In this edition of From the Fish Pond; some thoughts on Billy Butler’s upcoming season, FIP, a haiku, John Buck spin, four minor league signings, top-100 lists from Baseball America and Project Prospect, and a scouting video on Aaron Meade.

They say time flies when you are having fun and doing what you love.  This site is proof that the saying is true.  It was just over a year ago that I joined the FanSided.com Sports Network.  On February 26th, 2009, I published my first article, Ho-Ram, the Flaw within the Royals Rotation.  I didn’t know [...]

Johnny Giavotella checks in at #14 on the 2010 Kings of Kauffman prospect list.

I have finally caught up on my RSS reading!  It only took me three days to get through 1,500 “assignments” after being disconnected for five days.  I consider myself very fortunate that my wife is a huge baseball fan and allows me to devote so much of my free time to reading and writing about [...]

Tyler Sample checks in at #15 on the 2010 Kings of Kauffman prospect list.

Yesterday I planned on posting a couple things once I caught up on my RSS feed reading.  I got through about 600 articles last night and made a dent in some of my email but by then it was already 1:30 am.  Now I have a fairly long list of articles to crank out and [...]

Late last night our plane touched down at KCI and we all made it back safe and sound.  When we took off from Montego Bay yesterday afternoon, it was 86 degrees.  When we landed in Kansas City it was 16 degrees.  It would be an understatement to say that I couldn’t wait to get home, [...]

Kila Ka’aihue checks in at #16 on the 2010 Kings of Kauffman prospect list.

Tomorrow morning I will be departing for Jamaica on what I hope will be an enjoyable trip.  I plan on continuing to post daily while I am down there provided factors such as time, energy, space and wireless internet access are working in my favor.  I hope to get a couple quick posts up tonight [...]

To kick off my first ever Royals prospect list, I wanted a player who has a chance to be truly special but who is not among the top fifteen or so players in the organization.  For me, Hilton Richardson was the perfect candidate for the spot.  So much so that he is one of the [...]

The 2010 Kings of Kauffman prospect rankings are locked and loaded.  My list is in pen and tomorrow I will reveal prospect number 17 with a write-up with all the bells, whistles, and information I can muster.  Before I start publishing the player profiles one by one, I wanted to take a moment to go [...]

There seems to be about two hours missing from my evening and I’m not exactly sure where they went.  My brother-in-law, Scott, just called to discuss check-in details for our quickly approaching departure to Jamaica and I noticed it was already 9:30.  I asked him what I should write about and he was zero help* [...]

In 2009, Billy Butler became just the sixth player in major league history to hit 50 doubles and 20 home runs in a season before they turned 24 years old.  Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star, and the wonderful Royals blog Ball Star, was all over this developing feat last year and just last [...]

Yesterday I posted my plan for upcoming articles and now I’m already a day behind.  So goes life I suppose.  Here is the Market Fresh update I intended to write and publish yesterday.  

In this edition of From the Fish Pond; some Royals report early, Klima on Blake Wood and Danny Gutierrez, Sickels on Luke Hochevar, Mike Montgomery makes a list, Mike Jacobs is a Met, and Felipe Lopez fires his agent.