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• Lugo, Ragans finish top four in Cy Young voting

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Detroit’s Tarik Skubal wins unanimously. The Royals had some of the best starting pitching in baseball in 2024, and Cy Young Award voting reflected that. Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans each finished in the top four ,the first time two Royals pitchers have finished in the top four in voting since 1985 when Bret Saberhagen won and Dan Quisenberry tied for third (Ch...2024
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• Three things the Royals need to do this offseason

Ha-Seong Kim #7 of the San Diego Padres singles in the third inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 18, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. | Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The offseason blueprint For a dozen years, Royals Review hosted the annual SB Nation MLB Offseason Simulation, where 30 writers from the 30 team sites would get together digitally over the course of a...2024
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• The Diamond Sports bankruptcy is settled. Where does this leave MLB teams for local TV?

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images The state of local baseball broadcasting is still in flux. I’ve been covering the continuing saga of the bankruptcy of Diamond Sports, which at one time had rights to about half of MLB teams’ local broadcasts, for some time. Evan Drellich of the Athletic reported last week that the bankruptcy case was settled, and that will leave six teams...2024
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• Haha, the Royals could never trade for Mike Trout. Or...could they?

Mike Trout #27 of the Los Angeles Angels runs during a MLB baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on April 24, 2024 in Anaheim, California. | Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images What if? The Kansas City Royals need a leadoff hitter. What if that hitter was Mike Trout? On its face, that is a pretty wild sentence. And, to be fair, it’s a farfetched scenario to b...2024
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• 2024 Season in Review: Lucas Erceg

Lucas Erceg #60 of the Kansas City Royals throws a pitch during the sixth inning against the New York Yankees during Game Four of the Division Series at Kauffman Stadium on October 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Great stuff, great performance Kansas City Royals fans, myself included, were blown away by the skill and dominance of the 2014 and 2015 Royals...2024
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• Remembering Doug Bird

Getty The former Royals pitcher died last month. Doug Bird, one of the Royals’ first closers, passed away recently at the age of 74. Closer wasn’t even the appropriate term for a pitcher like Bird. They were called “firemen.” These were hurlers who could throw multiple innings or start a game when needed. Closers are cool. Firemen were awesome. Bird was drafted four times, the first time b...2024
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• The mailbag column: Free agency, leadoff hitters, and MJ Melendez

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images My attempt at being a better postman than Kevin Costner Earlier this week on X, Royals Review put out the call: send in your questions and we’ll answer them by the end of the week. Well, that time is upon us, and you had questions about the Royals’ offseason, some trade candidates, and potential free agent targets, among other topics. Let’s get to it. ...2024
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• Game thread CXXIII - Royals at Reds

One can only assume Bobby is seeking Pablo Sanchez’s approval as he prepares to hit another ball over 100 MPH. | Photo by Lauren Leigh Bacho/Getty Images At the quarter pole of the season, the Royals still control their own destiny. Going into this season, I was the most optimistic writer here at Royals Review, projecting the team to finish 81-81. After last night’s game, the Royals have p...2024
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• Intentionally throwing at batters is dumb

Humberto Castellanos crouches over the back of the mound after beaning Bobby Witt Jr. during a game on July 22, 2024 | MLB The dumbest part is that neither of those pitchers meant to hit anyone, last night. During a recent broadcast, Royals announcer Rex Hudler decided to educate his sophomore co-worker, Jake Eisenberg, on the art of hitting batters. Rex declared to an incredulous Jake tha...2024
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• Remembering Orlando Cepeda

Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Last stop with the Royals This story originally ran July 25, 2022, and has been edited for content. After the advent of the designated hitter rule in 1973, American League clubs had to develop a plan as to who their DH would be. Some teams had an in-house option, such as Gates Brown with the Tigers or Tony Oliva with the Twins. Other teams went...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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• Opening Day: Royals v. Twins

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Cole Ragans gets his first Opening Day start 2023 was miserable for Royals fans. Sandwiched between back-to-back championships across the parking lot, the other tenant of Truman Sports Complex lost 106 games, tying a franchise record. It was the third 100-loss season in five seasons, not including 2020. General Manager J.J. Picollo responded by being as acti...2024
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• Welcome to Royals Review in 2024!

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals advances to second base in the sixth inning during a spring training game against the Chicago Cubs at Surprise Stadium on March 05, 2024 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Aaron Doster/Getty Images Hello, welcome! We hope you stay. Hello there, you. Yes, you, the reader! My name is Matthew LaMar; I’m a writer and editor for this here website, and I...2024
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The 2024 season

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Our writers discuss the off-season and expectations for this year. After one of the busier off-seasons in recent Royals history, the 2024 regular season is finally here! The Royals spent over $100 million on free agents, adding infielder Adam Frazier and Garrett Hampson, outfielder Hunter Renfroe, starting pitchers Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, and relie...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 4, 2024

One more day of celebration before the ALDS | Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images Let’s enjoy this ride one more day before the ALDS starts Make the playoffs and suddenly everyone wants to write about the Royals. Whereas normally, I’m looking for listicles and random tangential mentions of the team, I’m probably not going to be able to get to every single story posted yesterday. There’s just too...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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• The best former Royals player for each MLB team

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images What Royals were great with other teams? There is a lull in the baseball season, the perfect time to engage in frivolities and shenanigans. You may have played the internet baseball trivia game Immaculate Grid that asks you to find players that meet specified requirements, many times, “who played for these two teams?” I don’t know if that in...2023
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• Former Royals pitcher Vida Blue dies at age 73
Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images Blue was one of 11 players to win MVP and Cy Young in the same year. Six-time All-Star pitcher Vida Blue died at the age of 73 over the weekend, according to a statement by the Oakland Athletics. Blue won 209 games over 17-year career and is one of 11 players to win both the Cy Young Award and MVP in the same year. He spent two years with the Royals in 1982...2023
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"This year, I had the most faith in the team, picking them to bring home more wins than any other Royals Review writer."

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"He’s only 28, and Crasnick noted the interested parties believe Latos could regain his old form and become a viable contributor: There is a slight downside, however, as Latos has had a reputation as a clubhouse headache, which may turn some teams off, per Royals Review: Latos certainly won’t net the $9."

• Three things the Royals need to do this offseason
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• Haha, the Royals could never trade for Mike Trout. Or...could they?
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• Which Royals should win Gold Gloves?

Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images Several Royals could take home some defensive hardware, but which are most deserving? Rawlings announced the finalists for this year’s Gold Glove awards. These finalists include four Royals, with each having a chance to win their first Gold Glove. An aside: it’s silly that they present these players as “finalists.” That implies that there’s another round of voti...2024
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• The mailbag column: Free agency, leadoff hitters, and MJ Melendez
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The Hot Stove season will soon begin

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images We ask our writers about what they expect this off-season. The Royals’ season is over, and once the World Series concludes, the off-season will begin. Before the wheeling and dealing begins, we assembled our writers to discuss the season that was and look forward for what could be an exciting Hot Stove season. The 2024 season saw the ...2024
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• Chiefs-Saints rapid reaction: Undefeated into the bye

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Kansas City battled its way through a lot of adversity to head into its bye week with a 5-0 record. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the New Orleans Saints 26-13 on “Monday Night Football,” The Chiefs’ defense stays golden. The Chiefs’ defense has had an outstanding start to the 2024 season, holding opponents to 17 points a game. If there was anything to compla...2024
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• Sympathy for Oakland

We’ve been there Over the past week, we’ve all read multiple accounts of the last Athletics game in Oakland. In a nutshell, it’s been a colossal mess, a mess that could have and should have been avoided. In World War II parlance, it’s FUBAR. The city of Oakland and A’s ownership have been negotiating on and off for over a decade without success. The centerpiece of the argument has always been abo...2024
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• Royals Rundown: is Kansas City in desperation territory with standings lead gone?

One prospect should have no doubters after his All-Star 2024 campaign. Royals Review editor Max Rieper joins Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco as the Kansas City Royals late-season collapse continues! Is there any fix to this atrocious lineup? Which group has quietly been among baseball’s best in September? Plus, hear all about the Royals’ organizational award winners and which player has erased all h...2024
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• MLB advanced stats cheat sheet

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (27) looks confused as a fan asks for a ball in the middle of play The Toronto Blue Jays lost 8-3 to the Los Angeles Angels in MLB baseball action at the Rogers Centre. August 28 2022 | Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images If all the stats bandied about by writers and increasingly broadcasters have you confused, look no further...2024
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• Royals’ bad luck in draft lottery propelled team forward

The Royals ended up picking sixth in the 2024 draft despite finish with the second-worst record. | Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports No team’s had worse luck in the draft lottery than the Royals, but it hasn’t shown on the field. On the evening of July 26, 2024, the Kansas City Royals surpassed their 2023 win total. The turnaround has been nothing short of remarkable. The Royals are in the thi...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies by the numbers: A midseason progress report

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Tuesday, July 2, 2024 The Colorado Rockies have officially passed the halfway mark of the 2024 season. Their 29-55 record as well as their .329 winning percentage gives a fairly good sense of where this team is. (Only the Chicago White Sox have a lower winning percentage, .282.) Clearly, we’ve left small-sample-size te...2024
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• Even after slumping, the Royals are wildly exceeding expectations

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Seth Lugo (67) throws in the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. | Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Let’s put it into perspective Close your eyes and try to remember the end of March, if you would. The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has just collapsed. Jo-Ann, the venerable arts and crafts store, filed for bankruptcy a few we...2024
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• Royals Review Roundtable: Time to panic?

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Does a poor stretch of play spell doom for the Royals? The Royals defeated the Marlins for their first series win in nearly three weeks, but have still dropped 12 of 17 games in their worst stretch of the year and are now tied for the final Wild Card spot. We gathered our Royals Review writers to discuss whether this is a mere blip or a sign of bigger probl...2024
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• Royals keep raking, mash Mariners 8-4

Relief pitcher Sam Long #73 of the Kansas City Royals pitches during the seventh inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field on June 06, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. | Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images No drama necessary in this one. In a week punctuated by three dramatic come-from-behind wins and a dramatic come-from-behind loss, the Royals played a pretty drama-free one toda...2024
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• The Royals want your trust. Have they earned it?

The Royals are asking for a lot of money but are offering very little in the way of details about how they’ll spend it. Ordinarily in this space, you’d be reading right now A Noted Non-Overreactor’s over-reactions to Opening Day. I could be talking about how Cole Ragans is going to win the Cy Young and Maikel Garcia is going to be a huge breakout star this year and all manner of other more fun top...2024
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• There’s no shortcut to the Royals’ biggest problem
Ronald Acuna Jr. #13 of the Atlanta Braves beats the tag by Michael Massey #19 of the Kansas City Royals during the eighth inning at Kauffman Stadium on April 16, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images A lack of talent on the roster Internet slang changes all the dang time, with older phrases falling out of favor and new ones seemingly appearing out of nowhere. A...2023
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• Remembering the life of UL Washington

Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images The toothpick guy Stringtown, Oklahoma, population 410, sits in the southeast corner of the state. For a small village, it has produced some interesting people, most notably country music superstar Reba McEntire and lead singer and guitarist Jerry Cantrell of the rock band, Alice in Chains. Stringtown also produced one UL Washington. That’s UL with no perio...2024
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• Historic 11-hit, nine-run first inning sweeps the Royals past Houston in a 13-3 win

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Kansas City sweeps the bad guys and wins every game of the home stand I watched a 2003 Royals team led by Darrell May and Angel Berroa open its season with nine straight wins. I watched a 2013 team that had never won 15 of 20 games in the Dayton Moore era win 15 of 17. I watched a 29-32 Royals team that was dead to rights win 10 straight games and eventually ...2024
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• The Royals offense and season goes out with a whimper, falling 3-1 to the Yankees

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images It was a heckuva season, friends Had every Kansas City Royals fan been asked how they would feel if the 2024 season ended with a loss to the New York Yankees in the American League Divisional Series, we would have all taken it in a heartbeat. Fangraphs projected 75 wins for Kansas City this season, a significant 19-game improvement off their 56 in 2023, but sti...2024
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• What to know about Royals 2023 Opening Day
Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball is back! Happy Opening Day! The 2023 MLB regular season begins today, with the Royals opening up at home in Kauffman Stadium against the Minnesota Twins. You can watch coverage on Bally Sports Kansas City beginning at 2 p.m. with Joel Goldberg and Jeff Montgomery hosting Price Chopper Royals Live pregame, plus pre-game festivities ...2023
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• Royals get walked off by the worst team in baseball

Kansas City Royals center fielder Kyle Isbel (28) reacts after a called strike three Oakland Athletics during the fifth inning at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. | Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY Sports Bad pitching. Bad. The Kansas City Royals lost to the Oakland Athletics tonight via a walkoff home run by Brent Rooker, sending a tied 4-4 score to its final 6-4 count in the bottom of the nin...2023
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The 2023 season begins
Photo by Ron Schwane/Getty Images What do our writers think of the upcoming season? The Royals made some big changes in the front office and the dugout, with general manager J.J. Picollo now in charge, and Matt Quatraro coming over from the Rays to lead the field staff. But aside from that and some other coaching changes, it was a quiet off-season for the Royals. They have staked their fut...2023
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• Cubs vs. Royals at Surprise preview, Monday 2/26, 2:05 CT

Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports Another away game for the boys in blue. There have been a few questions raised about when Cody Bellinger might play in a spring game. First, we only know about the signing through Jeff Passan and some Cubs reporters who confirmed it via a source. The team has not officially announced the signing, though it was reported that Bellinger was in Cubs camp Sunday tak...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 10, 2024

Sing to us the song of your people | Minda Haas Kuhlmann How about another snow day? In the latest Royals Beat newsletter, Anne Rogers looks ahead to what Bobby Witt, Jr. may have up his sleeve for 2024: So what type of numbers can we expect from Witt in 2024? “I feel like if you set a goal, then there’s no way you can keep going,” Witt said last season. “So whatever happens, happens. Jus...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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• Better know a draft prospect: 2023 primer
SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network / USA TODAY NETWORK The draft will be here before you know it The 2023 MLB Draft will take place July 17-19 in Los Angeles. While that is still over three months away, teams have already begun preparations as colleges and high schools around the country begin their spring seasons. In that spirit, we will also begin preparations here at Royals Review. In the m...2023
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• Overreacting to Opening Day 2023
Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Getty Images That didn’t go great Baseball is back! And now that we are through the euphoria of the first meaningful baseball games of 2023 it’s time to react completely rationally and reasonably to the results thereof. Since many of you think I’m a robot, who is better positioned to do this? The pitch clock is amazing In our first regular season game ...2023
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