Royals Review

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Can the Royals win 15 of their next 20? The Royals come out of the All-Star break in a bit of an awkward position. It is hard to go all in when your team is 3 games under .500 after 97 are in the books. It is also hard to immediately start selling and looking to next season when you are only 4.5 games out of the wild … [Read more...] about Analyzing the Royals’ second half schedule

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Let’s get these players signed! The Royals have made their draft picks, and news of their signings and their bonuses have begun to trickle in. Each of the picks in the first ten rounds is assigned a slot value that the Royals can sign a player above or below that number. After that round, each pick has a slot value of … [Read more...] about Royals 2025 draft signing tracker

I want a giant baseball card | Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images The Second Half Begins Tonight It’s a slooooooow news day. At The Star, Pete Grathoff notes that Royals streaming numbers are up: FanDuel Sports Kansas City said it had more than 115,000 unique streamers for Royals games this season. There has been a 54% year-over-year increase in unique streamers per … [Read more...] about Royals Rumblings – News for July 18, 2025

Michael Lorenzen is having a good time | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Royals have seen three different versions of their number five starter in 2025 When the Royals signed Michael Lorenzen during the offseason, there wasn’t nearly as much celebrating in Kansas City as there was when they signed Seth Lugo, Michael Wacha, or Michael Wacha the second time. But there were … [Read more...] about The curious case of Michael Lorenzen

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images This draft provided a much-needed infusion of talent but comes with risk. The 2025 MLB Draft promised to be intriguing for the Kansas City Royals. In a class light on college hitters, the top of the draft board was well-stocked with high-upside high school position players. The Royals were well-positioned to take … [Read more...] about Royals add upside to system with draft class headlined by a pair of prep bats