The Royal Recipe: Starting pitching, frenzy hitting strike again
KANSAS CITY -- A good outing from their starting pitcher and a big inning from their offense is a formula that has worked for nearly two months of the Royals’ season, so why stop now? Monday was no different. Michael Wacha allowed just two runs in seven innings, and the
Injuries & Moves: Sauer DFA'd; Long selected from Triple-A Omaha
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Pasquantino, Royals show 'no brakes' in resounding sweep
KANSAS CITY -- With his uniform fully buttoned up after Saturday night’s win and feeling “like a businessman,” Vinnie Pasquantino knew he had to be ready for a big moment Sunday. He didn’t start Sunday’s series finale against A’s lefty JP Sears, but with the way Royals manager Matt Quatraro
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Legendary Royals bullpen trio honored on special weekend
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After adjusting uniform, Vinnie pushing the right buttons
KANSAS CITY -- As the Royals were readying to take the field Saturday night against the A’s, manager Matt Quatraro gave Vinnie Pasquantino some advice. Button it up. The Royals’ first baseman typically likes to have the top two buttons of his uniform unbuttoned, and Quatraro quipped that it looked
'Incredible' Salvy, Royals eye repeat of 2014-15 run
KANSAS CITY -- Seated in white chairs on the infield grass on Friday evening, former members of the Royals’ 2014 American League championship team all turned toward the Crown Vision scoreboard to watch highlights from the electrifying run that brought October baseball back to Kansas City for the first time
Royals’ top prospect jumps 11 spots on Top 100
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Royals honor 2014 AL champs with weekend-long celebration
KANSAS CITY -- Ten years ago, the Royals brought postseason baseball back to Kansas City with an electrifying October run. It included a truly wild, extra-inning Wild Card Game win over the A’s. It included an eight-game postseason winning streak. And it gave Kansas City its first American League pennant
Mock draft: Big college bats stir things up at the top
With the 2024 Draft still two months away, there's not much hard intel on who's going where in the first round. That picture will become clearer as college and high school players start wrapping up their seasons in the next few weeks, and teams conduct interviews and get medical information
How an IL stint led to an improved fastball for Marsh
SEATTLE -- Alec Marsh has come back from the injured list fast. Literally. On Wednesday, Marsh made his second start since returning from the injured list. And while the second-year right-hander had to battle his way through deep counts and long at-bats in a 4-2 loss to the Mariners at
Surprise! One encouraging prospect-related development for each team
Six weeks into the Minor League season, we have witnessed plenty of pleasant prospect developments. Athletics 2023 first-rounder Jacob Wilson is batting a sizzling .438 and already has reached Triple-A. Mets right-hander Jonah Tong has been a revelation with elite fastball characteristics and a Minors-best 0.33 ERA. As one Chourio
Velázquez flips script on Mariners with clutch 3-run blast
SEATTLE -- One swing was all it took, to change a game, a series and possibly a whole lot more for Nelson Velázquez. When Velázquez came to the plate in the top of the seventh inning, it had been 101 at-bats since his last home run on April 4 against
Singer's sinker hit hard in loss to Mariners
SEATTLE -- It was a different sort of challenge for Brady Singer on Monday at T-Mobile Park. The right-hander came to Seattle with a 2.36 ERA and a 1.007 WHIP, with three quality starts in his first seven outings and more than two runs allowed just once, working with a
Fan comes away with two foul balls ... on consecutive pitches!
Sometimes in baseball, the ball just finds you -- even when you're in the stands. One lucky Mariners fan became a true foul ball magnet on Monday night when he ended up with a pair of souvenirs ... on back-to-back pitches! In the bottom of the first inning, lefty Josh
'He's nasty:' Lugo dazzles with career-high 12 K's in series win
ANAHEIM -- Although the season is far from over in mid-May, the Royals are playing enough winning baseball that where they are in the standings is starting to matter. The fact that they could have taken over first place in the American League Central on Saturday night with a win
Wacha's tinkering with slider reaping early rewards
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Who takes the hardest swings on each MLB team?
The Statcast era of baseball research has reached another milestone: bat speed is live on Baseball Savant. You can check out this page for more thorough details on what bat speed entails and how it’s calculated. But in the meantime, we’re kicking things off by breaking down the best of
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Here's the freshly updated Top 100 Prospects list
Break out the caps and gowns. It’s time for a whole bunch of graduations and an updated Top 100 Prospects list. Young players who began the 2024 season on a Major League Opening Day roster with zero MLB service time exhausted their prospect status Sunday by way of the 45-day
'We'll be back tomorrow': Ragans, Royals hopeful despite loss
ANAHEIM -- Cole Ragans didn’t strike out an Angels batter until the third inning Saturday, atypical for the Royals’ hard-throwing starter who entered the night ranked third in the American League with an 11.4 K/9 and fifth with a 29.8% strikeout rate. But it was an atypical night all around,
Frazier's heroics, Marsh's pitching leads to late win over Angels
ANAHEIM -- Were you really counting the Royals out? Down one run with a runner on first in the top of the ninth inning at Angel Stadium on Friday night, Adam Frazier rocketed a two-run homer to right field to flip a deficit into a one-run lead and an eventual
World traveler Guthrie raising baseball's profile in Spain
In a professional career that spanned 15 years, Jeremy Guthrie was a baseball globetrotter, something that the former pitcher has continued in retirement. But even before becoming a prospect in the Cleveland organization and going on to pitch 13 years in Major League Baseball, as well as stints in the