Alex and Josh are once again joined by Marcus and Mike Meade of the Royals Weekly podcast to breakdown the selection of Arkansas 3B Cayden Wallace with the 49th overall pick of the 2022 MLB Draft. Then the guys give draft grades for night one of the MLB Draft. Spoiler, they’re good. Apple Podcasts Spotify
The Kansas City Royals selected Virginia Tech outfielder Gavin Cross with the 9th overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft. Alex, Joel, and Josh break down the pick and are joined by Marcus and Mike Meade of the Royals Weekly podcast to grade the pick. Apple Podcasts Spotify
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With the 9th pick in the 2022 MLB Draft, the Kansas City Royals selected Gavin Cross, an outfielder from Virginia Tech. Before draft night, many saw Cross as a likely selection for the Royals, as he will fit their strengths in hitting development and has more defensive value than some of the other college bats…
The Kansas City Royals have selected Arkansas third baseman Cayden Wallace with the 49th overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft. The Royals traded their second pick of the draft to Atlanta for Drew Waters, Andrew Hoffmann, and CJ Alexander, so their second pick was not be until #49. In the 2022 RFR Draft Guide,…
To John Sherman, Dayton Moore, JJ Piccolo, Scott Sharp, Jin Wong, and whomever else it may concern: Last night was the most fun that your fanbase has had watching a baseball game since we bid farewell to our World Championship core at the end of the 2017 season. I can remember like it was yesterday…
The Royals are going to be without 10 of their regulars during a four-game set in Toronto this weekend, and it seems like a good time to remind folks that the Royals have some legitimate prospects coming through the upper minors that will be making the trip to Toronto. I’ll update on Twitter when we…
I don’t think we’ve ever done anything like this before, but I figured it might be fun to take a look at the best performers at each position for the first half of the minor league season. Keep in mind this is 100% subjective and may or may not have any impact on our mid-season…
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.…
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I didn’t really make any secret about how damn excited I was to hear the news that the Kansas City Royals traded for former Braves top prospect Drew Waters today: I was a huge Drew Waters fan just a year and a half ago. He’s a tooled up, true center field prospect with what I…
#InSaylorWeTrust I want to take you guys back to the 2019 minor league season. Here is a quick look at the Royals leaders in wRC+ at the end of the season (min. 300 PA): Brewer Hicklen, 131 (23 YO in High-A) Michael Gigliotti, 119 (23, Low- and High-A) Brett Phillips, 112 (25, AAA) Khalil Lee,…
Welcome back. If you’re new here, we ran these updates weekly last year. I’ll try to do that again in 2022, but I make no promises as I have been much busier at home than in years past. Here’s a link to one of the leaderboards from last year in case you want to check out…
The 2022 Royals Farm Report MLB Draft Guide is now LIVE. You can follow this link to buy your copy today. For just $3.49, you’ll get… State of the farm system Write-ups on our top-100 draft prospects A complete top-100 ranking Our ONLY 2022 mock draft MORE There are 117 pages of Royals-specific draft content…
Since we started Royals Farm Report in 2017, I’ve been writing these articles periodically with the idea being that 2023 would be the first year the Royals should be seriously contending for a playoff spot. Last June I wrote that, in my mind, the Royals HAD to make the playoffs in 2023 to prove that…
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