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• Ragans career day leads Royals to 4-2 victory over Guardians

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Ragans continues his brilliance, and the offense showed some juice! Cole Ragans shoved. When his team needed it most the ace straight up delivered. A career high 7.2 innings and 10 more strikeouts, while allowing 4 hits and 1 earned run. The Royals get back to .500 after avoiding a sweep in Cleveland. Although the game didn’t start out great. After a dou...2025
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• Ryan ruins writer’s ruse, Royals routed 4-0

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Really stretching the definitions of words to produce this headline. The Kansas City Royals could not muster any offense against Joe Ryan and the Minnesota Twins as they were defeated 4-0 tonight at Kauffman Stadium. Both offenses were quiet early on. Seth Lugo allowed a couple baserunners but otherwise got through Minnesota’s order for the first time wit...2025
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• Shoddy Twins defense opens door to Royals 2-1 win

William Purnell-Imagn Images Cole Ragans had another stellar outing. The Twins committed three errors that led to two unearned Royals runs, allowing them to win a tight 2-1 game on Tuesday night. Cole Ragans struck out 11, his seventh double-digit strikeout game with the Royals, passing Danny Duffy for most by a lefty in club history. Ragans and Twins starter Pablo López were as-advertise...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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• Royals defeat Twins 4-2 in series opener

Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. (7) celebrates with Kansas City Royals outfielder Kyle Isbel (28) as he crosses home plate after hitting a home run during the sixth inning against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium. | William Purnell-Imagn Images Michael Lorenzen pitched well and Isbel homered The Kansas City Royals defeated the Minnesota Twins 4-2 in tonight’s series open...2025
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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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• Shoddy Twins defense opens door to Royals 2-1 win
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• Royals defeat Twins 4-2 in series opener
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• Royals unveil 2025 Opening Day lineup

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Vinnie makes it The Kansas City Royals have set their Opening Day lineup against the Cleveland Guardians. Cole Ragans starts, and 2024 AL MVP Runner Up Bobby Witt Jr. hits second behind Jonathan India. Now we go.— Kansas City Royals (@royals.com) 2025-03-27T15:17:46.901Z Vinnie Pasquantino had been a question mark after suffering a Grade 1+ hamstring in...2025
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• Royals officially set 2025 Opening Day roster

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Here are the 26 Royals ready to do battle on Opening Day. The Royals have announced the 2025 Opening Day roster, with the final few bench spots and last starting pitcher spot falling into place over the last few weeks. The roster is as follows: Catchers (2): Freddy Fermin, Salvador Perez Infielders (6): Cavan Biggio, Jonathan India, Maikel Garcia, Michael...2025
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• 2025 Royals season preview: They didn’t come this far just to come this far

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals had a surprise run, but the taste of the post-season left them wanting more. A year ago, even the most optimistic Royals fans would have had a hard time envisioning the season playing out the way it did. The team was coming off its seventh consecutive losing season - three of which were 100-loss seasons, including a 2023 se...2025
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• What has to go right for the Royals to win it all in 2025

Brett Davis-Imagn Images What are the biggest factors for success? Last season, the Royals had their breakout year, greatly exceeding expectations and making the playoffs for the first time since 2015 when they won the World Series. Bobby Witt Jr. became the star of Kansas City, putting up MVP numbers by hitting .295/.347/.517 while also being one of the best defensive shortstops in baseba...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 March 12, 2025

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Wake me up when spring training ends. Royals Data Dugout reveals their second roster projection ahead of Opening Day, with southpaw Kris Bubic winning the final rotation spot. It’s the fifth spot where questions and competition remain. Even though Daniel Lynch has been the best pitcher in camp, at least in game action, I’m still giving the nod to Bubic h...2025
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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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• KC swept away by Atlanta and Albies, 5-4
William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports Is Barlow done as an effective reliever? I’m in Atlanta on vacation and so I was required to watch the away broadcast for today’s game. Fortunately there was a familiar voice; former relief pitcher Peter Moylan is the color man on Atlanta’s broadcast and he was quite entertaining. In the top of the ninth immediately after Scott Barlow entered the game and g...2023
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"The Royals would threaten again in the fifth when López allowed a single to Kyle Isbel and Jonathan India walked."

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"Kyle Isbel hit an opposite-field ground ball that scored Nick Loftin."

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"The Royals sent up LH-hitting pinch-hitter Kyle Isbel, so David Ross summoned the guy who’s supposed to be the “lefty specialist” even though he’s not lefthanded, Mark Leiter Jr."

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"The Royals announced a flurry of roster moves this afternoon, adding four players (outfielder Kyle Isbel, right-handers Arodys Vizcaino and Jose Cuas, and left-hander Foster Griffin) to the active roster, sending three (left-hander Gabe Speier and right-handers Matt Peacock and Zack Greinke) to the injured list, and returning one (outfielder Brewer Hicklen) to Triple-A Omaha."

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"Outfielder Kyle Isbel has made the Royals’ Opening Day roster, manager Mike Matheny announced Wednesday (via Anne Rogers of MLB."

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• Maikel Garcia and Seth Lugo lead Royals to 8-2 victory over Orioles

Maikel Garcia for Royals MVP so far. | Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Maikel Garcia is absolutely rolling right now. Maikel Garcia is the MVP of the team right now. Today the Royals had a bunch of guys’ fly balls find open spots, but Garcia is continuing to hit the ball hard and produce runs. A huge eighth inning blew open what was a very close game up to that poin...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 3, 2025

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Still searching for that first series victory. The Royals regret their offense wasting a great pitching performance yesterday: The Royals maintain it’s still too early to have any referendum on their offensive struggles, just six games into the season. They’re averaging 3.8 runs per game, aided by the 11-run rout over Milwaukee earlier this week. But the...2025
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• Royals officially set 2025 Opening Day roster
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• 2025 Royals season preview: They didn’t come this far just to come this far
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• What has to go right for the Royals to win it all in 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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• Spring Training Game Thread #7: Milwaukee Brewers (2-4) vs. Kansas City Royals (4-1)

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images The Brewers host the Kansas City Royals at American Family Fields of Phoenix on Thursday afternoon in the first Spring Training game featured on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin The Brewers and Royals will meet for the first time this spring on Thursday afternoon, previewing the matchup that the Brewers will have for their home opener on March 31st. Aaron Civale tak...2025
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• Royals defeat Twins 4-2 in series opener
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• Royals blow three-run lead to Guardians in 7-4 Opening Day loss

Kansas City Royals outfielder Dairon Blanco (44) is caught in a rundown by Cleveland Guardians third baseman Jose Ramirez (11) during the eighth inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images The game was a mixed bag The Kansas City Royals lost Opening Day 2025 to the Cleveland Guardians 7-4 in front of a sellout crowd at Kauffman Stadium. Vinnie Pasquantino provided the power ...2025
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• Kyle Isbel could probably steal some more bases

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images If his bat won’t get that much better, his baserunning needs to. Ryan Heffernon mused on Kyle Isbel’s role on the 2025 Royals just a few weeks ago, coming to the conclusion that his good-but-not-great defense does not quite outweigh his lack of bat. He compared Isbel against such defensive wizards as Michael A Taylor, Billy Hamilton, and Kevin Kiermaier, ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 21, 2025

PHOTO DAY PICTURES ARE HERE!!!!! I’ll leave the best ones for whoever is doing our Photo Day story, but I figured the “Vinnie with a Pasquatch necklace” is good for today. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images SPRING TRAINING GAMES START TODAY! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Royals have their first Spring Training game today! The squad faces off against the Rangers at 2:05 PM Royals time. No TV t...2025
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• The state of the AL Central

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Four teams with a chance...to beat up on the White Sox For years the constant refrain about the AL Central was that it was too weak and winning it was easy enough that all the teams in it should be trying to take advantage. In 2024 we saw the script flip a bit and three central teams made the playoffs with another just missing. Granted, they all got to ...2025
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• Player of the Week: Maikel Garcia

Maikel Garcia #11 of the Kansas City Royals runs the bases following a home run against the Milwaukee Brewers in the second inning during the home opener at American Family Field on March 31, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Slammin’ home runs and doing good work In an early 2025 season that has seen the Royals score two or fewer runs in half of their firs...2025
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• Royals baserunning miscues overshadow storylines of Opening Day

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Baseball is back, including TOOTBLANS. The Royals took on the Guardians on Opening Day and lost 7-4 in extra innings. Here are some of the highlights and storylines from the game. Roster Roles Take Shape Offense The starting lineup from yesterday was mostly as expected. Vinnie Pasquantino hit DH due to his tender hamstring (didn’t seem to affect him much ...2025
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• Royals blow three-run lead to Guardians in 7-4 Opening Day loss
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• Is this Kyle Isbel’s last stand?

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images He’s got at least one more year in center field. It could be his last. A few years ago, I decided to die on a very thankless hill: defending Michael A. Taylor. The argument was simple. No, Taylor was not a good starting center field. But the 2021-22 Royals had maybe two starting position players at any given moment. And as far as guys that shouldn’t be ...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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• Royals Rally to be held this Saturday

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Rally for the Royals! Before the trucks Kauffman Stadium for the warm climate in Arizona, the Royals will host their third annual Royals Rally this Saturday, Febuary 1 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Fans can purchase general admission tickets for $25 that gives them access to one player autograph session per two-hour period and a roundtable discussion with play...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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• Royals lose seesaw affair, 6-5

Kansas City Royals pitcher John Schreiber (46) reacts during the fifth inning against the New York Yankees during game one of the ALDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images Neither team’s best MVP candidate could come up with a hit in this one From the first inning it was obvious that neither team was going to be content to have one of the low-scoring affa...2024
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• Matt Quatraro is the right guy to manage this team

Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro (33) watches from the dugout against the Cleveland Guardians prior to a game at Kauffman Stadium. | Denny Medley-Imagn Images He will be in the running for Manager of the Year this year, and he will deserve it. It’s the top of the ninth, the game is tied. The Royals have struggled mightily to score runs. They’ve scored four, today, which is as many...2024
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• Cubs 6, Royals 4: A tale of two games

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs appeared to be on their way to an easy win... until they had to hang on for dear life. Drip... drip... drip... That was what today’s 6-4 Cubs win over the Royals felt like, after the Cubs zoomed out to a 6-1 lead after four innings. KC runs scored off just about every Cubs reliever until Adbert Alzolay finally put a stop to that in the ninth inning wit...2023
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• Bobby does it again! Homer lifts Royals to 4-3 win over Cubs

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Cole Ragans was sharp in Wrigley. Cody Ragans was strong for six innings but it was a Bobby Witt Jr. two-run home run gave the Royals a lead they would not relinquish in a 4-3 win over the Cubs Friday afternoon. The Royals got on the board in the third inning off Cubs starter Jameson Taillon when Drew Waters led off with a single and stole second, setting...2023
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• Cubs 4, Royals 3: More drama than we needed

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images This looked like a fairly easy win for a while, but the Royals made it close in the ninth. Thank you, Miguel Amaya, for hitting a home run in the eighth inning. This is why they call runs like that “insurance runs,” because that gave the Cubs a 4-1 lead that seemed fairly safe. Unfortunately, Adbert Alzolay wasn’t on his best game Sunday and allowed the ...2023
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• Royals win back-and-forth contest over Angels, 11-8
Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images A season-high 11 runs in an offensive explosion! The Royals erupted for a season-high 11 runs in a wild back-and-forth contest against the Angels that resulted in an 11-8 win for Kansas City on Saturday night. Matt Duffy and Hunter Dozier each had three hits, and the team struck out just three times, their lowest total of the year. The Royals were able...2023
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• Royals almost lose on a straight steal, but walk it off instead, winning 4-3 over Cleveland
Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Freddy Fermin, our hero Entering today’s game, the Royals boasted the 3rd worst 80-game start in MLB history and with a loss, would secure the 3rd worst half-season start in history. Lowest winning% in a team's first 80 games in the expansion era. Royals tied for third worst (squeaking out an additional win more than the A's this y...2023
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• Young hitters power Royals to 5-3 victory over Cleveland
Kansas City Royals third baseman Maikel Garcia (11) celebrates his solo home run with shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. (7) in the seventh inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. | David Richard-USA TODAY Sports Victory 29! There are fewer and fewer reasons to watch a Royals game this year, and less and less of a chance that the last two months of the year can be meaningful in ...2023
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• Royals again take advantage of Astros miscues, win 3-2

Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images The Royals take the series and the season series against the defending champs. If you had only watched Royals/Astros games this year, you’d think the Royals were an aggressive, dynamic team high in the standings while the Astros were a tight, mistake-prone team going through a tough year. Baseball is funny that way! The Royals took the season series from the...2023
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• Road sweet road: Royals win 3-1 in San Francisco
Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The Royals match their home win total on the road in one try. The Royals embarked on their first road trip of the year and doubled their win total on the first try, beating the Giants 3-1 in the home opener for San Francisco. Brad Keller was solid for over five innings, and Royals pitchers held the Giants to just five hits. Royals bats have gotten off to a s...2023
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• Ragans career day leads Royals to 4-2 victory over Guardians
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• One winner and four losers as the Royals fall to the Orioles 8-1

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images They’ve got to win a series eventually, right? The Royals are on their way to a third straight rubber match to start the season. They were awful in this situations last year, but one of the reasons it didn't tank them is because they won the first two games more than their fair share and because they almost neve...2025
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• Player of the Week: Maikel Garcia
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• Royals blow three-run lead to Guardians in 7-4 Opening Day loss
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• It’s okay to believe once again

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Maybe this year is different. Blind optimism isn’t easy to find for fans of the Kansas City Royals. The team hasn’t finished above .500 since 2015 when they won the World Series. Although the losses have far outweighed the win total, there has still been some reason for hope to close out nearly every season in that span. Just as the Royals have an uncanny a...2023
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