Game preview: Santana and Royals face surging Angels
KANSAS CITY (AP) -- An offensive boon has the Los Angeles Angels on their longest winning streak of the season.
An old friend is looking to end it.
Hot-hitting Mike Trout and the surging Angels face former teammate Ervin Santana in the opener of this four-game series against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday night.
Los Angeles (19-27) has been one of baseball's biggest disappointments...
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: May 23rd, 2013
Today marks a unique challenge when it comes to playing Draftkings. There hasn’t been a day in the season with this few games on the docket. My normal strategies really don’t play out here because there are only five games on the docket. That leaves you with only ten starting pitchers to choose from and ten position players at each position. The normal weeding out of players...
Angels-Royals Preview
An offensive boon has the Los Angeles Angels on their longest winning streak of the season.
An old friend is looking to end it.
Hot-hitting Mike Trout and the surging Angels face former teammate Ervin Santana in the opener of this four-game series against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday night.
Los Angeles (19-27) has been one of baseball's biggest disappointments this season...
Angels-Royals Preview
An offensive boon has the Los Angeles Angels on their longest winning streak of the season.
An old friend is looking to end it.
Hot-hitting Mike Trout and the surging Angels face former teammate Ervin Santana in the opener of this four-game series against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday night.
Los Angeles (19-27) has been one of baseball's biggest disappointments this season...
Kansas City Royals Power Rankings 5-19
It’s week three of the I70 Baseball Royals Power Rankings, as we basically reach the end of the first quarter of the season. This was an up and down week that ended at 2-4. There are many years that 2-4 in California wouldn’t sound that bad and neither would 20-20.
#5 Billy Butler (Previously: NR) Butler finally broke loose with his best series of the season against the Angels...
Fantasy Baseball Week 8 Waiver Wire: 3 to Cut, 3 to Catch, 3 to Keep
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Fantasy baseball 3×3 is back again. This week, we’re catching Big Erv, resisting the impulse to trade Paul Goldschmidt, and grabbing a spot on Waveland Avenue for Travis Wood’s next start.
3 TO CUT
Tony Cingrani | Cincinnati Reds | SP
It’s fitting that Tony Cingrani would be sent down right around graduation season; you should treat...
Tommy Milone, A’s Beat Royals 2-1, Celebrate With Fireworks
On an evening in which a sellout crowd at the O.co (Oakland) Coliseum was treated to post-game fireworks, the Oakland A’s treated their fans to even more reason to celebrate by defeating the Kansas City Royals 2-1 for the second consecutive night.
Tommy Milone (4-5) earned the victory by out dueling Ervin Santana of the Royals.
Early on it appeared that Milone may be in for a short...
MLB Game Picks - Saturday: May 18, 2013
Ten correct picks out of fifteen is nothing to sneeze at. But I still have to laugh at picking the Marlins to win. Heh. What a dope. The logic behind that pick was that the Marlins--as bad as they are--are still going to win 50 games this season. So you have to pick them once in a while. Yesterday was not that day.
A lot of the correct picks were sort of lucky. The Astros coughed...
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...
Kansas City Royals Power Rankings
It’s week two of the I70 Baseball Royals Power Rankings, and to say this week didn’t go well would be an understatement. The Royals defense was atrocious and their hitting and pitching weren’t too far behind. Let’s take a look at the power rankings through May 12.
#5 Ervin Santana- (Previously: #2) Santana saw his ERA “balloon” to 2.79 with a couple of mediocre starts...
Royals face struggling Angels in Los Angeles
(AP) -- Though it's only mid-May, few could have guessed Kansas City would have a better record than the Los Angeles Angels, who have a payroll roughly 60 million more than the Royals'.
That may not be the case much longer, though, if Kansas City can't snap out of its funk as it begins a nine-game road trip Monday night against Los Angeles.
The Royals (18-16) have finished...
Yankees 4, Royals 2
Robinson Cano finally hit a home run at Kauffman Stadium, Vernon Wells went deep for the second straight game and the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Sunday to wrap up a three-game sweep.
Hiroki Kuroda (5-2) allowed only a sacrifice fly by the Royals' Alex Gordon and an RBI groundout by Alcides Esocbar over 7 2-3 innings. The right-hander at one point went...
Yankees game 36 lineup: 5/12/13
MLB will commemorate Mother’s Day and Breast Cancer Awareness with these special baseballs. (Photo credit: MLB.com)
Happy Mother’s Day!
The Yankees enter today in sole possession of first place, and are poised for the series sweep against the Royals in an afternoon contest from Kauffman Stadium. Hiroki Kuroda gets the start for New York against Ervin Santana. After the game...
Kansas City Royals – Contenders Or Pretenders?
As a baseball fan watching Kansas City suffer for years, I have to wonder if they are actually a good contender this season for the playoffs, or if this is just their 15 minutes of fame.
There is certainly something for Royals’ fans to get excited about right now. At this point in the year, Kansas City is 17-10, when last season at this time they were only 10-20. A dramatic difference...
Kansas City Royals – Contenders Or Pretenders?
As a baseball fan watching Kansas City suffer for years, I have to wonder if they are actually a good contender this season for the playoffs, or if this is just their 15 minutes of fame.
There is certainly something for Royals’ fans to get excited about right now. At this point in the year, Kansas City is 17-10, when last season at this time they were only 10-20. A dramatic difference...
Santana, Royals pay visit to Camden Yards
(AP) -- Coming off a successful road trip, the Baltimore Orioles are hoping to carry their momentum over at home.
The Orioles aim for a third straight win as they open a three-game set against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.
Averaging 5.0 runs to rank near the top of the majors, Baltimore (19-13) scored an 5.3 per game and hit 14 home runs during its recently completed...
Use caution on Medlen, Santana
Start 'Em
Jarrod Parker (@CLE, @SEA)
Normally a starter flaunting a 7.36 ERA and 2.01 WHIP through six outings is not a candidate for endorsement. Parker has been better than the numbers indicate as of late (evidenced in his .375 BABIP versus 17.9 line-drive percentage), and facing a gauntlet of opponents in April did its' damage on his output as well. Though the Indians...
Kansas City Royals Power Rankings
Welcome to a new feature on I70 Baseball, the Royals Power Rankings. Each week we’ll rank the top five Royals in 2013 with a heavy emphasis on their performance in the past seven days. Just moments ago, Alex Gordon topped a 4-1 week with a walk off hit in the tenth inning. The club now sits at 17-10, on pace for 102 victories. As awesome as Gordon’s hit was, the week belonged...
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...
Mother Nature only thing holding Royals down so far
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Whats crazier than the Royals in first place in May?
How about a snowstorm at Kauffman Stadium in May?
The Royals bizarre start to the 2013 season rolled right along Thursday with a snowout (thats not a typo) that likely prevented them from sweeping the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Royals were three outs away from that sweep the Royals led, 1-0, through 3 innings when...
Rays-Royals game postponed as rain turns to sleet, snow
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Kansas City Royals' game against the Tampa Bay Rays was postponed on Thursday after heavy rain turned to sleet and snow during the middle of the fourth inning.
No makeup date has been set. The Rays don't return to Kansas City again this season.
The temperature was 41 degrees with winds gusting to 31 mph and rain just beginning to fall when the...
Santana, Royals go for sweep of the Rays
(AP) -- After their comeback win put them back atop the AL Central, the Kansas City Royals have to be feeling good about staying there behind right-hander Ervin Santana.
The Royals send their hottest pitcher to the hill Thursday when they try for a three-game sweep and eighth win in nine home meetings against the road-weary Tampa Bay Rays.
Kansas City (15-10) fell into a 5-0 hole...
Daily Notes: Largely Concerning Ervin “Magic” Santana
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. Featured Game: Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 14:10 ET
2. Other Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
Featured Game: Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 14:10 ET
Firstly, Concerning the Title of This Post
With regard to the title of this post, it’s fair to say that...
Second Thoughts Game #20: Royals 3, Indians 2
Player of the Game: Ervin Santana (7 Inn. 6 hits 0 ER 0 BB / 5 SO)
The Leadoff
They say pitching is the key to winning in baseball. But there also is another key saying that should go along with that: you can’t win if you can’t score. This was exactly the case again for the Cleveland Indians on Saturday night as they fell to the first place Kansas City Royals, 3-2.
Tribe starter...
Santana pitches Royals past Indians
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Ervin Santana is pitching like he did in 2010, when he won 17 games for Anaheim.Santana threw seven scoreless innings, Salvador Perez hit a two-run homer and the Kansas City Royals held on to beat the Cleveland Indians 3-2 Saturday night.Santana (3-1), who was acquired in an Oct. 31 trade with Anaheim for minor-league pitcher Brandon Sisk, allowed six singles...
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