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Wade Davis’ Struggles
Last year Wade Davis was pushed into the bullpen by Tampa Bay, and then sent to Kansas City over the summer. His career arc is an interesting one. In 2009 Davis came up and had six really good starts,…Read More
Feast or Famine: Scoring Runs
If you look at the Royals offense strictly on runs scored they are not doing all that badly. At 4.36 runs per game they are 14th in baseball, and 9th in the American League. That puts them as a pretty…Read More
What’s Wrong With Billy Butler?
Billy Butler looked like he was getting pitched around early in the year, and his first month numbers looked fine. The last two weeks have not gone so well though, and now his overall production looks…Read More
2013 Losing Streaks
Jeremy Guthrie played stopper last night with the help of three home runs, two of which came from Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas! I am assuming that James Shields is rather jealous. What that means…Read More
Late Breakout
After his performance over the weekend, Jeremy Guthrie is looking like a different pitcher than he has been in the past. He is 34 years old, and the idea of a career year at that age seems a little out…Read More
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Hot Streak
I’ve written about this before, but it seems even more important due the current state of affairs.…Read More
Pitching Deep, Hitting Quick
The new starting rotation is doing exactly what we all hoped for as Royals fans. They are pitching…Read More
A.L. Central….Beware
The Royals are about to finish up the month of April and have been fairly impressive so far. They’ve…Read More
So Far, So Good
We now have five games of James Shields as a Royal in the books. I wanted to go over the performance…Read More
Early Offensive Struggles
The overall offense numbers for the Royals thus far are eerily similar to last year’s incarnation of…Read More
Wade Davis and THE TRADE
I have been considering building a capital budgeting framework for valuing baseball trades, and Wade…Read More
Eric Hosmer’s Pitch Selection
The beginning of the season for Eric Hosmer has not been amazing due to a lack of power, but he is doing…Read More
Early Team Rankings
The following is trying to look at the Royals’ team stats to see if there is anything unusual going…Read More
Big Start for Ervin Santana
Ervin Santana was really, really good yesterday. Anytime you can get 8 innings out of your starter…Read More
Is This Royals Team Different?
I looked at the comments to this post during the game yesterday, and following the blown save Saturday,…Read More
Yordano Ventura: Starting Small
The main concern I have heard for Yordano Ventura’s long-term starting potential is size. Last year…Read More
Positional Power Rankings Reaction
I highly recommend going over to Fangraphs and checking out this piece, and all of the individual articles…Read More
I’m Not Dead Yet
After signing Cheslor Cuthbert in 2009 Baseball America put him as the 17th ranked Royals’ prospect…Read More
Can Alcides Escobar do it again?
Alcides Escobar took a big step forward in his batting production last season, but no one actually believes…Read More
Why The Royals Can Beat Detroit
Just like last year, everyone expects Detroit to waltz to an AL central victory. It was far from easy…Read More
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