FOCO Releasing Bobby Witt Jr. & Salvador Perez World Baseball Classic 2023 Bobbleheads

The month of March is here, the sun is shining, and the players have arrived in hot and steamy Surprise, Arizona, for Spring Training to get back into the swing of things this upcoming 2023 MLB baseball season.  While the young guns are trying to push hard for a potential roster spot, the Kansas City…

Composite Top-30 Royals Prospects

I decided to round up the available Royals prospect lists that are out and combine them to get a composite top-30. Here’s whose lists appear so far: Here’s the composite ranking: Rank Composite Points 1 Gavin Cross 8 2 Maikel Garcia 20 3 Tyler Gentry 26 4 Drew Waters 30 5 Cayden Wallace 33 6…

Route(s) to 70 Wins

The PECOTA projections came out today, signaling the beginning of baseball season for most of America (not in Kansas City, though, we still have a parade to attend). The Royals, unsurprisingly, have some of the worst projections in Major League Baseball. The 62-win (100-loss…) projection for KC this summer is three fewer wins than they…

Top-10 Breakout Candidates for 2023

For the purposes of this list, I’m going to exclude our top-14 prospects on our preseason list. Those 14 are: Picking any of those 14 feels a bit like cheating so we’ll use any combination of other prospects for “breakout” candidates. Players on our list of breakout candidates are prospects that I feel could jump…

Thoughts on two position battles entering Spring Training

This probably could’ve been a Twitter thread but I didn’t want it to ramble on for too long, so we’ll just do it all here. There are a couple of position “battles” the Royals face entering Spring Training that I think are completely ridiculous. Barring some unforeseen injury or a totally unpredictable collapse during Spring…

Thinking (poorly) out loud about the offense

Alright so I’ve been thinking about this for a while and just found some time to get it all on paper. I was sifting through the Royals offensive core heading into 2023 and trying to figure out what it could look like next year. I don’t really know how to organize these thoughts effectively so…

Top-6 Priorities for KC this Offseason

I tweeted this out the other day, figured I’d go ahead and expand on it at some point. Priority #1: Someone’s got to go to prison, Ben I want to start off by saying that I legitimately do not have any inherent issues with either Mike Matheny nor Cal Eldred. It feels like any time…