Archive for April, 2010

A collection of links for you this evening including some AL Central previews, the Twins, Brian Anderson, Jose Guillen, the Omaha Royals, and two articles related to the Royals Opening Day loss. Big League Stew: AL Central Preview: Will a third straight tiebreaker be needed? Baseball Musings: AL Central Preview Ben Badler of Baseball America: Which Prospects Have Impressed: AL Central Sweetspot by Rob Neyer: Twins thrive without sabermetrics Royals Review: What is Brian Anderson Doing? Baseball Musings: Players A to Z, Jose Guillen ~~~~~ MiLB.com recently did a quick preview of the Pacific Coast League which included this nugget. The Royals rotation [...]

Jason Heyward just absolutely destroyed a Carlos Zambrano pitch for a home run in his first major league at bat. Not to be outdone, Yunie just went yard in his first at bat of the season. God I love baseball!

On the eve of Opening Day, I wanted to give everyone a heads up that Jon, Michael, and myself have been working together this weekend on a 2010 Royals season preview of sorts.  My hope is that I can get everything tied together and published before the first pitch is thrown in the titanic match-up of Verlander and Greinke tomorrow. You have probably noticed my presence was a little lighter here on KoK this past week because the bulk of my time and effort was focused on getting Call to the Pen off of the ground.  With most of the set-up tasks [...]

Well, Opening Day at Kauffman Stadium is nearly upon us and with it comes one of the best pitching matchups you might see all season. The reigning AL Cy Young Award Winner, your very own Royal, Zack Greinke, versus the 3rd place finisher for the award, Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers. This matchup is intriguing for several reasons. First, it will be interesting to see how Greinke will respond after being picked as the best pitcher in the American League last season. Not that the spotlight wasn’t on Zack during last season, but one would have to imagine that [...]

I just got back from my fantasy baseball draft and I wanted to share some quick thoughts on how things went and also reveal the roster of the 2010 Tiffany Lakes Blogger Fish.  For those of you who don’t care about fantasy sports, you might want to stop reading.  For those of you who do care, or are just curious by nature, please read on. Our league is a 14 team weekly head-to-head keeper league and each year heading into the draft we protect five players.  I went into the draft with a roster that consisted of: SS-Hanley Ramirez (FLA) 3B-Evan [...]

I know I just wrote a piece on Jarrod Washburn two days ago but the rumors aren’t dying off and subsequently neither is my irritation with the fact the Royals are even considering signing the veteran lefty.  Along those lines, Bob Dutton had the following in his Wednesday evening article: The Royals pursued free-agent lefty Jarrod Washburn in the off-season, but club officials are dismissing a recent SI.com report suggesting renewed interest. “Just somebody throwing our name out there,” general manager Dayton Moore said. Say what you will about reporters, and bloggers for that matter, looking for a story but [...]

Last season was a disaster for Kansas City. Picked by some to be “the next Tampa Bay” and a popular sleeper team, the Royals followed up three years of progress with yet another September trying to avoid 100 losses. While there were various reasons for the Royals’ failure, one of the major factors was injuries. You can’t understate the impact of Alex Gordon’s injury last season. When your second-overall pick goes down for most of the year, you’re going to have trouble meeting expectations. But the 2009 Royals had organizational depth to move Mark Teahen back to third base to [...]