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Ever oversleep and miss something important? It has happened to the best of us. And today, it happened to Royals rookie Carter Jensen. The 22-year-old catcher was supposed to be in the starting lineup for the series finale Thursday afternoon against the Twins. With Salvador Perez catching in wet conditions last night, typically teams like […]
The Royals will call up Luinder Avila from Omaha to start Friday’s game against the Brewers, according to MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers. Michael Wacha was originally scheduled to start on Friday, but will be pushed back due to illness. Avila was scheduled to start Omaha’s game tonight, but was scratched and replaced by Ethan Bosacker. […]
Well, that didn’t go well. The Royals lost the third game of a three-game series against the Minnesota Twins, squandering a fine start by Cole Ragans. For the Royals, quiet bats doomed them. The Royals made things interesting in the later innings. After going down 2-0, Maikel Garcia led off the eighth with a single […]
Hey, what’s up, I’m Cullen, and I’ll be your regular Thursday gameday threader and recapper this season. I dabbled a bit in Spring Training with the game thread, but this is my first one for a regular season game. And it comes for a game in which the Royals look to sweep the Twins to […]
The Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system is in place, and early on the data shows that Salvador Perez is a tremendous catcher when it comes to overturning calls. Here is the challenge leaderboard for catchers. You can celebrate Salvy’s gift at making umpires look foolish with an ABS t-shirt from our partners at BreakingT. ABS, […]
The Royals will have $15,954,000 to spend on draftees this summer, the sixth-largest draft bonus pool in baseball. The Pirates will have the most money to spend, with a record pool of $19,130,700. The Royals benefit from being selected for the sixth pick through the MLB Draft lottery, the measure instituted to discourage tanking. The MLB […]
Do you think your office is interesting? Most people probably would disagree. Maybe parts of your job are interesting, but the office-y parts? The ones where you’re answering emails or getting a Gatorade from the fridge or politely asking your coworker if they had a good weekend while you pass each other in the hallway? […]
Fans have been wondering where Royals color commentator Rex Hudler is, he will be back, but maybe not as much as you would’ve hoped. For the most part, the reviews for Major League Baseball’s production of Royals games have been positive. It’s a small sample size (three games), but the picture seems clearer, the graphics […]
The bottom third of the Kansas City lineup has taken care of business for the second consecutive game, but in much more spectacular fashion tonight. Scoring started in the second with two out and no one on when Jac Caglianone hit a 110.1 mph rocket to center for a double. Collins hit the next ball […]
After the day off following the home opening win, the Royals are hopefully not going to get rained out for their second game in the Twins series. A win tonight would mean that Kansas City would win their first in division series of 2026 with a potential sweep set up for tomorrow. Standing in the […]
The Royals announced they have placed closer Carlos Estévez on the 15-day Injured List with a left foot contusion and have called up pitcher Steven Cruz. Estévez was hit by a line drive in his only appearance of the year on Saturday and has been wearing a walking boot since then. Estévez looked off in […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Royals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Carlos Estévez led all of MLB in saves in 2025. He also had a very bad, no-good, […]
The next wave of talent in the Kansas City Royals pipeline is ready to take the field. While the Omaha Storm Chasers have already gotten underway, the rest of the organization’s minor league clubs open their seasons Thursday with freshly announced rosters loaded with intriguing prospects and familiar big league names. The Triple-A Omaha Storm […]
Over the first week of games, you may have noticed pitchers, catchers, and hitters tapping their head after a pitch, signaling for a review. After six years of testing in the minors, MLB has implemented an Automated Ball Strike (ABS) challenge system that allows players (not coaches) to ask for a replay review of balls […]
The origin of April Fool’s Day remains murky. It appears to have originated in the early to mid-1500s in France. Many people still partake today, pranking family, friends, and co-workers. It’s a bit of a remnant from a time when we didn’t take everything so seriously and could still laugh at ourselves and with others. […]
MLB.com’s Anne Rogers has the latest on the Kansas City Royals stadium situation from CEO/chairman John Sherman. Sherman confirmed again that the Royals are discussing site options in downtown Kansas City (Jackson County), North Kansas City (Clay County) and on the Kansas side of the state line, where the Kansas City Chiefs, whose Arrowhead Stadium […]
The beginning of the season is often a time for signing young, pre-free agency-eligible players to long-term deals. Teams have increasingly become more aggressive signing players just as their careers are beginning, and in some cases, before they have even made their big league debuts. This week, the Brewers signed infield prospect Cooper Pratt to […]
Last season, I was fascinated with Drew Waters and how he would perform when the Kansas City Royals called him back up to the big-league club. It seemed to me that Waters would never get a better chance to establish himself in the majors than with the 2025 Royals. The outfielders the Royals started the […]
It was not a great opening weekend for the Omaha Storm Chasers, as they played on the road, against the Louisville Bats and were swept. The Bats are the AAA affiliate for the Cincinnati Reds. The Storm Chasers lost a pair of one run games, 2-1 and 6-5 (in 10 innings), but were routed in […]
If you missed anything about the Home Opener yesterday, everyone’s got you covered. Jaylon Thompson covers the emotional aspect of the game. There was a wide range of emotions — from jubilation to heartwarming moments. The Royals honored late outfielder Terrance Gore with his family in attendance. His son, Zane, threw out the ceremonial first […]
I did NOT have that on my bingo card. In the game preview for today’s home opener, I wrote that the unusually warm March weather, pushed-in fences, and fly-ball prone Twins pitcher could result in a little fun for the fans. I did not expect that fun to come from Kyle Isbel and Isaac Collins. […]
Baseball returns to Kansas City today as the Royals host the Twins for their 2026 home opener. After going 1-2 over the weekend against the Braves, the Royals will look for a win today to reach .500, as sort of meaningless as it is this early in the season. Max has you covered on the […]
Opening Day is a time for hope. Anything can happen, even a team everyone predicted would finish in the cellar going on a run and sitting in first place most of the year! That’s what happened in 2003, when Runelevys Hernandez tossed a gem on Opening Day, beating the White Sox 3-0. That was the […]
The Twins won the division in 2023, and appeared to be on their way to a playoff spot in 2024 before the bottom fell out and they finished with 82 wins. Things went even worse last year, and they traded away several key players, losing 92 games, their worst season since 2016. The Royals took […]
For the third straight season, the Royals opened the year by dropping two out of three in their first series. In 2023, they were swept by the Twins to open the year. In each of the past two years, they have ultimately won more games than they lost and stayed in the playoff hunt until […]