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• Cole Ragans sharp, Jac Caglianone homers in 9-3 Royals win

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Royals top the Cubs in a night game. Cole Ragans tossed three shutout innings and Jac Caglianone homered as the Royals pounded 12 hits in a 9-3 win over the Cubs Thursday night. Ragans had struggled through two spring training outings, but he was sharp tonight. He mowed down nine of the ten Cubs hitters he faced, many of which we...2025
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• Spring Training Game Eleven: Seattle Mariners at Kansas City Royals

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The hearts and minds of Grass Creek are on the line. The Battle for Grass Creek moves to Surprise tonight as the Royals and Mariners prepare once again to do battle. The Royals have won two straight to bounce back from a brief rough patch as they pursue a Cactus League title. Tonight’s lineup could well be a lineup that we see in Ap...2025
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• Unsigned free agent Adam Duvall turned down Royals offer, per report

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Duvall says he may retire if no one meets his price. Two weeks into spring training and most free agents are in camp. But a few veterans remain unsigned, including outfielder Adam Duvall. According to a report by Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Royals made an offer to the 11-year veteran, only to have him reject it and hold firm on what he think...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 4, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Moose returns! Jack Vita at MLB.com writes about Seth Lugo’s veteran presence. Now 35, Lugo is the elder statesman of the Royals’ pitching staff. A quieter personality, Lugo leads by example. “I’ve never really been too outgoing with words,” Lugo said. “But you go to work every day, you give it everything you have, you try to be on time, you be in the pl...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 snap 4 game losing skid with 10-4 win over Padres

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images 5 run second, 4 run third did the damage in Royals win After putting up just a single run the day before, and only four hits in each of the last two contests, the Royals offense exploded for a 10-4 win over the Padres on Sunday afternoon. A five-run 2nd inning, followed by a four-run 3rd inning was enough for the Royals. Maikel Garcia go...2025
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• Melendez homers, but offense otherwise listless in 6-1 loss to Diamondbacks

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images MJ Melendez homers for the only run. MJ Melendez homered for the only Royals run in a 6-1 loss to the Diamondbacks on Friday. The Royals managed just four hits for the second game in a row. Kris Bubic got the start and looked pretty impressive over his two innings of work. He struck out two hitters each inning, working around a hit in each frame. He threw 2...2025
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• A history of Royals infielders moving to the outfield

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Can the Royals transition more infielders to the outfield? The Royals had one of the worst outfields in baseball offensively last year. Their solution to that was to not acquire a single regular outfielder, but instead try converting some of their infielders into outfielders. The team plans to use spring training as a crash course in “how to play the outfield...2025
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• Swings, Steals, and Surprises: Spring Training Shake-Ups for the Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals are in full swing at spring training, and Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco are here to break it all down! This week, they dive into Jack Caglianone’s electric performance, the latest on Bobby Witt Jr.’s base-stealing improvements, and key injury updates from Arizona. The duo also discusses one prospect’s swing, the Royals’ decision to shift Jonathan Bowlan to the bullpen, and w...2025
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• This year’s Royals are better on paper but will that translate to more wins?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals look better on paper, but they might not win as many games as the 2024 version. The roster that the Royals having heading into the 2025 regular season is just better than what they started with last season. That does not mean they will win more games than the 2024 Royals, but I do like that this front office seems to improve the roster yearly. Let’...2025
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• Royals vs. Rangers Tuesday spring training thread

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images It’s Seth Lugo Day! Even with a tie yesterady, the Royals are still one of two teams still undefeated in Cactus League play (with the Cubs). They’ll look to keep that going this afternoon against their facility-mates, the Texas Rangers. Seth Lugo makes his first start of the spring with his deep arsenal of pitches. Could he add to his bag of tricks? What ...2025
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• Spring Training Game thread II - Royals at Dodgers

Salvador Perez #13 poses for a portrait during Kansas City Royals photo day at Surprise Stadium on February 19, 2025 | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Salvy gets another day off. Spring has sprung and baseball is being played by MLB professionals once again. Today’s Royals matchup will be against the Dodgers. Today’s game will not be broadcast on television but can be listened to for fr...2025
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• Give us your Royals Opening Day roster predictions!

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Who do you have on the team by the March 27 opener? Royals pitchers and catchers have begun workouts in Arizona, and hitters will report on Monday. The Royals will spend the next six weeks preparing for the season and shaping the roster that will take on the Guardians in the season opener on March 27. That gives us some time to speculate on who might be o...2025
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• KC Royals Rumblings - News for February 12, 2025

What do Scott Pelley and the Royals have in common? They are reporting. The wait is finally over. Today marks the beginning of spring training for the Kansas City Royals, with pitchers and catchers reporting to Surprise, Arizona, for the first official workout. Former Royals manager Ned Yost is back in Kansas City, now serving as senior advisor to the general manager. “My deep love for the Royals...2025
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• Five questions for the Royals to answer this spring training

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The roster may not be quite set. Royals pitchers and catchers will assemble in Arizona tomorrow to officially report to spring training. The team is flying high after improving by 30 games last year and making their first playoff appearance in nine years, but they’ll have to prove their performance was no fluke. The team retained free agent pitchers Michael ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 17, 2025

I couldn’t find any good “Uecker Royals” pictures, so how about Bob Uecker interviewing Hank Aaron? | Photo by 1975 Diamond Images via Getty Images We have reached the winter lull of the baseball season Oh, boy. We’ve really hit the winter doldrums. The last story from The Star was last week when Lorenzen signed. There hasn’t been a new story on the Royals site since Tuesday. Their last ...2025
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• Royals win ALDS game 2 with one big inning and excellent pitching

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez (13) reacts after a solo home run against the New York Yankees in the fourth inning during game two of the ALDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images And a Salvador Perez home run! This series was supposed to be a quick and easy one for the New York Yankees. It has not been. New York barely managed to escape the fi...2024
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• Ragans rejects runs, relievers repel rallies, Royals romp 4-0
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Outstanding pitching offset many missed opportunities offensively Cole Ragans shoved and Kansas City rode early offense to a 4-0 win over the New York Mets this evening at Kauffman Stadium. Ragans got off to an inauspicious start, putting the first two batters of the game on base. However, he managed to bear down and retire the next three to snuff the threat....2023
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"The only Royals regular to collect a hit was Michael Massey, who singled."

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"After a Nelson Velázquez single, Michael Massey singled off the lefty to drive home two more runs."

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"and Michael Massey each homered to lead the Royals to their seventh win in a row, a 7-5 victory over the Phillies Friday evening."

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"The Royals announced Wednesday that they’ve selected the contract of second baseman Michael Massey and recalled catcher Sebastian Rivero from Triple-A Omaha."

• Unsigned free agent Adam Duvall turned down Royals offer, per report
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 4, 2025
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• Royals Opening Day roster prediction one week into Spring Training
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• This year’s Royals are better on paper but will that translate to more wins?
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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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• How would you grade the Royals’ off-season?

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Did the Royals do enough? With the Royals playing their first spring training game today, you could argue that the off-season is officially over. The Royals looked to capitalize off their 30-game improvement and post-season berth by keeping the band together and adding a few pieces to put them on top in the division. But did they do enough? What the Roya...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 17, 2025

Photo by Reed Hoffmann/Getty Images Cole Ragans gets paid. Jaylon Thompson has more on the Cole Ragans signing. Ragans will enter his third season with the Royals. The contract extension came together quickly this week. The Royals met with his representation and hammered out a deal that made sense for both sides. “It gives me a little security and ... they kind of know what’s on the book...2025
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• The Royals (good) catching prospect problem

The Royals are loaded with catching prospects and this is a good thing For a couple of years, the Kansas City Royals farm system has been trying to rebuild itself from the graduations of many top prospects, including Bobby Witt, Jr., Michael Massey, Vinnie Pasquantino, and many others. Today, they are slowly getting back there with the addition of many top prospects like Jac Caglianone. Their real...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for January 25, 2025

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images New year, new swing? Anne Rogers writes about the outfield situation. Melendez is the most interesting part here, because he still boasts tremendous power potential. It hasn’t clicked in his first three seasons, and the 26-year-old slashed .206/.273/.400 with 17 homers in 2024. The Royals, thinking back to Melendez’s 41-homer Minor League season in 2021, b...2025
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• The Royals need something extra out of their farm system this time around

Jac Caglianone #15 and Tre’ Morgan #26 of the American League Fall Stars run around second and third bases to score in the second inning during the 2024 Fall Stars Game between the American League Fall Stars and the National League Fall Stars at Sloan Park on Saturday, November 9, 2024 in Mesa, Arizona. | Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images The ghosts of the past are knocki...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2025

Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images We are 2% through 2025 already. Kansas City Royals top prospect Jac Caglianone joined Baseball America’s Hot Sheet Show to start off the week. Eno Sarris of The Athletic ($) labels Kansas City’s outfield as the team’s clear problem ahead of spring training. The outfield is generally a sore spot in Kansas City, as the Royals show up twice on our list. Last y...2025
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• Royals find themselves on the other end of a bullpen implosion, win 4-2

Tommy Pham #22 of the Kansas City Royals is doused by Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Rocco Baldelli will have some interesting questions to answer after this one. I have had a policy all season of not panicking in any game until the Royals have given up at least two runs. It turns out, I was more right than I knew to have that policy, but we’ll...2024
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• Seth’s stellar start stems skid, series stopper salvaged 4-1

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Pham’s homer powered the offense. Seth Lugo threw a seven-inning gem and Tommy Pham delivered the decisive blow with his first homer for the Royals as Kansas City defeated the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 tonight. The first inning featured a couple baserunners but not result. In the top of the second, MJ Melendez turned a single into a double when he got caught in...2024
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• Lorenzen outpitches his old team, Royals win 7-1

Bobby Witt Jr. celebrates with Salvador Perez after hitting a home run in the fourth inning. Don’t look now, but Bobby and the Bullpen had a fantastic night. Michael Lorenzen used to be a Cincinnati Red, years ago. Today marked his first opportunity to pitch against his old team at their home stadium and he appeared to relish it. It wasn’t exactly a dominant performance, but as the Royals’...2024
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• Is this Kyle Isbel’s last stand?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 7, 2025

I was just searching for random stuff and came across a grinning Salvy from 2021 | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Pitchers and catchers report next week! Guys (and gals), we’re to this point of the offseason: Here’s three minutes and twenty-seven seconds of Vinnie Pasquantino hitting sacrifice flies.Because why not? pic.twitter.com/c9WhyjG0mh— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) February 6, 202...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 17, 2025
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• Royals win ALDS game 2 with one big inning and excellent pitching
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• The Royals were hosed in Game 1. How will they respond?

Brad Penner-Imagn Images They can’t let it consume them. In the seventh inning of Saturday's Game 1 of the ALDS between the Royals and Yankees, the game stood tied 5-5 with Jazz Chisholm at first base and no outs. Reliever Michael Lorenzen stuck out Anthony Volpe on a sweeper, and with Chisholm running on the pitch, the Royals had a chance for a double play. Salvador Perez has long been on...2024
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• Game 1 of the Wild Card series was played on the Royals’ terms

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The momentum has shifted. The Royals won 86 games in the regular season, fewer than any team in the post-season except the Tigers. Twelve of those wins came against the embarrassing White Sox - the Royals went 74-75 against everyone else. For most of the year, they had one of the worst bullpen in baseball, and in September they had THE worst offense in base...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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• Seven in a row! Royals top Phillies 7-5

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Another Bobby blast puts him in the 20/30 club again. Bobby Witt Jr. and Michael Massey each homered to lead the Royals to their seventh win in a row, a 7-5 victory over the Phillies Friday evening. Bobby’s blast was his 20th of the year, making him the first player in MLB history to hit at least 20 home runs and steal at least 30 bases in each of his fi...2023
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• Royals pitchers issue zero walks in 2-0 win over Rockies
Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Maikel Garcia smacks the first home run of his MLB career. Royals pitchers did not issue a single walk in tossing nine shutout innings in a 2-0 win over the Rockies to salvage the series on Sunday. Brady Singer lasted 5 2⁄3 innings, allowing just five hits while striking out seven to even his record to 4-4. Singer cruised for most of his start, allowin...2023
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• Ragans rejects runs, relievers repel rallies, Royals romp 4-0
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• Royals come up clutch with two outs, Marsh sharp in 9-4 win over Orioles

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images The Royals have won nine straight at home. Alec Marsh tossed 5 2⁄3 innings of scoreless baseball and the offense erupted for eight runs in the sixth and seventh innings as the Royals defeated the Orioles 9-4 on Friday evening. The Royals scored all nine runs with two outs in the inning. Marsh hit Gunnar Henderson to begin the game, then gave up a single to...2024
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• Waters, Massey and the Royals thump the Red Sox 9-3

Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports Didn’t get Carapazza’d tonight! After having Monday night’s game decided by umpire Vic Carapazza, the Royals responded with a resounding 9-3 win on Tuesday night. The victory snapped a three-game skid. To halt their losing streak, Kansas City sent the red-hot Brady Singer to the bump. Going back to the beginning of the second half, the 27-year-old seemingly re...2023
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• Royals walk off Nationals, 3-2
Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Edward Olivares helped spark a comeback and almost set fire to the stadium. For six, long innings, it seemed like the Royals were sleep-walking through another loss on their way to another series sweep at the hands of an opponent. Daniel Lynch got his first start of 2023 today and he wasn’t awful, but he wasn’t perfect, either. He pitched 5.2 innings and struc...2023
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• Royals pick up first win in slugfest against the Blue Jays
Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino (9) reacts after hitting a double during the fourth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit | Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports Extra base hits, stolen bases, oh my! On Monday night, the Royals finally got a notch in the win column via an excellent offense powered by four extra base hits—each by a different b...2023
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• Fantastic first inning fuels fire, foes finished 9-1
Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Last night’s offensive struggles were quickly put in the past Kansas City’s offense roughed up Lance Lynn while the pitching shut down Chicago’s bats as the Royals cruised to a 9-1 victory over the White Sox. Brad Keller began his outing by walking Tim Anderson, who has a career 3.6% walk rate, and then walked Andrew Benintendi on fou...2023
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• These Royals are unlucky AND awful
William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports But that might be good news for Royals fans As has been noted multiple times by multiple people over the past week, the Royals have played exactly one team under .500 so far this season. That was the lone series they managed to win, defeating the San Francisco Giants two games to one. There has also been all kinds of talk about how several Royals batters ha...2023
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• Money’s Growin’ Like Grass With The Massey Appeal
From Trade Deadline insanity with Juan Soto to a new Royals' middle infielder. Is that a sad trombone playing Narco by Blasterjaxx, the come-out music for Edwin Diaz? Not cool! By the way, if you don't know Narco, you should. It's trumpetilicious. So, with Whit Merrifield shipped off, uh, shipped towards Toronto, not sure if he can get in there, Michael Massey (2-for-3) was called up, and could se...2022
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• Cole Ragans sharp, Jac Caglianone homers in 9-3 Royals win
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• Spring Training Game Eleven: Seattle Mariners at Kansas City Royals
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• Unsigned free agent Adam Duvall turned down Royals offer, per report
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• Royals snap 4 game losing skid with 10-4 win over Padres
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• Royals vs. Diamondbacks Friday spring training thread

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The outfield gets a real test! The Royals take on the Diamondbacks this afternoon in the suburbs of Phoenix. Kris Bubic will get his second spring training start. And the outfield experiment goes into full gear today with Michael Massey in left and Maikel Garcia in center. Spending our Friday in Scottsdale. pic.twitter.com/uGlF8WB...2025
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• Spring Training Game Five: Colorado Rockies at Kansas City Royals

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images I wanted a photo from Surprise Stadium but I couldn’t find one so you get this instead. The Kansas City Royals welcome the Colorado Rockies to Surprise as they look to keep their strong spring going. The Royals have won all four of their games so far, while the Rockies are 4-1 themselves. Michael Wacha will make his Spring Training debut today. Some other ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 7, 2025

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images Is the off-season 90 percent complete now? Craig Brown reacts to the Cavan Biggio signing. Biggio’s strength as a hitter comes from his strike-zone recognition. In his career, he’s chased on pitches outside of the zone under 16 percent of the time. That’s an elite chase rate. The league average is generally around 28 percent. It’s a fantastic foundation f...2025
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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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• Zack Greinke has played for some bad Royals teams - is this the worst?
Rhona Wise-USA TODAY Sports Royals fans have seen some bad baseball. Longtime Royals Review reader Roy from Omaha posed an interesting question last week: Ask Zach Greinke which team was the worst team he played on - the 2005 or the 2023 Royals, since he played for both. Great question! Let’s do a breakdown and see if we can make any sense of this. The 2005 Royals finished an all-time Roy...2023
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