Royals Injury Updates: Lorenzo Cain Activated; Chris Getz To Take Concussion...
After improvement in his strained oblique, Lorenzo Cain was activated from the disabled list. He’ been out for nearly a month after suffering the injury in batting practice August 9. According to a...
View ArticleHandle With Care
On Thursday in the top of the fifth inning, Dustin Ackley swung at a pitch and fouled it off. The ball skipped off his bat and popped Salvador Perez on the chin of his facemask. Perez paused, held out...
View ArticleDiscussing Omaha’s Playoff Chase with Lee Warren
While the Royals were working on their own playoff hunt the Triple A Storm Chasers had a playoff push of their own. So we called up Lee Warren who’s covered Omaha baseball for years (and, in fact, you...
View ArticleWinning Homestand Continues the Royals’ Wild Ride
I don’t know what to make of this season anymore. It’s a departure from most Royals seasons where the team starts low and stays low. This year, there have been peaks and valleys nearly all season. The...
View ArticleRoyals Send Out Postseason Ticket Info, Odds Be Damned
Maybe the odds aren’t in their favor, but the Royals are at least proceeding with postseason ticket plans in the event that the team makes the playoffs. #Postseason information has been sent to...
View ArticleMLB Wild Card Update: Royals Within Two Games of Wild Card
It’s starting to feel real. After many ups and downs, many losses that seemed like the end of the road, the Royals are 77-69 and two games out of the AL Wild Card. How contenders fared on Wednesday:...
View ArticleTune In: Royals Baseball On TV (Sometimes) — [UPDATE]
This is as exciting a year of baseball as we’ve seen in Kansas City recently. For many of you, this might be the first good team you’ve seen. The 2003 squad won some games, even had a lead in the...
View ArticleRoyals Announce Minor League Players of the Year
It’s been a pretty good year for the Royals farm system. Omaha will play for a chance at another PCL title on Friday, Northwest Arkansas nearly made the Texas League playoffs, and Idaho Falls will be...
View ArticleWhere Things Stand – The Royals and the Wild Card Race
The Royals won Saturday’s game in dramatic fashion and lost Sunday’s game in dramatic fashion as well. And why would it be any other way? The Royals have been up and down all year, and at this stage...
View ArticleYordano Ventura Will Make Major League Debut Tuesday
The Royals announced that right-handed pitcher Yordano Ventura will be called up to start Tuesday’s game against Cleveland in place of Danny Duffy. Ventura compiled a 3.74 ERA in 77 innings for Omaha...
View ArticleKansas City Baseball Vault: Playoff Chase, Royal Killers, Minor Leaguers
Jeff and Troy steered the ship all over without Michael Engel at the helm this week. They looked at what the Royals have to do to make the playoffs, Kansas City sports on a high with wins by all...
View ArticleTuesday’s Gone – Royals Squander Strong Yordano Ventura Debut
The mitt popped and heads turned. A windup, a throw. POP! And twenty thousand turn to look at the scoreboard. 98 mph. 99 mph. 101 mph. Nervous energy filled the stands. Chatter included reminders that...
View ArticleRoyals to Call Up Chris Dwyer and Irving Falu
After 6.2 perfect innings in the National Triple A Championship, left-hander Chris Dwyer will be called up to Kansas City for the final stretch of games according to Rob White of the Omaha World...
View ArticleRoyals Off Day Updates: Yost’s Fate, Hosmer in RF?, The Trade, Erv, and More
There are just ten games left in the Royals season, a final stretch that should see the team reach .500 for the first time since 2003 and they would reach their highest win total since 1989 if they...
View ArticleMore Royals Wild Card Scenarios – Root For Houston Edition
The Royals didn’t play a single inning but gained half a game on Baltimore and jumped ahead of New York in the wild card race. That’ll work. But there’s work to do. On Friday, Texas comes to visit...
View ArticleA Must-See Royals Video to Pump You Up For the Weekend
Yesterday, Chris DeRuyscher of the Royals Event Presentation and Production department (whose Twitter can be fount at @CLDHeavy) posted this video to Facebook (and h/t to Minda Haas – @minda33 – for...
View ArticlePodcast: The Wild Card Race and Discussing the Rangers/Royals Series
It’s crunchtime in the 2013 season so we’re hustling to get some discussion out for you to enjoy. Today, we talked about the Royals current playoff run, second-guessing Ned Yost (warranted or not),...
View ArticleJustin Maxwell’s Grand Slam Clinches Winning Season For Royals
When the Royals acquired Justin Maxwell at the trade deadline, a number of people asked “who?”. A number asked “why?” After Sunday, I think a lot more people will know Maxwell’s name. With the bases...
View ArticleRoyals Rookies Get Hazed
I’d imagine as long as there have been teams and new members of teams there’s been some form of hazing. Make rookies do something silly or embarrassing to be “initiated” to the big leagues. Today was...
View ArticleKansas City Baseball Vault: Still In The Hunt
We hustled to get another podcast up for you since the Royals are still in the hunt and ready for Seattle. Troy and I talked about the Rangers series, the Wild Card race, and what the Royals need (a...
View ArticleDayton Moore Wants Ned Yost to Return
A week ago, Royals owner David Glass said that Ned Yost‘s fate would be in Dayton Moore’s hands. At the time, Yost said that he wasn’t thinking about an extension while the season was going on and...
View ArticleGreg Holland Sets the Royals Single Season Save Record
In the Royals history books, the list of great closers is small but prolific: Dan Quisenberry, Jeff Montgomery, Joakim Soria. And in 2013, Greg Holland surpassed them all. Holland notched his 46th...
View ArticleJames Shields: 2013 at a Glance
James Shields arrived in Kansas City with high expectations and under heavy scrutiny. Such is life after one of the biggest trades in franchise history. Now that Shields has made his final start off...
View ArticleRoyals Win Over White Sox Finishes 86-76 Year
It was a familiar script. Strong starting pitching that got shortened the game for the bullpen. Another game with four runs scored or more that turned into a win (the Royals were 64-23 when scoring...
View ArticleRevisiting Our Royals Predictions
Now that the Royals season is over, we can reflect on how things went, and how they unfolded relative to expectations. Before the season started, the whole staff here at Kings of Kauffman made...
View ArticleRoyals Extend Ned Yost Through 2015
Ned Yost will return to his post as Royals manager in 2014 looking to build on 2013’s success. The Royals announced a two year extension that keeps him in place through the 2015 season. After the...
View ArticleAlex Gordon’s Place in Royals WAR Lore
Last winter, I took a look at Alex Gordon‘s 2011 and 2012 seasons in the context of other Royals hitters in history. I had concluded that another strong season would put Gordon in esteemed company. To...
View ArticleRoyals Stuck in the Middle By MLB’s CBA
Last week, Keith Law of ESPN wrote a piece about the MLB CBA and its impact on teams like the Royals – not just as a small market team, but in regards to where they finished in the standings. His...
View ArticleWhat Might Have Been: Royals Send Out Playoff Tickets
You know how a team will always have the merchandise – shirts, hats, jackets – already showing them as division champs, or league champs, or World Series champs the moment after they clinch their...
View ArticleKCBBV: Season Recap and Revisiting Old Predictions
In our first show after the Royals 86-76 season concluded, we took a trip back to the past and listened to some clips from March episodes to see how close we were to getting something right. We...
View ArticleSteve Bartman, Don Denkinger, and How a Moment is Remembered
You’re going to see it a few times tonight anyway, and likely a few times each playoff season. Ten years ago today, Luis Castillo lifted a harmless foul popup to the left side at Wrigley Field. Moises...
View ArticleKCBBV: Fall Leagues and Roster Questions
This week, we wanted to take a look at some Arizona Fall League happenings, including checking in on Jason Adam, Jorge Bonifacio, Noel Arguelles, and Orlando Calixte, among others. We also discussed...
View ArticleBaseball Jealousy
So the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals are again going to the World Series. Ho hum. Lather, rinse, repeat. Now, don’t get me wrong, both of the ALCS and NLCS offered some solid baseball,...
View ArticleMarket Closed: Tim Lincecum [UPDATE]
UPDATE: The Giants and Lincecum agreed to a two year deal to avoid free agency on Tuesday, about 18 hours after this was posted. So imagine an alternate universe in which they *didn’t* do that and...
View ArticleTale of Two Pitchers: Kyle Zimmer and Michael Wacha
Thursday night, the St. Louis Cardinals will send rookie Michael Wacha to the mound for Game 2 of the World Series. He’s a rookie – we all know that. NLCS MVP as well. And a 2012 draft pick. Wacha,...
View ArticleTalking With the KC Star’s Bob Dutton on the Kansas City Baseball Vault
We were glad to welcome Royals beat writer Bob Dutton to the Vault this week to talk about the Royals and what lies ahead for the offseason. We addressed Billy Butler trade rumors and his place in the...
View ArticleBonus Podcast: Lee Warren Visits to Discuss Mike Jirschele
When hearing the news of Mike Jirschele being promoted from the Omaha manager’s job to Major League coach, we called upon Lee Warren to discuss the move. Lee is a long time friend of the show and one...
View ArticleThree Royals Win Gold Gloves
After a season in which the Royals led all of baseball in UZR, according to FanGraphs, it’s fitting that they ended up with five nominees for a Gold Glove Award. And from that large pool of potential...
View ArticleThe Series Ends, the Season Changes
The first World Series I really remember seeing part of was the 1985 World Series, but I was just five years old and didn’t even know baseball yet. It wasn’t until a few years later – 1989 – that I...
View ArticleSorting Things Out: A Note to Our Readers
Way way back in March of 2010, my life took a strange turn. It was my day off, a Thursday, and I was running around town with a friend. We grabbed breakfast, stopped by an outdoor store, watched...
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