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• Royals even the series in a late night 3-2 thriller

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images On to Arizona In the last game of a four-game series in Seattle, the Royals took on the Mariners, hoping to come away with a split series. Kansas City needed a win, entering the game seven games behind .500 and fighting to stay in the playoff race. In a back-and-forth game that came down to the wire, the Royals were able to get away on a high note and cam...2025
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• Game 88; Royals at Mariners

John Froschauer-Imagn Images Looking to even the series Today in Seattle, the Royals will be taking on the Mariners in the final game of a four-game series, looking to even the score after dropping game three 3-2 last night. The Royals' offensive struggles have continued, and they have scored only ten runs in the first three games of the series. With questions spiraling around Kansas City ...2025
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• Mariners magnify my melancholy, mock my misfortunes, mute Monarchs 3-2

John Froschauer-Imagn Images Zero extra-base hits and 2-9 with RISP won’t give you many runs. The Kansas City Royals put together some good rallies tonight but, much to my chagrin, couldn’t sustain any of them or come up with a big hit as they fell 3-2 to the Seattle Mariners tonight at T-Mobile Park. The Royals jumped on Logan Gilbert early. After a hard 6-3 by Jonathan India, Bobby Witt ...2025
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• Salvy sparks offense in 6-3 win in Seattle

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images Runs! Salvador Perez smacked two doubles, part of a three-hit, three-RBI night as the Royals topped the Mariners 6-3 Tuesday night. The Royals didn’t want to pounce on Mariners starter Emerson Hancock with Jonathan India lacing a double in the gap to start the game. Maikel Garcia continued his All-Star caliber season with an RBI single to make it 1-0 Roy...2025
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• A list of things the Royals have unsuccessfully tried to jumpstart the offense

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Any more ideas? On May 9, the Royals walked off the Red Sox for a 2-1 victory, giving them 16 wins in their last 18 tries. They improved to 24-16, tied for the second-best record in the American League. It was early, but it looked like last year’s surprise Royals playoff team was no fluke. Then the bottom dropped out. Since that point, the Royals have...2025
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• Royals almost come back in ninth inning but lose 5-4 to Dodgers

The Royals tried but fell flat today. | Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Their comeback attempt came up just short. Tonight was a battle between two philosophies of scoring. The Dodgers - hit home runs The Royals - don’t hit home runs Both teams broke with tradition, but the better team came out on top. Right off the bat, Noah Cameron put a slow changeup in Shohei Ohtani’s wheelhouse on a 1-2 coun...2025
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• Game Eighty: Tampa Bay Rays at Kansas City Royals

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images It’s been a while since the Royals won at home. The Tampa Bay baseball club named for sunshine (NOT marine wildlife) will take on the Kansas City baseball club named for a livestock festival (NOT monarchy) this evening at Kauffman Stadium. Kansas City will look to snap an ongoing eight-game home losing streak. The Royals will start Michael Wacha. Despite the lowest...2025
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• Salvador Perez has to be part of the Royals’ offensive solution

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Salvy is almost certainly going to be a feature in the Royals lineup, whether he is hitting well or not. The Kansas City Royals’ offense showed signs of life this week, scoring 16 runs in three games against the Texas Rangers, which led to a three-game sweep of Texas. The lineup the Royals trotted out yesterday is, for my money, the strongest lineup that the Roya...2025
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• Maikel’s multiple missiles maul Metroplex men, Royals roll Rangers 6-3

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Garcia fell a double shy of the cycle. Maikel Garcia had a huge night and the pitching righted the ship after a rocky first inning as the Kansas City Royals took down the Texas Rangers 6-3 tonight at Globe Life Field. After Patrick Corbin breezed through the top of the first inning, Kris Bubic needed just two pitches to find himself in trouble. Sam ...2025
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• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden

Jim Rassol-Imagn Images Could the Royals be eyeing some Marlins outfielders? The Royals have lost six in a row, all at home, and their offensive woes have continued to be front and center. The team averaged less than two runs-per-game in their winless homestand and only the Pirates have scored fewer runs-per-game among all baseball teams this year. Still, the Royals sit just three games b...2025
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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 May 28, 2025

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Bullpen blues blow Kansas City’s series against Cincinnati Reds. At Into the Fountains, Craig Brown talks about Royals prospect Jac Caglianone’s timeline after Monday’s loss. Again, it’s about things like pitch recognition, in-game adjustments, and making contact. It’s also about putting the work into becoming a competent outfielder. These are decidedly unsexy bas...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 10, 2025

Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images The key to the Royals’ success? Yacht rock. Pete Grathoff writes that the Royals clubhouse has been fueled lately by Yacht Rock. “You look at the formula of our games, and just winning teams in general, pitching and defense are always what you want to come back to,” starting pitcher Kris Bubic said as Earth, Wind and Fire’s “The Way You Move” played. “And ...2025
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• Everyone saw the offense’s slump coming, but fixing it is another thing entirely

MJ Melendez #1 of the Kansas City Royals reacts after striking out with the bases load to end the fifth inning of Game Two of the Wild Card Series against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on October 02, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images We’ve got what we’ve got. One of the refreshing traits that Royals general manager JJ Picollo and owne...2025
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"John Rave led off the fifth inning by ripping a Greene fastball down the right field line and hustling to second with a double."

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"Notable players that were not added to the 40-man roster and will be eligible for the Rule 5 draft include infielders CJ Alexander, Devin Mann and Tyler Tolbert, outfielders Tucker Bradley and John Rave, and pitchers Luinder Avila, Christian Chamberlain, Asa Lacy, and Beck Way."

• Game 88; Royals at Mariners
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• Mariners magnify my melancholy, mock my misfortunes, mute Monarchs 3-2
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• A list of things the Royals have unsuccessfully tried to jumpstart the offense
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• The Royals should be “ambushing” pitchers more

Alcides Escobar (2) hits an inside-the-park home run against the New York Mets in the first inning in game one of the 2015 World Series | Jeff Curry-Imagn Images The 2025 Royals could take a tip from Alcides Escobar. The Royals’ offense is bad. There’s no getting around that. Anyone with half a brain worried that could be true before the season started. To the Royals’ credit, they also kne...2025
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• The 5 worst outfields in Royals history

Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals outfielder Hunter Renfroe (16) at bat during the seventh inning against the Houston Astros at Kauffman Stadium. | William Purnell-Imagn Images Who’s number one? The Kansas City Royals outfield has been a problem dating back to the start of last year. With young players failing to make developmental leaps and wily veterans fading faster than we...2025
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• Revisiting preseason Royals trade ideas as the trade season approaches

Cedric Mullins #31 of the Baltimore Orioles runs the bases after hitting a home run | Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Maybe one of these deals makes more sense now I know it seems obvious in hindsight, but the Royals badly needed some extra offense coming in to this season. Oh, wait. We knew that even before the season started? And I wrote a whole piece suggesting potential trades? Wel...2025
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• Dylan Cease deals Padres past Royals

Fernando Tatis Jr. | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images San Diego gets three-run home run from Fernando Tatis Jr., cruises to win Dylan Cease pitched 6 2/3 innings and allowed one run on three hits to help the San Diego Padres get a 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals at Petco Park, Saturday. Cease allowed three walks and recorded four strikeouts on 110 pitches. A great day for Dylan...2025
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• Salvador Perez has to be part of the Royals’ offensive solution
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• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden
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• Listless Royals lose to Rays in 5-1 snoozefest

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Kris Bubic (50) tosses the ball to first base, with Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter Jonathan Aranda (62) running up the first base line in the fifth inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Yikes For eight innings, the Kansas City Royals had as many errors (two) as they did hits (two). For five innings, the Royals failed to hit a ball out ...2025
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• Dylan Cease deals Padres past Royals
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• Royals Reacts Results: The Royals need multiple hitters

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images Jac Caglianone, Nick Loftin, and John Rave aren’t helping enough. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in Kansas City Royals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. It has been a rough time for Royals fans as the Royals dropped two ...2025
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• Who should hit at the bottom of the Royals’ lineup going forward?

Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images Can the bats come back alive? The Royals' offense has been one of the worst in baseball, and their slow start has resulted in a wide variety of changes in their batting order all season. The first four or five hitters for the Royals rarely change, but the back end of their lineup is consistently a revolving door, with hopes of getting a spark from someone ...2025
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• TWitM: Jac gets ejected

Photo by Jensen Scalzo/Minor League Baseball Can you strike out after getting thrown out of a game? Jac can. This Week in the Minors is our weekly look at notable performances from all over the system, from big-name prospects and less-heralded guys alike. The mission is to answer this simple question: “Who had a good week?” Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers (16-21, 6 games back) The Storm Chase...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 13, 2025
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• Caglianone’s 4 hit day, clutch hitting lifts Royals to 7-5 victory over White Sox

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images A much-needed win to wrap up the road trip The Royals were in desperate need of a win to avoid being swept by the White Sox, and after Michael Lorenzen gave up a 2-run homer in the first inning, things weren’t looking great. But a Vinnie Pasquantino single and a two-run blast from Salvador Perez in the fourth tied the game at 2. The Captain ties it up! pic.twi...2025
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• Who should hit at the bottom of the Royals’ lineup going forward?
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• An evening watching the Omaha Storm Chasers

Photo by Matt Sullivan/NASCAR via Getty Images Ridin’ the storm out Is there any better value in America right now than minor league baseball? I think not. The stadiums are comfortable and intimate. Parking is cheap and accessible. The food and drink prices are reasonable and the talent on the field, is by and large, very good. And the ticket prices are excellent, especially considering ho...2025
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• Remaining opportunities to help the outfield this off-season

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Will the Royals add to this bunch? The Royals had a pretty good offense last year, finishing sixth in the American League in runs scored despite a September swoon. But that performance was largely carried on the strength of an MVP-season by Bobby Witt Jr. and solid hitting from catcher Salvador Perez and first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino. Meanwhile, the o...2025
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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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• TWitM: Figgy catches fire, Vaz continues to heat up

Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos via Getty Images Plus, is the farm system proving its worth? This Week in the Minors’ is our weekly look at notable performances from all over the system, from big-name prospects and less-heralded guys alike. The mission is to answer this simple question: “Who had a good week?” This Week in the Minors: Tuesday, May 21 to Monday, May 27 I was road-tripping ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 16, 2023
The Mystery of the Missing Wins! (No one cares that Friday pictures aren’t Royals-related, right?) | Photo by Avalon/Getty Images Fridays Rumblings deliver again: Six week unbeaten streak on Thursdays! I posted this to the writers Slack a couple of days ago: “I know it can’t compare because it’s only been... holy crap, it’s been less than 8 years since the World Series win, but, man, this...2023
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• Crimson competitors cannot clobber Cameron’s curves, Royals roll Reds 3-2

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Noah Cameron worked into the seventh inning for the fourth time in four starts. Noah Cameron was sharp once against and the offense did just enough as the Kansas City Royals took down the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium this evening. Little of note happened in the early innings. Kansas City made Hunter Greene work and had baserunners in each of the firs...2025
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• Inept offense sinks Royals in 1-0 loss to Tigers

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Kris Bubic took the loss despite throwing another gem It’s been the story all season, pitching awesome, offense not good. It’s a familiar sight, and a frustrating one at that as the Royals dropped a rubber game at home to the Tigers 1-0. A leadoff triple in the 3rd inning by Zach McKinstry, and a wild pitch, where Salvador Perez gave up on trying to retrieve,...2025
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• Royals call up John Rave

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Cavan Biggio is optioned out. The Royals announced they have called up outfielder John Rave and optioned Cavan Biggio to Triple-A Omaha. Rave was hitting .301/.382/.549 with 9 home runs and 17 stolen bases in 44 games at Omaha. Rave was originally a fifth-round pick in 2019 out of Illinois State. The left-handed hitting outfielder was...2025
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• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden
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• Jac Caglianone assigned to minor league camp

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The power-hitting prospect may be in KC soon though. In just his first profession spring training, Jac Caglianone was invited to big league camp and immediately wowed with his prodigious power. It led some fans to speculate whether he could even make the Opening Day roster. It was a long shot, but today we received confirmation that ...2025
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• MJ Melendez has got to go

MJ Melendez #1 of the Kansas City Royals misses a flyball | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images It’s time All throughout the offseason, I defended MJ Melendez’s roster spot. I argued that he deserved one more shot to prove he could be a valuable hitter on the big league roster. FanGraphs had him as a 55 FV prospect when he graduated to the big leagues - that’s very good. The year before he de...2025
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• Maikel’s multiple missiles maul Metroplex men, Royals roll Rangers 6-3
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• Perfectly normal reactions to Spring Training’s opening weekend

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Royals will never lose again! The Royals have played three Spring Training games as I write this - and at least four by the time you read it. Some people would say that Spring Training is a terrible environment for evaluating players based on results. Others will say that even if it was an excellent environment, three games at th...2025
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• Royals rally to defeat Dodgers 11-10

Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images This was not a well-pitched game on either side After an incredibly quick Cactus League opener yesterday, the Royals decided to give fans their money’s worth today, earning a come-from-behind win against the Dodgers in nearly twice as much time. You might be disappointed to hear about the Royals’ pitchers walking six and giving up three home runs, but they...2025
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• Salvador Perez needs more days off

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Give the man a break! It has been clear since 2011 that Salvador Perez loves to play baseball. He brings a joy to the game that has made him one my favorite players ever to play this sport. That joy has led to him playing much more at times than is typical, especially for a catcher. For instance, in 2014, he played 150 games, and 144 of those were at c...2025
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• Winning on the road shouldn’t be this casual: Rays 5, Royals 1

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images After a heavy dose of home games through the first three months of the season, the Rays will be on the road for large stretches of the summer months, and that first trip got started on Tuesday in Kansas City. Road Rays pic.twitter.com/Jbdsjbacsy— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) June 24, 2025 Chandler Simpson was recalled after a short stint back in AAA, and g...2025
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• Listless Royals lose to Rays in 5-1 snoozefest
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• Four solutions for the Royals’ biggest problem

John Rave #96 of the Kansas City Royals dives for a ball | Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images The specter of a failed call-up shouldn’t prevent the Royals from attempting to improve their roster A week and a half into the season is still too early to panic. You know it, I know it, we all know it. But, the thing is, this is more like 53 weeks into the season - at least when it comes to extre...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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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 17, 2024

We have once again arrived at Wednesday. On the team site, Anne Rogers talked to Daniel Lynch IV about what he got out of playing the Dominican Winter League: Lynch made five starts and threw 20 1/3 innings, recording a 2.66 ERA with 23 strikeouts and 13 walks. There wasn’t any specific plan for working on his pitches; his goal was simply to get outs. A different schedule and lack of routine put ...2024
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• Get to know your 2023 Royals non-roster invitees to spring training
Nick Loftin pre-game taken on September 6, 2022 | Minda Haas Kuhlmann Could any of these players make the Opening Day roster? Spring training is nearly here with Royals pitchers and catchers scheduled to report tomorrow with their first full workout the next day, and the first full team workout next Monday. Some players are already in Arizona, with several World Baseball Classic participan...2023
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