The Arizona Fall League is in full swing, as the Surprise Saguaros, which has prospects in the Royals system, are 5-4, good for second in the AFL standings. Kansas City has eight players on the Surprise roster (five pitchers and three hitters), as well as a manager and strength coach, as highlighted by the Raising… Read More An Early Check In On Royals Hitters in the AFL
It’s been tough to be optimistic with this Royals team right now. The Boys in Blue went 8-18 in June, and their season record now stands at 39-46, putting their postseason odds at 8.1%, according to Fangraphs. I want to be more hopeful about the team, but that’s hard to do until some moves are… Read More Three Royals Pitching Prospects to Keep An Eye On in Second Half
The odds were certainly against the Royals on Saturday as they faced Detroit ace Tarik Skubal. Unsurprisingly, the reigning AL Cy Young award winner was masterful at Kaffuman yesterday afternoon. One would think that with that kind of line, the Royals lost. Thankfully, Michael Wacha was just as masterful, carrying a no-hitter into the seventh… Read More “Reporter Jottings”: Moose Retirement Ceremony; Loftin Surging; Lopez Hits for Cycle in ACL
We’ve nearly finished the month of May, and so far, it’s been a solid, though unspectacular, season for Royals Minor League affiliates. Here’s how their records are looking through May 29th, according to Baseball Reference. As Royals fans can see, three of the Royals’ five affiliates have winning records, with Omaha being the lone full-season… Read More Royals MiLB Musings: Hoffmann Promoted; Nelly Released; Hill to Omaha; Ricardo Rising in Arizona
The Royals played their annual Spring Breakout contest against the Diamondbacks on Friday, March 14th, at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. Kansas City lost 5-2 to Arizona’s top prospects, but the game was less about the team results and more about the progress of the Royals’ top prospects in this spring showcase. JJ Cooper… Read More Six “Spring Breakout” Royals Prospects to Watch in 2025
It’s been a few days since my last Top-30 Prospects post, but I’ll finally be finishing up my rankings in this article. I will probably put up a page tomorrow that will contain not just all of the individual posts I wrote relating to my Top-30 Prospects list for 2025 but also a complete list… Read More The Royals’ Top-30 Prospects to Watch for 2025: 10-1
Yesterday was the start of the International Signing Period for MLB Teams. That meant many MLB teams on January 15th announced the signings of their young and promising international prospects, many hailing from Latin America (especially the Dominican Republic and Venezuela). Ben Badler and Baseball America have kept a running tracker of all prospects who… Read More The Royals’ Top-30 Prospects to Watch for 2025: 20-11
Yesterday, I wrote about ten prospects who were “honorable mentions” but didn’t quite make the Top 30 list. Today, I break down the 30th through 21st-ranked prospects in the Royals system. As stated before, these are my rankings and are ordered more in terms of how “interesting they will be to follow” this year rather… Read More The Royals’ Top-30 Prospects to Watch for 2025: 30-21
As mentioned in my introductory post, I will start by looking at ten Royals prospects who missed my Top-30 cut. In some ways, I could have made a “Top 40 Prospects” watch list for the 2025 season, which would have included these ten I omitted from the Top 30. However, I didn’t want to go… Read More The Royals’ Top-30 Prospects to Watch for 2025: Honorable Mentions
I always share a Royals Top Prospects list for the upcoming season every offseason. I started doing this in 2020, which means I am beginning my sixth year of this “Royals Prospects to Watch” series on this blog. By no means am I a “prospect expert.” I would defer to guys like Jared Perkins of… Read More An Introduction to the Royals’ Top-30 Prospects to Watch for 2025