Kansas City Royals

My cell phone buzzes and the two-time Cy Young winner's number lights up on caller ID."Hey," he says, "it's Bret with one 'T'."There's a pause."But I'm Saberhagen, not that other g...

The Royals began work on their bullpen with the signing of right-hander Brad Thompson to a minor-league contract on Thursday.

Score one for Royals marketing. The team announced Thursday that next year's team will wear a new powder blue hat with their powder blue jerseys, which have been worn every home day game since the 2008 season. The hat -- shown above here -- will go on sale for $38 at the team store at Kauffman Sta...

Doug Henry will be the new pitching coach for Class AAA Omaha after spending one season as the Royals’ roving pitching coach. Henry replaces Tom Burgmeier. The rest of the coaching staffs for the Royals’ top four affiliates will return intact, the organization anno...

Pardon this blog if the relief and euphoria and pride of seeing Zack Greinke win baseball's highest pitching honor hasn't yet faded, but there is a fast-approaching reality that the Royals will have to face.They now have anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years to build a conten...

Around here, among Royals fans in Kansas City, there’s been a persistent buzz about whether Zack Greinke would win the Cy Young Award as the American League’s best pitcher. Out there, in Zack Greinke’s offseason in Orlando, not so much.

Zack Greinke won the American League Cy Young Award on Tuesday, beating out Felix Hernandez after a spectacular season short on wins but long on domination.

Royals second baseman Alberto Callaspo fell five days short of qualifying for arbitration under the labor agreement’s super-2 provision. That figures to cost him several hundred thousands of dollars. Third baseman Alex Gordon, as expected, was one of 10 players who qualifi...

Former Royals owner Ewing Kauffman is again just one step away from a posthumous induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Kauffman was one of 10 executives selected Tuesday for consideration by a 12-member Veterans Committee that again includes current Roy...

We talked the other day about Johnny Damon's Hall of Fame case the other day, and that probably missed the more relevant question to Kansas City, which is whether he's a ROYALS Hall of Famer.The team Hall of Fame received a huge makeover in the stadium renovations, going f...

Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals and Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals were named the top pitchers by the Major League Baseball Players Association.

Aside from a barstool, there may be no more emotional position in baseball than closer. This is certainly true for Jonathan Papelbon and K-Rod, but more, it's true for the people watching. So long as it doesn't get watered down from blowouts, the best moment at Kauffman Stadium is when the vi...

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By Dick Kaegel The Minnesota Twins, intent on bringing postseason action to the dome, gained in the American League Central race on Friday night with a 10-7 victory over the Royals. Royals' rally falls short against Twins

Here was the enigma named Luke Hochevar on full display Wednesday night in his simultaneous ability to tantalize and confound the Royals and, really, everyone else. Hochevar managed both extremes in this 9-2 loss to Boston at Kauffman Stadium.

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By royalsreview Thanks to their late season 10-3 spurt, the Royals have risen/fallen (its impossible to ever use the right phrase in these situations) from the second overall pick in next season's MLB Amateur Draft into a tie with Cleveland for the fourth pick. (Thanks to 306008 for posting the standings...

By royalsreview Royals manager Trey Hillman said on Thursday that Meche would most likely be shut down for the final weeks of the season. He declined to speculate on whether Bannister would need surgery. The Royals did not disclose the exact nature of the problems.

A recent surge may have given the Detroit Tigers a more comfortable lead atop the American League's Central Division, but the team has been cooled off by one of the most unlikely of opponents.

Well, this is what it's supposed to look like. Speed throughout the lineup, athletes all over the field, and a good pitching performance on the mound.

By royalsreview It's a book about the Royals. It's good. You'll like it. What was your research process like in writing the novel? You mention Kansas City broadcaster Jack Harry in your preface, did you talk to local Kansas City guys? Drive around town?

By royalsreview Ethan Skolnick's Season Ticket | Sun-Sentinel Blogs: Florida Marlins: Serious about winning? Get a starting pitcher (like Brian Bannister, he proposes)Royals Fielding Calls For Brian Bannister - MLB Daily DishDFA’d Player Update, Josh Anderson, and Royals Related Rumors | Kings...

By royalsreview RR: Does Mike Aviles have a future with the Royals? But, like I said, the bulk of the blame goes to the Royals. RR: When you talk to people around baseball, is there still the old consensus that Dayton Moore can and will rebuild the Royals?

By nwroyal The Royals took Aaron Crow at #12 overall.  He was ranked #7 by both Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus.  I've never been a huge Aaron Crow guy--so I'm a little lukewarm on this pick.  I had him ranked #8--so I don't think he's a dud--I just had Green ranked a little higher.  But a lot of fans...

By royalsreview The 2009 Royals are what Dayton Moore wanted. This is a team he's rather meticulously built. Sadly, if you remove Zack Greinke -- a Baird holdover -- from the roster, the Royals are probably one of the worst two or three teams in the American League. Can Dayton Moore build an offense?

By marbotty 2. Mike Aviles, 2B/SS 214 At Bats, 10 HRs, .336/.370/.631, 11BB, 26K 4. Billy Butler, 1B 101 At Bats, 5 HRs, .337/.417/.564, 14BB, 7K 4. and 5. Kyle Davies/Devon Lowery 57.2 IP, 11 GS, 2.03 ERA, 38K, 21BB (Davies) 59.1 IP, 0 GS, 2.12 ERA, 43K, 30BB (Lowery)

By marbotty Compliment:  "Bob, I appreciate how much of a hard worker you are." Dayton Moore, of course, did the sensible thing by removing Jim Gambella as manager of the Chukars.   Unfortunately, he removed him by promoting him to manager of the Burlington Bees.

By royalsreview The jury is still out, of course, and we'll have to see whether the Pirates will raise payroll once they're in a position for a free agent or two to put them over the top, and we'll also have to see what sorts of players they pick when it gets to the point where it really matters who their supporti...

By DAULERIO It wasn't long after Brad Lidge struck out Eric Hinske with a dirtball slider on Wednesday night that the posts started popping up about the eerie connection between being Deadspin's lead editor and the World Series champion. Fans of the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, l...

By James Quinn 1st Round – Alex Gordon – We all know about him. Brett Fisher – 7th Round – High school pitcher.  He pitched well in ’05 and ’06 at the Rookie level but was roughed up in Low-A in ’07.  He seems to be on a rehab assignment now with the Arizona Royals.

By royalsreview With memories of "All-Star Mark Redman" dancing between our ears, let us take a look at the bullpen work Dayton has done: 2006ERA+2008ERA+CLBurgos85Soria286RPDessens104Ramirez152RPSisco66Mahay229RPNelson106Nunez250RPPeralta107Peralta76RPGobble91Gobble56RPWood82H....

By CentralChamps2009 1B David Wood:  Wood, an 2007 undrafted free agent from Texas State who wound up being the AZL Player of the Year last year played a brutal 37 games for A+ Wilmington, going .156/.179/.188/.367 with 34 Ks to only 4 walks.  He has yet to play a game in Burlington.

“The Pitch” was all over one of Major League Baseball’s biggest days of the year, covering the 2008 MLB Draft’s first round live. And in the podcast, listeners get the highlights from the two-hour live event, including interviews with Royals Authority’s Clark Fosler, MVN’s Eric SanInoc...

With Cubs homer Joe Aiello out of the picture on the Thursday show, host Brandon Rosage takes his shot at both questions following a pitiful Tigers loss in Kansas City and a fourth shutout loss by San Diego — this time at the hands of Cubs starter Ryan Dempster.

By RoyalsRetro He would appear in 92 games in 2000, hitting just .229 with a weak .329 slugging percentage. He was called upon to play all three games of the American League Division Series, collecting three hits in eight at bats. In the American League Championship Series against New York, he took the collar...

By royalsreview Billy Butler: This nomination isn't suggesting that Butler will be out of baseball in two seasons, but he's the closest approximation to a pure Quinn candidate on the roster, thanks to Alex Gordon already disappointing us and lowering expectations last season. Butler gets constant cri...

By royalsreview Fernando Vina pointed out that the Royals love playing hard for Brian Bannister. That is great! Its good that they play hard for Bannister, because he deserves it the most because he did well on his SAT. Why play hard for someone like Odalis Perez? Is he even American? Na, you can slack on those...

By Leitch Today: The Kansas City Royals. Your author is Will McDonald. Will McDonald writes Royals Review and is a grad student writing his dissertation on eighteenth-century American poetry. His words are after the jump. Are you ready for a universe in which the Royals are good?

By NYRoyal The Royals situation with Soria is mirrored by the Yankees quandry with Joba Chamberlain.  He dominated as a reliever and scouts think he has the stuff to be a very successful starting pitcher.  Many commentators think the Yankees should keep in the bullpen and groom him to be Mariano River...

Royals uniforms were due for a makeover  MO - “I feel like I’m looking in a time tunnel,” Tim Gunn said when shown this picture of Royals Coach Dick Howser from baseball’s 1985 season. ...

By marbotty Sam Mellinger: I do think it's sustainable, if by "sustainable" you mean that the Royals will continue to progress --- not that they'll continue to beat John Lackey with John Thomson. The free agent thing, there is the argument that the Royals could be in line for an extra draft pick by losin...

Gil Meche might turn out to be the best 55 million invested by Kansas City Royals owner David Glass.

More than 100-thousand troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan will be overseas three months longer than originally planned. The state board of education just wrapped up a three day trip to Junction City. Local pilots say a plane crash near Billard Airport could've been prevented. In just...

J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell hit backtoback doubles in a threerun first inning, and Josh Beckett held Kansas City to two hits through five chilly innings Wednesday night, leading the Boston Red Sox past the Royals 71.

We don't know Zack Greinke, but we have heard some interviews with him from 610-AM sports radio in Kansas City, and, well, we find it difficult to imagine that he's plagued by existential dread and angst. That is to say: We're not sure the elevator goes up to that floor.

By Marc Hulet Kansas City Chicago (NL) Chicago (Select hitters): Kansas City (Select hitters): CF David DeJesus 3-2 GB to 2B 0-0 GB to 3B 1-0 one-run home run 1-for-3, homer LF Billy Butler 2-0 GB to 3B 2-2 hit by pitch 0-for-1 CF Mitch Maier 1-2 fly to LF

By Leitch Unlike a fan of, say, the Arizona Cardinals, who have sucked steadily since Lincoln was president, many Royals fans can remember our own version of the Golden Age of Pericles. We won two pennants and a World Series. We were baseball's most successful team from 1976-1985. We had a hero (George...

By Dick Kaegel Left-hander Mark Redman officially joined the free agent ranks on Thursday, rounding out the Kansas City players eligible to file. Redman joins Royals first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz and catcher Paul Bako in the open market this offseason. Redman makes it a free-agent threesome

By Leitch For those of you who don't have your Google News Alerts set to "Kansas City Royals," you might not being paying close attention to a truly bizarre story involving Zack Greinke. The one-time Royals phenom, once called "the future of pitching" by Baseball Prospectus, has left the team for an...