I wanted to wait until tomorrow to write this, but I am unsure if I will have time to post. If I do, I’ll have a more reflective post, looking at all my best posts from the 2024 season. So, hopefully, I’ll be able to do so, as I would like to end the year with one last post on the last day of 2024.
This will be a quick post, but I wanted to thank everyone for following my work on the Royals Reporter. I started this blog officially in May of 2019, though I first began coverage of the Royals in 2018 on another version of this blog that aimed to be a Royals/Fantasy Baseball hybrid (it was short-lived, much like the European basketball blog I used to run, Euroleague Jam).
Regardless, I’ve been following and writing about the Royals for almost six years now, and it’s crazy to think how much I’ve posted on this blog and the fans I have gotten to know through this site and social media. And not just Royals fans, but baseball fans who share a passion and love for the game. It’s cool that I have gotten to know baseball fans from coast to coast, who’ve supported my work and invited me to collaborate with them (and vice versa).
Whether it’s guest-spotting on a podcast, writing for their sites on a semi-regular basis (h/t to Pitcher List and Farm to Fountains), or just bantering on Twitter or Bluesky, I am grateful for all the baseball opportunities I have gotten over the past year. I also checked off a couple of bucket list items by attending my first postseason game at Kauffman Stadium and getting my first radio spot this year on KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR station (talk about a dream, personally). I didn’t imagine my blog would reach these levels when I started writing about the Royals in 2018. It’s been a dream, and I’m looking forward to what will follow in 2025 and beyond.
Regarding the future of this blog, I may be testing some things out for the upcoming season.
As you may have seen, I’ve stepped away from Farm to Fountains and have leaned into fantasy hockey writing on my Substack at Goalie Streamer. I hope an offseason of writing about fantasy hockey will help give me fresh ideas in my coverage and analysis of Royals baseball. Plus, it’s been a quiet offseason for the Royals, and I’m beyond the point of just writing “Wouldn’t this free agent be great for the Royals?” posts, which is typically what fans would see from most Royals bloggers and sites. It’s important work, but I just want to write about different stuff here at Royals Reporter.
As we get closer to Spring Training, the Royals posts here will ramp up, and I look forward to introducing some new stuff to the site. It won’t be anything crazy, but hopefully, it will bring a fresh perspective on Royals baseball in 2025.
It’s a great time to be a Royals fan.
The Royals are fresh off an 86-76 season and a postseason appearance (which included an AL Wild Card series win over the Orioles in Baltimore). There will be a new leadoff hitter in Kansas City in Jonathan India. Hopes will be high for the Royals in 2025, unlike in 2024, when fans were looking for signs of progress. The expectation will not just be a return to the postseason in 2025 but that the Royals can make deep runs and be frequent participants in the playoffs, like other effective small-market clubs like the Brewers, Guardians, and Rays.
I look forward to another exciting year of Royals baseball coverage on the Royals Reporter. Thank you for following along not just in 2024 but over the last six years. You all make it fun to analyze, cover, and write about this organization and, most importantly, to be a Royals fan in Kansas City (renewing my season tickets continues to be an easier decision year by year).
Goodbye 2024, and hello 2025! Go Royals!