Gil Meche

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Should the Royals Trade Joakim Soria?

  You’ve probably heard the news that some teams have inquired about the availability of Joakim Soria.  Most recently, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox have expressed an interest,…Read More

Fighting the Pessimism, and Optimism Too

Well now, how much fun have the first nine games been? My journalism professor always gave us two rules to live by: Don’t use a question in your headlines and don’t use a question to start your lede.…Read More

Trusting the Process?

There’s certainly something to be said about developing a farm system that is the envy of baseball. It takes talent. It takes dedication. It takes all members of the organization to be on the same page,…Read More

Dolla Dolla Bill, Y’all

The Royals are a small market team. It’s just how it works. Unless their fan territory is expanded throughout Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, parts of Colorado, Illinois, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arkansas, the…Read More

Gil Meche Retires

In a surprise announcement today around noon, Gil Meche announced his retirement from baseball.  Meche was entering the final season of a five year contract with the Royals. Meche was expected to fill…Read More

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The Royals 40 Man Roster – Pitchers

The Royals currently have 43 men on their 40 man roster.  Clearly, that will change because, well, it…Read More

The Gil Meche Experiment: Another Look

Back on August 3, I discussed the impending shift by Gil Meche from the starting rotation to the bullpen…Read More

Onward and Forward

Buddy Bell once quipped “I never say it can’t get worse,” a prudent outlook given the…Read More

Clearing Up the Call Up Picture

It looks like the batch of September call ups may be pretty small when rosters expand tomorrow. The…Read More

The Gil Meche Experiment

So it was just a few days ago that word went around that Gil Meche was going to require surgery on the…Read More

Gil Meche Needs Surgery, Out For Rest of 2010

In other news, water continues to be wet, the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, and Jay Leno will continue…Read More

Dayton Moore: Flirtin’ With Disaster

With due respect to all you Molly Hatchet fans out there (thanks to you both for the visit!), there are…Read More

Catching Up On Moves

Mike Moustakas isn’t the only Royals prospect marching towards Kansas City. Jarrod Dyson continues…Read More

Zack Greinke Scratched From Start

For those of you tuning in to the Royals later today, you’ll notice the scheduled starter, Zack…Read More

Latest on Lefties

In the last couple weeks, left handed starting prospects Noel Arguelles and Mike Montgomery have had…Read More

Royals Rewind: 6/7-6/13

So first off, the structure and pattern of the Rewind is going to be changing.  To be honest, it’s…Read More

Royals Rewind: 5/31-6/6

The Royals started strong but fizzled out in their brief four-game series at Fenway Park, taking the…Read More

Royals Rewind: 5/24-5/30

When last we saw our Royal blue heroes, they were coming back down to earth after an initial hot streak…Read More

Meche Back to DL

The Royals placed Gil Meche on the 15-day DL today with shoulder bursitis.  To replace him on the 25-man…Read More

Royals Rewind: 5/17-5/23

After the dust settled and Trey Hillman had become the first managerial casualty of 2010, the Royals…Read More