After winning a spot on the Royals’ Opening Day roster, Nelson Velazquez has had a rough start to the 2024 season. As of Saturday, Velazquez is slashing .212/.287/.337 with a .624 OPS and wRC+ of 77 in 115 plate appearances, according to Fangraphs. That is a significant disappointment from his numbers a year ago when…

For most Royals, the expectations that the team would be 24-16 and a 0.5 game out of first place as we approach mid-May weren’t on the top of mind. Even for a guy like me who always tries to find the positive in this team didn’t think we would be this hot to start! We…

Image credit: Charlie Riedel, Associated Press Final Score: MIL 4 | KC 6 Overall Record: 22-16 Winning/Losing Pitcher W: Brady Singer (3-1 | 2.36 ERA)L: Joe Ross (1-4 | 4.75 ERA) S: James McArthur (8) Brady Singer: 5.1 IP, 1 ER, 5 H, 4 K, 2 BB Another week, another ‘Player of the Game’ award…

The Kansas City Royals farm system is on the rise after a couple of down years. They ranked at or near the bottom in just about every farm system ranking over the last two seasons since the graduations of Top 100 prospects Bobby Witt Jr., MJ Melendez, and others. The way back has been slow,…

(Photo by Chris Todd) We are well on our way into the college baseball season and are already approaching March! When the college season kicked off, it would be a great time to look at some college draft prospects that the Royals could be thinking about at #6 in the 2024 MLB Draft. Now that…

According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, prior to the trade between the Miami Marlins and San Diego Padres that sent Luis Arraez to the Padres for four prospects, the Royals showed interest in him. Rosenthal was quick to point out that the talks were preliminary between the Royals and Marlins and that they did…