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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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• Weekend Rumblings - News for November 16, 2024

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Royals legends get honored by the NLBM. David Lesky considers trading Freddy Fermin. It makes some sense because the Royals have Luca Tresh close to ready to be a backup catcher in the big leagues. Aside from him, they have Jensen working his way through the system and Mitchell not far behind him. There should theoretically be a market for a guy like F...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 15, 2024

I know this picture is from last month, but the Royals keep adding more hardware so it’s evergreen | Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images We continue our trip through Asia with the KBO wrap Unless Max sneaks out a story about it while I’m not looking, the big news for yesterday is more hardware for the Royals! Bobby Witt Jr. was named 1st team all-MLB shortstop, Salvador Perez was named 2nd t...2024
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• Bobby Witt Jr., Salvador Perez win Silver Slugger Award

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images It’s just the third time the Royals have had two players win a Silver Slugger Award in the same season. The awards keep piling up for Bobby Witt Jr. and Salvador Pérez. After Bobby won a Gold Glove at shortstop for his defensive prowess, he has been awarded a Silver Slugger Award for offensive excellence at the shortstop position. And Sal...2024
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• MLB Announces Silver Slugger Winners
MLB and Louisville Slugger announced the 2024 Silver Slugger award winners. MLB had announced the list of finalists last week. The results are as follows: American League Catcher: Salvador Perez, Royals (5th Silver Slugger) First Base: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays (2nd) Second base: Jose Altuve, Astros (7th) Third base: José Ramírez, Guardians (5th) Shortstop: Bobby Witt Jr., Royals (1st)̷...2024
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• Royals unveil 2025 game times and promotional schedule

Weekday home games will start at 6:40. Do you like Royals baseball? Do you like free stuff? The Royals have announced their promotional giveaways for 2025, that includes bobbleheads, t-shirts, and trucker hats. There will be several bobblehead giveaways: Sunday, April 6 vs. the Orioles - Vinnie Pasquantino bobblehead Saturday, April 26 vs. the Astros - Mike Moustakas 2015 champions bobblehead Fri...2024
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• On-base options: Free agents

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images Get on base! Royals GM J.J. Picollo has highlighted an on-base hitter as his top priority this off-season, and for good reason. Royals leadoff hitters batted .228/.270/.334 this year, by far the worst in baseball. Bobby Witt Jr., Vinnie Pasquantino, and Salvador Perez all need more RBI opportunities from someone that can set the table. Free agency is now ...2024
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• You’re the Royals GM - what is your offseason plan?

Photo by Evan Hurd/Sygma/Corbis via Getty Images Take the Royals to contention? The Royals surprised the baseball world, improving by 30 wins and reaching the playoffs for the first time in nine seasons. But as Bobby Witt Jr. put it “they didn’t get this far just to get this far”, and the team has designs on being a true contender for a title. Getting there may prove to be more difficult ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 5, 20242

Get out and vote! Anne Rogers covers the press conference announcing the Michael Wacha deal. “Not only does it bring our starting rotation back that we’re really proud of – really, our success began with starting pitching – but it brings us clarity,” Picollo said. “There’s not a whole lot for us to worry about from a pitching perspective right now. We can move onto other things that we feel like ...2024
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• The Royals’ offseason motto: Don’t reject, but don’t rely

Maikel Garcia #11 of the Kansas City Royals looks on prior to Game 4 of the Division Series | Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Improving the team doesn’t necessarily mean moving on from players Last year, around this time, I wrote about how the Royals fans had a skewed perspectives problem about the team’s roster. I argued that players like Michael Massey and Kyle Isbel we...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 1, 2024

Salvy! | Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Crashing from all the sugar last night? Per this completely unofficial website, it looks like 102 days until Pitchers and Catchers Report. It has the disclaimer of “Countdown is currently based on pitchers and catchers reporting on February 12, 2025”. That means roughly 3 months until we can start posting stories about who is in the best shape of their...2024
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• What to know about the MLB off-season

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Let the Hot Stove season begin. Now that the World Series is complete, the off-season can begin in earnest. Here is what you need to know about the Royals’ off-season. Which players become free agents? The Royals have seven players that automatically become free agents now - Paul DeJong, Yuli Gurriel, Garrett Hampson, Tommy Pham, Robbie Grossman, Michael Lor...2024
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• 2024 Season in Review: The best Royals games

Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Royals games were better this year. It was a remarkable season for the Royals with 30 more wins this year than in 2023, one of the biggest improvements ever. That gave Royals fans a lot more games to be excited about! Here are the best Royals games of the year. March 31 - Royals blow out the Twins The Twins were expected to be the clas...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 29, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Congrats to Salvy! Anne Rogers talks to Salvador Perez about winning the Roberto Clement Award. Winning the Roberto Clemente Award means more than all of those accolades, except maybe the World Series, Perez said. “It means a lot to me,” he said. “I’ve read a lot about Roberto Clemente. I know he was an amazing player, but he was even better outside the fiel...2024
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• It’s time for Bobby to play some ball

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The phenom has been given a large platform, but has failed to deliver thus far. What if they held a playoff series, and no stars showed up? The American League Division Series was hyped as a platform for two of the game’s best players - Aaron Judge and Bobby Witt Jr. Each of them also had a second banana in the lineup worthy of the spotlight as well - Juan Soto h...2024
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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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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 2, 2024

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Game 1 victory! Maikel Garcia had a big walk and steal to score the only run of Game 1. “That was the difference,” said Royals manager Matt Quatraro. “He works a tremendous at-bat for the walk, steals second, scores on the hit. That is the difference in the game, and we know his capabilities. We know how good he is at stealing bases. Everyone does, right...2024
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• The All-Star game is coming. Are you ready to vote?

Maikel Garcia #11 and Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals are splashed by MJ Melendez #1 after the Royals defeated the Detroit Tigers 10-3 to win the game at Kauffman Stadium on May 21, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images How many Royals will be headed to Arlington instead of on a vacation? Believe it or not, the All-Star Game is coming up fast. Voti...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 26, 2024

Seriously - that was a lot of rain | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Yesterday’s game was just weird and I was glad the Royals stole it Let’s talk about yesterday’s game for a minute. It really was odd. I know Ryan covered it here, but I just wanted to blather on more about it. Really, to have a clean game, they would have had to start it at least an hour earlier and we just don’t do that...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 relievers ruin Ragans’s ruby, rupture 4-3

Mitch Stringer-USA TODAY Sports The bullpen collapsed late. In a game delayed over five hours by rain, the Kansas City Royals led for most of the game before collapsing in the eighth and ninth innings as the Baltimore Orioles rallied for a 4-3 walk-off victory. The Royals wasted little time in getting the party started. After Maikel Garcia went down on strikes, Bobby Witt Jr. roped a doubl...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The Angels

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Once rivals, the Royals have gotten the better end of the deals. This is a series that looks back at their trade history with each team in baseball. So far, we have looked back at trades with the Braves, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Orioles, and White Sox. Today we look at the history of deals with the California/Los Angeles/Anaheim. Total number of Royals/Angels...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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"and Pasquantino, then got away with a mistake when Salvador Perez just got under a fastball down the middle for a long fly ball out."

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"It wasn’t pretty—Cuas hit Luke Raley, and Salvador Perez couldn’t handle MJ Melendez’s home to home plate, resulting in an error."

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"The Royals say All-Star catcher Salvador Perez is expected to begin a rehab assignment Tuesday with Triple-A Omaha."

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"Salvador Perez hit his 46th home run Monday to break Johnny Bench's record for most homers by a catcher in one season."

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"Royals fans will have to wait just a little longer to see long-time backstop Salvador Perez back in a Royals’ uni."

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"After missing all of 2019, Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez will see extended stretches of time at first base in 2020, per The Athletic’s Alec Lewis (via Twitter)."

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"Eventually, the emergence of Salvador Perez provided the American League with its own perennial All-St"

2017
"Salvador Perez and Mike Moustakas hit back-to-back home runs in the 12th inning, powering the Royals to their sixth straight win with a 5-3 victory over the Tigers on Monday night at Comerica Park."

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"The 2016 All-Star Game presented by MasterCard quickly became a Royal affair, as Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez powered the American League to a 4-2 victory on a festive Tuesday night in San Diego's East Village."

2015
"Catcher Salvador Perez earned the World Series Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet following the Royals' 7-2 Game 5 victory on Sunday night."

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"Salvador Perez is a player who doesn't want to make a stink."

• Three things the Royals need to do this offseason
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 8, 2024

Eric Stout, anyone? Hey, this is relevant! | Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Asia Baseball recaps begin today with the CPBL! Slow news day. At least we got Spring Training game schedules: ⚾Step up to the plate, baseball fans! Game times for @Royals & @Rangers Spring Training are officially announced! Get ready to grab your tickets when they go on sale November ...2024
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• Royals re-sign Michael Wacha to three-year, $51 million deal

Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images The Royals retain the veteran right-hander. The Royals have re-signed right-handed pitcher Michael Wacha to a three-year, $51 million deal, according to MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers. The deal comes with a club option for a fourth year. Wacha's new contract is three years, $51 million with a $14 million club option in 2028, according to a source.$18 mi...2024
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• The Royals’ offseason motto: Don’t reject, but don’t rely
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for November 16, 2024
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• MLB Announces Silver Slugger Winners
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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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• Lessons the front office can learn from this year

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals improved this year - let’s do it again! The Royals had one of the best off-seasons in baseball last year, improving a 106-loss team enough to make the playoffs and advance to the ALDS. By adding Seth Lugo and Michael Wacah, the Royals featured one of the best rotations in baseball, and although some other acquisitions - Hunter Renfroe, Adam Frazier...2024
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• Salvador Perez wins Roberto Clemente Award

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Salvy is the best! Salvador Perez has been named the 2024 winner of the Roberto Clemente Award, given to a player with extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy, and positive contributions, both on and off the field. Salvy is known for his big home runs, but he has also shown a big heart. According to the Royals, Salvy has distribu...2024
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• This is a big deal World Series

Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers puts a hat on to celebrate advancing to the World Series after winning Game 6 of the NLCS | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images This one comes with tons of history and star power. Much will be made of this World Series between two titans of baseball, the Yankees and Dodgers. A lot of the digital ink being spilled and to be spilled...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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• Royals RBI men

For just the sixth time in franchise history, two Royals have surpassed 100 RBIs in the same season. | Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Hey, Dirty, baby I got your RBIs, don’t you worry Back in 1999, Jermaine Dye, Carlos Beltran, and Mike Sweeney accomplished something that no other trio of Kansas City Royal teammates had done in the franchise’s history: they each collected at least 100 runs ...2024
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• Salvador Perez wins Roberto Clemente Award
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 25, 2024

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Could Tommy Pham return? David Lesky writes about some potential free agent hitter targets for the Royals, including Tyler O’Neill. I’ve written this before, but the Royals interest in O’Neill last winter probably doesn’t mean a ton about their interest this winter. He was available on what was essentially a one-year deal as it was his final year of arbitration. ...2024
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• 2024 Season in Review: The best Royals home runs

Photo by Kevin M. Cox/Getty Images What was your favorite dong? This year the Royals hit 170 home runs, second-most in club history behind only the 2017 team. Home run rates are up all over baseball, but even relative to the league, the Royals improved. They finished tenth in the American League in home runs, their best finish since 2003. Take them out of the K and they fared even better -...2024
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• Kan Diego: RoyALs power All-Star win
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• Seager, Jansen see action, as NL falls
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• NL drops All-Star Game to Royal-powered AL
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• AL Week 17 Strategy-July 17, 2024
In The Field OF Giancarlo Stanton (hamstring) is not going to return after the All-Star break as expected. The Yankees and Stanton have not decided if he is going to need a rehab assignment before returning. He was expected to miss four weeks and that appears to be the timeline. C Jose Trevino (quad) has a Grade 2 quadricep strain. He was placed on the 10-day IL on Saturday and is expected to mis...2024
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• AL Week 13 Strategy-June 15, 2024
In The Field 1B Triston Casas (ribs) is swinging a bat off a tee at lower intensities. He has experienced a setback during his recovery so the Red Sox and Casas are taking his recovery slowly so that he doesn't have another setback. OF Taylor Ward (back) and C Logan O'Hoppe were out of the Angels lineup on Wednesday. OF Hunter Renfroe does not have a fractured toe after it was initially reported...2024
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• Is MacKenzie Gore Breaking Out? - April 26, 2024
MacKenzie Gore (SP-WSH) took the L against the Dodgers on Thursday but was solid overall as he allowed just 1 run on 7 hits and 2 walks while striking out 4 over 6 IP. He served up a homer while firing 66 of his 102 pitches for strikes in the contest. The 25 year-old lefty didn't exactly overpower the Dodgers, but that's a tough lineup and Gore fared pretty well as he builds on what is shaping up ...2024
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• J.T. Is Keeping It Realmuto
Jerry Tomato Realmuto (5-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 20th homer, hitting .278) is leading the pack for catchers once again on the Player Rater. Jerry Tomato, just sitting on the top of the heap, telling everyone to ketchup. The cream of the crap hasn't smelled this bad in a while. Salvador Perez flew so close to the sun last year, that Sal Icarus made us forgot what good catchers are actually ca...2022
• Top 100 Hitters: The July Heat
Welcome to July where we are only two weeks away from the All-Star game and fantasy baseball owners are trying to gear up for the second half. This week, our rest of the season rankings take on a little shake up thanks to injury (sorry, Bryce Harper and Salvador Perez) and the continued breakout of young stars like Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt Jr. In the coming weeks, we also hope to welcome b...2022
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• Top Dynasty Keepers – Two Cards And A Royal
Thanks the the new collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players union, teams are no longer hiding their top prospects in the minors to delay their service time and ability to hit arbitration and free agency earlier in their careers. The Mariners (Julio Rodriguez) and Astros (Jeremy Pena) have had top rookies in their starting lineup since the start of the season. ...2022
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• Rolling In The Deep: Be Leury Of Late-Season Free Agent Options
Last week here at RITD, we talked a bit about a few low-ownership National League hitters who'd had a great month or so in terms of fantasy stats, and how that might impact their value for what's left of this season as well as 2022. This week we'll do the same with a few AL hitters, though as I peruse the numbers it's immediately clear that there are not as many hidden gems at the top of the lead...2021
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• Points Leagues: Playoff Gems
What is up party people? Fantasy football may have kicked off but there are still fantasy baseball championships to be won, so focus up. Well, I suppose that if you're here you're already focused. And for that, I appreciate you. It's been a thrilling game so far but that's nothing compared to the thrill of taking home a championship trophy in fantasy baseball. One of the best and worst things abou...2021
• Certified Clubber Boy
Yesterday, Salvador Perez hit his 41st homer. Today, you get a Salvador Appreciation Post, or SAP. You might be asking yourself the same as every Y! Answers when you google SAP, "How do I turn SAP off?" You can't turn it off. It's going into your eyeballs and, with each passing word, it becomes harder to turn back. If you remove all pitchers, the top home run hitter in the major leagues is Salvado...2021
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• Fantasy baseball: How early is too early to draft a catcher?

J.T. Realmuto and Salvador Perez are the top-ranked catchers this season, but Eric Karabell explains why fantasy managers need to use caution before selecting a catcher in the top 100 picks....2021
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• Bobby Witt Jr., Salvador Perez finalists for Silver Slugger Award

Photo by Kevin M. Cox/Getty Images The Royals could be filling up the award mantle this fall! Bobby Witt Jr. and Salvador Perez were named finalists for the Silver Slugger Award, given annually to the top offensive performer at each position. Salvy is a four-time winner of the award, while Bobby was a finalist last year for the first time, but was passed over for Rangers shortstop Corey Se...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Bad blood

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Bad blood reigns in the Dodgers/Padres series. The Tigers shocked the Guardians. And other news from around the playoffs. Good morning. I suppose it’s a good morning if you’re a Mets or Padres fan. I assume you know the scores of those games yesterday, so I’m not linking to any game recaps. I will link to the brouhaha that took place at Dodger Stadium durin...2024
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• Nobody deserves playoff baseball more than Salvador Perez

Anthony Gruppuso-Imagn Images Salvy stayed with Kansas City through the wilderness and made it to the other side On a brisk October night in 2010, Citizens Bank Park buzzed with anticipation and nervous energy. The back-to-back National League champs entered the seventh inning down a run against the Cincinnati Reds, facing rookie phenom Aroldis Chapman. They rallied. Chase Utley hustled P...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: American League Preview

Even in a relative down season, the Astros might very well extend their ALCS streak. Will any American League team make like the Rangers and topple them? During the decade-plus of MLB play from 2005-16, only two American League teams won at least 100 games. Outside of the 2008 Angels and 2009 Yankees, it was always a scramble of several good teams, but no true slam-dunk standouts (and even the ‘08...2024
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• The greatest baseball game of all time was played 10 years ago

The Kansas City Royals celebrate their 9 to 8 win over the Oakland Athletics in the 12th inning of their American League Wild Card game at Kauffman Stadium on September 30, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images Long live the Wild Card Game My favorite memory of the 2014 Wild Card Game between the Kansas City Royals and the Oakland Athletics is not, in fact,...2024
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• Royals add a pair of bats just in time for the final postseason push; Pham and Grossman to join team tomorrow

Tommy Pham #29 of the St. Louis Cardinals reacts after striking out in the eighth inning at Busch Stadium on August 20, 2024 in St Louis, Missouri. | Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images The Royals couldn’t replace Pasquantino with one bat, so they will try two. After Vinnie Pasquantino’s season-ending broken thumb Thursday night, speculation began running wild about how the team could re...2024
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• Why none of us should worry about Royals home game attendance

Fans of the Kansas City Royals react during the game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Saturday, August 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Kyle Rivas/MLB Photos via Getty Images We’re fine On August 26, 2014, the Kansas City Royals roared back in the bottom of the ninth to walk off the Minnesota Twins. It was an extraordinarily qui...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 24, 2024

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images I miss when the Boys Were Playing Some Ball. The Royals scuffled on offense, getting swept for the first time this year. “We’re going to keep playing hard,” Royals catcher and captain Salvador Perez said. “We’re going to forget about today. It’s over. Bad series for us. We concentrate on tomorrow and try to win the series at home.” Michael Wacha was solid...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 7, 2024

Sweet! Max didn’t use this picture for the recap | Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images The Royals Will Be Back (home for a series with Seattle) We’ve talked about it before and you know the drill - day game makes for an odd set of links in Rumblings. Anne Rogers profiled old friend Scott Barlow: On a mantle at home, Barlow has two bats signed by Perez and Witt. He has baseballs from miles...2024
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