FOCO Releases a Bobby Witt Jr. Kansas City Royals Coin Bank Bobblehead

Royals Fans! As baseball in the month of April has come to a fast conclusion, it is very easy to get down on your Kansas City Royals.  Safe to say it has not been the start most Royals fans were hoping for.  With a plethora of young talent, young arms, and tons of veteran leadership…

Top-26 Assets in the Organization

Let’s pretend that Major League Baseball decides to add a couple of expansion teams to the league for the 2024 season. As part of the expansion draft, every MLB team gets to protect a 26-man roster from the two expansion teams. You don’t get to protect your usual 40-man roster, only enough to fill out…

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…

Grading the Royals Offseason

I wrote an article back in October regarding the “top-6” priorities for the Royals this offseason. They were as follows: The only thing I regret not adding to that list is adding another bat. I know they have a lot of young bats coming up but it would’ve been nice to sign a guy like…

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…

Opening Day Roster Thoughts/Predictions

The Royals current 40-man roster situation is perhaps the most unclear it’s been in years in terms of who will be on the 26-man big league roster on Opening Day. There are 37 players on the roster who, in my opinion, have a legitimate shot to break camp with the big league team. The only…

Building a Top-10 Offense

I don’t quite have the same time I used to have to take a deep dive into this, so you’ll have to bear with me as I paraphrase most of this into useful information. The main point of this is to analyze whether or not the Royals are capable of stacking up a top-10 offense…

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…