To celebrate the fact that Opening Day is really, really close, I’m going to post something every day that has to do with the number of days until Opening Day. This is Day 10. It appears that I forgot to post number 11 yesterday. A thousand apologies, good folks! The countdown resumes right now with…TEN: …
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Mar 24
The Final Countdown: 12
To celebrate the fact that Opening Day is really, really close, I’m going to post something every day that has to do with the number of days until Opening Day. This is Day 12. TWELVE: The Royals’ 2008 rank in OBPThat’s in the American League, not all of the Majors. But hey, 12th is NOT …
Mar 23
The Final Countdown: 14 and 13.
To celebrate the fact that Opening Day is really, really close, I’m going to post something every day that has to do with the number of days until Opening Day. I meant to get this up yesterday, so we’ll combine numbers 14 and 13 into one post. Here we go: FOURTEEN: Mark QuinnRemember Mark Quinn? …
Mar 17
Royals sign Sidney Ponson to a Minor League deal.
The Kansas City Star is reporting that the Royals have signed Sidney Ponson to a Minor League deal, with an invite to the big-league camp. This struck me as being completely out-of-the-blue, but it’s really not a bad experiment. When the desperate scramble for a left-handed starter inevitably ends in Horacio Ramirez getting shelled for …
Mar 12
John Dewan may have just figured out how valuable defense is
If you subscribe to John Dewan’s Stat of the Week, you may have read this already, in which case I apologize. But this is kind of a big deal; Dewan calls it the most significant discovery of his career. That’s a pretty bold statement for the guy whose +/- system is the basis for the …
Mar 09
Check this out: Royals Authority 2009 Annual Is Now ON SALE!
I’m supposed to be whipping up some sort of story for a journalism class right now, but first, I just wanted to make sure everyone saw that the Royals Authority 2009 Annual is now on sale. I got to see about half of it a couple weeks ago, and I’m really looking forward to reading …
Mar 05
Kaegel on Kauffman: Great stories
I know I’ve criticized Dick Kaegel in the past, but this story about the history of The K is pretty awesome. That is all.
Mar 03
Zack Greinke is an honest man
Zack Greinke is not most ballplayers. I think we’ve figured this out by now, but sometimes how…different he is really strikes me. Greinke told Bob Dutton in this KC Star story that signing a long-term deal with the Royals before now would have been a waste of his time. “…there was no way I was …
Feb 28
TPJ still has a roster spot, and Esteban German doesn’t.
As far as I know, I really like the Juan Cruz signing. Not a ton of money for a pretty decent reliever. He strikes out a lot of batters, which is nice, and hopefully pitching at The K will mask his tendency to give up the long ball. This is the signing GMDM should have …
Feb 21
Shoutouts everywhere!
Just a small note as I await the Nebraska/Kansas game this afternoon. This was a bizarrely big week for people acknowledging me on a large-ish stage, and my swelling ego dictates that I share those things here. -For the first time in my blogging career, Deadspin linked to something I wrote. -Later that same day, …