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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Kansas City Royals are reshaping their entire outfield and making Jose Guillen their full-time designated hitter.

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A person familiar with the negotiations says outfielder Rick Ankiel and the Kansas City Royals have agreed to a $3.25 million, one-year contract.

The Kansas City Royals have been looking for an outfielder this off-season and ESPN's Jerry Crasnick told...

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Cut by Colorado near the end of spring training, Scott Podsednik found himself on the couch watching the start of the 2009 season. Doubt? You bet. Podsednik had it.

Next up in the series is the Royals so stay tuned. Johnson was one of the best defensive catchers of the 1990s, as he won three Gold Gloves with the Marlins ...

However, Royals founder Ewing Kauffman did not receive enough votes for induction. The tributes kept rolling in for Greinke as the year wound down, too, ... 09 review: Say hi to CyTopeka Capital Journal all 3 news articles »

How Dayton Moore Can Have a Comeback Year blog) Actually Commit to the Rebuild: My hunch is, the advice will, or would, lead to one conclusion: the Royals have work to do. I love Zack Greinke, ...

Macon Telegraph Kansas City is my home. I've always been a Chiefs fan, a Royals fan …” As for the current Chiefs, Watson said, “You have to have the tools. ... Chiefs notes: Team honors Tom WatsonMacon Telegraph all 4 news articles »

With the selection, the Royals' Major League roster stands at 39. Osuna, who recently turned 22 on November 25, is currently 1-0 with a 1.40 ERA in 15 appearances for his hometown team of Mazatlan in the Mexican Winter League after splitting his 2009 season between Myrtle Beach and Mississi...

Arrowhead is part of the Truman sports complex, which also includes the Royals' Kauffman Stadium. Because of this, the entire area surrounding Arrowhead is ... Just Call Me Mr. PositiveArrowhead Addict (blog) all 10 news articles »

But, if that pitcher pitched for the Royals, then .500 is good. This is the reasoning behind W%+. It is to winning percentage what ERA is to ERA+. ...

The Tigers, Orioles, and Royals also plan to watch Chapman. Now that Casey Kelly has decided to pitch, the Sox could put him on the fast track to the majors ... Chapman to throw side session for clubsMLB.com all 18 news articles »

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...

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By royalsreview Royals: The Royal Tower: Team Review - Wilmington Blue RocksThe Royals' Fear of the Unknown Strikes Again - Royals AuthorityWell, It’s Over. " The Unknown Royals FanIn which I try to explain why Royals fans are devastated today " Getting to First Base Greinke-ganda: Why a vote against Zac...

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.

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 With as much up and down as this day has featured, you'd think we had a lot more than 2 picks.  But the Royals made those 2 picks count.  We shall see what tomorrow holds: if the Royals have any other big signability picks.  I think we'll grab some more "up the middle" players and our normal bevy of y...

By nwroyal In some ways, Johnny Giavotella is the type of player you would expect the Dayton Moore/ Trey Hillman Royals to take: known for his leadership and getting the most out of his talent.  At the same time, he doesn't fit the Royals draft pick profile-a college player who walk more than he strikes...

By ratherfantastic In the midst of all these May woes the Royals have been giving us, Royals Review has been more crabby than usual. And since we can't exactly put on happy faces for Game-Threads in which we get crushed in more ways than one, we might as well have a minor diversion every once in a while. So I've decid...

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)

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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 Still, the 2008 edition is plainly better. Throwing out Ho-Ram's small sample size glory, the current pen claims four fireballers who are markedly better than any reliever the Royals had in 2006. Moore deserves no genius plaudits for signing Ron Mahay and having Leo Nunez mature on his wat...

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 Taj Adib Other News*** Lineups: OAK Suzuki - C Barton - 1B Ellis - 2B Cust - DH Brown - RF Sweeney - CF BoCroz - SS Denorfia - LF HanRahan - 3B KC DeJesus - CF Grudzalaieaneaiek - 2B Teahen - 3B Butler - 1B Guillen - RF Gordon - 3B Olivo - DH Buck - C Pena Jr - SS

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...

The Yankees again swept the Royals in three straight games, winning 9-3 on Thursday as 54,381 fans observed the latest disappointment in the Bronx. ... MLB: NY Yankees 9, Kansas City 7 Monsters and Critics.com Yankees rally past Royals Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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...