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• Locked On Twins: Twins-Royals series preview with Inside the Crown’s David Lesky
The Twins don’t have long to lick their wounds from a brutal meltdown against the Astros, as a trip to face the Royals is next. In this edition of Locked On Twins, Brandon (@Brandon_Warne/@warne.bsky.social) and Dave (@answerdavebrown/@answerdave.bsky.social) are joined by David Lesky (@DBLesky/dblesky.bsky.social) to break it all down, including how Bobby Witt Jr....2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 5, 2025

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Is the offense turning things around? Jaylon Thompson writes about last night’s offensive explosion. KC finished with 11 hits. The increased scoring chances could bode well for the offense finding a rhythm moving forward. “I wasn’t concerned with the at-bats,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “I mean, we are going to have stretches throughout the season where t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 4, 2025

Currently, does Jonathan India have the best mane on the team? | Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Time to get back to winning At The Star, Jaylon Thompson collected quotes from around the league concerning how teams feel about the Royals: “I think they understood the work that it took,” Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington said. “They are not going to let up on that side, with the ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 2, 2025

Photo by Aaron Gash/MLB Photos via Getty Images The boys are balling against the Brewers. David Lesky writes about a dominant season debut for southpaw Kris Bubic. [$] His fastball was a monster. It is absolutely wild to me that the guy who had the fastball that he had early in his career has developed that pitch to be as good as it is. In 2020, he gave up a .299 average and .464 slugging ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 1, 2025

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Don’t be a fool! Jaylon Thompson writes Royals players were impressed that Jonathan India was back in the lineup Monday. “It’s something that I have never seen in my career,” Royals captain Salvador Perez said. “I said that on TV earlier: He is one of the toughest guys I have ever met in my life. “Get hit in the head with a 99 to 100 mph fastball and pl...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 29, 2025

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The baseball season resumes! Sam McDowell writes about the positives from a bullpen that blew it on Opening Day. During a month (or two) in which Royals manager Matt Quatraro will probably be tinkering with how to use his new-look bullpen, there will probably be some second-guessing of his decision to yank ace Cole Ragans in favor of Zer...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 28, 2025

It was a good start | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The quest for 161-1 begins tomorrow! Let’s be honest. You’re not here to read what I wrote today. You’re here to talk about the game yesterday. I’m not going to link to a bunch of different recaps posts. Matthew has got you covered with the RR recap. I won’t post too much more about that TOOTBLAN in the 8th (Pete Grathoff has me ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 26, 2025

Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images One. More. Day. MLB.com’s Anne Rogers has some huge questions surrounding the Kansas City Royals’ “Great Unknown” in 2025. The Royals weren’t able to bring in the middle-of-the-order bat they wanted this offseason, so the pressure is on for MJ Melendez and Hunter Renfroe to improve from a year ago and provide a power threat in the fifth and sixth spots. C...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 25, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Bobby Baseball is the Major League Play Ball Ambassador! Anne Rogers writes more about Vinnie Pasquantino’s injury and a potential stint on the Injured List. “We haven’t talked about that, him and I, but I think he would understand the balance there,” manager Matt Quatraro said. “But that being said, it doesn’t mean he has to play all six games right out of ...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 21, 2025

Almost time to say farewell to Surprise | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images By next Friday’s Rumblings, we’ll have seen real baseball Bobby Baseball days away.— Kansas City Royals (@royals.com) 2025-03-20T16:30:15.121Z At the Star, Vahe Gregorian profiles Seth Lugo: For instance, an aunt likes to tell the story of taking him to a Texas Rangers game when he was 4...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 19, 2025

Photo by Aryanna Frank/MLB Photos via Getty Images MLB.com examines one player in each camp that is making the biggest impression, with pitcher Daniel Lynch IV representing the Kansas City Royals. There aren’t too many roster battles for the Royals this camp, but Lynch has made the biggest one — the fifth starter battle — at least an interesting conversation. His spring ERA jumped to 3.21 ...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 15, 2025

Photo by Aryanna Frank/MLB Photos via Getty Images Did Jac Caglianone have a spring breakout? Carlos Estévez made his spring debut on Friday. The important thing is the 32-year-old is healthy and getting into a game groove. He was delayed getting into games this spring after experiencing mild back tightness in the early part of camp. The Royals slowed down his progression and had him thro...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 14, 2025

Did you think you’d see Daniel Mengden today? | Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Asia baseball previews begin today with the CPBL At Royals.com, Anne Rogers writes about how Hunter Renfroe is, say it with me everyone, in the best shape of his life! Renfroe came into camp this year leaner, thanks to offseason training that included going to a physical therapist and focusing on his diet a...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 8, 2025

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Do the Royals need more pitching? David Lesky looks at how the Royals might decide roster spots this spring. They don’t have a ton of competitions really. I think you can look at the roster and know that probably 20 of the 26 roster spots are decided. A few of those that aren’t are relievers, which matter but are a little different be...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 January 1, 2025

Photo by Agit Erdi Ulukaya/Anadolu via Getty Images New year, same ol’ quiet offseason Welcome to the new year! Here is the Kansas City Royals news you need today. MLB.com’s Anne Rogers names pitch Noah Cameron as the Kansas City Royals prospect to watch heading into 2025. Cameron, the Royals’ No. 12 prospect, might have made his MLB debut last year if the Royals weren’t making a postseaso...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 13, 2024

Bubble! | Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images With The Gauntlet over, just 15 games to go Let’s check in on those playoff odds, shall we? Baseball Prospectus: 92.7% to make playoffs, 3.2% to win division, 1.9% to win World Series Fangraphs: 94.3% to make playoffs, 6.8% to win division, 2.6% to win World Series Baseball-Reference: 94.1% to make playoffs, 3.4% to win division, 6.0% to win ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 26, 2024

Seriously - that was a lot of rain | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Yesterday’s game was just weird and I was glad the Royals stole it Let’s talk about yesterday’s game for a minute. It really was odd. I know Ryan covered it here, but I just wanted to blather on more about it. Really, to have a clean game, they would have had to start it at least an hour earlier and we just don’t do that...2024
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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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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 26, 2024

Photo by Brian Davidson/Getty Images Two more days! The Royals get some good news on Michael Wacha after he was hit in the finger by a comebacker. “We are really lucky, he is really lucky,” Quatraro said of Wacha, whose X-rays came back negative on Monday morning. “We feel fortunate that it wasn’t anything worse.” “It was a little bit of a bruise probably, but in terms of pain, we anticip...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 13, 2024

Happy Eras Tour Movie on Disney+ Eve! Two things from the team site today: Tuesday’s roster moves were options to Omaha for outfielder Tyler Gentry and RHP John McMillon. Anne Rogers took advantage of the rare opportunity to dig into Spring Training Statcast date on Cole Ragans’s game: The max 99.5 mph velocity from Cole Ragans was more of the same from the Royals starter looking to build on his ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 22, 2023

Sorry, Santa. I hope you put coal in Noah Syndergaard’s stocking Only 4 shopping days left until CobraCy’s Christmas post will be late (please tell me he’s writing one) As talked about yesterday in other outlets, The Star’s Pete Grathoff explores the possibility of Royals games being on Amazon Prime in the future: According to the Wall Street Journal’s Lauren Thomas and Joe Flint, Amazon...2023
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"David Lesky ($) talks about the Estevez signing: Look, the results were there in 2024 for him, so maybe they don’t do a thing, but Royals pitchers got a collective whiff rate of 31."

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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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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 25, 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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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 4, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Moose returns! Jack Vita at MLB.com writes about Seth Lugo’s veteran presence. Now 35, Lugo is the elder statesman of the Royals’ pitching staff. A quieter personality, Lugo leads by example. “I’ve never really been too outgoing with words,” Lugo said. “But you go to work every day, you give it everything you have, you try to be on time, you be in the pl...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 1, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Does Cavan Biggio have a spot on this team? Jaylon Thompson talks to Maikel Garcia about what he needs to do to improve. Royals hitting coach Alec Zumwalt explained that Garcia has gotten stronger and added a toe-tap to better balance his swing mechanics. “Maikel and I talked going into the offseason and we talked here in Arizona when he was doing his reha...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for February 22, 2025

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images How does one “Fountains Up”? Tyler Gentry had the biggest knock of the day for the Kansas City Royals, with his first home run of the spring plating three. Tyler Gentry drills the first homer of spring! pic.twitter.com/yNaeDloNJx— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) February 21, 2025 The second-most impactful hit came from Nick Loftin, with this two-RBI single...2025
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• Is Bobby Witt Jr. becoming a superstar before our eyes?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The kid is coming into his own. The expectations have been high for Bobby Witt Jr., perhaps his entire life. The son of a former big leaguer, Witt had a leg up, but he also combined his advantage with hard work to become Gatorade High School Player of the Year and the #2 overall pick in the 2019 draft. Jim Callis at MLB Pipeline called him the “second-best sh...2023
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• Reactions to the Bobby Witt Jr. signing

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images It’s a lot of money! On Monday, the Royals signed Bobby Witt Jr. to an eleven-year, $288.7 million contract that includes three years of club options that could total up to $377 million over 14 years, with player opt outs after years seven, eight, nine, and ten. It is a massive deal, by far the biggest in club history and potentially the third biggest in bas...2024
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• The Royals are shutout on Opening Day, fall 2-0 to Twins
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports We are back, baby In the bottom of the 5th, MJ Melendez stayed in the batter’s box after the count went to 3-0. The score was 0-0, Zack Greinke was cruising on the other side, and Twins starter Pablo Lopez was on the ropes with bases loaded and just one out. With the new pitch clock, he had no time to take a breath. Three pitches later, the inning was over...2023
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• This is a James McArthur fansite now

Kansas City Royals pitcher James McArthur (66) pitching during the ninth inning against the Chicago White Sox at Kauffman Stadium. | William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports Long live The General Every year, each team makes a variety of roster transactions involving bullpen arms and just general pitching depth. Traditionally, the result of those moves by the Royals has been less than stellar; from...2024
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• Royals dig around at rock bottom, lose seventh straight in extras
Jun 12, 2023; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Zack Greinke (23) reacts after giving up a home run to Cincinnati Reds left fielder Stuart Fairchild (17) during the third inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports A loss in extra innings is still a loss in extra innings The thing about rock bottom is that you can bring a pickax and make a n...2023
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• Disaster four-run 8th inning leads to 6-3 loss

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports Erceg and Vinnie were injured on the same fateful play For a second, you could squint and see another late-inning rally. A clutch Kyle Isbel double had Kansas City six outs away from another comeback win. Then a disastrous ground ball ended with Lucas Erceg and Vinnie Pasquantino injured and the Royals’ lead gone. The air had been let out of the balloon at that...2024
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• My nine bold 2024 Royals-related predictions

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Let’s see what I can get wrong! We can put 2023 to rest, and usher in a new year with some renewed hope for our Royals, who have actually spent money on players this off-season. This is the time of year for predictions and you can read prognostications from Jaylon Thompson, Anne Rogers, and David Lesky. Here are my Royals-related predictions for 2024! Salv...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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• Weekend Rumblings - News for December 9, 2023

Stephanie Amador / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK Are the Royals on the verge of making some moves? David Lesky at Inside the Crown responds to recent trade rumors. I actually do think the trade market is what opens up over the next few weeks. I may be way off here, but it sort of feels like if a free agent doesn’t sign by the winter meetings, they hold off for a bit to re-engage. Now,...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 28, 2025

Need another pitcher? I Noah guy. | Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Spring Training is in full swing! This is going to feel a little backwards as our OT is up at the top today, sort of. It’s been brought to my attention that a number of AI bots are harvesting our articles and either cutting-and-pasting them, slightly rewriting them and publishing them as their own, or, my favorite, turni...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 4, 2025

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images How would you grade the Royals’ off-season? David Lesky tries to project Royals hitters. In right field, Melendez and Renfroe is a bit less exciting, but Melendez has a career 105 OPS+ against righties while Renfroe is at 121 vs. lefites. Neither was that good against their desired platoon matchups last year, which is concerning and a big reason why they ne...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 2, 2024

Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Yes? Or No? Jaylon Thompson writes about the tough loss in the series opener in Baltimore. “It was a really good ballgame throughout,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “It was exciting to get back and tie it off (Orioles closer Craig) Kimbrel. He is one of the best closers in recent history. “Obviously, to lose in that fashion is heartbreaking....2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 23, 2024

Photo by Aaron Doster/Getty Images The last weekend before regular season baseball. Jaylon Thompson writes about the Royals demoting Nick Pratto despite a hot spring. “Frankly you know, Vinnie (Pasquantino) is going to play first (base) most of the time,” Quatraro said. “Nick had a phenomenal spring. It was just a little bit of a logjam. He can do other things in playing the outfield. But ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 22, 2024

Sure, it’s not the KBO, but it’s in Korea | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images I tried to write as much as I could of this ahead of time, but if it descends into madness by the end, I blame basketball Max and Jeremy already covered the big stories yesterday. I guess I’ll just link to other stories below that cover the same ground. First, Max: Alec Marsh makes the rotation, Jordan Lyles to th...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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