The Royals waited a handful of days to announce their full crop of signings, but as has become customary, the team announced nearly two dozen international signings on Friday. The class extends a slew of large classes by Kansas City dating back to a franchise record 30 signees in 2023. The 2025 international signees will…

In an era of baseball with more information on players than ever, looking outside the box score has never been more important. While typical stats such as batting average are still valuable in measuring a player’s performance, the advanced numbers tell a story regular stats can’t. Here are five Royals the advanced analytics project to…

The Kansas City Royals started their offseason strongly in November, followed by a quiet six-week stretch. Now into January, the team hasn’t made any other major league additions and the roster looks to be still a work in progress. That’s fine in January. Into February, it would be concerning. Plenty of free agents, including big…

It is the dead of winter: both literally and figuratively when it comes to baseball’s offseason. The excitement of free agency has slowly worn off, the winter meetings are a distant memory, and spring training is far enough away to where even Arizona’s warm sunshine can’t be felt. Now, it is not all doom and…

The hitter edition of the Standouts and Stragglers is most definitely going to run shorter than the pitcher edition. Hitters on the Naturals saw much more parity than pitching. The top end of the spectrum was significantly closer to the bottom end. This results in our assessment relying on specific metrics more than overall performance…

As the MLB offseason draws closer to a close, the shape of the roster for the Kansas City Royals has started to come into focus. With some additions this week, the puzzle pieces are falling into place. Most notably, Kansas City re-signed pitcher Michael Lorenzen. He will pitch out of the team’s rotation to open…

The 2022 Amateur Draft was key for the Kansas City Royals, marking the first for Scouting Director Danny Ontiveros. Before the draft, the front office traded the 35th overall selection in the Comp Round for a trio of prospects. Drew Waters, CJ Alexander, and Andrew Hoffmann came from Atlanta in return as the Royals threw…