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Luke Hochevar’s Spring Debut Not Helping His Case With Kansas City Royals
Luke Hochevar began 2012 as a reluctant front-line starter out of necessity for the Kansas City Royals. But if the rest of March is going to go the way of his Spring Training debut, he might not have a spot in the starting rotation by the time Opening Day comes around. That’s going to seem [...]
Fantasy Baseball 2013: Kansas City Royals Season Preview
The Kansas City Royals always seem to be on the brink of something good with all of the talent that they’ve built up throughout the years. Their steady progress materialized in their first third place finish since 2003 back when Carlos Beltran and Mike Sweeney were leading the charge. All of their top prospects from [...]
Royals Spring Training Report debuts Thursday
The Royals Spring Training Report, a 30-minute special, airs Thursday, Feb. 28 at 10 p.m. on FOX Sports Kansas City.
The show includes:
A one-on-one interview with new Royals ace James Shields
An interview with GM Dayton Moore on the Royals new acquisitions
Infielder Elliott Johnson micd up for photo day
A feature on the battle for the fifth spot in the rotation
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Early Patience Is Encouraging For Hosmer
The Kansas City Royals are poised to turn a corner in 2013. Eric Hosmer and his return to form would be a big part of that.
Photo courtesy of Charles Sollars – copyright i70baseball
In a dismal sophomore year for Eric Hosmer, there was an encouraging statistic that jumps out. His power numbers took a big dip but he started to show patience at the plate and was able to increase...
What is Billy Butler Worth in a Trade for the Kansas City Royals?
If you analyze the Kansas City Royals heading into the 2013 season, it is obvious that this team has its sights set on winning and winning now. The off-season trade that sent mega-prospect Wil Myers to the Tampa Bay Rays for James Shields and Wade Davis is living proof that the pressure to win now [...]
Player Profile #60: Eric Hosmer | 1B | KC
Eric Hosmer for Andrew McCutchen was the core part of a preseason trade last offseason in our Baseball Professor league. McCutchen excelled and became a potential first-round selection. Hosmer fell to 296th overall in the rankings.While it’s tough to ignore the .232 average Hosmer put up last year, there are reasons to be hopeful he can turn things around this season. His 18.5...
Adam Moore Trying To Make His Case
The Kansas City Royals have very few “up for grabs” spots in Spring Training. Some players are going to have to really impress to crack the opening day roster this year.
Catcher Adam Moore is making an early attempt at impressing.
Photo by Charles Sollars/i70baseball
Make no mistake, despite his soon to come departure to the World Baseball Classic, Salvador Perez is the Royals...
Video: Royals Harlem Shake
Some of the Kansas City Royals players, including Salvador Perez and Bruce Chen, have posted a “Harlem Shake” video.
From Wikipedia: The videos last between 30 and 32 seconds and feature an excerpt from the song “Harlem Shake” by electronic musician Baauer. Usually, a video begins with one person (often helmeted or masked) dancing to the song alone for 15 seconds, surrounded...
Kansas City Royals: 3 Up and 3 Down
With the youth movement in full effect last year, the Kansas City Royals were expected to take a decent step forward. Instead, they won just 1 more game in 2012 than in ’11, going a very disappointing 72-90, but good enough for a 3rd place finish in the AL Central.
The main culprit was just what we thought it might be: pitching. KC’s team ERA of 4.30 was 23rd best in baseball...
Twins add pitcher Kyle Davies on minor league deal
The Minnesota Twin signed right handed pitcher Kyle Davies to a minor league deal. Davies, 29, has spent seven seasons at the major league level.
Davies addition does little to help the Twins rotation as he figures to serve primarily as organizational depth. In his last big league season Davies finished with a 6.75 ERA before he was released by Kansas City. He spent the remainder...
Discount Double Check: Lorenzo Cain
As the old adage goes, 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'. Hrm, I was going to make a reference to 'caning' and 'Singapore' here but it seems I've fumbled it worse than Mark Sanchez did with his slide into the backside of Moore. Yes, that was a football reference. Deal with it. You're reading the works of none other than the main editor/writer for...
Kansas City Royals Dupe Fan(s)
Kansas City Royals fans just can't seem to catch a break, can they?Considering they having made the playoffs since the midpoint of the Reagan Administration, you'd think the Royals would take it a little easier on their fan, er, fans.Thursday morning, the team sent out an email giving their faithful the opportunity to purchase tickets for Opening Day. The subject line of...
Hope for the Royals in 2013 (no, seriously)
Spring Training is here!!! Royals pitchers and catchers have reported and the rest of the squad is due in late this week. As they say in Major League Baseball, hope springs eternal. Every team has a chance for hope-even if they lost 100 games the previous season. There are constant examples of worst to first for downtrodden franchises to cling to as an explanation of how...
Cactus League countdown: Kansas City Royals
For a few seasons now, the Kansas City Royals have left their fans wondering: Is this the year the talent comes together?
With promising talent at nearly every position, the Royals have seemed primed for a rise only to remain a bottom-of-the-division team with just one winning season since 1994.
This offseason, the Royals took the next step toward becoming a contender, addressing...
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Royals' chance at success hinges on rotation
The Kansas City Royals could be a surprising team in 2013. Or they could be just as bad as ever. The starting rotation will likely be the determining factor in any success or failure the team sees this year. And two of the biggest parts of that rotation have major injury question marks.
As I wrote when the trade was made, there is a good chance Ervin Santana was pitching...
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