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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 9, 2025

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images Jac Caglianone enjoys his first four-hit day. Jac Caglianone talked about his first four-hit game on Sunday. “It felt really good,” said Caglianone, who raised his batting average from .095 to .240. “It was a huge thanks to all the guys out here in the locker room. They were very supportive through it all, hitting balls hard and not really much to show ...2025
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• Cole Ragans is battling his command

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images Ragans has struggled with locating his pitches during his recent rough stretch The Kansas City Royals just took two of three games against the St Louis Cardinals thanks to some strong offensive showings, which we haven’t been able to say very much this year. It was good to see the hitters pick up the pitchers for a change; it’s a long season, and good teams will be ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 6, 2025

It was a good series | Photo by Ali Overstreet/MLB Photos via Getty Images I know it was just a doubleheader split and the first game was a letdown, but it was really nice to take 2 of 3 After the games were over last night the Royals signed RHP Justin Dunn to a minor league deal, per Jaylon Thompson. Thompson also wrote about the other (perplexing?) roster moves yesterday: Cameron didn’t...2025
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• Royals, Justin Dunn Agree To Minor League Deal
The Royals are in agreement with righty Justin Dunn on a minor league contract, reports Jaylon Thompson of The Kansas City Star. The former first-round pick had been pitching in Triple-A with the White Sox but was released last week. Dunn signed an offseason minor league deal with Chicago. He had a tough run in Triple-A,…...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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• 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 30, 2025

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Soon. Jeff Passan has a piece at ESPN about what the Royals are looking for from Jac Caglianone before a promotion. For the most part, yes. Before his promotion to Triple-A, the Royals impressed upon the 22-year-old Caglianone the importance of swinging at the right pitches. Caglianone is so talented, so dexterous in his bat-to-ball...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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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 24, 2025

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Nick Loftin gets his opportunity. The Royals parted ways with Hunter Renfroe on Friday, writes Anne Rogers “We have a ton of respect for Hunter and what he’s done in this game,” general manager J.J. Picollo said. “He was a key part of our team last year and part of that free-agent class that really changed the culture and allowed us to get on some winning w...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 20, 2025

Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports Can the Royals patch the rotation together? Kris Bubic enjoys pitching near his hometown in northern California, writes Jaylon Thompson Bubic grew up in Cupertino, California, which is just an hour south of Oracle Park. For years, Bubic watched as the Giants made lifelong memories. Now, he gets a chance to create his own once in a place he has always loved....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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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 27, 2025

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Lucas Erceg, fireman. Lucas Erceg is prepared to pitch in any role that he’s needed: That might be in the ninth inning for save opportunities, or it might come in the seventh or eighth. Having Estévez helps Quatraro be able to do that. “I don’t really care what my role is going to be,” Erceg said. “I’ve been telling all my friends and family, there’s nothi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 26, 2025

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images The best slugger in Northwest Arkansas Naturals history is back in Kansas City. MLB.com’s Anne Rogers and David Adler look at some of the intense work from Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. this spring at getting better on the basepaths. They’re incorporating audio components along with the visual technology on when to react, as well as ways to o...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 24, 2025

Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images Maikel Garcia is making adjustments. Jac Caglianone hit his first spring training home run on Sunday. “That was loud,” manager Matt Quatraro said. “And it didn’t look like a huge effort on his part, either. We know he’s got huge pop, but to be able to put that good of a swing on the ball in a game like that, close game, controlling his emotions like that...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 11, 2024

Thank you, veterans, David Laurila at Fangraphs talks to J.J. Picollo at the GM meetings. “We need to be a little more dynamic offensively, and by that I mean we need to get on base at a higher rate than we did this year,” Picollo told me earlier this week in San Antonio. “We’re trying to target players we can lengthen out our lineup with, whether it’s someone at the top, in the middle, or toward ...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for October 12, 2024

Denny Medley-Imagn Images No more Royals baseball. Sam McDowell writes about why Bobby Witt Jr. stayed to watch the Yankees celebrate from the dugout. “It feels like you let a lot of people down whenever you do things like this,” Witt began. “Something that will light a torch in you and leave you a bad taste for the future. “Because, now, for Kansas City Royals baseball, this is what we ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 2, 2024

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Game 1 victory! Maikel Garcia had a big walk and steal to score the only run of Game 1. “That was the difference,” said Royals manager Matt Quatraro. “He works a tremendous at-bat for the walk, steals second, scores on the hit. That is the difference in the game, and we know his capabilities. We know how good he is at stealing bases. Everyone does, right...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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• Cole Ragans is battling his command
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• Royals, Justin Dunn Agree To Minor League Deal
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 3, 2025
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• Do the Royals really have a problem hitting with RISP?

Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez (13) singles against the Detroit Tigers in the fourth inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Denny Medley-Imagn Images Or is it overblown? Covering a baseball season is a long, sometimes grueling marathon. Fans can tune in and tune out as they please, but the media apparatus attached to it must churn out Content no matter what is...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 2, 2025

Photo by Mikayla Schlosser/MLB Photos via Getty Images Enjoy retirement, Moose! Jaylon Thompson writes how Michael Wacha flirted with a no-hitter on Saturday. “I definitely tried not to think too much about it,” Wacha said. “Obviously, I knew what was going on. I just continued to try to take it to another level, keep making my pitches and keep executing like I had been pretty much all da...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 23, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 16, 2025

Cam Devanney, mentioned in the blogs below | Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images The Royals have 4 wins over the last 4 Thursdays so we, here at Friday Rumblings, are doing our part At The Star, Jaylon Thompson writes about Maikel Garcia’s new stance: While Garcia has seen the biggest growth with the toe tap, the Royals also have other players utilizing it from time to time. Infielder Jonatha...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 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, 21, 2025

Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images The Royals return home looking to hit. The Royals had a “big time win” Sunday, but it was still a rough road trip. “Look, we know we’re going to go through some tough stretches,” manager Matt Quatraro said. “This was a tough road trip against good teams. We’re going to play better than we’ve played this week, that’s for sure. You just don’t know when it...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 2, 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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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 16, 2025
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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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• Cub Tracks’ nerves of Steele

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. No need for nervousness, Steely J was on the case. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight f...2023
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• Royals, Justin Dunn Agree To Minor League Deal
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• Royals Notes: Catchers, Hernandez, Pasquantino
The Royals’ recent deal with Austin Nola gives them three catchers on the 40-man roster, and the organization has considered carrying all three to open the season, general manager J.J. Picollo suggested Friday (X link via Jaylon Thompson of the Kansas City Star). Picollo voiced confidence that Freddy Fermin would break camp as the team’s…...2024
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• Royals sign new TV deal with Diamond Sports Group

Photo by Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Bally Sports has been rebranded as FanDuel Sports Network The Royals announced today they have a new TV deal with Diamond Sports Group, the parent company for FanDuel Sports Network, previously known as Bally Sports. The embattled company emerged from bankruptcy last month. Terms and length of the deal have not yet been disclosed, alt...2024
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• Royals top prospect Blake Mitchell out 4-6 weeks with broken right hamate bone

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images The former first-round pick suffers a setback. Blake Mitchell is in big league camp for the first time, but the former first-round pick will be out of action for awhile. MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers reports the catcher will miss 4-6 weeks with a broken right hamate bone. Mitchell is scheduled to have surgery later in the week. According to reporting from Jayl...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 September 9, 2024

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Royals fans were ELECTRIC. Bobby Witt Jr. was impressed by good crowds in a playoff atmosphere this weekend, writes Jaylon Thompson. With chants of “Let’s go Royals” reverberating, the phenom absorbed the scene in every way. “That’s what you dream of,” he said. “That’s the moment you want to be in.” So much so that he didn’t even feel like he had to suppress hi...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 22, 2023

Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports Nellie is mashing. Jaylon Thompson talks to hitting coach Alec Zumwalt about Nelson Velázquez’s improvement. “We were in Seattle and he first mentioned to us about his hands, where he wanted his hands to be at, and it was based off of what he was watching (from) Bobby,” Zumwalt said. “How Bobby anchors his hands so well. And then literally even yesterday in BP...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 15, 2023

There are no “hapless” Royals pictures in our archive, but this one has a caption that starts: “Only 1,866 people showed up to watch the hapless 1985 San Francisco Giants go for their 99th defeat of the season”. Sound familiar? | Photo by MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images Today’s OT gets a little weird. Dull, but weird. It’s a really, really slow news day. Already broke 100...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 18

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The Royals are on speed. Jaylon Thompson writes how the Royals are using speed in their lineup. “If we are going to be successful, that is what we are going to have to do,” Royals outfielder Kyle Isbel said. “As a team, we are going to have to be able to run and be aggressive on the bases.”... How have the Royals become so lethal swiping bags? Hollins sa...2023
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• Memorial Day Rumblings - News for May 26, 2025

We salute those that have sacrificed all. Freddy Ferrmin was a big hero on Sunday, writes Jaylon Thompson. “Freddy can do it all, man,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “He is a leader and ... he doesn’t take any pitches off. He prepares on the defensive side as well as anybody I’ve seen. He can really throw. “(H)uge hit for us. That was a two-strike hit, as well. Freddy is a really good compet...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 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 November 8, 2024

Eric Stout, anyone? Hey, this is relevant! | Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Asia Baseball recaps begin today with the CPBL! Slow news day. At least we got Spring Training game schedules: ⚾Step up to the plate, baseball fans! Game times for @Royals & @Rangers Spring Training are officially announced! Get ready to grab your tickets when they go on sale November ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 6, 2024

I think we’re required by law to use a Mahomes and Witt picture today | Photo by Jason Hanna/Getty Images Six games left in The Gauntlet (TM) Manager Matt Quatraro missed some games earlier this week due his mother’s death. At the Star, Vahe Gregorian talked to the skipper about how her lessons influenced his managerial style: The last few days away from the team, he said, were “maddenin...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for November 11, 2023

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images A salute to our veterans and their presence! Anne Rogers gets word from J.J. Picollo on what he’s looking for this off-season. The quote: “We’ve got to get depth with our pitching,” Picollo said. “One of our goals is to get starting pitching. And then we’ve got to remake our bullpen. We didn’t throw enough strikes in the bullpen. It’s going to be very diffic...2023
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