Latest news and updates about the Royals
The Athletics took on the Kansas City Royals in the penultimate game of their four-game series. For the second straight night, the A’s offense did its job, with the team holding a multi-run lead entering the final two innings, only for its arguably worst-ever bullpen to implode. While last night’s collapse felt like a small […]
The Athletics have the only bullpen worse than the Royals by ERA in 2026. For the second night in a row, they let Kansas City take away a Sacramento lead. The Royals took the game 9-7 and set up a possible four game sweep for tomorrow afternoon. The day started poorly for Seth Lugo who […]
Game 3 with the Sacramento/Las Vegas A’s will see the Royals going for a series win before the day game finishes off the four-game set tomorrow afternoon. This evening will feature Seth Lugo versus Gage Jump. Lugo has had an up and down season with some pretty disappointing overall numbers. Jump is a lefty whose […]
Yesterday, the Athletics were three outs away from evening up this four-game series against the Kansas City Royals. However, the league-worst bullpen cost the team once again. Hogan Harris blew his sixth save of the season, allowing the Royals to tie the game before giving way to fellow reliever Elvis Alvarado, who surrendered Bobby Witt […]
In 2018, the Royals received two compensatory draft picks for the departure of free agents Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer, in addition to a Competitive Balance Round A pick, giving them 5 of the top 60 picks. They sought to replenish their farm system following the breakup of their championship squad, and used their first […]
The end of July (or beginning of August) marks a special time in the baseball calendar. The Trade Deadline inspires […]
Happy Wednesday A’s Fans! Yesterday, the Athletics dropped a second straight game against the Kansas City Royals, giving up three runs in the bottom of the ninth to cement their status as the worst team in the league. Left-hander Hogan Harris fits as a late-inning left-handed reliever, but his command issues would prevent him from […]
There are likely few MLB teams that have experienced as much injury turmoil as the Kansas City Royals in 2026. It’s been an endless cycle of injured list stints and periods of riding the pine due to ailments for many key cogs on the roster. No place has felt it more than the pitching staff, […] The post What To Make of the Royals Trying Daniel Lynch IV as a Starter Again appeared first on Just Baseball .
The $1.5 billion–plus Kansas City Royals stadium subsidy plan sailed through its first city council committee hearing yesterday, with the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee voting unanimously to approve $600 million in city funding plus hundreds of millions more in tax breaks. The vote sent Mayor Quinton Lucas into paroxysms of metaphor, declaring that […]
Tonight, the Kansas City Royals played an “Uno reverse” card on their opponents, the Athletics: most of the time this season, it’s been the boys in blue who have blown the ninth inning. Not tonight. On this eve, the Royals scored a trio of runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to claim a […]
The Athletics’ blew another late lead on Tuesday night in Kansas City, allowing three runs in the bottom of the ninth to let an easy win slip right through their fingers. This one hurt. Facing Kansas City left-hander Daniel Lynch IV tonight, the A’s got to work right away against the reliever-turned-starter. Zack Gelof drew […]
The boyz are back, baby!!!! Jac, Vinnie, Maikel, Bob, everyone’s here—on offense, as it were. Yesterday, they scored a bunch of runs. It was delightful. Today, they will need to score a bunch of runs. The Royals are inexplicably sticking Daniel Lynch IV in the rotation. Lynch’s career splits are super obvious: as a starter, […]
UPDATE: New starter tonight as lefty Brady Basso will get things started. One would assume this is merely going to be an opener assignment while Perkins handles the bulk this evening. The team will also swap Gelof and Muncy, with Gelof DH’ing while Muncy handles left field. The A’s dropped their first game in Kansas […]
The Royals announced today that right-hander Carlos Durán has been recalled from Triple-A Omaha. Fellow righty Lucas Erceg has been optioned to Triple-A Omaha in a corresponding move. Erceg, 31, is optioned to the minors for the first time in his career. It’s not a shocking move right now but it’s one that would have […]
The Royals were hoping Lucas Erceg could be the shutdown reliever in their bullpen. Instead, he has struggled with his command all year and has been a big reason why they have the second-worst bullpen ERA in baseball. Today, the team finally optioned him to Omaha, calling up reliever Carlos Durán to replace him. Durán […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Royals fans and fans across the country. Jac Caglianone has been on an absolute heater for the month of August. He is slashing .424/.443/.746/1.189 with 5 home runs, good for a 227 wRC+; […]
There is a lot of incentive for Kansas City Royals principal owner John Sherman, general manager JJ Picollo, and manager Matt Quatraro to make excuses for this year’s poor team performance. It keeps the public more invested, and frankly to do anything else would admit that something in the organization needs to change—which hasn’t really […]
The Kansas City Royals finally won a road series, and Noah Cameron made sure the finale was memorable with a one-hit complete-game shutout in Anaheim that Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco treat as the centerpiece of this episode. The Royals had not won a road series in more than two months, making the victory over […]
Welcome to Tuesday A’s fans! The club can’t seem to get things right, even against a fellow bottom dweller like the Kansas City Royals. At 49-76 the team is tied with the Angels for the worst record in the sport. We need a win tonight or else we could be all alone at the bottom […]
The end of July (or beginning of August) marks a special time in the baseball calendar. The Trade Deadline inspires […]
The Royals offense got a boost with Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia returning from the injured list. On Monday, first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino and third baseman Maikel Garcia were reinstated to the 40-man roster from the injured list after their rehab assignments. Garcia has been sidelined since June 23 and missed 46 games with a […]
A Kansas City council committee is set to vote today on approving city money toward a new Royals stadium, so naturally the actual legislation didn’t get released until yesterday, providing everyone involved approximately no time to read and understand it. While everyone scrambles to play catchup, here’s an attempt to at least figure out the main […]
The Athletics struck first, a Jeff McNeil homer on the first pitch of the game, to go ahead against Michael Wacha right at the start. But the Royals roared back, scoring in five separate innings, to win the game 9-5 in Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia’s return from the injured list. The two returning players […]
The Athletics began the week with a Monday night matchup against the Kansas City Royals in the first game of this four-game series. The A’s dropped the series opener 9-5 in another game where a poor performance from the Green and Gold’s starting pitcher’s put them in an unrecoverable hole. The team’s offense battled back […]
The vagabond Athletics will make their annual journey to Kansas City for the home series this week. They stand at 49-75. Heading into July, FanGraphs playoff odds had them about equal to the Astros for making the playoffs. They have had some truly unfortunate injury issues, with Nick Kurtz and Shea Langeliers both on the […]