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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 20, 2024

DDJ modeling the number of games to go | Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB via Getty Images Nine huge games to go! Let’s look in on those playoff odds. Even though it may not seem like it, they’re still quite high as of 7pm last night: Baseball Prospectus: 86.5% to make playoffs, 0.0% to win division, 1.2% to win World Series Fangraphs: 90.0% to make playoffs, 0.1% to win division, 2.5% to win W...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 10, 2024

Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Just keep showing up. New Royals outfielder Robbie Grossman had some words of wisdom for his new teammates, writes Pete Grathoff. The veterans also offered some advice to their new teammates, even though they joined the Royals during that ugly seven-game losing streak. “Just keep showing up. We’ve got a good team,” Grossman said of...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 6, 2024

I think we’re required by law to use a Mahomes and Witt picture today | Photo by Jason Hanna/Getty Images Six games left in The Gauntlet (TM) Manager Matt Quatraro missed some games earlier this week due his mother’s death. At the Star, Vahe Gregorian talked to the skipper about how her lessons influenced his managerial style: The last few days away from the team, he said, were “maddenin...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 27, 2024

David Richard-USA TODAY Sports Two wins are better than one! The Royals were in high spirits after a doubleheader sweep of first place Cleveland, writes Jaylon Thompson. “We all know what’s the goal,” Perez said. “You know, every time you play a really good team like Cleveland, and you get the first two on the first day, it’s pretty good.” Cole Ragans left the first game with a leg cramp, ...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for August 24, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Salvador Perez is a baseball treasure. David Lesky looks at the daunting schedule ahead for the Royals. So that’s it. That’s the next 20 days for the Kansas City Royals. They play five different teams in six series, and every single one of those teams is currently in a playoff position. The Royals are 15 games over .500 and hold a 3.5 game lead in the Wild Ca...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 23, 2024

Salvy and Shin-Soo Choo | Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports I’m doing my part: Royals on a 7-week Thursday unbeaten streak! I was going to jump straight into the links but I think it’s time to stop and smell the context. The Royals are about to enter their 20-game gauntlet against some of the best teams in baseball: 3v PHI, 4@ CLE, 4@ HOU, 3v CLE, 3v MIN, and 3@ NYY. After that stretch, the r...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 21, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals are coming to a national TV audience. Cole Ragans wasn’t at his sharpest last night, writes Jaylon Thompson. “I had been going up and in all night,” Ragans said. “Threw it there the first time, fouled it off. Didn’t feel like he was on it and threw it there again. And, obviously, he was.” Logan O’Hoppe, Anthony Rendon and Kevin Pillar drove in tw...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 20, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Folks, we have a pennant race. Jaylon Thompson writes about Seth Lugo getting back on track last night. He said that fastball command was one of his key adjustments over the last few days. “I saw my fastballs were a little higher in the (strike) zone and trying to go down,” Lugo said. “The vert on my fastball wasn’t how I like it to be. So I think I fixed t...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 16, 2024 (CPBL)

You! Yeah, you in row 3! You should read today’s Rumblings | Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports Royals with a 6-week unbeaten streak on Thursday; Should push it to 7 next week! At The Star, Jaylon Thompson writes about how the Royals bullpen has 4 lefties: Across the majors, the Royals and Detroit Tigers are the only teams featuring four left-handed relievers on their respective active roster...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 13, 2024

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images The playoff race is heating up. Pete Grathoff writes about how the Royals are scoreboard watching. “I’ve said multiple times, when we’re out here on the field, the scores are plastered all over the wall, so it’s hard to avoid them at times,” Quatraro said. “But I can’t speak for everybody, if they go in right away and look at what happene...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 2, 2024

Sure, it’s not a Royals highlight, but I liked the picture | David Reginek-USA TODAY Sports Anyone miss their 4000-word Fridays? At The Star, Jaylon Thompson sets the table for the playoff push over the next two months: The Royals have a chance to catch the Cleveland Guardians for first place in the AL Central but currently trail by six games. Later this month, the two teams will play a f...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 30, 2024

Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images It’s trade deadline day. Jaylon Thompson writes about how aggressive the Royals might be for today’s trade deadline. “We want to be aggressive; we want to do what we need to do for this team,” Royals general manager J.J. Picollo said. “At the same time, we want to be aware of what our future looks like. So we’ll be a little more calcu...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 19, 2024

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Back to baseball! Pete Grathoff writes the Royals are looking forward to the second half. I think we’re in striking distance of where we want to be,” said first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino. “We’re obviously happy that we’re in the race, but we’re not satisfied at this point of the year. Yes, on one hand, we’re happy that we’re in it, but on the other...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 15, 2024

Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Enjoy a break. J.J. Picollo talks to Anne Rogers about adding Hunter Harvey. “He adds great depth,” Picollo said. “It’s not something where we’re going to say, ‘He’s our closer,’ starting tomorrow. That’s not the case. Our goal all along was to have a deeper bullpen. [James McArthur] has done a great job in the ninth inning here over ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 14, 2024

Yesterday was fun. Ok, the 8th inning wasn’t. But the rest of the game was. | Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images Yesterday was a big win in a young(-ish) season already full of nice wins Roster move yesterday: Lynch down, Veneziano up We have made the following roster moves: pic.twitter.com/gjxt4TeqDP— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) June 13, 2024 As part of his series about Kansas Ci...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 23, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Salvy is playing some defense this year! Craig Brown was a bit worried about a long inning from Cole Ragans Saturday. I’m no sports scientist. In the discourse from earlier this month about the rash of elbow injuries among pitchers and talk about the impact of the pitch clock on those injuries, I found it interesting that there was discussion about load on t...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 22, 2023

Sorry, Santa. I hope you put coal in Noah Syndergaard’s stocking Only 4 shopping days left until CobraCy’s Christmas post will be late (please tell me he’s writing one) As talked about yesterday in other outlets, The Star’s Pete Grathoff explores the possibility of Royals games being on Amazon Prime in the future: According to the Wall Street Journal’s Lauren Thomas and Joe Flint, Amazon...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 3, 2023

I searched on “Kansas City Royals” and “Disney”. Why did I get Terry Pendleton? Pitchers and Catchers report in just over 3 months Max already covered that Salvy and Witt are Silver Slugger finalists. At the Star, Pete Grathoff compares them to the competition: Silver Slugger award winners will be revealed on the MLB Network on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 5 p.m. Max also covered all you need to kn...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 2, 2023
There are a ton of images in the archive when you search for “Kansas City Royals” and “Lost”. This one even has it twice. Sad trombone sound. | Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Royals looking to extend their unbeaten streak to 3 days! I haven’t been able to find the answer to this one. When was the last time the Royals had 2 off-days in a row in-season? Bonus points...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 24, 2023
This picture choice makes sense once you get to the OT section | Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images (Spring Training) Baseball games start today! Kansas City takes on Texas in Surprise at 2:05pm Royals time today. The Royals get the Cactus League opener! The Spring Training opener, even! I don’t think this is something that’s officially noted, but I’m making this call for us. The...2023
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"” According to the Kansas City Star’s Pete Grathoff and Joseph Hernandez, Lopez-Galvan was wearing a Butker jersey during the parade."

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"According to Pete Grathoff, their 18 scoreless innings to begin the season is the longest scoring drought in club history."

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"Via Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star, Jeff Chadiha recently explained on NFL Network that the [more]"

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"Via Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star, Rivers acknowledged one particular [more]"

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"“Yeah, I had a little ritual: Smoke two blunts before every game,” Smith said in a video, as transcribed by Pete Grathoff of the Kanas City Star."

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"Via Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star, Allen posted several tweets…"

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"The Kansas City Star’s Pete Grathoff assembled a collection of tweets from people purportedly staying at the same Providence, Rhode Island hotel that was housing Kansas City, in town ahead of Saturday’s playoff game at New England."

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" According to Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star, Moustakas is the sixth player over the last decade with at least nine RBI."

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"“It’s insane that four months ago I was sitting in a classroom,” Finnegan told Pete Grathoff of The Kansas City Star."

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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 9, 2024

Giant QT cup that we’ll mention below | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Royals undefeated on off days in 2024 At The Star, Vinnie Pasquantino is profiled by Jayl— wait, Matt Guzman... who is that? Ah: “Texas-born, Missouri-educated and deeply passionate about storytelling, Matt Guzman is a sports intern at The Kansas City Star for the summer of 2024; He is a rising junior at the Universi...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 28, 2024

Vote for these guys! Also, vote Omar! | Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Nice win last night to start the series Ed note: I was thinking to myself “man, it’s been a while since the Royals have had a Thursday night game”. I was right - the last one was May 9th in Anaheim. And that one was weird since it was a west coast game so it probably started after I had finished collecting links. Th...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for July 6, 2024

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals need a successful road trip. The Royals know they need to start winning on this road trip, writes Jaylon Thompson. “Things will start falling our way and get back in that ‘W’ column on the road,” Marsh said. “(We’ll) take this momentum into the road for sure.” The bottom line? Manager Matt Quatraro provided it: “We got...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 14, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 31, 2024

There was some good in yesterday’s game | Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images Hm... 1-3 W-L and +1 run differential for that un-fun series that just ended Day games are always a little confusing from a coverage standpoint. Lots of outlets feel like they can just use the game story as their main “story” for the day while some of the other stories are outdated the moment they’re published. ...2024
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• Mike Moustakas Knocks in 9 RBI vs. Orioles: Stats, Highlights, Twitter Reaction
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• Kendrys Morales Has Gone from Castoff to Leading Man of Royals' Attack
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• Arrowheadlines: Chiefs are favorites to sign Mike Evans

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Chiefs headlines for Thursday, February 22 The latest Chiefs favored to sign Mike Evans in free agency | Clutch Points Bet Online has Kansas City as the favorites to land Evans, assuming he doesn’t return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next season. The Chiefs are currently +200 to sign Evans. The New York Jets follow closely behind at +300, while the Chicago Bear...2024
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• Anemic Royals offense remains scoreless in 2-0 loss to Twins
Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports The Royals set a club record for offensive futility to begin the year. The Royals have played two games in the 2023 season and still have yet to score a run, as they dropped another 2-0 loss to the Twins on Saturday. According to Pete Grathoff, their 18 scoreless innings to begin the season is the longest scoring drought in club history. Building off research...2023
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• Cowboys news: Even with all the moves being made, team still has plenty of cap room to add more talent
Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images The latest news and notes surrounding the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys cap update after Brandin Cooks restructure indicates more moves are coming - Jerry Trotta, The Landry Hat After restructuring Cooks contract, are more splashes in free agency incoming? Hours after the Cooks trade was made official, Dallas renegotiated the wideout’s contract, turning $8 m...2023
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• Philip Rivers left parting gift for one Kansas City heckler
Philip Rivers seemed to know there was a chance his Week 17 trip to Kansas City might be his last one as the Chargers quarterback. So he decided to leave a parting gift for a guy he got to know over the years. Via Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star, Rivers acknowledged one particular [more]...2020
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• Conspiracy theories abound as Chiefs hotel fire alarm goes off
Let the conspiracy theories begin after the fire alarm went off at the hotel the Kansas City Chiefs are staying at on Friday night. The Kansas City Star’s Pete Grathoff assembled a collection of tweets from people purportedly staying at the same Providence, Rhode Island hotel that was housing Kansas City, in town ahead of Saturday’s playoff game at New England. Apparently, the fire alarm went off....2016
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• Bobby Witt Jr. finishes seventh in MVP voting

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images It’s just the second top-10 finish by a Royals player since 2015. Bobby Witt Jr. had a breakout season in 2023, and he was recognized for his performance by finishing seventh in American League MVP voting in results revealed Thursday evening. Angels pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani unanimously won his second MVP award with Braves outfielder Ronal...2023
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• Arrowheadlines: Travis Kelce not interested in a ‘vax war’ with Aaron Rodgers

Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports Chiefs headlines for Saturday, October 7 The latest Travis Kelce ‘fully comfortable’ with Aaron Rodgers calling him ‘Mr. Pfizer’ | The Athletic Kanas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce isn’t bothered by New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers calling him “Mr. Pfizer.” “I thought it was pretty good,” Kelce said when asked Friday what he thought of Rodgers’ c...2023
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• Rookie Brandon Finnegan Makes History with 1st NCAA, MLB World Series Double-Dip
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for January 20, 2024

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Are the Royals plotting one more big move? The Royals and Chiefs respond to Jackson County Executive Frank White’s veto of the sales tax extension for the stadiums. In a letter sent late Friday to attorneys for the county legislature, obtained by The Star, the teams insist the “unresolved” issues on their projects are actually resolved. Or close to it. ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 12, 2024

The caption says “George Brett - Kansas City Royals”. Is that a young-ish Brett pulling Santa’s beard like he was the little girl in Miracle on 34th Street? Anyone have a guess as to when it’s going to be above freezing again? Max already had the story yesterday about none of the Royals going to arbitration. Jaylon Thompson covered the news for the The Star: Singer will reportedly make $4....2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 1, 2023

This is our second most recent picture in the archive for the “Kansas City Royals” | Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK A surprisingly busy offseason link day and the first of our 3-part Asian Baseball Wrap Hey, some news news! The Royals hired Joe Dillon as an assistant hitting coach. Dillon, 48, spent the past two seasons as Washington’s Minor League hitting coordinator...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 28, 2023
I have no idea what is going on here. But somehow this image is in our archive I have a feeling today is going to be all NFL Draft talk. KC represented well last night The NFL Draft is sucking all the KC sports oxygen out of the room. See? I just used the word “sucking” and Kansas City sports in context and it wasn’t referring to the Royals 28th ranked offense or 27th ranked pitching. ...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 21, 2023
On Fridays, you never know what kind of picture you’re going to get | Photo by Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic The Royals did not lose yesterday Another off day but with the rough start to the season, not a lot of official stories. It doesn’t help that The Athletic hasn’t backfilled their KC spot. I can’t really complain about The Star. They don’t have a dedicated person right now but I’m not ...2023
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 15, 2023
Happy Jackie Robinson Day! Matt Quatraro welcomes Josh Staumont back to the roster, writes Anne Rogers. “Josh has great stuff,” manager Matt Quatraro said. “For him, it’s very simple. Get ahead, stay ahead, put guys away with your plus stuff.” Pete Grathoff writes that the Royals have a plan for Dylan Coleman to get back on track. “He realized that he was not himself,” Quatraro said of Coleman. “...2023
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