Did you have fun watching the Chiefs play for the last 21 weeks? Awesome, me too! Going to two consecutive Super Bowls is incredible, especially for a city like Kansas City, and there is no athlete on the planet right now who is more awesome than Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. It is the greatest pleasure…
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While typing out the date for these Minutes today it dawned on me that 2/22/22 is coming up next year. So that’ll be fun. I seriously doubt anyone reading this would have missed this bit of news, but the Royals traded Khalil Lee and Franchy Cordero for Andrew Benintendi. “Hoo boy. As I’m sitting here…
Well, it’s certainly been a shi…crappy week in the Kansas City sports universe. Hopefully we can help to add a silver lining to the week by reminding you that while 2021 may not go down as the best in Royals history, the future is absolutely looking up. The Royals have three legitimate, All-Star-caliber not far…
Hoo boy. As I’m sitting here waiting on the price for Andrew Benintendi, I want to mention a couple of thoughts: A personal comp I have for Kyle Isbel is a lighter hitting Benintendi who can actually play a good CF. So, if Benintendi is here to stay for the next couple years…we could have…
With the Rule 5 draft passing recently I wanted to research the successful players who have come out of the draft in the last 10 years. What I found was that only a handful of Rule 5 players have managed to stick and play at least 5 years or are still playing with a consistent…
“None of the above.” “I wouldn’t trade any of them.” “Keep them all!” Some folks wear me out. Ask a simple question and folks act like I have the power to actually trade someone on the Royals roster. I was actually shocked to see the results of this poll. I wholeheartedly expected the result of…
You hear it all the time. “His fastball is too straight.” “His fastball has really great run to it.” “He gets some great arm-side movement to his fastball.” “He really needs to work on getting some movement to his 4-seamer.” It’s something that scouts and hitters and broadcasters and coaches and front office personnel have…
I think we were all disappointed in the 2020 trade deadline. The Royals only made two trades. They had assets to trade that would help teams pursuing postseason dreams and we were all excited to see what new prospects this would bring us. Now, in no way are we disappointed in Lucius Fox, Edward Olivares,…
The MLB trade deadline is in about 5 hours at the time of writing this. At 3 pm today, no more trades will be allowed to be made in baseball. The Royals still have a few pieces that other teams will certainly be inquiring on and the Royals need to be open to listening if…
UPDATE 3:55 – Olivares and a PTBNL. Per source, the deal sending Trevor Rosenthal to SD for Edward Olivares and a PTBNL is agreed upon and they are simply finishing up the medicals. Could happen officially shortly. — Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) August 29, 2020 UPDATE 3:31 PM – It sounds like OF Edward Olivares will…
Hunter Dozier has been absolutely destroying baseballs for the last couple years. I don’t want to spend too much time on a complete breakdown of his professional career, so we’ll make it quick: 2013 – Drafted, made it to Lexington, raked 2014 – Crushed Wilmington, got to AA 2015 – Struggled a bit at AA…
We have hit the one month mark of the Major League season and it has been an eventful one. Charlie Blackmon is hitting above .400, Shane Bieber is striking out 11 batters per start, Fernando Tatis Jr. is raking and ripping the old-school “unwritten rules” to shreds, the Baltimore Orioles are a playoff contender, and…
I don’t know about you, but I am absolutely in love with this current rotation that the Royals are running out there. Every single day there is something to look forward to on the mound: Brad Keller still has a 0.00 ERA and has asserted himself as this team’s ace Danny Duffy is currently pacing…
The Kansas City Royals offense has been absolutely dynamic lately as the team is 4-1 in its last five games. Jorge Soler, Whit Merrifield, and Salvador Perez, the stalwarts in the lineup, have been fantastic all year. Hunter Dozier has looked great since returning to the lineup. Ryan McBroom and Ryan O’Hearn have been a…
