kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
strong>Billy Butler </strong>is working. That much he assures you. He is working, seven days a week, with a personal trainer and with yoga and weights and cardio and anything else he can find to get himself into better shape. It worked last offseason, and Butler figures it’ll work again. He said he came to spring training 15 pounds or so lighter than the previous year, and he did...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Butler, at 23 years old, becomes the youngest winner since George Brett in 1976.
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Butler, at 23 years old, becomes the youngest winner since George Brett in 1976.
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
An emerging scenario has Getz replacing Callaspo as the starting second baseman, with veteran Willie Bloomquist available if Getz, a left-handed hitter, struggles against left-handed pitchers. Fields would become the starting third baseman, with Alex Gordon shifting to first base and Billy Butler drawing increased duty as the designated hitter. A lefty-righty platoon could develop since Fields has...
SimonOnSports (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here. Today's team AL is the Kansas City Royals and our guest is Wally Fish from the Royals Blog, Kings of Kaufman . 1. A few years back the Royals had the free agent signings of Gil Meche and...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Because it's amusing to figure out who is similar to who. Batters is most similar to or In 2008, he was most similar to Alberto Callaspo Smoky Burgess Don Slaught Alex Gordon Howard Johnson Darnell Coles Joe Foy Billy Butler Kent Hrbek John Olerud Keith Hernandez David DeJesus Tony Gonzalez Coco Crisp Roy Weatherly Jose Guillen Kevin McReynolds Joe Rudi Kevin McReynolds Mike Aviles Tony Eusebio John...
Camden Chat (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
by Tony Gutierrez - AP Elvis Andrus, SBN's AL Rookie of the Year. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) View full size photo » Below are the results for Rookie of the Year as voted by the SBN baseball writers. Elvis Andrus , the slick fielding shortstop from Texas, narrowly beat A's pitcher Andrew Bailey in the American League and Braves starting pitcher Tommy Hanson solidly won in the National League. My...
Lookout Landing (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Baseball players can make contributions in a number of different ways, the most obvious and talked-about of which is how they do at the plate. Defense, position, and baserunning tend to be brushed off as secondary concerns. What follows are the top and bottom 15 in the sum of these latter three values, as determined by UZR, Fangraphs' position adjustment, and Baseball Prospectus' EQBRR. Note that catchers...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I've had over a month off from the Royals now and have been mulling over some ideas. This is my vision for the Royals in the upcoming 2010 season. Bear with me if you're bored and/or interested in one fans ideal vision for his cherished franchise. 1B- Mike Jacobs / Billy Butler Obviously Billy Butler is the man. He had a fantastic age 23 season with 50+ doubles. Its quite possible that a few of those...
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
More photos » by Charles Rex Arbogast - AP Kansas City Royals first baseman Billy Butler, 2004 First Round Draft Pick (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Browse more photos » Top 20 Kansas City Royals Prospects for 2010. All grades are EXTREMELY PRELIMINARY and subject to change. Don't get too worried about exact rankings at this point, especially once you get beyond the Top 10. Grade C+/C...
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
More photos » by David Zalubowski - AP Seth Smith, one of several good draft selections by the Rockies in 2004. Browse more photos » As Tracy Ringolsby reported recently, Baseball America rated the Rockies' 2009 draft the best in baseball . With Tyler Matzek, Tim Wheeler, Rex Brothers, Chris Balcom-Miller, and Nolan Arendao, it's hard to argue otherwise. Still, we can't assess fully the...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Fangraphs Looks at Billy Butler's Improvement Not to much to add, except it is nice to have a hitter on the team.
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Similar to the 2010 Relievers post from several days ago, this is meant to present a snapshot of who remains on the roster, can we jettison some dead weight, and are there any holes to be filled? The particulars about how many batters the team keeps on the 25-man and how many infielders/outfielders/Teahen-Bloomquist-IF/OF hybrids are kept will have a factor in the final roster (please allow some leeway...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
We continue on our journey through the Royals top prospects. In case you haven't yet committed the first part of the list to memory, here are #60-54: 60--Dylan Lindsay 59-Blaine Hardy 58-Barry Bowden 57-Rowdy Hardy 56-Matt Mitchell 55-Ryan Wood 54 Eduardo Paulino I should have the next installment at the end of this week. 53--Nick Van Stratten--RF--Age:24 Year Age Tm Lg Lev Aff PA AB 2B 3B HR RBI SB...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Yesterday at Beyond the Box Score I wanted to see if Vladimir Guerrero was able to determine if a pitch was out of the strike zone and the results. The only person I could think of with worse strike zone judgement was Miguel Olivo . I ran the same numbers for Olivo and a few other Royals . For my strike zone, I used -1.2 and 1.2 for the x dimension and 1.5 to 3.5 for the y dimension. For the expanded...
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eudociea638p | 09/30/2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Alex Gordon and Alberto Callaspo homered, leading the last-place Kansas City Royals past the Detroit Tigers 7-4 on Thursday for a surprising three-game sweep of the AL Central leaders. It was the first three-game sweep of an American League team at home this season for the Royals. They've won four straight overall for the first time since June 12-16. Zach Miner (6-5) gave up three...
abriannape0i8 | 09/30/2009
CLEVELAND – Kyle Davies carried a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and won his fourth straight start, pitching the Kansas City Royals past the Cleveland Indians 7-0 on Sunday. Davies (8-9) held the Indians hitless until Shin-Soo Choo lined a single to center to open the sixth. The right-hander walked six and struck out three over six innings in his second straight wild start. He walked six and gave...
portia29v53 | 09/29/2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Alex Gordon and Alberto Callaspo homered, leading the last-place Kansas City Royals past the Detroit Tigers 7-4 on Thursday for a surprising three-game sweep of the AL Central leaders. It was the first three-game sweep of an American League team at home this season for the Royals. They've won four straight overall for the first time since June 12-16. Zach Miner (6-5) gave up three...
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