Ronald Bolanos pitched twice for the KC Royals in 2020. What does 2021 hold? Welcome back to Kings of Kauffman’s KC Royals Projections series for 2021.
We will always have “HDH”. Former Royals reliever Kelvin Herrera brought his ten-year MLB career to an end on Friday, announcing his retirement in a post on Twitter.
The KC Royals lost 100+ games two of the last three years. It won’t happen again in 2021. Fond memories of two straight World Series trips and a championship hadn’t faded much when the KC Royals imploded with two straight 100-plus loss seasons in 2018 and 2019.
They seem to think they’ve got a lot of this roster decided, which seems like they’re tempting the baseball gods a little too much. It has been 152 days since the Royals last played a game.
It’s so much more fun when they’re good, even for just a bit There are a lot of wish list items for the first full length Kansas City Royals season following the shortened 2020 season, which itself followed back-to-back 100-loss campaigns.
The KC Royals’ backup catcher hit well in 2020. Can he do it again in 2021? Cam Gallagher will never be the KC Royals’ everyday catcher, and it’s not just because perennial Gold Glover and All-Star Salvador Perez happens to be his teammate.
Clay Dungan is in the KC Royals’ spring camp. Who is this young infielder? Not everyone working at the KC Royals’ Surprise, Arizona spring training complex is well known.
Wait! I can explain! By now, many of you will have heard the short, strange, sad saga of Mariners Club President Kevin Mather. If you haven’t, our Mariners-focused sister site, Lookout Landing, has covered the topic pretty extensively.
Non-roster invitee Hanser Alberto will make the KC Royals’ Opening Day roster. Welcome back to Kings of Kauffman’s KC Royals Projections series for 2021.
Our KC Royals news roundup covers numbers, Division developments, and more. Some midweek musings about the KC Royals while wondering if Alex Gordon misses spring training: Danny Duffy honors Yordano Ventura, Andrew Benintendi has famous number New Kansas City first baseman Carlos Santana wore No.
Well for one, it should be on a lineup card. The Royals made some upgrades this off-season to a lineup that finished with the third-fewest runs scored in the American League last year, by adding first baseman Carlos Santana and outfielders Andrew Benintendi and Michael Taylor.
Jakob Junis enters 2021 needing to define his role with the KC Royals. Welcome back to Kings of Kauffman’s KC Royals Projections series for 2021. Between now and Opening Day, our writers are analyzing how various Royals performed last season and predicting how they might fare this year.
It’s Greinke time! As the decade of the 2000s opened, the Kansas City Royals had never had a 100-loss season in their storied history. They lost 97 in their second season, which could be expected for an expansion team.
Jeffress has been an effective reliever for most of his 11 seasons in the majors, and was an All-Star as recently as the 2018 season when pitching for the Brewers.
How do the Royals win in 2021? The Kansas City Royals want to compete—their offseason says as much. They spent money and made trades to get the players they wanted at the positions in which they felt they had a need.
Kennedy is coming off a five-year run with the Royals that included a full-time transition to the bullpen in 2019.
The KC Royals enjoy reclamation projects, and their newest veteran signing could have a bounce-back 2021. When the off-season began, fans of the KC Royals weren’t exactly sure what to expect.
The Royals bring in some veteran depth to the pen. The Royals have signed 34-year old right-handed reliever Brad Brach to a minor league deal. Brach is a ten-year veteran with the Padres, Orioles, Braves, Cubs, and Mets, making 496 relief appearances with a 3.39 ERA.
All 28 games this spring will be available via KCSP-AM or royals.com The Kansas City Royals and 610 Sports Radio announced today that 20 Spring Training games will air on KCSP-AM.
A trio of possible spring occurrences could alter things for the KC Royals. The KC Royals, a proud franchise painfully frustrated by uncertainty at several positions for three straight seasons, appear unusually stable as full squad spring workouts begin today.
Brach struggled through a drop in velocity from 94.1 mph on his four-seamer in 2019 to just 90.3 mph in 2020.
Can KC Royals DH Jorge Soler repeat the monster season he had two years ago? Welcome back to Kings of Kauffman’s KC Royals Projections series for 2021.
What final grades do the KC Royals deserve for their aggressiveness this winter? There was no flurry of trades, no key contract extensions, no Fernando Tatis-type blockbuster signings.
The Orioles won’t be expecting much here, as Harvey hasn’t been at all effective since 2015.
Puig last played for the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians in 2019, hitting .267 with 24 home runs and 84 RBI.
Santana remains a name familiar to passionate baseball fans, but he hasn't resembled a big-league starter in over two years.
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