Kevin Scobee

Award winning writer and editor Kevin comes to Kings of Kauffman after opening a pitching academy in the Kansas City area. Maintaining his ties to the baseball world, Kevin appears on podcasts frequently talking about training methods for pitchers, and his views on the philosophy of pitching. Kevin currently lives in Orange County, Calif., with his wife Sara, and his pets iPad, iPod, iPhone, Mac, and Playstation 3.

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The Gold Glove: A Royal Repeat?

Tomorrow the offseason awards announcements start with one that is very near and dear to my heart: the Gold Glove winners. C’mon, you just knew I wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to write about…Read More

The Monday Rant: Addressing The Storylines

“It’s been four weeks since the last Monday Rant and the reason for the absence is really quite obvious: what is there, really, to write about? The #OurMissionTime2012 season is barreling towards…Read More

A Case Against Acquiring Dan Haren

Enough has been made now of the recent Bob Dutton article quoting Royals owner David Glass saying he will – and the team intends to – spend money this coming offseason to improve the team.…Read More

More Mixed Signals, More Awkward Logic

For the third straight game Monday, David Lough started in right field and batted leadoff. Lough, a 26-year-old whose minor league numbers look like those of a minor leaguer and not a prospect, has been…Read More

The Monday Rant: Trading From A Position of Perceived Strength

How far away are the Royals from contending, really? That’s an important question that needs to be answered as September approaches and the 2012 season comes to a close. Because while many may be beating…Read More

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The Monday Rant: Eli’s Coming

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Twenty-twelve was supposed to be the year that things started to…Read More

The Monday Rant: The Trade Deadline Cometh

There isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said. This season has to rank among the most disappointing…Read More

The Monday Rant: Moving the Goalposts

This is year six. The Royals lost on Sunday in a fashion that bad teams make a habit of losing: with…Read More

The Monday Rant – Sanchez Struggles, Escobar Doesn’t, and A Staggering Statistic

That, was awful. If there’s one thing that most bloggers and writers should stay away from doing is…Read More

The Monday Rant – Butler Is An All-Star, Gordon Continues To Star, Francoeur Still Struggles

The Royals lost three games over the weekend to the Twins and in all of those losses the glaring deficiencies…Read More

Royals Drop Both Ends of DH, Look For Series Split

In what was supposed to be the finishing flourish to the defining month of the Dayton Moore regime (okay,…Read More

The Monday Rant

In the midst of preparing for today’s Rant I went out to have a nice dinner with the lady friend at…Read More

The Monday Rant

Challenge accepted. Kind of. Last week on Twitter I was challenged to write 7,500 words on Yuniesky Betancourt…Read More

The Monday Rant

Today is the MLB Rule IV First-Year Player Draft, which is to say today is the day the Royals will either…Read More

The Evolution of Escobar

Last year around this time I wrote a piece commenting on the narrative that somehow Alcides Escobar was…Read More

Bullpen Dominates, Butler Stays Hot, Royals Win 4-2

Fresh off getting some pub for being the fantastic hitter he is, Billy Butler continued to be the best…Read More

Keep Your Head Up, Alex

Dear Alex, Things are not going well. It’s pretty obvious. The smile and the swing you had last year…Read More

Royals Lose, By A Lot, Again

The career resurgence and rebuilding of Jason Hammel continued Friday night as he battled his way out…Read More

Royals vs. Tigers Rained Out, Rotation Shuffled

Hopefully, the Royals dodged a bullet in the form of a Justin Verlander fastball. The game that was scheduled…Read More

Kings of Kauffman Mailbag – Ep. 5

Well now, this sure has been a month to forget. April hasn’t been so kind to the Royals – again –…Read More