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Big League Stew Blogbook: Kansas City Royals
Original at Yahoo! Sports
• Tue, Jan 26
The BLS Blogbook aims to map the online information terrain by providing a separate web directory for each team.
Ankiel Will Play Center Field for KC
Original at NYT > Kansas City Royals
• Sun, Jan 24
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.
Ankiel Agrees to $3.25 Million Deal With Royals
Original at NYT > Kansas City Royals
• Thu, Jan 21
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.
Royals may be close to signing Podsednik
Original at Yahoo! Sports
• Fri, Jan 8
The Kansas City Royals have been looking for an outfielder this off-season and ESPN's Jerry Crasnick told...
Scott Podsednik Agrees to $1.75M Deal With Royals
Original at NYT > Kansas City Royals
• Thu, Jan 7
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.
Joel's MLB Franchise Top 10: Florida Marlins
Original at Bleacher Report
• Sun, Dec 27
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 ...
Greinke provided many highlights in 2009
Original at MLB.com
• Sun, Dec 27
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 - Royals Review
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Dec 17
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, ...
Tom Watson expresses surprise at Tiger Woods' problems
Original at Kansas City Star
• Sun, Dec 13
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 »
Royals Select Left-handed Pitcher Edgar Osuna, Release Mike Jacobs and John Bale
Original at topix.net
• Sun, Dec 13
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...
Stadium Review: Kansas City Chiefs' Arrowhead Stadium
Original at Bleacher Report
• Thu, Dec 10
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 »
MLB History Unblurred: The Ten Best Pitchers From The 1870s and 1880s
Original at Bleacher Report
• Thu, Dec 10
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+. ...
Already drawing a crowd
Original at Boston Globe
• Wed, Dec 9
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 »
Reality check: Greinke's success means the clock is ticking on Dayton Moore and the Royals
Original at uponfurtherreview.kansascity.com
• Wed, Nov 18
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...
Eventide Royals Links
Original at Royals Review
• Sun, Oct 11
By royalsreview Royals: The Royal Tower: Team Review - Northwest Arkansas NaturalsGreinke vs Hernandez: My Vote | Upon Further ReviewSoria wins MLB Delivery Man of the Month Award " Kansas City RoyalsCaught Up in a Catching Situation | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals BlogRoyals on Radio Etc: BB...
Late Night Royals Links
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Oct 8
By royalsreview Royals: The Commitments - Royals AuthorityLet’s Try Again: Possible Royals 2010 Acquisitions « KC MonarchyThe Royal Tower: Team Review - Northwest Arkansas Naturals 2010 Outfielders « Andy Seiler's MLB Draft BlogJoe Posnanski » Blog Archive » Feeling CrankyThe Five Big Surprises o...
Early Morning Royals Links: Zack Greinke is Still Good
Original at Royals Review
• Wed, Oct 7
By royalsreview Royals: Zack Greinke's 2009 in the Stream of Time: The 11 Greatest Seasons by Starting Pitchers Since Pedro's 1999 - Driveline MechanicsFun Fact About Luke Hochevar | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals BlogThe Royal Tower: Team Review - Northwest Arkansas Naturals Decision Time...
Opinion: Late Night Royals Links - The Posts Won't Stop
Original at Royals Review
• Sun, Oct 4
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...
Opinion: Already Down Meche, Royals Await News on Brian Bannister
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Sep 10
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.
Book Review: The Last Out by Chris Earl
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Sep 3
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?
Opinion: Royals Trade Deadline Open Thread: Brian Bannister, Mark Teahen, Ron Mahay, Willie Bloomquist and Others Await Their Fate
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Jul 30
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...
Opinion: Catching up with Sam Mellinger on the Royals, the Rany Ban, and an Increasingly Controversial Season
Original at Royals Review
• Sun, Jul 12
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?
Opinion: Royals Draft-Day 1 Recap
Original at Royals Review
• Tue, Jun 9
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...
2008 Royals Draft Review
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Jun 4
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...
Let's Have Some Fun!!!11! RF's Caption Contest Week 1
Original at Royals Review
• Mon, May 25
• 1 related articles
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...
Minor League Recap: 2008 Omaha Royals
Original at Royals Review
• Sat, May 2
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)
2004 Royals Draft Review
Original at Royals Review
• Wed, Apr 1
By nwroyal Stephen Drew-D-Backs #15 overallBilly Butler-Royals #14 Philip Huges-Yankees #23Josh Fields-White Sox #18David Purcey-Blue Jays #16Glen Perkins-Twins #22Greg Golson-Phillies #21Scott Elbert-Dodgers #17Chris Lambert-Cardinals #19Trevor Plouffe-Twins #21 http://www.th...
Royals 2008 Minor League Recap: Idaho Falls Chukars
Original at Royals Review
• Fri, Feb 20
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.
Opinion: So like the Royals... Three Years Ago- A Chat With Bucs Dugout
Original at Royals Review
• Tue, Jan 27
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...
Podcast: How The Deadspin Editorship Ruins Your Personal Life, But Saves Your Team [World Series]Original at Deadspin
• Mon, Nov 3
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...
RRMLP: Looking back at the 2005 Draft
Original at Royals Review
• Fri, Jul 18
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.
Opinion: Reshaping the Roster, A Retrospective: Part II The Pitchers
Original at Royals Review
• Mon, Jul 14
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...
RR Minor League Project: Burlington (NC) Hitters' Update #1
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Jul 3
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.
Podcast: MLB Week 10: MLB Draft live highlights; Which teams screwed up their first-round pick? BoSox and Rays throw fisticuffs
Original at MVN
• Thu, Jun 5
“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...
Podcast: MLB Week 7: Stop blaming pitchers for lousy Tigers and Padres; Too much, too young for Kazmir and Braun?
Original at MVN
• Thu, May 15
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.
The 100 Greatest Royals of All-Time - #58 Emil Brown and #57 Raul Ibanez
Original at Royals Review
• Sun, Apr 27
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...
Opinion: Announcing the Nominees for the 2008 Mark Quinn Award
Original at Royals Review
• Mon, Apr 21
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...
Open Thread: Game 19 - Royals @ Athletics
Original at Athletics Nation
• Sat, Apr 19
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
Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals [Baseball Season Preview]
Original at Deadspin
• Tue, Mar 18
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?
Opinion: Soria as a starter? Not everyone agrees
Original at Royals Review
• Wed, Mar 12
By NYRoyal
Royals uniforms were due for a makeover - Kansas City Star
Original at Kansas City Star
• Wed, Dec 12
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. ...
Opinion: A Conversation with Kansas City Star's Sam Mellinger
Original at Royals Review
• Thu, Jun 28
By marbotty
Podcast: Thus far, Meche worth big investment made by Royals
Original at AZ Central.com
• Fri, May 4
Gil Meche might turn out to be the best 55 million invested by Kansas City Royals owner David Glass.
Podcast: April 11, 2007 (49 News at 10:00)
Original at 49abcnews.com
• Wed, Apr 11
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...
Podcast: Early runs enough for Beckett vs. Royals
Original at AZ Central.com
• Thu, Apr 5
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.
Podcast: What's Eating Zack Greinke?
Original at Deadspin
• Wed, Mar 28
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.
Spring Training Report: Live in Arizona (Continued)
Original at Baseball Analysts
• Tue, Mar 13
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
Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals
Original at Deadspin
• Mon, Mar 5
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...
Royals can't hold off Yankees
Original at Kansas City Royals
• Thu, Apr 13
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
Podcast: What's Going On With Zack Greinke?
Original at Deadspin
• Tue, Feb 28
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...