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• Alex Gordon to be inducted into Royals Hall of Fame

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Gordo! The Royals announced that Alex Gordon will be the 2025 inductee into the Royals Hall of Fame. After teasing the selection earlier this week with a funny video, they provided a fitting ending to the piece. Introducing the newest member of the Royals Hall of Fame, Alex Gordon! pic.twitter.com/AmNmj9nOJ7— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) March 14, 2025 ...2025
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• It’s time to honor George Spriggs

The former Royals player was once a Negro Leaguer. Now that Cedric Tallis, the Royals' first general manager, and architect of their early success has been inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame, I need to find a new windmill to tilt at. My other pet project over the years has been for the club to bestow some type of recognition on George Spriggs. Spriggs’ contract was purchased by Tallis from the ...2025
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• Video teases next member of the Royals Hall of Fame

Who will it be? The Royals will soon announce this year’s induction class for the Royals Hall of Fame. On this year’s ballot are Carlos Beltrán, Billy Butler, Johnny Damon, Wade Davis, Jarrod Dyson, Alex Gordon, Kelvin Herrera, Joakim Soria, and Yordano Ventura. But the Royals marketing department is teasing the newest inductee with a clever video showing the Royals Hall of Fame Lounge. The “exclu...2025
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• The Moose is Loose - a Mike Moustakas retrospective

Mike Moustakas #8 of the Kansas City Royals hits against the Minnesota Twins the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium on July 22, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images What a wild career the infielder had Last week, former Royal Mike Moustakas announced his intent to sign a one-day contract with the Royals to officially retire with the team that had drafted him. Mo...2025
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• Remembering the career of Bob Johnson

One hit wonder How does one go about recapping the career of Bob Johnson? The strapping right-hander (6’4, 220 pounds) only pitched in Kansas City for one season, but it was a great season. Even though his record was only 8-13, that 1970 season in Royals uniform was the best of his seven-year career. He threw 214 innings and stuck out a then club record 206 batters which was third best in the Amer...2025
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• Ned Yost returns to Royals as special advisor

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The championship-winning manager brings his expertise to the front office. The Royals have brought back former manager Ned Yost to serve in the front office as a senior advisor. Yost led the team from 2010 to 2019 and is the all-time franchise leader in wins by a manager with 746. He won two pennants, winning the World Series over the Mets in 2015. In a press...2025
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• The Best of Royals Review 2024

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images It was a great year! The 2024 season was a surprisingly fun season with a 30-game improvement in the standings for the Royals and an unexpected post-season berth. We saw the emergence of Bobby Witt Jr. as a star and the pitching rotation emerge into one of the best in baseball. That gave us plenty of things to write about, so here’s the best ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 30, 2024

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Royals were a great story in 2024. Blair Kerkhoff recaps the biggest Kansas City sports stories of 2024. The signing of Witt proved to be the final of a flurry of offseason moves that reshaped the Royals, who lost 106 games the previous year. In late 2023, they added starting pitchers Michael Wacha and Seth Lugo, among other acquisitions, and the re...2024
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• Royals blow four-run lead, drop opening game to Tigers 7-6

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez (13) can’t make a play as Detroit Tigers third baseman Zach McKinstry (39) scores in the fourth inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Denny Medley-Imagn Images A Bobby Witt grand slam wasted Tonight’s game between the Detroit Tigers and the Kansas City Royals felt, in a lot of ways, like a playoff game. It was a close contest with a crowd eager to show the...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 22, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Yet another day off. Michael Lorenzen righted the ship after a rocky first few innings last night: “I was rushing through a lot of stuff, and instead of hitting the panic button, you’re trying to figure out how to problem-solve out there and figure out exactly what’s off,” Lorenzen said. “I felt like I was able to figure it out and slow things down, slowed m...2024
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• Hall of Fame controversy

SetNumber: X57689 TK3 F19 R12 Big Hall or small Hall? I recently went on a road trip across part of our great nation and noticed a proliferation of signs that said, “visit our historic downtown”. From small villages to medium sized cities, it seems every downtown is now a historic one. About ten years ago someone at a Chamber of Commerce convention must have done one hell of a sales job to...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 1, 2024

Garfield is right about Mondays, lasagna, and much more | Photo by Steve Parsons - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images Very nice series over the weekend! Ed note: I was mistaken on Friday. I guess I will be doing one day of Rumblings this month as Max is out for a few days. That said, I’m leaving on vacation this week so we’re not getting the full Friday Rumblings experience. Also, I ...2024
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• Game thread LXXXIV - Guardians at Royals

Cole Ragans plots his next pitch | Photo by Reed Hoffmann/Getty Images Can the Royals secure a series victory against their division rivals? Even the most Royals-blue-glasses-wearing Royals fans couldn’t have expected the team to take the first two of this four-game series against the Guardians. Those of you who listen to the Royals Rundown podcast know that I was basically begging them to...2024
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• The virtue of patience in baseball

Will Smith #31 of the Kansas City Royals poses for a photo during the Kansas City Royals Photo Day at Surprise Stadium on Thursday, February 22, 2024 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Adam Glanzman/MLB Photos via Getty Images Teams almost never make changes as quickly as we would like. Is there a method to the madness? As humans, when things are going poorly, we want change and we want it n...2024
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• September 12, 1977

Malcolm Emmons-Imagn Images Remembering the Plaza flood On September 11th, 1977, the Royals played game number 141 in Minnesota. They won that game by a score of 4 to 1 with lefty Andy Hassler spreading ten Minnesota hits, nine which were singles, over nine innings, while allowing just one run. The game had been a pitchers’ duel between Hassler and Geoff Zahn. Going into the top of the 9th...2024
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• The history of cities that rejected baseball park ballot measures

Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images Teams don’t typically move at the first “no” vote. Last week, Jackson County voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to extend a 3/8 cent sales tax for another 40 years to fund a new downtown ballpark for the Royals and renovations for Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs. The failed vote immediately brought concerns that the Royals could soon relocate, possibl...2024
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"The future Royals Hall of Famer has a chance at Cooperstown itself, as his illustrious 13-season career has seen him appear in 1,552 games and nearly 11,000 innings behind the plate."

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"Bo Jackson, who electrified Royals fans with his moonshot home runs, track star speed, and never-before-seen baseball highlights, has been elected to the Royals Hall of Fame."

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"Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The future Royals Hall of Famer calls it quits."

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"Royals Hall of Famer Kevin Appier shares the details on his many nicknames, which include Bob, Rkevin and his newest one, Bobblehead Bob."

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"A group of perhaps 20 youth ballplayers dressed in their Little League uniforms gathered around Kansas City Royals great Dennis Leonard to get baseball instruction from a Royals Hall of Famer whose name is all over the club's record book."

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"Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer George Brett had a confrontation with a fan in 2013 that resulted in him using foul language in a public place."

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• Alex Gordon to be inducted into Royals Hall of Fame
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• The Moose is Loose - a Mike Moustakas retrospective
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• Remembering the career of Bob Johnson
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• The Royals have a decision to make about Salvador Perez

Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals looks on during Game 3 of the Division Series presented by Booking.com between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Should he return after next year? Salvador Perez is a Kansas City Royals institution. The fu...2025
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• The Best of Royals Review 2024
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• Hok’s 2024 Royals HOF ballot

Kansas City Royals center fielder Jarrod Dyson (1) steals third base against Oakland Athletics third baseman Josh Donaldson (20) during the eighth inning of the 2014 American League Wild Card playoff baseball game at Kauffman Stadium. | Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Royals Hall of Fame is about to get MUCH bigger. The Royals have an absolutely STACKED Hall of Fame ballot, this year. Were t...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 13, 2024

These jerseys scream “early 2000s Royals” | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Friday the 13th seems less intimidating in December At The Star, Taylor Eldridge, Wichita State beat reporter, writes about Mike Sweeney’s son, M.J. Sweeney, going to Wichita State: The son of Kansas City Royals legend Mike Sweeney will suit up for the Wichita State baseball team in 2026. M.J. Sweeney, a hig...2024
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• Baseball is a game of numbers that’s about more than numbers

Peter G. Aiken-Imagn Images The beauty lies beyond the figures. After turning away from baseball for a while, earlier this week I returned to thinking about the game I love as there are a lot of things happening right now: Draft Lottery took place—Congratulations, Washington! St. Louis had a nice jump to No. 5. Free agency—With Juan Soto, Blake Snell, and Max Fried, among others, dominos ...2024
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• The Royals have a decision to make about Salvador Perez
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 30, 2024
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• Hok’s 2024 Royals HOF ballot
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 13, 2024
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• Royals blow four-run lead, drop opening game to Tigers 7-6
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• September 12, 1977
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 22, 2024
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• Hall of Fame controversy
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 1, 2024
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• It’s time to honor George Spriggs
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 30, 2024
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• Hok’s 2024 Royals HOF ballot
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 13, 2024
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• September 12, 1977
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 22, 2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for June 29, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images John Schuerholz is a Royals Hall of Famer. Sam McDowell writes about how the Royals need to play offense. They have to make the most out of the offense they do have right now, and making the most out of this funk looks something like Thursday. Pressure. Pressure. Pressure. “We’re not going to hit the ball out of the yard every time,” shortstop Bobby Witt...2024
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• Bo Jackson to be inducted into Royals Hall of Fame

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Bo knows Hall of Fames. Bo Jackson, who electrified Royals fans with his moonshot home runs, track star speed, and never-before-seen baseball highlights, has been elected to the Royals Hall of Fame. He will be inducted in a pre-game ceremony before a June 29 game against the Cleveland Guardians. In all, Jackson played five years with the Royals, hittin...2024
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• Lorenzo Cain to officially retire as a Royal this summer
Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The future Royals Hall of Famer calls it quits. Lorenzo Cain has informed Andy McCullough of The Athletic that he will officially retire, and will return to Kauffman Stadium this season for a retirement ceremony. The Royals are figuring out the logistics of having him retire as a Royal. “He’s going to be a Royal Hall of Famer,” Kansas City general manager...2023
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• Don’t trade Bobby Witt Jr.

Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports One transaction the Royals won’t make this year. On a Thursday in June 2004, the Kansas City Royals made perhaps one of their worst decisions so far this century. The team was 28-41 and 11.0 games back of the division-leading Minnesota Twins. The Royals would finish that season with an abysmal 58-104 record. That Thursday in June, they made a three-way trade wi...2023
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• Former manager Ned Yost elected to Royals Hall of Fame
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Yost has more wins than any other manager in club history. The Royals announced today that former manager Ned Yost has been elected to the Royals Hall of Fame. The former manager has 746 wins with Kansas City, the most by any skipper in club history, and he led the team to pennants in 2014 and 2015, culminating in a title in 2015. He will be inducted before t...2023
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• The Royals need Bobby, MJ, and Vinnie to step up and be stars
Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. (7) gestures as he runs the bases after hitting a solo home run against the San Francisco Giants during the sixth inning at Oracle Park. | John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports Being good won’t bring back playoff glory Despite going to back-to-back World Series within the last ten years and coming away with the Big Trophy in one of them, the Kansas City R...2023
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• Bo Jackson elected to Royals Hall of Fame
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• As Ned Yost inducted to Royals Hall of Fame, a lesson for Matt Quatraro

Former Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost waves to the crowd before a retirement ceremony for former Kansas City outfielder Lorenzo Cainbefore an MLB game between the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas City Royals on May 06, 2023, at Kauffman Stadium, in Kansas City, MO. | Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Ned Yost wasn’t always a lock for the Royals Hall of Fame, what...2023
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• Alex Gordon to be inducted into Royals Hall of Fame
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• It’s time to honor George Spriggs
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• The Moose is Loose - a Mike Moustakas retrospective
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• Remembering the career of Bob Johnson
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• The Royals have a decision to make about Salvador Perez
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 30, 2024
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• Hok’s 2024 Royals HOF ballot
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• Royals Rundown: Baseball Winter Meetings Madness & Royals’ Payroll Puzzle

How will the Kansas City Royals respond to the changing market after Juan Soto signed? Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco dive into the latest Kansas City Royals news, focusing on the impact of the winter meetings. The duo discusses the massive Juan Soto contract and its implications for the Royals, including their own payroll projections. They explore potential roster moves, the significance of the Ru...2024
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• There is no such thing as a good owner

Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman prior to a game against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Last June, the Oakland Athletics were in the midst of yet another terrible season. With an Opening Day payroll of under $57 million, they were dead last in spending—the third time in the past six years that they were last or second to last in total pay...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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• Cedric Tallis belongs in the Royals Hall of Fame

Time to right a wrong Last year I made a vow to write an annual story about why the Royals’ first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, should be in the Royals Hall of Fame. Like it or not, it’s that time of year. Many of us have speculated as to why Tallis has been snubbed. His credentials are far too impressive for just a plain oversight, so there must be another underlying reason. The most common the...2024
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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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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 7, 2023
I don’t love the powder blue as much as a lot of people but upon another look, the powder blue with dark blue bill is quite nice. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images These Spring Training games are fun and all, but when does the Regular Season start? Day games usually result in limited news, but this day was busier than most. It’s been announced that LoCain will officially retire a Royal ...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 20, 2023
Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images Can Bobby Witt Jr. improve his defense? Rustin Dodd at The Athletic writes from Royals camp, including notes on Bobby Witt’s defense at shortstop. The Royals believe that Witt suffered most while adjusting to the speed of the game at the major-league level. When he moved around the infield, it might have slowed down his growth. But club officials also...2023
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