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• Gamethread XXXV: Royals at Orioles

Photo by Alyssa Howell/MLB Photos via Getty Images A chance to take the season series from the O’s The Royals are winners in 10 of their last 12 contests. The offense has shined at times, but the pitching has been exceptional in every game. With the shutout win last night, the Royals guaranteed themselves at least a 4-2 road trip. They also guaranteed at least a season series split with th...2025
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• AL Week 6 Strategy-May 3, 2025
In The Field 1B Triston Casas was removed from Friday's game with a knee injury. After the game, manager Alex Cora described the injury as significant. Testing revealed a ruptured patellar tendon, which means his season is likely over. The Red Sox are likely to give 1B Romy Gonzalez most of the at-bats at 1B while Casas is out. The Red Sox are going to have a lot of important roster decisions c...2025
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• Gamethread XXXIV - Royals at Orioles

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images With a win today the Royals could guarantee a winning road trip. The Royals lost for only the second time in their last eleven following their six-game losing streak. It was a shutout, as if to prove that the team had not yet solved its offensive issues following a blowout victory over the Rays to complete that series sweep Thursday afternoon. Still, that’s...2025
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• Royals manager provides injury update on Salvador Perez

Thanks to left hip soreness, catcher/designated hitter Salvador Perez wasn't in the Kansas City Royals lineup on Friday night as a three-game series began against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards....2025
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• Royals vs Orioles, Game 33 Gamethread

Michael Wacha gets the start tonight. | Photo by Mikayla Schlosser/Getty Images These guys again? The 17-15 Royals come into the first weekend series in May riding high. They had that nasty six-game losing streak in mid-April but have lost only one game since then. They’ve done it with a mix of small-ball offense and excellent pitching. On the other hand, the 12-18 Orioles are in last plac...2025
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• Royals add catcher Luke Maile as Salvador Perez deals with hip soreness

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Maile is a nine-year MLB veteran. The Royals announced they have selected catcher Luke Maile from Triple-A Omaha and have optioned infielder Tyler Tolbert. To make room on the 40-man roster, pitcher Alec Mash has been transferred to the 60-day Injured List. The transaction was necessitated when Salvador Perez suffered a hip injury in Thursday’s game against the Ra...2025
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• Gamethread XXXIV - Royals at Orioles
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• Royals manager provides injury update on Salvador Perez
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• Royals add catcher Luke Maile as Salvador Perez deals with hip soreness
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• Orioles series preview: The biggest disappointment in the league

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The Orioles were hoping to be contenders, but have not played like it at all. Not long after the Orioles fell to the Royals in the 2014 ALCS, the team fell into a rut and decided to embark on an aggressive rebuild. They stripped the team to the studs, endured some truly god awful seasons, but then rebounded to build the best farm system in baseball. That pa...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 26, 2025

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Minor League Baseball via Getty Images Can Jac play outfield? Anne Rogers writes about the big day for Salvador Perez on Thursday that led to a busted belt. Perez thinks Ragans was the one to hang the broken belt up in the dugout. A good luck charm, maybe — or just a symbol of Perez’s great doubleheader day. “I don’t know,” Perez said, shaking his head. “I’m too heavy...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 25, 2025

Leigh Guidry/USA TODAY Network Prior to yesterday’s game, I was 6th on the Royals in position player fWAR for 2025. And so were you! Suddenly, the Royals are on a 4-game winning streak and only 2 games under .500. Huzzah! Going back to Wednesday, Pete Grathoff talked about the rain delay the started well before the rain. Roth was correct as the rain didn’t start for more than 90 minute...2025
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• Unlucky 13: Rockies drop doubleheader, swept by Royals

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images The Rockies have now lost 13 in a row on the road Game 1: Royals 7, Rockies 4 The Rockies lost the first game of the doubleheader, dropping their 12th straight game on the road as the offense stalled and the starting pitching couldn’t find solid footing. Welcome Back, Brenton Doyle The Rockies have missed the presence of Brenton Doyle in the lineup. At the top of ...2025
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• The offense flashes and the Royals win 7-4 over the Rockies

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Royals put together 13 hits ending their 4 or less runs scored streak and get a big win in game one of their doubleheader Today in Kansas City, the Royals took on the Rockies in the first game of a double header with hopes to get back on track to win the series. Coming off a big win on Tuesday with a walk-off hit from Freddy Fermin, the Royals looked to c...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 22, 2025

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Is Salvy a “hot streak imminent” candidate? David Lesky reacts to the MJ Melendez demotion. I think that’s fair, honestly. I’ve said this before, but of all the options in AAA and the big leagues, I’m not sure there’s a player who can become a middle of the order big league bat who isn’t Melendez. Now some guys are starting to get closer in AA, so that’s...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images One week until Opening Day. Daniel Lynch IV’s last Spring Training outing could hint at his role this season: Lynch will get a few appearances out of the bullpen this week as the Cactus League schedule wraps up, with an inning Wednesday and two scheduled on Friday, while Kris Bubic remains in the rotation and is scheduled for his sixth spring game (fifth st...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 24, 2025

Slugerrr shreddin’ it! | Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images These are hard to come up with at this point in the offseason Orientation continues for first year players: Words of wisdom from our big league skipper, Matt Quatraro. #RaisingRoyals x pic.twitter.com/WBOK8ZaWuU— Raising Royals (@KCRoyalsPD) January 23, 2025 Dan Szymborski (Szymborski! Szymborski!) pos...2025
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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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• 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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• Scott Miller's Starting 9 (+6): Who Has the Edge in Royals-Mets World Series?
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"Salvador Perez singled to lead off the inning before Garcia ripped what should have been a single to left."

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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"

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"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."

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"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."

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• Royals Select Luke Maile
The Royals announced that they have selected the contract of catcher Luke Maile. Infielder Tyler Tolbert was optioned to Triple-A Omaha to open an active roster spot. To get Maile onto the 40-man, right-hander Alec Marsh was transferred to the 60-day injured list. The Royals already have Salvador Perez and Freddy Fermin on the roster,…...2025
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• Don't Sell These Hitters - May 1, 2025
Juan Soto, OF, New York Mets Soto had his biggest day of the year going 2-3 with 2 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI, BB on three hard hit balls. Soto is having a down year given his first round draft capital, but there is good reason to believe it's nothing but a slow start. Soto's premium discipline and contact skills haven't gone anywhere. He is still walking more than striking out, making him an animal in points...2025
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• Royals at Rays, game three, game thread

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images The Royals look for the sweep in Tampa Coming off a big win with an incredible debut by Noah Cameron last night, the Royals are looking to remain hot with a sweep of the Rays in Tampa this afternoon. The pitching has been elite, as the Royals pitching staff has looked like the best in baseball over the last two weeks. But the bats are still relatively quiet...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 28, 2025

Photo by Mikayla Schlosser/Getty Images Royals pitching continues to impress. Seth Lugo was sensational Friday against the Astros, writes Jackson Stone. “To me, that was probably the best game I’ve seen him pitch, to be honest,” manager Matt Quatraro said. “ ... Right from the get-go it looked like he was incredibly sharp. To go through that lineup three times, they made him work a little ...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 26, 2025
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• Bleed Cubbie Blue After Dark: Should Carson Kelly start more?

Carson Kelly rounds the bases after his first home run on Friday afternoon | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Or is Craig Counsell deploying his catching duo just right? Welcome to your late night weekend indie coffee shop pop up where we’re still flabbergasted by a game for the ages at Wrigley Field on Friday afternoon. We’re talking about all of it with every beverage you can imagine, from...2025
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• Everyone saw the offense’s slump coming, but fixing it is another thing entirely

MJ Melendez #1 of the Kansas City Royals reacts after striking out with the bases load to end the fifth inning of Game Two of the Wild Card Series against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on October 02, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images We’ve got what we’ve got. One of the refreshing traits that Royals general manager JJ Picollo and owne...2025
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• Royals Reacts Survey: Where should Jonathan India play?

Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Royals have tried him at third and left, but should he be back at second? Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Kansas City Royals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The Royals were in desperat...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 25, 2025
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• Unlucky 13: Rockies drop doubleheader, swept by Royals
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• Royals finish the sweep with a 6-2 win in game two of the Rockies double header

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Royals offensive success continues as they put up 13 runs on the day and come away with a sweep against the Rockies. In game two of their doubleheader, the Royals look to secure their first sweep of the year and to win their fourth in a row to establish their longest win streak of the year. The offense came alive in game one of the doubleheader, and they ...2025
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• The Royals are taking too many first pitch strikes

Alcides Escobar was famous for jumping the first pitch. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images They’re digging a hole they have not yet been able to emerge from. There is no mystery here - the Royals offense to start the season has been bad. The position players rank dead last in fWAR. After the first week or so of games, I noted that the Royals had been launching the ball straight up into t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 22, 2025
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• One simple fix for each Royals hitter

Salvador Perez thinks you’re going to like what you see | Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Everyone is slumping, but there has got to be a way to solve this! It’s no secret that the Royals’ offense has been terrible this season. Hunter Renfroe and MJ Melendez, the two worst performers from last season, have taken much of the flak for the offensive struggles this season. Some of that is earned, f...2025
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• Offensive Explosions in Milwaukee and Baltimore- April 21, 2025
Brice Turang- 2B- MIL- Hot- Turang stole 3 bases yesterday, part of a franchise record 9 steals in the game. Overall he went 2-for-3 with a walk, sac fly, 3 runs and a RBI. Turang has 8 steals and seems poised to at least challenge his 50 swipes from 2024. He is slashing .322/.358/.437 for the season. Turang has a BABIP of .373, but his xBA was still .299 before yesterday so his results are not ou...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 28, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 25, 2025
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• The offense flashes and the Royals win 7-4 over the Rockies
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• Bleed Cubbie Blue After Dark: Should Carson Kelly start more?
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• What is the panic level for the struggling Royals hitters?

Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Introducing the official, highly objective and very serious Royals Panic Level Scale Do you ever have to face a fact about yourself so true and yet you so don’t want it to be true that it takes awhile for you to fully process it? One of my oldest friends hit me with one of those facts this winter when he called me out as a “fan who enjoys when my teams suck and ca...2025
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• Yankees torpedo Royals 4-1

Apr 14, 2025; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) reacts to hitting a home run as he rounds the bases against the Kansas City Royals during the fourth inning at Yankee Stadium. | Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images Witt good. Everything else bad. Hoooo boy, this was certainly one of the games of all time, one where the New York Yankees decimated the Royals ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 11, 2025

I’m pretty sure I used a Jonathan India picture last week, too | Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Royals start a 10-game road trip today Anne Rogers was joined by Twins beat writer Matthew Leach. They wrote about old friends Cole Ragans and Twins pitcher Cole Sands: They pitched in the same high school starting rotation. They live down the street from each other. T...2025
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• Game 4 Thread: Royals vs. Brewers

Kansas City Royals first baseman Salvador Perez (13) blows a bubble while defending during the fifth inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images It’s Brewers Opening Day One of the big storylines of the weekend was the Yankees using their “torpedo bats” and absolutely sinking the u-boats of the Brewers in the Bronx, scoring a hilarious 36 runs...2025
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• The Royals have carried an unfortunate trend into this year

Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals outfielder Dairon Blanco (44) is caught in a rundown by Cleveland Guardians third baseman Jose Ramirez (11) during the eighth inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images More than just one game. Last year on the 4th of July, I went to see the Kansas City Royals play baseball. The Tampa Bay Rays were in town, and the team was 48-...2025
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• Royals blow three-run lead to Guardians in 7-4 Opening Day loss

Kansas City Royals outfielder Dairon Blanco (44) is caught in a rundown by Cleveland Guardians third baseman Jose Ramirez (11) during the eighth inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images The game was a mixed bag The Kansas City Royals lost Opening Day 2025 to the Cleveland Guardians 7-4 in front of a sellout crowd at Kauffman Stadium. Vinnie Pasquantino provided the power ...2025
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• Kan Diego: RoyALs power All-Star win
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• Sox play role as AL wins Papi's final ASG
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• Kan Diego: KC key to AL's 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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• Kan Diego: KC key to AL's All-Star win
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• Betances brings the heat during AL's All-Star win
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• AL secures All-Star win in San Diego
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• Royals Rumblings—News for March 5, 2025

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Which will come first, the end of Kansas City’s winter or Opening Day? David Lesky at Inside the Crown stacks up the Kansas City Royals pitching room ahead of Opening Day. The change started at the end of June that year when the Royals acquired Cole Ragans, but to their credit, they didn’t stop. We know about them adding Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, but th...2025
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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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• Gamethread XXXV: Royals at Orioles
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• Royals manager provides injury update on Salvador Perez
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• Royals add catcher Luke Maile as Salvador Perez deals with hip soreness
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• Don't Sell These Hitters - May 1, 2025
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• Royals at Rays, game three, game thread
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• Commanding Cameron’s cutters carve, cartilaginous competitors conquered 3-0

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images The debutant took a no-hitter into the seventh. Noah Cameron was outstanding in his big league debut for the Kansas City Royals, while the bullpen provided enough support to shut out the Tampa Bay Rays in a 3-0 game. Kansas City quickly got started in the first against Drew Rasmussen. With one out, Bobby Witt Jr. singled the other way to run his hit stre...2025
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• Royals Reacts Survey: Where should Jonathan India play?
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• Royals Opening Day roster prediction one week into Spring Training

John Rave #96 of the Kansas City Royals cannot catch a ball hit by Josh Smith #47 of the Texas Rangers in the seventh inning at Globe Life Field on March 27, 2023 | Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images No trade = blander projection Can you believe the Royals have already played more than a week of Spring Training? Regular season baseball will be on us in less than a month, and while many rost...2025
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• This year’s Royals are better on paper but will that translate to more wins?

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

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Maybe this year is different. Blind optimism isn’t easy to find for fans of the Kansas City Royals. The team hasn’t finished above .500 since 2015 when they won the World Series. Although the losses have far outweighed the win total, there has still been some reason for hope to close out nearly every season in that span. Just as the Royals have an uncanny a...2023
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• Picollo: “We have no intention of trading Salvy.”
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The Royals captain is unlikely to be traded. After an awful start to begin the year, the Royals will certainly be sellers at the trade deadline, and speculation has already begun on who they might trade. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic wrote a piece last week where he reported that the Royals are already talking to teams about Aroldis Chapman, with the poss...2023
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• World Series MVP Salvador Perez Is Heart and Soul of Royals' Comeback Machine
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• Royals' Under-the-Radar Offense Outshining Star-Studded Blue Jays
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• Overpowering Edinson Volquez Could Be Huge Addition for Title-Hopeful Royals
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