KANSAS CITY -- The Royals have been searching for ways to improve their offense for 2026, both from a personnel standpoint and a procedural standpoint. They believe that their core hitters -- Bobby Witt Jr., Vinnie Pasquantino, Maikel Garcia and Salvador Perez -- will carry the bulk of run production,

KANSAS CITY -- Carter Jensen and Noah Cameron weren’t wearing red outfits or carrying around big sacks of presents, but the two Royals players might as well have been Santa Claus for 12 Kansas City-area teenagers last week. On Friday, Jensen and Cameron gathered a group of Urban Youth Academy

The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame writers' ballot includes 12 first-time candidates. While they all won't end up enshrined in Cooperstown, and while it's possible that none of them will ever be inducted, each of them had at least one season in which they performed at a Hall of Fame

When we rank prospects at MLB Pipeline, it’s always with a long-term-potential frame of mind. We’re trying to project what kind of big leaguer each of these Minor Leaguers are going to be, so we look at tools or stuff and how we think each player will use them consistently

KANSAS CITY -- Following the trade that sent reliever Angel Zerpa to Milwaukee for outfielder Isaac Collins and reliever Nick Mears, the Royals turned up their search for left-handed relief help this week and landed it Friday morning, acquiring Matt Strahm in a trade with the Phillies and sending right-handed

As we say goodbye to 2025, it's a good time to revisit some of the best moments of the past season. From 13-strikeout complete games to multiple four-homer performances, the 2025 campaign featured excitement all across MLB. With the help of all 30 MLB.com beat writers, here's a look at

There are 27 players on the 2026 Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) Hall of Fame ballot, and their careers went in so many different directions. Some were paragons of stability. Ryan Braun, Alex Gordon, Félix Hernández, Dustin Pedroia and David Wright each played for just one Major League team.

This page will be updated throughout this offseason with any Royals injury updates and transactions.

KANSAS CITY -- As Royals general manager J.J. Picollo began to discuss the club’s five-year extension with third baseman Maikel Garcia on Wednesday, he brought everyone back to Feb. 6, 2016: The day the Royals first signed Garcia as a 16-year-old from La Sabana, Venezuela. “A lot of the players

KANSAS CITY -- Seeking an outfielder who can hit lefties well and play all three spots on the grass, the Royals signed a one-year contract with veteran outfielder Lane Thomas on Wednesday. The deal, sources told MLB.com, is worth $5.25 million with $1 million in performance incentives. Thomas passed his

KANSAS CITY -- Isaac Collins was moving into his new house in Denver on Saturday, when his agent called to inform him of a trade in the works. It looked like Collins was headed to Kansas City. Thirty minutes later, Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold called, followed by

KANSAS CITY -- Continuing their flurry of activity following the Winter Meetings, the Royals swung a trade Saturday night. They acquired outfielder Isaac Collins and right-handed reliever Nick Mears from the Brewers and sent lefty reliever Angel Zerpa to Milwaukee. The deal became official Sunday afternoon. By adding Collins and

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Scrambling for a holiday gift for the baseball fan(s) in your life? Calm down. Take a breath. We're here to help. With an assist from MLB.com's beat writers, here's one fun gift idea for fans of each team, all available at MLBshop.com. Jump to: AL East | AL Central |

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The biggest takeaway on the Royals front from the Winter Meetings this week was simply the fact that they are involved in a lot of areas of the market. Whether that turns into a transaction, we’ll see. Sometimes, that’s just how it shakes out. But the offseason

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Rumors may have been flying, but there wasn’t a whole lot of momentum or movement surrounding offseason transactions for the Royals on Tuesday at the Winter Meetings. But buzz picked up quite a bit when the 2026 MLB Draft Lottery results were announced. For the first time,

Now that MLB has held the Draft Lottery and we know which teams are picking where, it's time to predict whom they'll select. The 2026 Draft actually won't begin until July 11, so we have 214 days to figure it all out. But we can't wait to make our first

ORLANDO – As the Royals continue to search for ways to elevate their offense for 2026, the conversation usually takes a turn toward their pitching. The Royals have a lot of rotation depth and could use it to land a bat in a trade this offseason. That’s a logical connection,

ORLANDO, Fla. -- In an annual highlight of the Winter Meetings, the Scout of the Year program celebrates evaluators and administrators for their contributions to baseball. It did so again Tuesday evening here, with one of the honorees using the occasion to announce his retirement. Padres senior adviser and director

KANSAS CITY -- It’s not often a position player can dominate a game all by himself. He might only come to the plate four or five times over the course of a nine-inning game. But there are some days where it seems like a certain hitter is the only player

KANSAS CITY – The Royals have seen many incredible individual seasons throughout their franchise history. But what would a roster look like if we mashed all those standout seasons together? Here’s the Royals’ all-time roster based on a position’s best individual season: Starting pitcher: Bret Saberhagen, 1989 This really comes

While a solid percentage of picks in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft get at least some big league time the season following their selection, it’s not so easy to stick around for an entire year.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Rule 5 Draft isn't taking place until Wednesday, and while early buzz at the Winter Meetings might be about things like where Kyle Tucker will sign, there are always early whispers about names who could go in the Rule 5 Draft. Teams haven't really started digging