Its Herrera, not Moustakas, shipped back to Omaha
KANSAS CITY, Mo. That the Royals optioned a struggling young player to Triple-A Omaha on Thursday didn't come as a big surprise.
That the player was right-hander Kelvin Herrera and not third baseman Mike Moustakas probably did.
Herrera, who has given up eight home runs in 20 13 innings (he surrendered only four all last season), certainly qualified for a demotion. He already...
Royals at the Crossroads
by John Viril—
Right now, the Kansas City Royals entire season is teetering on the brink. I know that many will say that is melodramatic. That it’s a long season, and they’re 121 games left.
Nonsense.
Year after year, fans have watched Kansas City run into an early losing streak that sucks the wind out of the entire season. Last season was the 12-game April losing streak that...
Royals prospects enduring tough Start
by John Viril—
In 2010, the Kansas City Royals minor league system enjoyed a magical season which saw a record nine farmhands propel themselves into Baseball Prospectus’ top 100 prospects. 2013 is almost the exact opposite. This year, Kansas City’s top prospects are typically suffering through slow starts to their season. Prospects are cratering up and down the organization...
The Evolving Kansas City Royals: The Pitching
For several years now the Royals have had one of the better farm systems in Major League Baseball. Most teams should be so lucky. The Royals however haven’t been able to translate this advantage into success on the field and there would seem to be one very good reason for this.
You can’t win the World Series with the AAA Storm Chasers. It takes time to scout and develop...
Royals pitchers Duffy, Paulino inching closer to return
KANSAS CITY, Mo. When Royals left-hander Danny Duffy visited with us at the Royals Fan Fest in January, he was hoping for a June 1 return to the big-league club.
As it turns out, that goal was a bit ambitious.
But Royals general manager Dayton Moore told FOXSportsKansasCity.com that both Duffy and right-hander Felipe Paulino, who each had Tommy John surgery last summer, are progressing...
Is it time to move the fences in at The K once more?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. It's the debate Royals fans and Royals players as well -- love to have:
Should the Royals move the fences in once again at spacious Kauffman Stadium?
The discussion takes on some added meaning this season no doubt because of the Royals' power shortage. They are last in the American League in home runs with 25, with just 10 of those coming at Kauffman...
Tinkering with the Lineup is not Enough for Royals
by John Viril—
Kansas City’s three game losing streak has suddenly made the Royals’ lack of offense apparent. The Royals have scored 3 runs or less in 18 of 30 games this season. The team is tied with the Marlins for last in home runs in major league baseball with 19. Overall, the Royals rank 9th in the American League in scoring with 4.26 runs per game.
In response to this...
No one hating the Big Game James trade now
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Theyre not ranting anymore, those once haters of the Royals blockbuster James Shields trade last December.
The sports talk-show hosts, the fan bloggers, and the statistical worshippers who all but proclaimed the Shields trade the "death of the Royals organization," have now put down their pitchforks and torches.
In fact, the haters seem to have quietly...
How Dayton Moore can Improve the Royals
by John Viril—
After 28 games, the Kansas City Royals stand a gratifying 17-11. The good start is largely due to GM Dayton Moore’s successful (so far) reconstruction of the starting pitching staff. Royals starters rank 7th in MLB with an ERA of 3.56 and 8th in xFIP with 3.68. This result represents a massive jump from the 2012 staff’s no. 26 ranking and 5.01 staff ERA.
Kudos...
Could Santana be a long-term fit with Royals?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Right-hander Ervin Santana is exactly the pitcher the Royals envisioned they were getting when general manager Dayton Moore traded for him last fall.
And at some point this summer, Moore and the Royals will have to decide if he is a pitcher they envision in a Royals uniform beyond 2013.
Santana is in the final year of the contract he originally signed with the...
Royals finally using Luke Hochevar Correctly
by John Viril—
Internet wags clobbered Kansas City Royals GM Dayton Moore when he decided to keep pitcher Luke Hochevar for a 1-year $4.5 contract this off-season. I must confess that I was among their number. In my own defense, I blasted the move because I was convinced that the Royals would simply put him in the same situation in which he had failed so many times before—a rotation...
Daily Notes: Saturday’s Games Considered for Your Pleasure
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. Today’s Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
2. Barely Helpful Footage: Ervin Santana’s Slider
3. Today’s Game Odds, Translated into Winning Percentages
Today’s Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
Cleveland at Kansas City | 19:10 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Dayton Moore’s...
Chris Dwyer is back on the Radar
by John Viril—
With the Royals enduring yet another rainout on Friday, I decided to look at AAA Omaha. And, lo and behold, I noticed a familiar name pop out in the pitching stats: Chris Dwyer. Two years ago, back when Kansas City’s farm system was praised as one of the best decades, analysts marveled at their amazing prospect depth. One of the strongest features of the system...
Are the 2013 Kansas City Royals really just Zack Siler?
Today I stumbled across the following post on a Kansas City Royals message board that I frequent:
"Just remember when the team started 18-11 a few years back, how good that felt, then reality set in and the true Royals showed up...it could still all fall apart."
This is perhaps the most difficult war that Dayton Moore, Ned Yost, Eric Hosmer, the Royals marketing department...
Royals wont demote slumping Moose, Hosmer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Royals fans no doubt are delighting in the team's 10-7, first-place start to the season.
But if there is cause for concern anywhere it is the painfully slow starts from first baseman Eric Hosmer (.261, no homers, four RBIs) and Mike Moustakas (.158, no homers, one RBI).
There has even been suggestions on Kansas City sports-talk shows of the Royals shipping...
Royals set for early-season test in Detroit
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Royals are more than surviving their first early-season test, a rugged three-city road trip that pitted them against baseball's best -- first Atlanta, then Boston, and now Detroit.
The Royals are 3-2 on the trip, and sit atop the American League Central at 10-7.
Yes, it's a little early to start organizing parades through The Plaza. But it's not...
Dayton Moore Interview
In this interview with Dayton Moore, some of the things we discussed were his expectations when he took over in 2007, the acquisition of James Shields, and the futures of Eric Hosmer, James Shields, and Christian Colon.
Royals head home hoping for different start in '13
(AP) -- With a bunch of wide-eyed but talented young players, the Kansas City Royals returned home from a brief road trip to start last season overflowing with confidence, fully believing that the team's slogan of "Our Time" was apropos.
Their 10-game homestand turned out to be a flop, and that slogan a punch line.
The Royals didn't win once - not a single home...
Royals head home hoping for different start in '13
With a bunch of wide-eyed but talented young players, the Kansas City Royals returned home from a brief road trip to start last season overflowing with confidence, fully believing that the team's slogan of ''Our Time'' was apropos.
Their 10-game homestand turned out to be a flop, and that slogan a punch line.
The Royals didn't win once - not a single home...
Royals offense goes silent on Opening Day
For all the talk this off-season about the new and improved Royals starting rotation, there was one area on last years team that was equally as abysmal as the rotation the offense.
Royals general manager Dayton Moore and manager Ned Yost are banking on the hope that the Royals young hitters will mature and improve dramatically in 2013.
But once again, Royals hitters are off to...
Royals gambling that new-look rotation pays off
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Behind a pair of dark sunglasses, Dayton Moore's eyes dart around a spring training practice field in sunny Surprise, Ariz., trying to take in everything happening all at once.
There's the Kansas City Royals' new-look pitching staff going through stretches on an adjacent field, and a lineup filled with promising young position players who've yet...
Royals gambling that new-look rotation pays off
Behind a pair of dark sunglasses, Dayton Moore's eyes dart around a spring training practice field in sunny Surprise, Ariz., trying to take in everything happening all at once.
There's the Kansas City Royals' new-look pitching staff going through stretches on an adjacent field, and a lineup filled with promising young position players who've yet to fully live up...
The Royals Need a Superstar
by John Viril—
Royals General Manager Dayton Moore has carefully rebuilt the franchise over the last seven seasons. He turned a woeful minor league system into one of the best in baseball. He took over an aging roster and turned it into a young and promising one. When he recognized his talent pipeline wasn’t giving him starting pitching, he traded 2012 Minor League Player of...
Royals depth at SS and catcher runs deep
KANSAS CITY, Mo. While it is certainly true that you can never have enough pitching, there are two other positions of need perhaps even harder to stockpile:
Shortstop and catcher.
"When we got here (in 2006), we didnt really have a single shortstop in the system we thought could help us at the major-league level," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said. "That...
Kansas City Royals Season Preview: Dayton, Are We There Yet?
Last season was understood to be a growth year for the Kansas City Royals. They had a set of extremely talented position players prepared to take the spotlight after finally edging their way onto the big league club. They still lacked the pitching, but were an intriguing team given their relative inexperience and history of futility in Kansas City. Alas, 2012 turned out to...
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