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• Carlos Hernández claimed off waivers, Royals roster comes into focus

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Royals send Nick Pratto and Nelson Velázquez to Omaha The Royals announced today that pitcher Carlos Hernández has been claimed off waivers from the Philadelphia Phillies and that first baseman Nick Pratto and outfielder Nelson Velázquez have cleared waivers and have been outrighted to Triple-A Omaha. The Royals also released veteran catcher Lu...2025
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• The Royals’ wild 2024 bullpen leverage ride

Lucas Erceg. | Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Q spent the whole season figuring out whom he could trust. The story of the Royals bullpen in 2024 was pretty simple - Lucas Erceg came in mid-season and immediately was the best guy, and the rest of the bullpen jelled toward the end of the season. This change bears out in the larger team performance. The Royals bullpen was 22nd in fWAR in the...2025
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• The best pictures from 2025 Spring Training photo day

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Say cheese! The regular season looms. Spring Training is coming to a close. And in just under the wire is our annual look at the best pictures from Royals Spring Training photo day, which we have run here at Royals Review for a decade. Yes, in years past, this post happened shortly after the pictures were originally snapped. This year, well, not so much. But ...2025
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• Why the Royals could have one of the most underrated bullpens in baseball

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Royals made significant changes in their bullpen over the last year. Over the last year, the Royals have put significant stock in their bullpen and this season, they hope to reap the benefits of their work. As we head into 2025, we get a look at both some new faces, and some familiar ones who are getting healthy and we hope to see bounce b...2025
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• The last(?) Royals Opening Day roster prediction of 2025 Spring Training

Jack Hurley #26 of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Gavin Cross #8 and Carson Roccaforte #3 of the Kansas City Royals interact | Photo by Aryanna Frank/MLB Photos via Getty Images For a team with a lot of locked up positions, there sure are some drastic prediction changes in this final roster prediction Lineup Let’s do this vs lefties and righties because the Royals have some interesting platoon ...2025
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• Four-run ninth gives Royals walk off win against the Padres

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Royals Devil Magic, spring training style. The Royals scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Padres 6-5 in the rain on Thursday afternoon. Daniel Lynch IV is engaged in a competition for a starting role this spring and has impressed in his outings so far. He had a quick 1-2-3 first inning, but rain into trouble in the second, giving up t...2025
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• Royals pitchers aren’t walking hitters this spring, what does that mean for the rotation?

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images As a team, the Royals are not walking many batter so far this spring, and a pretty large group have yet to issue a free pass. A couple of those guys are particularly interesting. For most spring training stats, I am definitely the guy to talk to about ignoring them. They mean little to nothing. I know if you are the 24th to 29th guy on the roster, it might b...2025
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• Melendez homers, but offense otherwise listless in 6-1 loss to Diamondbacks

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images MJ Melendez homers for the only run. MJ Melendez homered for the only Royals run in a 6-1 loss to the Diamondbacks on Friday. The Royals managed just four hits for the second game in a row. Kris Bubic got the start and looked pretty impressive over his two innings of work. He struck out two hitters each inning, working around a hit in each frame. He threw 2...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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• Give us your Royals Opening Day roster predictions!

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Who do you have on the team by the March 27 opener? Royals pitchers and catchers have begun workouts in Arizona, and hitters will report on Monday. The Royals will spend the next six weeks preparing for the season and shaping the roster that will take on the Guardians in the season opener on March 27. That gives us some time to speculate on who might be o...2025
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• Five questions for the Royals to answer this spring training

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The roster may not be quite set. Royals pitchers and catchers will assemble in Arizona tomorrow to officially report to spring training. The team is flying high after improving by 30 games last year and making their first playoff appearance in nine years, but they’ll have to prove their performance was no fluke. The team retained free agent pitchers Michael ...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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• Nationals prospects: After an injury plagued season, 2025 is a huge year for Cayden Wallace

Dylan Widger-Imagn Images After coming over in the Hunter Harvey trade, injuries halted Cayden Wallace’s progress Cayden Wallace is one of many young Nationals third baseman trying to stake a claim as the 3B of the future. While Wallace certainly isn’t the favorite in that discussion, he has some interesting tools. However, he needs to stay healthy to show off his skills. 2024 was a weird ...2025
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• Seven takeaways about the upcoming season from Royals Rally 2025

Some interesting things On Saturday, the Kansas City Royals held their third annual Royals Rally event at Kauffman Stadium. The successor to the previous Royals Fanfest, which used to be held downtown at the convention center until the pandemic, Royals Rally featured a variety of activities and opportunities to get memorabilia signed by Royals players. Additionally, the team hosted roundtable disc...2025
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"Estévez will join a bullpen that likely includes Erceg, Hunter Harvey, John Schreiber, Chris Stratton, Angel Zerpa, and Sam Long."

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"com/KDJUhUsGtv— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) August 4, 2024 My nerves ratcheted up after seeing Hunter Harvey warming up in the bullpen, though."

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"The Nats bullpen has quite a few rookies, after Hunter Harvey and former Cub Carl Edwards Jr."

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"Right-hander Hunter Harvey has been designated for assignment in order to clear a 40-man roster spot, tweets Susan Slusser…"

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"The San Francisco Giants have claimed right-handed pitcher Hunter Harvey off waivers from the Baltimore Orioles."

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"It's been a long road for the Orioles' top pitching prospect, Hunter Harvey."

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"Hunter Harvey continued to make strides in his return from Tommy John surgery as he struck out five over 2 2/3 scoreless innings."

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"Dylan Bundy and Hunter Harvey, the Orioles' top two pitching prospects, are hoping to put injuries behind them in 2016."

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"Orioles top pitching prospect Hunter Harvey has been shut down again with right elbow discomfort and is slated to be re-evaluated by noted orthopedic surgeon Dr."

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" In the likes of Kevin Gausman, Dylan Bundy and Hunter Harvey, the Orioles have pitching that could appeal to them."

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• Is 2025 Salvy’s swan song with the Royals?

Brad Penner-Imagn Images With only a club option left on his contract, 2025 could be Perez’s last as a Royal. Salvador Perez’s time in Kansas City may be winding down. Perusing Spotrac the other evening, I noticed that this upcoming season is Salvy’s final guaranteed year on his contract. Now that wasn’t a secret, and I probably knew this already but I had forgotten that fact. Still, that’...2025
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• Royals interested in Mets outfielder Starling Marte, per report

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The Royals made an effort to acquire the 36-year-old. The Royals have been searching under every rock to acquire an outfielder this off-season but to no success. The latest report of their efforts is from Joel Sherman of the New York Post, who writes this week that the Royals tried to acquire Mets outfielder Starling Marte, and that their efforts may not b...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 6, 2025

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images [Inset something witty here] Jaylon Thompson breaks down Kansas City’s bullpen options: Last season, Estévez pitched to a 2.45 ERA with 26 saves in 54 games for the Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies. He bolsters a Royals bullpen that has undergone significant change over the past year. KC acquired right-handers Lucas Erceg and Hunter Harvey at ...2025
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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?
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• Spring Training trade targets

Heston Kjerstad #13 of the Baltimore Orioles bats against the Kansas City Royals of Game Two of the Wild Card Series | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Which outfielders might be available for the Royals and what might it take to get them? At the Royals Rally a couple of weeks ago, General Manager JJ Picollo indicated that the team had made real efforts to sign a free agent outfielder t...2025
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• Evaluating Royals relief options

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images What will the bullpen look like in 2025? Two seasons ago, the Kansas City Royals had one of the worst bullpens in franchise history. Not looking to repeat that, the front office made it a point to improve the relief pitching that offseason. They signed free agents and made trades to that end. Not every move they made worked out, but the bullpen was consider...2025
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• The five signature Royals players of the 2024 MLB season

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This past season exceeded all expectations, but these players had a larger role than most. When you think back on the Kansas City Royals’ 2023 season, what stands out more—the moments or the overall result? For me, it’s the moments. I think of Jake Eisenberg’s electrifying call of the walk-off grand slam against the Minnesota Twins. I...2024
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• Eight Royals predictions for 2025

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images These will probably be wrong...but they might be right! We are nearing the end of 2024, and what a remarkable year it was for the Royals. I tried to be optimistic in my predictions a year ago, but I don’t think even the most positive Royals fan could have thought the team would improve by 30 games and make the playoffs. As for my other predictions last time...2024
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• The Royals’ offseason motto: Don’t reject, but don’t rely

Maikel Garcia #11 of the Kansas City Royals looks on prior to Game 4 of the Division Series | Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Improving the team doesn’t necessarily mean moving on from players Last year, around this time, I wrote about how the Royals fans had a skewed perspectives problem about the team’s roster. I argued that players like Michael Massey and Kyle Isbel we...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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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 7, 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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• What to know about the MLB off-season

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Let the Hot Stove season begin. Now that the World Series is complete, the off-season can begin in earnest. Here is what you need to know about the Royals’ off-season. Which players become free agents? The Royals have seven players that automatically become free agents now - Paul DeJong, Yuli Gurriel, Garrett Hampson, Tommy Pham, Robbie Grossman, Michael Lor...2024
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• Where do they go from here?

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Looking ahead to 2025 That was fun, wasn’t it? Isn’t that what we’re trying to convince ourselves? That the 2024 season was a blast? In a lot of ways, it was. I mean think about it, they went from 106 losses in 2023 to 86 wins and a playoff berth in 2024. What’s not to like about that? Maybe I’m alone in this thought, but for some nagging reason, I didn’t enjoy t...2024
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• What Royals payroll looks like for 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Will John Sherman continue spending? The Royals made waves last winter by being one of the biggest spenders of the winter, pushing their Opening Day payroll to $115 million, the highest it had been since 2018. While J.J. Picollo says the budget has not been set for next year, he expects owner John Sherman to offer the same kind of payroll flexibility the Ro...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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• Lucas Erceg is having a moment

Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The 29-year-old took a long road to get here, but he’s here Kansas City has a decent history of dominant closers over the past 20 seasons. Since 2005, a relief pitcher who pitched at least 60 innings has logged an ERA of 1.60 or lower 54 times. Six of those seasons have been by Royals closers - good for 11 percent. From Joakim Soria ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 12, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Jac Caglianone hits his first pro home run. Vahe Gregorian writes about Saturday’s big win. Meanwhile, the two of them figure to be among the favorite Royals fans have ever had: Perez already has earned that over the years, including with his 2015 World Series MVP performance, and Witt is on track for it as one of the brightest young stars in the game. But...2024
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• Cubs 17, Nationals 3: The bats suddenly come alive
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Now THAT was fun! As the bottom of the sixth inning began Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field, I was sitting at the ballpark thinking sad thoughts about how I’d write yet another recap of another losing baseball game for the Chicago Cubs. And then the Cubs bats woke up, exploding for 17 hits and 16 runs over the last three innings, crushing the Nationals 1...2023
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• Bundy, Harvey keeping eyes on Majors in '16
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• MJ Melendez plays hero in Royals 3-2 comeback victory over Tigers

Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports The Royals road finale reminds them that there is no place like home. In an attempt to bounce back from their first walk-off defeat since April 3, the Kansas City Royals aimed for a series victory against the Detroit Tigers. A win Sunday would also net a Kansas City season series win over Detroit, the seventh time in the past 10 seasons. Growing up and learn...2024
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• Bundy, Harvey healthy at O's mini-camp
Right-handers Hunter Harvey and Dylan Bundy, the Orioles' top two prospects, reported to the club's annual mini-camp on Monday with clean bills of health, a welcome development after a few injury-plagued seasons....2016
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• Royals sign reliever Carlos Estévez to a two-year deal

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The 2023 All-Star has 57 saves over the last two seasons. The Royals have signed reliever Carlos Estévez to a two-year deal with a club option, according to MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers. Financial terms have not yet been disclosed. Estévez is coming off a season where he posted a career-low 2.45 ERA and a career-best 2.1 rWAR and 26 saves. He made 54 ap...2025
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• Giants Sign Jakob Junis, Designate Hunter Harvey
The Giants have signed right-hander Jakob Junis to a one-year, Major League contract, per the team. Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area reports that Junis, a Wasserman client, will be guaranteed $1.75MM on the deal. Right-hander Hunter Harvey has been designated for assignment in order to clear a 40-man roster spot, tweets Susan Slusser…...2022
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• Is James Paxton Finally Back? - July 1, 2023
James Paxton (SP-BOS) was stellar in his first start since exiting his previous outing because of knee soreness, firing 7.2 shutout IP against Toronto in which he scattered 3 hits and 2 walks while recording 7 punchouts. The 34 year-old southpaw threw 70 of his 110 offerings for strikes in the contest. Paxton - who threw just 21.2 IP in the majors since 2020 entering the campaign - has been a plea...2023
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• Carlos Hernández claimed off waivers, Royals roster comes into focus
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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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• 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves are once again the favorites to win the division but as far as Atlanta is concerned, it’s all about what they do in October. For the past few years, the story of the National League’s Eastern Division has been one that feels very familiar to how it was during the 1990s. While the Atlanta Braves have won the NL East for six straight seasons dating b...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Grapefruit League opener today; Davey Martinez preparing for season + more...

Notes and quotes to get you ready for the start of the Grapefruit League season... NATIONALS PREPARE FOR GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE OPENER: With one day to go before the start of Grapefruit League action, Davey Martinez and his club put in work on Friday, preparing for the first game of the spring, which takes place today in West Palm Beach, FL (6:05 PM ET; Radio: nats.com; with a replay on the MLB Network...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats win on walk-off wild pitch; MacKenzie Gore to IL + more...

Notes and quotes from a long night in Nationals Park... MACKENZIE GORE’S 2023 SEASON IN THE BOOKS?: MacKenzie Gore’s 2023 campaign effectively ended with the announcement on Saturday that he was going on the 15-Day IL with left finger blisters, which led to an abbreviated 4-inning outing on Friday night in the nation’s capital. “I couldn’t send him back out,” manager Davey Martinez explained, as ...2023
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats rally in 7th, blow lead in 9th in 8-6 loss to Padres...
Notes and quotes from the series finale in Nationals Park... Irvin Rides Or Just Starts Again: In spite of the fact he struggled at points in each of his last two starts, with strong stretches and bad ones, Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez said Jake Irvin would continue to start for Washington again, even after veteran starter Chad Kuhl came off the IL recently. “We definitely want to give Jake ...2023
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