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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 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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• Royals attempt ninth-inning comeback against Athletics but fall short 6-4

The A’s two dingers was enough to win, but they got plenty more. | Denny Medley-Imagn Images A three-run ninth gave a false glimmer of hope. Michael Wacha’s changeup looked dangerous tonight, but not much else was working for him. He managed five strikeouts in 5 1⁄3 innings and gave up nine hits in those innings, including two home runs. It did not matter all that much because the Royals o...2025
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• Royals vs Athletics Game 70 Gamethread

AL Player of the Week Vinnie Pasquantino needs to keep his tear going. | Denny Medley-Imagn Images The not-Sacramento Athletics bring Brent Rooker to town. The 34-35 Kansas City Royals are happy to see the Yankees leave town and welcome the 26-44 Athletics. At one point earlier this season, the Athletics were showing some scrappy, feisty play and were threatening the Mariners and Astros in...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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• Yankees jump out to early lead in 6-3 win

Oof | Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Yankees jump out to 5-0 lead and coast until Royals comeback falls short in 9th It was 5-0 before the game thread was even up (sorry, guys) and it didn’t get much better until the 9th. Heck, the original title for this recap was “Yankees Lots - Royals Zero”, but it was a little better than that. In the 2nd, Cody Bellinger led off with a triple ...2025
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• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden
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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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• Is it time for the Royals to get a new hitting coach?

Photo by Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Alec Zumwalt has been running the hitting show in Kansas City for a long time. The Royal’s hitting results have not been very good. It is probably time to discuss a new voice. Going into the 2022 season, the Royals decided to hire Alec Zumwalt as their director of player development and hitting performance. Hitting coaches come and go wi...2025
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• Royals set minor league rosters

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Find where you can watch the Royals of the future! Royals minor league affiliates have set their rosters today, in anticipation of the beginning of their seasons. The Omaha Storm Chasers began last Friday and have dropped two of three to begin the season, but the other affiliates will begin play on Friday. Slugger Jac Caglianone, who wowed players and fans wi...2025
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• Spring training battles: The bench

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images Who will be seated next to Matt Quatraro? With just over a week to before the Royals open the season against the Cleveland Guardians, the regular season roster is beginning to take shape. The Royals have assigned a number of promising prospects to minor league camp including pitcher Noah Cameron, outfielders John Rave and Tyler Gentry, and the impressiv...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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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 28, 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."

• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden
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• Royals attempt ninth-inning comeback against Athletics but fall short 6-4
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• Royals vs Athletics Game 70 Gamethread
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• Where should Jac Caglianone hit in the Royals order?

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images He’s here!!! The news we have all been waiting for finally came through this weekend: top prospect Jac Caglianone has been promoted to Kansas City. Last year, Jac Caglianone was selected by the Royals with the sixth pick in the draft after a dominant career at Florida. Caglianone ranks as the tenth-best prospect in the MLB and the bes...2025
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• Royals vs. Reds Tuesday gamethread

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images A battle of 2018 Royals draft picks! The Royals will look to even the series up against the Reds tonight on an overcast night in Kansas City. Recent Royals draft classes will be on display. The Royals starting lineup features four players drafted by the Royals in 2019 - Bobby Witt Jr., Vinnie Pasquantino, Michael Massey, and John Rave. The pitching mat...2025
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• Game 55 Thread: Royals vs. Reds

Nick Loftin #12 of the Kansas City Royals celebrates scoring the go-ahead run with teammates on an RBI double by teammate Maikel Garcia #11 against the Minnesota Twins in the tenth inning at Target Field on May 25, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Royals defeated the Twins 2-1 in ten innings. | Photo by David Berding/Getty Images A Memorial Day game The Cincinnati Reds are in town, whic...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 Select John Rave
The Royals announced that they have selected the contract of outfielder John Rave. Infielder Cavan Biggio has been optioned to Triple-A Omaha as the corresponding active roster move, which was reported yesterday. The Royals had three vacancies on their 40-man roster due to Luke Maile, Chris Stratton and Hunter Renfroe recently being designated for assignment.…...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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• One simple fix for each Royals hitter

Salvador Perez thinks you’re going to like what you see | Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Everyone is slumping, but there has got to be a way to solve this! It’s no secret that the Royals’ offense has been terrible this season. Hunter Renfroe and MJ Melendez, the two worst performers from last season, have taken much of the flak for the offensive struggles this season. Some of that is earned, f...2025
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• 5 things that stick out over the Royals’ first 10 games of 2025

Hunter Renfroe #16 of the Kansas City Royals takes the field during the game between the Cleveland Guardians and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, March 30, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The bullpen? Nice. The outfield? Not exactly so. There’s a metaphorical magnifying glass hovering above the beginning of each MLB s...2025
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• The last(?) Royals Opening Day roster prediction of 2025 Spring Training
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• Which Royals who won’t make the Opening Day roster will have the biggest impact?

Tyler Gentry #27 of the Kansas City Royals runs and scores during the ninth inning of a Spring training game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Camelback Ranch on February 22, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona. | Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Somebody will make their mark While Opening Day lineup discussion is all well and fun, the reality is that there are players who won’t make the 2025 Open...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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• 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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• Royals add two to the 40-man roster, designate Josh Staumont for assignment

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Will Klein and Tyler Gentry are added. The Royals have added outfielder Tyler Gentry and pitcher Will Klein to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 draft. To make room for the pair, the Royals designated catcher Logan Porter and pitcher Josh Staumont for assignment. Today was the deadline to add eligible players in anticipation of the draft that ...2023
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• Nick Loftin hitting everything super hard
This Week in the Minors: Columbia dominance continues, Nick Loftin heating back up ‘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 2 to Sunday, May 7 AAA Omaha Storm Chasers (12-19) schedule ...2023
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• Royals attempt ninth-inning comeback against Athletics but fall short 6-4
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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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• Royals “shopping for corner outfield help”, per Jim Bowden
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• Royals vs Athletics Game 70 Gamethread
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• Yankees jump out to early lead in 6-3 win
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• Royals Reacts Survey: Adding to the lineup

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Royals have been steadily improving their roster, but do they need more help to get to the playoffs? 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. Three weeks ago,...2025
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• Caglianone’s 4 hit day, clutch hitting lifts Royals to 7-5 victory over White Sox
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• Where should Jac Caglianone hit in the Royals order?
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• Tigers vs Royals Gamethread 60

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images An opportunity to take a series from Detroit After a masterful performance from Michael Wacha yesterday, helping the Royals to a 1-0 victory over the division leading Tigers, the Royals have a chance to take the series from them this afternoon with ace Kris Bubic on the bump. Bubic just wrapped up a fantastic month of May, where his final stat line was: 3-0,...2025
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• Crimson competitors cannot clobber Cameron’s curves, Royals roll Reds 3-2
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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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