Tag: Kansas City Royals
Reasons for each MLB team to be optimistic — and pessimistic — about the rest of the season
Believe it or not, we have played five weeks of the regular season, and already we’ve seen enough to identify reasons for optimism and pessimism for all 30 teams.
Is the glass half-empty? Half-full? From those at the top of the MLB power rankings to those at the bottom, every team has reasons for hope and concern in 2024.
NL East
Atlanta Braves
Reason for optimism: The Braves have the best lineup in baseball one to nine, with athleticism, power
What we learned in MLB’s first month of the season, an unpredictable and electric April
So what do you know. We made it through April. What a bizarre month.
Taylor Ward outhomered a guy who hit 54 homers last year (Matt Olson). Maikel Garcia had more extra-base hits than Vlad Guerrero Jr.
Ronel Blanco has been the best starting pitcher on the Astros. The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner (Blake Snell) has been the worst starting pitcher on the Giants.
Josh Hader’s ERA is over 6.00. Brennan Bernardino’s ERA is under 1.00.
Why
MLB-Insider sind „ziemlich besorgt“ über die Zunahme von Armverletzungen bei jungen Top-Startspielern
Matt Blake schickte dem Pitcher der Cleveland Guardians, Shane Bieber, am Wochenende eine versöhnliche Nachricht. Als Mitglied des Spielerentwicklungssystems von Cleveland in den 2010er Jahren unterstützte Blake Biebers Aufstieg vom College-Walk-on zum einstimmigen Cy Young Award-Gewinner der American League im Jahr 2020. Eine Zeit lang repräsentierte Bieber das moderne Modell für die Herstellung eines großen Liga-Ass, ein Spieler, der seinem Körper mehr Stärke, seinem Fastball Schnelligkeit und seinem Offspeed-Pitch mehr Spin verlieh, als er die Ränge aufstieg.
Als Blake seine
MLB offseason grades 2.0 : Which teams passed — and which teams failed
The Athletic’s MLB offseason grades 1.0.
By Tim Britton, Grant Brisbee and Aaron Gleeman
According to a report by an economics professor at Yale University, roughly 80 percent of all grades handed out to undergraduate students last year were As. Too bad for major-league executives, then, that they don’t attend Yale (at least not anymore, in several cases). The grading is going to be harsher here.
The best teachers, of course, are kind enough to allow for revision. We first
2024 MLB ‘Wild-Card Era’ Franchise Rankings: Rangers break into top 10, Cubs fall out
As Jonah Heim squeezed the final strike of the 2023 postseason and Josh Sborz spiked his mitt on the mound to celebrate the Texas Rangers’ first World Series title, a thought crossed my mind: How will this change the franchise rankings?
See, the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) franchise rankings are not a creation of my fallible mind. They are borne from a tested, trusted, completely objective, never-been-questioned, all-math, no-bias formula borrowed from football writer Bob Sturm and tweaked to
Die Kansas City Royals stellen Pläne für ein neues 2-Milliarden-Dollar-Stadion in der Innenstadt vor
Die Kansas City Royals sind auf dem Weg in die Innenstadt.
Die Royals stellten am Dienstag Pläne zum Bau eines neuen Baseballstadions mitten in der Innenstadt von Kansas City vor. Das mehr als zwei Milliarden US-Dollar teure Stadion soll nur wenige Blocks vom T-Mobile Center und dem Power & Light District entfernt im „Herzen von Kansas City“ gebaut werden.
Ziel ist es, das Stadion, das rund 34.000 Fans Platz bietet, rechtzeitig zur Saison 2028 fertigzustellen. Die Pläne werden noch finalisiert,
Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law’s rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1
Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past. My farm reports covering at least 20 prospects in each team’s system, and notes on prospects who might appear in the majors this year, or who might be breakout prospects for the 2025 rankings, will appear starting
Aufschlüsselung der Baseball-HOF-Klasse 2024; Auf welchen Closer könnten die Royals im Handel abzielen?
Dies ist eine digitale Version des The Windup-Newsletters. Melden Sie sich hier an, um diesen Inhalt jeden Morgen direkt in Ihrem Posteingang zu erhalten.
Wir haben einen Hall of Fame-Kurs! Wir werfen auch einen Blick auf die Suche der Royals nach einem Abschluss, eine Baseballgeschichte aller Zeiten und das neue Zuhause von Rhys Hoskins. Ich bin Levi Weaver hier mit Ken Rosenthal – willkommen beim Windup!
Beltré, Mauer, Helton in HOF gewählt
Am Ende lief es wie erwartet: ein Zweifelloser
What we learned from the Baseball Hall of Fame election: Beltré’s big night, Mauer power and more
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — There were Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer. This was their first Hall of Fame election. They won’t need a second. On Tuesday, they became baseball’s newest first-ballot Hall of Famers. And that stamps them as baseball royalty, connected forever to this special stamp of greatness.
Beltré reeled in 95.1 percent of the vote. That’s the same percentage as a guy named Babe Ruth. If he ever needs to impress people at a party over the next 40
Baseball Hall of Fame ballots 2024: The Athletic’s voters explain their selections
Look, we get it.
The Baseball Hall of Fame is a breathtaking idea. It’s a celebration. It’s a history lesson. It’s a pilgrimage. The museum in Cooperstown is home to heroes and memories and the posters on our walls. The very notion can fill a fan with wonder, and actually being there feels like going to church, and the Louvre, and Game 7 of the World Series, all at once.
And so, we care a great deal about who gets