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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 1, 2025

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! Craig Brown digs into the Royals’ offensive woes. What’s funny is that once the Royals fall behind 0-1, they turn into a league average offense. Collectively, this team hits .234/.268/.336, good for a 102 OPS+ after they fall behind 0-1. When they get ahead in the count, they’re terrible. Overall, the team is hitting .242/.343/.374 when they jump ahead 1-0. Yes, those num...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for June 28, 2025

Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Will the Royals ever win again at home? Blair Kerkoff found reason to be optimistic about the offense last night. It wasn’t enough. The Royals left 11 on base and made a baserunning error in the sixth inning when pinch runner Tyler Tolbert was picked off. “We need to find a way to tack on, expand when we had the lead,” manager Mat...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 27, 2025

Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images Bobby Witt Jr. will play for Team USA! The Royals acknowledge the need to get better, writes Anne Rogers. “We’re all in this together,” said manager Matt Quatraro. “We’re not pointing fingers at anybody. Nobody’s blaming anybody. There’s no fault. We need to get better. We’re going to keep working at it. We’re going to prepare, we’re going to compete, we’...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 24, 2025

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Is Lucas Erceg okay? David Lesky questions some of Matt Quatraro’s decisions on Sunday. It was in the bottom of the ninth inning with second and third and one out. I don’t know why they didn’t walk Jose Iglesias to set up the force at any base with the bottom of the order due up. It forced Witt to have to go up the middle with the infield way in and he wasn’t in a...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 25, 2025

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Is Lucas Erceg okay? David Lesky questions some of Matt Quatraro’s decisions on Sunday. It was in the bottom of the ninth inning with second and third and one out. I don’t know why they didn’t walk Jose Iglesias to set up the force at any base with the bottom of the order due up. It forced Witt to have to go up the middle with the infield way in and he wasn’t in a...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for June 21, 2025

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Earl Weaver would be proud. The Royals hit their second three-run home run in three games in Friday’s win over the Padres. “The three-run homer is big,” Quatraro said, speaking on India’s three-run blast. “We talked about that it’s been a long time for us. Two of them in this road trip have been big. It’s nice for us to be able to do it the other way t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2025

I guess they can’t get the full coolers on the road | Photo by Karen Hastings/MLB Photos via Getty Images Lumber Jac? You know? I’m ok with it If you were living under a rock or on the moon, perhaps you missed the news. Jac Caglianone hit his first career home run yesterday. Jaylon Thompson wrote about it for The Star: In the second inning, Caglianone hit a 95.5 mph fastball off Ranger...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 18, 2025

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images What do a runner’s high and a Royals winning streak have in common? They never last long. David Lesky looks at the dreaded question: what does selling look like for the Kansas City Royals? But first, the Inside the Crown author is not giving up...yet. [$] Everybody is very quick to make a proclamation about what a team should do at the deadline. The second a...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 17, 2025

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Vote for Bobby Witt Jr. for the All-Star Game! Matt Quatraro talks about why he pulled Noah Cameron on Sunday after five innings. “He was at 83 pitches and he is on regular rest,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “He’s had a pretty good workload and they were right in the middle of their order, with three or four righties in a row. And we had a really rested bul...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for June 14, 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Happy Birthday, Bobby Witt Jr.! Jonathan India exited last night’s game after he appeared to injure his shoulder. David Lesky is running out of things to say about the lack of hitting. I have nothing to say about this offense. Something has to change, but I’m just not sure it will. As I said yesterday, the biggest hope right now is to get to a point when o...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 3, 2025

Jac Caglianone for the Omaha Storm Chasers | Minda Haas Kuhlmann It’s time for Jac. Vahe Gregorian writes about the decision to call up Jac Caglianone. While he certainly seems to have demonstrated that he’s beyond Triple-A, that’s not the same as being ready for this. No matter how hard the Royals will try to cushion and support him, he’ll surely be the story for weeks to come among fan...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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• 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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• Weekend Rumblings - News for December 7, 2024

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Is Maikel Garcia a trade candidate? Anne Rogers previews next week’s Winter Meetings. Potential Trade Candidates With Singer already gone, the Royals might be more reluctant to trade from their Major League team, but there are still names to discuss. Third baseman Maikel Garcia has popped up in conversations because of his ability to play s...2024
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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 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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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 13, 2025

Mentioned in the first story | Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images That series was disheartening At The Star, Jaylon Thompson writes about the Royals bullpen and their Hello Kitty backpack: “It’s just fun and games, at the end of the day,” KC reliever Jonathan Bowlan said. “It’s usually to the youngest guy in the bullpen. I wore it last year and the year before a littl...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 10, 2025

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images Congrats to AL Player of the Week Vinnie Pasquantino! Vinnie Pasquantino is named American League Player of the Week. The Royals welcome the New York Yankees to Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday evening. Pasquantino, who owns a nine-game hitting streak, looks to continue his torrid stretch at home. “Vinnie has been swinging the bat really well for like six, ...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 31, 2025

Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images The Royals can’t hit in the clutch this year. Anne Rogers writes the Royals continue to struggle with runners in scoring position. Not so much this year, even with the same lineup plus leadoff hitter Jonathan India. Their team .224 average in scoring position ranks 25th in MLB, .284 OBP ranks 29th and .315 slugging percentage ranks at the very bottom. “I...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 27, 2025

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images John Rave hasn’t fixed the offense....yet. J.J. Picollo discusses the promotion of John Rave. “John did a great job in spring training and nearly made our club out of spring training,” Royals general manager J.J. Picollo said. “And he did what you want players to do: Go back down and just force our hand. And we thought the way he was performing, we’ve be...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 23, 2025

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Jac Caglianone hits his first Triple-A home run! David Lesky wonders if the team has been unlucky with runners in scoring position. Their .232 average with RISP since April 21 (that was an off day, but I went back to that) ranked ninth-worst in baseball. Their .265 xBA wanked 11th-best. Their .350 SLG ranked eighth-worst in baseball. Their .401 xSLG ranked 18...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 21, 2025

Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images Royals fans’ sleep schedules rejoice at the end of another West Coast road trip. David Lesky talks about just how great the San Francisco Giants’ starter Robbie Ray was against the Kansas City Royals on Monday. Last night was another intense and competitive game for the Royals in one of the best pitchers’ duels we’ve seen this season. Coming in, it looked like i...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 Rumblings - News for April 30, 2025

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Welcome to The Show, Noah Cameron. Sam McDowell pleads for the Kansas City Royals to give Bobby Witt Jr. more help, and fast. [$] Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. is hitting everything these days, and he redirected the pitch down the third-base line, a double Sunday extending his career-best hitting streak to 19 games. Witt has been on...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 25, 2025

Leigh Guidry/USA TODAY Network Prior to yesterday’s game, I was 6th on the Royals in position player fWAR for 2025. And so were you! Suddenly, the Royals are on a 4-game winning streak and only 2 games under .500. Huzzah! Going back to Wednesday, Pete Grathoff talked about the rain delay the started well before the rain. Roth was correct as the rain didn’t start for more than 90 minute...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 23, 2025

Photo by Tanner Gatlin/MLB Photos via Getty Images The stoppable force meets the movable object in Kauffman Stadium. David Lesky takes a long look at Kansas City Royals trade candidates (as buyers) at Inside the Crown. [$] Last year, two of the 12 teams in the postseason were under .500 after 23 games. The bar simply isn’t as high to get in, which means more times are in it a lot longer. B...2025
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Jeff Curry-Imagn Images Jac Caglianone is the best thing to come out of Tampa since the Cuban sandwich. Royals Data Dugout breaks down infielder Maikel Garcia’s adjustments at the plate and how that is helping the Kansas City Royals. His quality hands will always support the high contact rates and ability to put the ball in play, but the young third baseman opened previously untapped ceili...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 17, 2025

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images The Royals rotation is banged up. Cole Ragans experienced more groin issues on Friday, writes Jaylon Thompson. “It tightened up there on him in the fifth inning,” Quatraro said. “So, just trying to do the right thing. Get him out of there before something happened.” Ragans surrendered three earned runs prior to the inning. His last two fastballs thrown re...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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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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• 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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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 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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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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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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