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• Gamethread XXXV: Royals at Orioles

Photo by Alyssa Howell/MLB Photos via Getty Images A chance to take the season series from the O’s The Royals are winners in 10 of their last 12 contests. The offense has shined at times, but the pitching has been exceptional in every game. With the shutout win last night, the Royals guaranteed themselves at least a 4-2 road trip. They also guaranteed at least a season series split with th...2025
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• Royals add catcher Luke Maile as Salvador Perez deals with hip soreness

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Maile is a nine-year MLB veteran. The Royals announced they have selected catcher Luke Maile from Triple-A Omaha and have optioned infielder Tyler Tolbert. To make room on the 40-man roster, pitcher Alec Mash has been transferred to the 60-day Injured List. The transaction was necessitated when Salvador Perez suffered a hip injury in Thursday’s game against the Ra...2025
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• Royals Select Luke Maile
The Royals announced that they have selected the contract of catcher Luke Maile. Infielder Tyler Tolbert was optioned to Triple-A Omaha to open an active roster spot. To get Maile onto the 40-man, right-hander Alec Marsh was transferred to the 60-day injured list. The Royals already have Salvador Perez and Freddy Fermin on the roster,…...2025
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• TWitM: River Bandits pitching continues to shine

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Quad Cities has some pitching. 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 (10-15, 5 games back) It was a rough week for the Storm Cha...2025
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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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• 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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• Royals set minor league rosters
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 21, 2025

Almost time to say farewell to Surprise | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images By next Friday’s Rumblings, we’ll have seen real baseball Bobby Baseball days away.— Kansas City Royals (@royals.com) 2025-03-20T16:30:15.121Z At the Star, Vahe Gregorian profiles Seth Lugo: For instance, an aunt likes to tell the story of taking him to a Texas Rangers game when he was 4...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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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL Central

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images This is a division of haves and have-nots. Last year, three AL Central teams made the postseason and four finished over .500. This was largely because they all fattened up against the awful White Sox. The Twins, Tigers, Guardians and Royals went 42-10 against the White Sox. Wow. The Cubs, meanwhile, were 10-6 against the AL Central last year. So that...2025
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• Ranking non-roster invitees in order of their chances of making the team

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Will they make the cut? The Royals have 27 players in camp as non-roster invitees, players not on the 40-man roster. These players face an uphill battle to make the Opening Day roster, as the team would have to open up a spot on the 40-man roster for them. But there are still some team needs in the outfield, on the bench, and the bullpen that ...2025
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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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• Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets

Catcher Danny Jansen, Boston Red Sox | Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images How will the Rays address this hole? The 2024 MLB season has reached its conclusion and the Rays have flipped their mindset into offseason mode. One of the top items on their wish list, it seems, is too improve upon the poor output they received from the catching position. Rays catchers posted a .562 OPS this seas...2024
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• Olson and Harris both go off as Braves blast Reds, 15-3

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Yes sir! More of this, please! Matt Olson and Michael Harris II both put the cherry on top of what was a fantastic series for both of them at Great American Ball Park, as their home run barrage today was part of a huge day at the plate for the Atlanta Braves. This game eventually turned into a comfortable 15-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Olson did...2024
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"The Royals sent nine men to the plate again in the fourth, scoring four more runs, including a three-run home run by catcher Luke Maile."

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"He came on for the seventh and gave up solo shots to Encarnacion-Strand and Luke Maile and a walk to Bubba Thompson."

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"(Granted, one was off position player Luke Maile."

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"The Reds announced they’ve signed catcher Luke Maile to a one-year contract."

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"The Brewers announced that catcher Luke Maile and right-handed pitcher Eric Yardley have elected free agency after being outrighted."

2020
"Guaranteed Contracts Jarrod Dyson, OF: One year, $2MM Guillermo Heredia: One year, $1MM Luke Maile, C: One year, $900K JT Riddle, SS/OF: One year, $850K Total Spend: $4."

2019
"The Pirates have agreed to a deal with free agent catcher Luke Maile, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network (via Twitter)."

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"325 over 352 plate appearances this season, an unimpressive slash line that could end up being his final number, as Martin has barely played in September due to the Jays’ desire to give playing time to younger catchers Danny Jansen, Luke Maile, and Reese McGuire."

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"The precise move isn’t yet clear, but Jarrod Saltalamacchia will be removed from the roster to make room for Luke Maile."

2016
"The Rays, who currently have Luke Maile and Curt Casali atop their…"

2015
"There was only one problem—Luke Maile was at the plate for Durham."

• Royals Select Luke Maile
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• Royals set minor league rosters
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• Royals Release Ross Stripling, Luke Maile
The Royals announced this morning that they’ve granted both right-hander Ross Stripling and catcher Luke Maile their release. Both players had opt-out opportunities in their contracts as Article XX(B) free agents and requested their release if not added to the club’s active roster. Stripling, 35, is the more well-known player of the two. He debuted…...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 21, 2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL Central
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• Royals top prospect Blake Mitchell out 4-6 weeks with broken right hamate bone
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• Royals sign catcher Luke Maile to minor league deal

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images The nine-year MLB vet will provide catching depth. The Royals announced they have signed catcher Luke Maile to a minor league deal with an invite to spring training. The 34-year-old Maile is a nine-year MLB veteran as a backup catcher with a lifetime line of .208/.274/.319. Maile was originally drafted by the Rays in 2012 out of Kentucky. He made his MLB d...2025
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• Royals Sign Luke Maile To Minor League Deal
The Royals announced that catcher Luke Maile was signed to a minor league contract. Maile will receive an invitation to Kansas City’s big league Spring Training camp. Salvador Perez and Freddy Fermin are locked in as the catching tandem on the Royals’ active roster, so Maile projects as a depth piece for their minor league…...2025
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• Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets
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• Cubs 4, Reds 2: At last

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Finally, the Cubs took a lead and held it. Hey, here’s a type of Cubs game we haven’t seen in quite a while: The Cubs took a lead in the first inning, built on it and hung on for a 4-2 win over the Reds, ending a three-game losing streak. The Cubs started out like they meant business. Mike Tauchman walked and Seiya Suzuki, back in the lineup after missing S...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 21, 2025
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• Ranking non-roster invitees in order of their chances of making the team
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• Olson and Harris both go off as Braves blast Reds, 15-3
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• Ninth-inning heroics highlight Brewers’ 5-4 win over Reds

Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images Jackson Chourio hit a ninth-inning home run and Jake Bauers made a diving stop to end the game Box Score It ended up being an eventful Saturday night in Cincinnati. What started with more scoreless innings from the pitching staff turned into a nailbiter, but the Brewers put together just enough in the ninth to get the win. Early on, the Brewers had this loo...2024
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• Game thread CXXIV - Royals at Reds

Hunter Renfroe (16) reacts after hitting a base hit in the fifth inning of the MLB game between the Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Royals at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. | Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK Can the Royals collect their first three-game sweep of a non-White Sox team since the Tigers in May? The Royals have blown out the Red...2024
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• Civale, Brewers ride early offense to 8-3 victory

Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports It was Civale’s first W in four months Box Score The high-powered Milwaukee Brewers of the last four days have made the flailing Milwaukee Brewers of the previous six weeks feel like a distant memory. After a comprehensive beatdown of the Braves in Atlanta this week, Milwaukee’s offense continued to click early in this game, giving them a massive early lead th...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 59

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs finally return to the win column with a 7-5 triumph. It wasn’t pretty by, any stretch of the imagination. But it was nice to see the efforts to get back into this game not go to waste. It was a long, wet and sloppy night on the North Side of Chicago. Two teams that have disappointed their respective fanbases took turns doing disappointing things....2024
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• Braves News: Arizona Fall League update, NLCS, ALCS continue, and more

Jordan Godfree-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday The Atlanta Braves are well represented in the 2023 Arizona Fall League, with several players sent out West. However, their playing time has been reduced, so stats have been limited as of late. Dylan Dodd, though, has gotten quite a bit of action and headlines the group of Braves in the AFL. Left-handed Dodd has t...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 107
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs pile on in a 20-9 win to move back over .500! The most consistent truth of the 2023 Cubs is that they are very good at piling on. When things are going well, they just keep going. They remain undefeated when they score seven runs and in those games, this ticks the average back over 10 runs per game. This is 297 total runs in 29 games in which th...2023
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• Cubs 20, Reds 9: The Cubs tie a franchise record for home runs
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Seven Cubs hit baseballs out of the yard in this entertaining blowout. Let’s begin this recap of the Cubs’ 20-9 win over the Reds with this fun fact, sent to me by BCB’s JohnW53, about the franchise record-tying seven home runs the Cubs hit Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field: The Cubs had not hit seven homers in a game since a 23-6 demolition of the Padres on May...2023
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• An evening watching the Omaha Storm Chasers
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 21, 2025
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• Reds Select Austin Wynns, Edwin Ríos
The Reds announced that catcher Luke Maile has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to a herniated disc in his back. Outfielder Jake Fraley was placed on the family medical emergency list. To take those two roster spots, the club has selected catcher Austin Wynns and infielder Edwin Ríos. They had one open…...2024
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• Cub Tracks strikes back
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs pile it on again and force the issue. 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 for maxi...2023
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• Cubs 20, Reds 9: The Cubs tie a franchise record for home runs
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 106
Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs go down fighting in a 6-5 loss to the Reds. Look, I’m not blowing smoke at anyone. Losing two straight and be back at .500 after the mad dash to get above water sucks. Marcus Stroman’s struggles continuing is awful. The situation with Seiya Suzuki is maddening. Was anything likely to change the ninth inning? Would it be nice if Cody Bellinger had g...2023
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• Rays 10, Reds 0: You’re My Wonder Walls
Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports Taylor Walls led the Tampa Bay Rays over the Cincinnati Reds with a 4-RBI night, including a home run from each side of the plate. The Tampa Bay Rays didn't need a riverboat to cruise through Cincinnati on Tuesday night. After dropping the series' first game, they bounced back to win 10-0 over the Cincinnati Reds to even the series for the Rays' first win ...2023
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• Guardians 10, White Sox 7 (11 innings): South Siders run out of gas
Much in the clutch: José Abreu drove in the tying run against Emmanuel Clase in the bottom of the 10th. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports The Good Guys unraveled in extras, and the playoffs are now a pipe dream In a roller coaster of a game, the White Sox (76-72) fell short in the series opener against the Guardians (81-67). As a result, the Guardians have clinched the season series aga...2022
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• Six Pack of Stats: Guardians 5, White Sox 2
FanGraphs An on-brand night for an off-brand team The White Sox looked to turn around the momentum from their abject beating at the hands of the Astros on Thursday, and they failed to do so in painful fashion, falling 5-2 to the Cleveland Guardians in what feels like somewhere between the 15th and 50th game lost after leading into the seventh. Lance Lynn acquitted himself well for the seco...2022
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• Cubs 8, Braves 6: Swingin’ in the rain

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs bats came alive on a really bad weather day at the ol’ ballpark. It rained all morning and afternoon in Chicago, and at Wrigley Field, and I’ll have a bit more to say about that later. Keeping with the spirit of the day, the Cubs rained down hits and home runs and evened up the series against the Braves with an 8-6 victory. The Cubs did not was...2023
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• Cubs 8, Reds 6: Six-run sixth sinks Cincinnati’s ship
Patrick Wisdom | Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Try saying that six times quickly. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs could not figure out Reds starter Hunter Greene, almost not at all. Greene didn’t give up a hit until the fourth inning and allowed the Cubs no runs. He looked far better than we saw him last year and if he can ever harness his command, he’s going to be a force in this league. But C...2023
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• Cubs 16, Reds 6: Ian Happ, Jeimer Candelario lead Cubs to another franchise record
Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports This team is just piling on the runs. The Cubs demolished Reds pitching again Wednesday night, winning 16-6, and so I get to lead this recap with more facts from BCB’s JohnW53: The 36 runs scored by the Cubs in the last two games is their most in back-to-back games in the Modern Era (since 1901). Their 12 home runs are the most that the Cubs have EVER hit i...2023
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• Pirates To Sign Luke Maile
The Pirates have agreed to a deal with free agent catcher Luke Maile, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network (via Twitter). It’ll be a MLB pact, with financial details still unknown. More to come …...2019
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• Look, up in the sky ... Pillar does it again
Another day, another amazing grab by the Blue Jays' Kevin Pillar, who ranged deep into the gap in right-center and lunged for a sprawling catch to rob the Rays' Luke Maile in Toronto's 8-4 win on Friday night....2015
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• Braves secure sweep of the Reds with third straight one-run win
Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Braves win another close game with an eighth inning Eddie Rosario home run proving decisive. In the final game of their series against the Reds, the Braves sent out flame throwing ace Spencer Strider to face off against a fellow high-velocity right-hander in Hunter Greene. However, both pitchers struggled early, with plenty of traffic on ...2023
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• Reds Re-Sign Luke Maile
The Reds have re-signed catcher Luke Maile to a one-year contract with a club option for 2025, the team announced. Maile is guaranteed $3.5MM on the new deal (per Mark Sheldon of MLB.com). More to come....2023
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• Gamethread XXXV: Royals at Orioles
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• Royals add catcher Luke Maile as Salvador Perez deals with hip soreness
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• TWitM: River Bandits pitching continues to shine
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• An evening watching the Omaha Storm Chasers
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• Carlos Hernández claimed off waivers, Royals roster comes into focus

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Royals send Nick Pratto and Nelson Velázquez to Omaha The Royals announced today that pitcher Carlos Hernández has been claimed off waivers from the Philadelphia Phillies and that first baseman Nick Pratto and outfielder Nelson Velázquez have cleared waivers and have been outrighted to Triple-A Omaha. The Royals also released veteran catcher Lu...2025
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• Royals use 6-run 6th inning to fuel 9-8 comeback win

Hunter Renfroe stole a base today. | Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Runs runs runs. The scoring today got going early and often. The Royals got down bad early, but they used “this thing”, “that thing”, and “the other thing” to score a bunch of runs and come back for the win. Home runs? Sac flies? Double steals? This game had. It. All. As the first batter in the bottom of the second, Luis ...2025
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• Four-run ninth gives Royals walk off win against the Padres

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Royals Devil Magic, spring training style. The Royals scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Padres 6-5 in the rain on Thursday afternoon. Daniel Lynch IV is engaged in a competition for a starting role this spring and has impressed in his outings so far. He had a quick 1-2-3 first inning, but rain into trouble in the second, giving up t...2025
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