Alright alright alright. As I mentioned on our Honorable Mention list the other day, our midseason list is never as detailed as our preseason list. So, this is more of an inventory check than a full write-up like we do preseason. As always, our lists are an aggregate of several folks that vote on individual…
Check out our interview with Pat Ellington Jr. of Baseball Prospectus and Royals prospect Brennon McNair on baseball in the rural south, the Royals scouting team designated for HBCU’s and under scouted areas, and Brennon’s journey to professional baseball! Apple Podcasts Spotify
The draft is done, the trade deadline has come and gone, and unless there’s a free agent that becomes available between now and the end of the season, the way the Royals 40-man roster looks now is likely to be very similar to the way it looks in November. With that being said, there are…
I won’t waste a bunch of time recapping the first half of what we all know was an awful first half of the season for the Royals. Let’s get right into it. #1: Any signs of life from the pitching development The best pitching prospects on the farm this year have been mostly awful. The…
Alright. Welcome to my TED Talk. Thank you for being here. We use a number of advanced stats at Royals Farm Report and, while we talk through them in-depth at times on Twitter and on the RFR Podcast, I think it’s fair to put something down that folks can reference at all times in terms…
Josh’s Top 50 Royals prospects: Gavin Cross, OF, 21, A Drew Waters, OF, 23, AAA Nick Loftin, UTIL, 23, AAA Maikel Garcia, SS, 22, AAA Ben Kudrna, RHP, 19, A Asa Lacy, LHP, 23, AA Jonathan Bowlan, RHP, 25, AAA Tyler Gentry, OF, 23, AA Alec Marsh, RHP, 24, AA Angel Zerpa, LHP, 22, MLB…
Alright alright alright. As I mentioned on our Honorable Mention list the other day, our midseason list is never as detailed as our preseason list. So, this is more of an inventory check than a full write-up like we do preseason. As always, our lists are an aggregate of several folks that vote on individual…
When the Royals drafted Nick Loftin with the 32nd pick in the 2020 draft, we all knew that he was a polished college hitter with a low walk rate. He started his professional career at High-A Quad Cities in 2021 where we saw the start of a promising career as he batted .289/.372/.463 with 10…
Alright alright alright. As I mentioned on our Honorable Mention list yesterday, our midseason list is never as detailed as our preseason list. So, this is more of an inventory check than a full write-up like we do preseason. As always, our lists are an aggregate of several folks that vote on individual top-50 lists.…
Welcome. Thanks for checking in. I wanted to have this out last week but…life happened. We’ll get into the top-50 ASAP. For now, here’s a quick checklist of a bunch of guys I felt were worth mentioning but just didn’t crack our top-50 for now. Just as an FYI, our midseason list is never as…
Tucker Bradley isn’t a name a lot of Royals fans know but he is a player worth getting to know. Bradley is currently in Northwest Arkansas hitting at the top of their lineup and playing left field every day. I’ve compared Bradley to Andrew Benintendi a lot in my mind as of late. Bradley was…
The gang is back together after a couple weeks off to talk about the MLB trade deadline. Topics covered: trades they made trades they didn’t make the front office 2023 a look back at our 2018 preseason rankings…just for laughs Enjoy! Apple Podcasts Spotify
The trade deadline is later today and before we get potentially swamped with news of new prospects, I wanted to try to throw out some thoughts on guys that were already in the Royals system. Our mid-season rankings will begin to drop on Friday morning with the Honorable Mentions, and then we’ll get into our…
Hitters (min. 250 PA): Category Name # Hits Michael Massey 108 Maikel Garcia 94 Nate Eaton 93 Nick Loftin 92 Diego Hernandez 87 Tucker Bradley 87 Doubles Michael Massey 28 Maikel Garcia 24 Robbie Glendinning 19 River Town 18 7 tied with 17 Triples Tyler Tolbert 6 Herard Gonzalez 6 Diego Hernandez 4 Nate Eaton…
The Royals have been active at the trade deadline thus far with more potential moves to come in the future. It remains to be seen whether Whit Merrifield, Michael A. Taylor, Hunter Dozier, Scott Barlow, or Josh Staumont remain in a Royals uniform after August 2nd. After the Andrew Benintendi trade today, JJ Picollo even…
Heading into day 3 of the 2022 MLB draft, many in the Royals squak-o-sphere (myself included) were puzzled by some of their day 2 selections. The Royals used rounds three through 10 to target what seemed like long-shot college pitching that no public draft boards had anywhere near the slots in which they were taken.…
Before we get into the three pitchers that the Royals got back from New York, I want to quickly revisit what I wrote in June about some trade comparisons for Benintendi: Kyle Schwarber traded for Aldo Ramirez I doubt Royals fans would be thrilled with this kind of move, but Ramirez is a super advanced…
Chandler Champlain is a 22-year-old right-handed pitcher the Royals received in the Andrew Benintendi trade on Wednesday night. Champlain was pitching in Tampa at the Yankees A-ball affiliate. Champlain was a 9th rounder in the 2021 MLB Draft by the Yankees out of USC. He has a big frame and throws from what I would…
Well it just seems like a perfect time to bring back the first ever series I did for Royals Farm Report last year! One of my favorite things about following Royals minor league baseball is trying to find the under-the-radar prospects in the organization that don’t get enough attention, but have the potential to explode.…
The 2022 MLB trade deadline is exactly one week from today. It’s been pushed back a couple of days from the normal July 31st deadline, so it’ll be on August 2nd this year. There is no more “August waiver trade” bologna that used to take place, so any player that is going to be traded…
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