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Kansas City committee recommends passing three measures related to a new Kansas City Royals Stadium at Crown Center. The committee recommended rezoning of an area of about 68 acres located south of Pershing Road, west of Gillham Road, north of E. 27th Street and east of Main Street. It also recommended recommendations of the Tax […]
Once a team comes up with its projected salary for all of its arbitration-eligible players, it will begin a tender analysis to simply determine: “Are we comfortable guaranteeing Player X this much money?” If the answer is yes, the player will be tendered a contract prior to the mid-November Tender Deadline. Tendering a contract means […] The post Kansas City Royals Arbitration Projections and Tender Decisions appeared first on Just Baseball .
When principal owner John Sherman first floated the idea of a downtown stadium nearly five years ago, I’m guessing that he didn’t foresee the long and bumpy road that Kansas City and the Royals would take to get there. But on August 20, the City Council approved a funding commitment that, for the first time, […]
Kansas City released a consulting report it commissioned on a new Royals stadium yesterday, with the intent of showing how it will pay off about $1.4 billion in taxpayer costs while team owner John Sherman is on the hook for less than $600 million. Let’s see how it compares to the typical clown documents: Questionable […]
The Royals have a stadium to sell, a payroll to explain, and a lot of confidence about both. The numbers have not exactly gotten the memo. Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco go through John Sherman’s latest answers on spending and the stadium timeline, and the gap between the pitch and the math is where this […]
The Royals’ Single-A affiliate, the Columbia Fireflies finished the season with a record of 64-65, almost winning the division in the first half of the season. There was plenty of good and bad throughout the season, so let’s dive into it. The good from the position players: Josh Hammond, the Royals’ first round pick in […]
A new report from a development consulting firm says the new stadium will make more money. Over $460 million in tax revenue generated on site at the stadium would be redirected over 30 years, the report projects. Beyond that, to fully cover its obligations, the city would sketch out a “stadium impact area,” where new […]
Baseball was in Bob Fontaine Jr.’s blood long before he began scouting the players who would become stars. His father, Robert Fontaine, was a pitcher for the Montreal Royals and a teammate of Jackie Robinson, and Fontaine Jr. would eventually spend nearly 5 decades shaping the game. From Tony Gwynn and Ozzie Smith to the […] The post Angels Mourn as Key Scouting Member Passes Away at the Age of 73 appeared first on EssentiallySports .
The Royals have a lot of work to do this offseason to get back to contention. One of the first things they will need to do when the offseason officially begins after the World Series is determine which arbitration-eligible players should be tendered a contract. MLB Trade Rumors has released its annual arbitration salary projections […]
Vahe Gregorian writes about what he wants to see the Royals change this offseason. There’s another issue, though, that I hope the Royals will delve deeper into as they audit their processes. Heck, maybe they could even form a task force for the cause: Solve why so many of their seasons get wrecked within weeks. […]
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The Royals picked up a point against automatic-promotion-chasing Bradford City in a 1-1 draw at the SCL Stadium on Saturday. The visitors took an early lead through Jake Beesley before Udoka Godwin-Malife equalised for Reading in the second half to ensure the points were shared. Here is what Royals boss Leam Richardson had to say […]
“Aggressive in acquisitions” is one of those phrases that sounds great in a press conference and means almost nothing until someone actually writes a check. Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco spend this episode picking apart J.J. Picollo’s end-of-season comments to figure out what the Royals are really signaling for this winter, and whether aggressive and […]
David Lesky looks at what the Royals can learn from teams in the playoffs. I’m not saying the Royals suddenly have a playoff offense, but some health and an addition or two could make the offense good enough with the right pitching in place. A guy like Vinnie Pasquantino getting back to where he was […]
Vinnie Pasquantino has spent enough time facing the Chicago White Sox to know their bullpen presents a tougher task than the name recognition might suggest. That experience has the Kansas City Royals first baseman believing Chicago can push the Cleveland Guardians to the limit in the ALDS. The White Sox head into Saturday afternoon’s opener […] The post Why Royals’ Vinnie Pasquantino believes White Sox are ‘built’ for playoffs appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Slow news week, busy Friday roundup, as the saying goes. (I didn’t say it was an old saying.) Roger Goodell and a Chicago Bears minority owner met this week with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and state legislative officials, and if you want to take that as a sign that the league and team want a better […]
At The Star, Sam McDowell looked at some of what went wrong this season: They will not become a playoff team merely by getting healthier. (And shouldn’t this season prove there is no guarantee they will get healthier anyway?) The Royals were indeed decimated by injuries, to be clear, but they decimated their own season […]
The Royals assigned left-hander Luke Little outright to Triple-A Omaha, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. The log indicates that Kansas City technically designated him for assignment on Monday, though the team never announced the move. Kansas City claimed Little off waivers from the Cubs at the beginning of August. He spent the rest of the […]
Welcome to OCTOBER BASEBALL. We have for you another Thursday baseball discussion thread, but this time, featuring 100% more playoffs! Which, of course, means no Royals 🙁 Only one game today as three of the four Wild Card series ended in sweeps yesterday. First, the White Sox knocked out the Astros. Crane’s Boys are out! […]
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After a disappointing 93-loss season, Royals president of baseball operations J.J. Picollo said the team plans to be “aggressive in acquisitions.” But that aggressiveness, he cautioned, should not be confused with a willingness to spend aggressively on the payroll. He addressed the media along with manager Matt Quatraro in the team’s annual end-of-year press conference […]
Here is a decent recap of things that were said at the Royals end of year press conference yesterday. Also, shoutout to my former classmate and friend Maddie Hartley for writing this story. Royals general manager J.J. Picollo didn’t shy away from his assessment of their 2026 season. “I think it goes without being said, […]
The Royals had hoped to contend this year, and instead fell flat on their face to begin the year, eventually losing 93 games. It was a season that included blown leads, cold lineups, but also some bright spots like the emergence of Carter Jensen and Jac Caglianone, the ageless Michael Wacha, a turnaround by Noah […]
Jaylon Thompson covers the reports that Alec Zumwalt is out as Royals hitting coach. The offense struggled at key points. The Royals got off to a slow start this spring with a 22-37 record entering June. The club posted a .650 OPS in May as the offense couldn’t get into an early season rhythm. Things […]
The Royals are planning to replace hitting coach Alec Zumwalt, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. He’s being reassigned within the organization and not fired, however. Zumwalt will continue on in his role as the team’s senior director of hitting performance but apparently won’t be in uniform and working with the big league staff on […]