Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images It was a great year! The 2024 season was a surprisingly fun season with a 30-game improvement in the standings for the Royals and an unexpected post-season berth. We saw the emergence of Bobby Witt Jr. as a star and the pitching rotation emerge into one of the best in baseball. That gave us plenty of things to write about, … [Read more...] about The Best of Royals Review 2024
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The five signature Royals players of the 2024 MLB season
Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This past season exceeded all expectations, but these players had a larger role than most. When you think back on the Kansas City Royals’ 2023 season, what stands out more—the moments or the overall result? For me, it’s the moments. I think of Jake Eisenberg’s electrifying call of the walk-off grand slam against … [Read more...] about The five signature Royals players of the 2024 MLB season
Managers & Top Front Office Executives On Expiring Contracts
Several teams don’t publicize contract details for their top front office executives or even for their managers, so this list of skipper and execs (any head of a baseball operations department, whether titled as a president of baseball ops, general manager, chief baseball officer, etc.) entering the final year of their deals may not be entirely complete or accurate. Still, … [Read more...] about Managers & Top Front Office Executives On Expiring Contracts
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Royals Rumblings – News for December 30, 2024
Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The Royals were a great story in 2024. Blair Kerkhoff recaps the biggest Kansas City sports stories of 2024. The signing of Witt proved to be the final of a flurry of offseason moves that reshaped the Royals, who lost 106 games the previous year. In late 2023, they added starting pitchers Michael Wacha and Seth Lugo, among other … [Read more...] about Royals Rumblings – News for December 30, 2024