Royals Review

Bargain basement finds Back in June 2020, going slightly batty with pandemic boredom, I read a baseball book called The Wax Pack by an author named Brad Balukjian. Based on the premise of Lawrence Ritter’s excellent book The Glory of their Times, Balukjian opens an old wax pack then spends the better part of a year tracking down each of the players in the pack. It’s an … [Read more...] about The Wax Pack, Part II

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The lefty has 271 Major League appearances. The Royals announced they have signed 34-year old left-handed reliever Sam Freeman to a minor league contract. Teams can still sign players that did not end the season on the 40-man roster to minor league contracts during the transaction freeze. Freeman was originally a 32nd-round pick by … [Read more...] about Royals sign former Kansas Jayhawks pitcher Sam Freeman

Get it? Coral? | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images MLB Owners Lockout: Day 57 Max already had us covered here, by Lynn Worthy at the Star wrote about the Royals signing former Jayhawk pitcher Sam Freeman to a minor-league contract. Before his surgery, he’d featured a sinking fastball between 93-95 mph. A Texas native, Freeman pitched one season for the … [Read more...] about Royals Rumblings – News for January 28, 2022

Alan Jamison We’re here to mash homers and not strike out I had to ask. You know, the name. Vinnie Pasquantino is simultaneously an absolutely perfect old-timey baseball name as well as the kind of extraordinarily Italian name a soap opera might give to the new, suave doctor from Brooklyn. I first read the name a little over two and half years ago, and it immediately … [Read more...] about Meet Vinnie Pasquantino, the sleeper slugger whose name you won’t forget

The character “The Watcher” from the game Horizon Zero Dawn is paraded at the Los Angeles Convention Center on day one of E3 2017, the three-day Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of the biggest events in the gaming industry calendar, in Los Angeles, California on June 13, 2017. | MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images I CAN’T WAIT There are a lot of things that I’ve … [Read more...] about Pop Culture Corner: When was the last time you couldn’t wait for something to come out?

Stick around and leave a comment! Royals Rumblings - News for January 27, 2022 Mark Polishuk at MLB Trade Rumors looks at how AL teams have addressed their weakest position. Kansas City didn’t get much from right field or the corner infield spots, as third base (-1.0 bwAR) and first base (-0.7 bWAR) were also sub-replacement level positions. Hunter Dozier is a key figure in … [Read more...] about Royals Rumblings – News for January 27, 2022

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Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Are we starting to see some progress on the lockout? On December 2, the collective bargaining agreement between players and owners expired. The owners locked the players out and instituted a transactions freeze. And nothing happened. The two sides met once briefly in December, not much happened, and since then owners and players … [Read more...] about Owners and players are talking, and that’s a good thing

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The season of a lifetime The face of this franchise, Salvador Perez, just put up by far the best offensive regular season of his career in 2021. The numbers he produced are up there with some of the greatest seasons ever by a catcher. His stats are shown below: In a Royals year full of ups and downs and players underperforming, the one … [Read more...] about 2021 Season in Review: Salvador Perez