Much has been made about the 40-man roster decisions that the Kansas City Royals will have to make this offseason, including another piece I wrote here at Royals Farm Report. Luckily for the Royals, the MLB playoffs are still taking place and the MLB offseason won’t officially begin until November 4th, so they’ve got some…
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Just wanted to update our rankings a little bit as the season winds down. We’re going to take Jackson Kowar and Emmanuel Rivera off of the list as they’ve both spent significant time at the big league level. We’re also going to shift some guys around just a touch that we’ve gotten some good feedback…
I had more fun covering the Royals farm system this year than any of the previous three seasons I’ve covered here at Royals Farm Report. Maybe it was the absence of a 2020 season that made my heart grow fonder of the strange and wonderful land that is Minor League Baseball. Maybe it was the…
Thanks for following along with these all year. We were able to get one of these updates up every Monday of the minor league season until last week so, hopefully you’ve had fun following the leaderboards and seeing how a couple of really good or bad weeks can launch guys into and out of the…
The Arizona Fall League, perhaps baseball’s greatest semi-professional event/league, got started back up yesterday after missing the 2020 season. Believe it or not, with all that talent that is currently competing in Arizona, Major League Baseball has once again decided to not stream any of the games. I have no idea how Major League Baseball…
Well, that was a hell of a Minor League Baseball season we all just witnessed. We also got a full Major League Baseball season again and, even though the Royals were back to being the Royals, it was still nice to get a full 162 in this summer. Now that the Royals have wrapped up…
At the beginning of the season there was a bit of conversation about who was going to fit where in the middle infield at Kauffman Stadium. Whit would be given second base outright, while Mondesi would flash leather at shortstop. Those were specified. Lopez looked destined to go back to Omaha for the first time…
Alex and Joel were joined by Nicholas Badders, the voice of the Northwest Arkansas Naturals in 2021, and Vinnie Pasquantino to talk about the Naturals 2021 Double-A Central championship. Then, Michael Massey and Will Klein came on to talk about the Quad Cities River Bandits and their 2021 High-A Central championship. 90 minutes of championship…
It is hard to believe that we are winding down the end of the 2021 season already. It feels like just yesterday the season began and we were all getting excited for a full season. We are in full swing of the minor league playoffs and the Quad City River Bandits played a winner-take-all game…
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When you previously thought about Royal’s top prospects you always thought about how much depth they had in pitching with guys like Daniel Lynch, Brady Singer, Jackson Kowar, Kris Bubic, and Jonathan Bowlan. That narrative has changed with the emergence of MJ Melendez, Nick Pratto, and Vinnie Pasquantino. Still, the Royals are loaded with arms…
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I am extremely excited to start a new five-part series for Royals Farm Report covering under-the-radar prospects in the organization. Each will be a separate prospect profile and will come out in order of how I rank them. I will be covering the following players over the next few weeks: Vinnie Pasquantino, Drew Parrish, Michael…
Hitters (min. 240 PA) Batting Average 1.) Vinnie Pasquantino: .3122.) Edward Olivares: .2983.) Bobby Witt Jr.: .2974.) Tucker Bradley: .2945.) Freddy Fermin: .2906.) Clay Dungan: .2887.) Michael Massey + Maikel Garcia: .2879.) MJ Melendez: .28610.) Felix Familia: .276 On-Base Percentage 1.) Vinnie Pasquantino + Rudy Martin: .4013.) Nick Pratto: .3904.) Tucker Bradley: .3865.) MJ Melendez…
This is a special two-part series in tandem with the Royals Review Radio podcast. After you listen to this episode, make sure to head back to the Royals Review Radio podcast channel and check out Part 2. Part 1 will focus on the minor leagues in 2022, and Part 2 will focus on the big…
Be sure to check out “This Week in the Minors” over at Royals Review. It was tough to decide which batters to feature here, so it will simply be: a lot of them! Kyle Isbel went 8-for-22 with a pair of homers, a double, and a triple. Bobby Witt, Jr. drove in 9 runs thanks to 3 home…
I wrote up a pretty lengthy piece recently describing how we can use league comparative (“+”) stats to get a better feel for just how good the Royals MiLB hitters have been relative to years past. 2018 Comparable Players– Eloy Jimenez (21): 129 OPS+, 105 BB/K+, 161 ISO+; 124 career wRC+ in big leagues– Brandon…
Hitters (min. 230 PA) Batting Average 1.) Vinnie Pasquantino: .3162.) Tucker Bradley: .3053.) Edward Olivares: .2984.) Bobby Witt Jr.: .2935.) Maikel Garcia: .2896.) Rudy Martin + Michael Massey + Freddy Fermin: .2889.) MJ Melendez + Clay Dungan: .280 Nick who? (Jk, jk…..) Vinnie Pasquantino is 5-7 with a HR and a 2B tonight. pic.twitter.com/xQ3akrcCvg —…
Much has been made of the seasons that a few of KC’s top prospects are having in 2021. Three of the top four HR hitters in all of MiLB this season are Royals prospects. MiLB’s leader in doubles right now is a Royals prospect. Three of the top 13 hitters 23 and younger in all…
