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By Dick Kaegel Shortstop-turned-pitcher Tony Pena is a free agent, but the Royals are interested in bringing him back if he's willing to stay on the mound. Royals interested in keeping hurler Pena

Robinson Cano capped a five-run seventh inning with a grand slam, Chad Gaudin made a strong case for a spot on the Yankees' postseason roster and a makeshift New York lineup beat the Kansas City Royals 8-2 Monday night for win No. 101.

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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) -- Robinson Cano capped a five-run seventh inning with a grand slam, Chad Gaudin made a strong case for a spot on the Yankees' postseason roster and a makeshift New York lineup beat the Kansas City Royals 8-2 Monday night for win No. 101.

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By royalsreview about : Kansas City Royals' Miguel Olivo hits a sacrifice fly, scoring David DeJesus, off Chicago White Sox relief pitcher Tony Pena during the seventh inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Chicago. Earlier in the sixth, Olivio hit a two-run home run off White Sox starter Mark...

Before we get to baseball stuff, it hit me this week that we -- all of us, sports fans -- are getting closer and closer all the time to putting sports in proper perspective. Maybe this is like the old Chris Rock line about getting credit for what you're supposed to do, but Royals manager Trey Hil...

Judging from your e-mail and phone calls, this is not the demographic prone to sympathy for Royals manager Trey Hillman. And that's probably just as well. Trey is, however, in a bit of a tough spot when he makes out his lineup today and for the rest of the season. Should Brayan Pena start at catch...

Here's something that came up recently: have the Royals built a National League team? Now, the wise guys among you will say, of course, it's a National League team because they have a pitcher batting (sometimes, it's Tony Pena Jr.) in the lineup every day. But, look: Tug Hulett, Willie Bloom...

By devil_fingers Keep in mind our projections assumed certain playing time for everyone, but changes (e.g. Gordon out, B. Pena gone) will modify those one way or the other. With our playing time esimates and the averaged wOBAs of CHONE, PECOTA, and ZiPS for each player on the Royals, we projected an overall wOB...

By royalsreview Let's pause a moment here. In 2005 there was no YouTube, there was really no widely-available Facebook, there was no Twitter, but there was Royals Review. In baseball terms, the Royals were managed by Tony Pena and Allard Baird. Terrence Long, Calvin Pickering, Justin Huber and Steve Steml...

By Peter Bendix Mike Aviles is very likely to decline, but could remain a solid shortstop, and even a decline from Aviles should make the Royals be awfully glad that they got rid of Tony Pena Jr., who hit an incredibly bad .169/.189/.209 last year (I don’t know what’s more amazing – that Pena was that bad, or that...

By Craig Brown His continued presence on this roster continues to shake my faith in Dayton Moore, Trey Hillman and the rest of the team.  You cannot give me a single reason why Pena should be on this team.  None.  Nada.  Yet, there he is every day, in uniform.

By RoyalsRetro Tony Pena Jr. 237 Batting Average 59 RBI Frank White 235 59 RBI Tony Pena Jr. is not good. Who is this mystery guy? Why its Tony Pena Jr.! Why compare Tony to Frank White when you could have compared him to George Brett! Shall we begin the Tony Pena Jr. Hall of Fame campaign now? Tony Pena Jr. is not good.

By Craig Brown – Joakim Soria’s blown save is nothing to get freaked out about.  While Wheeler missed his location on Buck’s game winning home run, Soria would have nailed Buck’s glove if Carlos Pena didn’t crush his pitch.  The fact he pulled it to right was all the more impressive.  Just one of those things...

By Clark Fosler the revised lineup with Joey Gathright batting second Mark Teahen’s inside the park home run a sudden spark from this team after eight bad games and eight bad innings last night Trey Hillman’s pinch hitting for Esteban German innings before he pinch hit for Tony Pena Jr.

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 Clark Fosler Let’s assume the Royals are keeping 12 pitchers, 2 catchers and four outfielders (DeJesus, Teahen, Guillen & Gathright). Now, you have Gordon, Pena, Grudzielanek and Gload around the infield and Billy Butler at the DH. The Royals just traded for another infielder in Alberto Callasp...

• Wily Go Round In Circles. Oh, speaking of the Red Sox, they've got a little momentum going. Wily Mo Pena had a 430-foot, eighth-inning grand slam that propelled Boston over Baltimore 5-2, making Josh Beckett the majors' first five-game winner.

The Atlanta Braves traded Tony Pena Jr. to the Kansas City Royals for minor league pitcher Erik Cordier on Friday after concluding the shortstop would not make Atlanta's Opening Day roster.