wright faced live hitters for the first time since 2023, writes Anne Rogers. “I was definitely nervous again,” Wright said. “I had those pregame jitters, which I was pumped about. Usually the thoughts have just been, ‘Is my shoulder going to...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 13, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Bobby Witt Jr. seems to have avoided the worst after being plunked in the forearm yesterday: The Royals’ shortstop did not suffer a fracture, the team announced, with X-rays coming back negative. He’s dealing with a left forearm contusion and will continue to be evaluated in the coming days. The fifth starter spot seems to be down to Daniel Lynch IV and Kris...2025
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• Royals Rumblings—News for March 5, 2025

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Which will come first, the end of Kansas City’s winter or Opening Day? David Lesky at Inside the Crown stacks up the Kansas City Royals pitching room ahead of Opening Day. The change started at the end of June that year when the Royals acquired Cole Ragans, but to their credit, they didn’t stop. We know about them adding Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, but th...2025
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• Five-run first holds up for Royals in 6-4 win over the Dodgers
Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images The Royals scored three runs on sacrifice flies. After an hour rain delay, the Royals put up five runs in the first inning against Julio Urias and were able to hold on for a 6-4 win over the Dodgers on Saturday night to even the series. The Royals scored three wins on sacrifice flies and scored six times on just seven hits. The Royals jumped all over Urias...2023
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• Royals walk off Nationals, 3-2
Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Edward Olivares helped spark a comeback and almost set fire to the stadium. For six, long innings, it seemed like the Royals were sleep-walking through another loss on their way to another series sweep at the hands of an opponent. Daniel Lynch got his first start of 2023 today and he wasn’t awful, but he wasn’t perfect, either. He pitched 5.2 innings and struc...2023
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• Zack Greinke named Royals Opening Day starter
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Daniel Lynch will also begin the season on the IL. Royals manager Matt Quatraro tabbed Zack Greinke to be his Opening Day starter for the season opener on March 30 against the Minnesota Twins. It will be the second year in a row that Greinke has started the opener, and third time overall that Greinke has started on Royals Opening Day. Pablo López will get the...2023
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• Salvy grand slam lifts Royals to 9-4 win to sweep doubleheader

David Richard-USA TODAY Sports The Royals are just one game out of first place. Salvador Perez smashed two home runs, including a grand slam to carry the Royals to a 9-4 win over the Guardians to sweep Monday’s doubleheader. Perez finished with six RBI on the game, and went 5-for-7 in the doubleheader. The Royals had some sloppy play early on. With two on against Alec Marsh, Jose Ramirez ...2024
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• Royals officially sign Zack Greinke
Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Anthony Misiewicz is designated for assignment. The Royals officially announced the signing of pitcher Zack Greinke to a one-year deal on Friday. New York Post reporter Jon Heyman reports the deal is for $8.5 million with $7.5 million in incentives. To make room on the 40-man roster, the team designated pitcher Anthony Misiewicz for ass...2023
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• Royals to re-sign Zack Greinke, according to a report
Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Zack is back! The Royals have re-signed Zack Greinke, according to Bob Fescoe of 610 Sports. Royals have reached a deal to bring Zack Greinke back for one more year, per source. Deal will be officially announced tomorrow afternoon. #royals— Bob Fescoe (@bobfescoe) January 30, 2023 Last year, Greinke returned to the Royals on a one...2023
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• Alec Marsh makes the rotation, Jordan Lyles to the pen

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Royals round out their starting rotation. The Royals will have 25-year-old right-hander Alec Marsh in their starting rotation, according to manager Matt Quatraro, with veteran Jordan Lyles to pitch out of the bullpen. Marsh pitched in 17 games with 8 starts last year with the Royals, posting a 5.69 ERA and 85 strikeouts in 74 1⁄3 innings. A for...2024
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• Royals Hoping For Incentive-Laden Deal With Zack Greinke
The Royals have made a pair of relatively low-cost additions to their rotation this offseason. Ryan Yarbrough inked a $3MM guarantee in mid-December, while Jordan Lyles secured a two-year, $17MM commitment a couple weeks later. Those veteran starters join younger, in-house hurlers like Brady Singer, Daniel Lynch, Max Castillo and Kris Bubic in the rotation mix for first-year skipper Matt Quatraro....2023
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• Bullpen buttressed by belligerent batting, boys in blue beat bay behemoths 8-2
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• Game Fifty-One: Kansas City Royals at San Francisco Giants
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• Kris Bubic shines, Vinnie Pasquantino hits go-ahead HR as Royals beat Giants 3-1
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• Royals lose Ragans, Lugo - a pair of Cy Young finalists - to the Injured List
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• Royals Opening Day roster prediction one week into Spring Training

John Rave #96 of the Kansas City Royals cannot catch a ball hit by Josh Smith #47 of the Texas Rangers in the seventh inning at Globe Life Field on March 27, 2023 | Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images No trade = blander projection Can you believe the Royals have already played more than a week of Spring Training? Regular season baseball will be on us in less than a month, and while many rost...2025
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• This year’s Royals are better on paper but will that translate to more wins?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals look better on paper, but they might not win as many games as the 2024 version. The roster that the Royals having heading into the 2025 regular season is just better than what they started with last season. That does not mean they will win more games than the 2024 Royals, but I do like that this front office seems to improve the roster yearly. Let’...2025
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• This may be the best Royals rotation in a long, long time

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The bar has not been high in a while either, but this rotation looks like the best of this century if things break right. The Royals starting rotation has not been very good recently, although that has been true of the whole team so I am not really picking on them in particular. With the addition of Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, they have a different look than...2024
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• The 2024 Royals roster looks immensely better, but what about beyond?

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images After 2024, many of the recent free agent deals include opt-outs. Let’s get it out of the way early: the 2024 Kansas City Royals — as the roster stands right now — aren’t likely to make the playoffs. The recent flurry of free-agent additions has sparked the fanbase in ways we haven’t seen in quite some time. Fans are optimistic and whisper...2023
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• The Royals need to value playing time more
Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images The Royals are wasting precious playing time on placeholders. The 2023 season has not gone the way Royals fans would like, but the poor start is probably not too surprising for a team that lost 97 games last year and shed some of their best players without adding much this off-season. This was not expected to be a contending year for the young Royals, b...2023
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