Archive for January, 2010

John Buck was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays immediately after he was non-tendered by the Kansas City Royals.  Yesterday, the other shoe dropped.  Miguel Olivo agreed to a 1-year $2.5 million contract with a club option for 2011.

It’s a new year and it is 1 degree above zero in balmy Kansas City as I write this.  There is a solid 2-inch layer of ice and snowpack on the lower third of my driveway, after shoveling, and we have more snow on the way later this week.  I can’t think of a better thing to do than check in on the Royals in the Caribbean.

During the 2000s, no major league team lost more games than the Kansas City Royals.  It was a decade where the negatives far outweighed the positives.  This is the sixth installment of the 11 part Royals Rotten Decade series.  I will briefly examine each season in the last decade before wrapping up the decade in the 11th and final part.

MLB.com is running a series where each team’s writer answers 10 questions about the the 2010 season for the team.  Dick Kaegel lost all credibility with me by the time I was finished reading his answers.

It’s time to take my weekly stroll around the MLB blogs of FanSided with some “bonus” thoughts on Mark DeRosa.  I’ve also decided to change the formatting a little bit, because I wasn’t happy with the appearance of the previously published versions.

During the 2000s, no major league team lost more games than the Kansas City Royals.  It was a decade where the negatives far outweighed the positives.  This is the fifth installment of the 11 part Royals Rotten Decade series.  I will briefly examine each season in the last decade before wrapping up the decade in the 11th and final part. This one really hurts folks, so prepare yourselves.