Alex Jonathan Gordon

Positions: Leftfielder, Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 220 lb.

Born: February 10, 1984 in Lincoln, NE
High School: Lincoln Southeast HS (Lincoln, NE)
School: University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Lincoln, NE)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed September 29, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 2, 2007 (Age 23)   vs. BOS 3 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Team: Royals 2007-2013
2013 Contract Status: Signed (team option), 4 yrs/$37.5M (12-15) & 16 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 5.092, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Casey Close, previously: Damon Thames [*]
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• 4/15 Tomahawk Take: Series Preview: Royals @ Braves, KC Views:   As we approach Jackie Robinson day on 4/15 we notice the Braves have a day off on the calendar.  Before you get crazy...
• 4/14 Kings of Kauffman: This Week in Royaltown: This week was marked by ups and downs—the up of winning sweeping the Twins and the down of losing back-to-back games to the...
• 4/14 Baseball News Source: AL Scores: Buchholz Dominates Rays, Trout, Hamilton Lead Angels: Clay Buchholz took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and Kelly Johnson‘s broken bat base hit to right field prevented the...
• 4/14 TheLeadoffWalk: Blue Jays vs. Royals: Day 14 Observations: Royals 3, Blue Jays 2 Chris Getz: In the ninth inning, Getz notched his first hit of the game, a line drive double...
• 4/14 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: James Shields Loses 2-Hit Complete Game, Eric Hosmer Hurt?: Thursday’s off day seems to have sapped the Kansas City Royals‘ (6-5) momentum they gathered during their 3-game sweep...
• 4/13 Kings of Kauffman: The Kottaras Case: I was lounging in my basement apartment, pouring a couple fingers of the cheap stuff and thinking about the old days of Dye and...
• 4/12 MajorLeagueDigest.com: Daily Fantasy Baseball Value Players for April 12th, 2013: by Adam JenkinsFantasy Editor@awj101J.A. Happ with the Phillies, Photo: Rory Connell, Flickr.comDaily Fantasy Baseball Value...
• 4/12 Puckett's Pond: AL Central Roundup 4/12/13: After nearly two weeks of games, the Royals sit atop the AL Central at 6-3, while Cleveland has gotten off to the slowest start...
• 4/12 Motor City Bengals: AL Central Roundup: Royals May Be Good, White Sox Not Hitting, And Aaron Hicks Struggles: The AL Central Roundup will be a weekly Friday feature that provides a snippet of the goings on with the other teams in the division....
• 4/12 Jays Journal: Toronto Blue Jays/Kansas City Royals Preview: 4/12/13: At 3-6 and 6-3 respectively, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals come into Friday’s series opener in two completely...
• 4/12 Kings of Kauffman: Around the AL Central With FanSided: As of right now, the Royals hold a one game lead over the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central. Most may not expect that to last,...
• 4/11 Baseball Reality Tour: 2013 Leadoff Hitter Power Rankings: The importance of batting order construction is a polarizing debate. I tend to lean towards evidence that batting order construction...
• 4/11 Baseballhotcorner.com: Kansas City Royals: A Good Week, Or A Good Year?: Who has ascending talent ready to compete and who is relying on fossilizing talent to hold on? These are the basic questions I...
• 4/11 Kevin Slowey Was Framed: Twins vs Royals Thoughts: Oh yeah, the Twins aren't supposed to be good this year.  I didn't really think the Twins were going to continue on a 107-win...
• 4/10 Baseball Reality Tour: Quick Notes around Baseball: Starling Marte, of the Pirates, has 2 hits in 4 straight games.Colby Rasmus has 4 this year, 3 of which are home runs. He'll...
• 4/10 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Alcides Escobar With 3 Hits; Royals in First Place: First place. The Kansas City Royals (5-3) beat the bad weather and the Minnesota Twins(4-4) by a score of 7-4 to reach that perch...
• 4/10 Kings of Kauffman: The Royals Home Opener and a Curious Feeling of Hope: Monday afternoon marked my fifth ever Royals home opener. In the past, school, work, or finances got in the way of my attending,...
• 4/9 Kings of Kauffman: Did the Royals Bring Offensive Momentum from Spring Training?: Two weeks ago, the Royals were wrapping up their Cactus League Championship on the backs of their offense. They led both spring...
• 4/8 Kings of Kauffman: The Difference A Year Can Make: The Royals home-opener showed every Kansas City fan what difference a year can do for a ball club. A year ago, the excitement...
• 4/8 MLBTradeRumors: Would-Be Free Agents: Remember free agents?  Like good, under-30 ones without any major warts?  With the proliferation of long-term extensions prior...
• 4/8 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Billy Butler Drives In 7; Bullpen Almost Implodes Again: Whew! That one was close. The Kansas City Royal bullpen almost blew a 9th inning lead for the second straight day but held on...
• 4/8 Crashburn Alley: Phillies Week in Review #1: Record: 2 wins, 4 losses Standing: 2-4, 4th place in NL East (2.0 GB) Top 3 offensive plays (by Win Probability Added, or WPA)...
• 4/7 The High Phive: Phillies Fall Apart in Home Opener, Lose 13-4: You couldn’t really dream up a better start to today’s home opener. There were home runs, extra base hits, good defense...
• 4/7 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Blown Save Brings Back Ugly Memories: On Saturday night, Greg Holland came in to protect a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the ninth. He proceeded to walk three straight...
• 4/6 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Gordon, Getz Bases Loaded Triples; Escobar Homers; Hosmer Has 4 Hits: It took three and a half games for the the Kansas City Royals’ bats we witnessed in Arizona to finally thaw out. The Royals...
• 4/5 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Who’d you rather?: Over the past several weeks we’ve compared and contrasted several players at similar positions with often similar skill...
• 4/5 TheLeadoffWalk: Royals vs. Phillies, Cardinals vs. Giants: Day Five Observations: Royals 13, Phillies 4 Alex Gordon: It was just another ho-hum, run-of-the-mill day of Alex Gordon being awesome...
• 4/5 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Jeremy Guthrie K’s 9; Offense Still On Hiatus; 1st Win: The Kansas City Royals avoided a disastrous 3-game losing streak to start the 2013 season, despite an anemic offense. The Royals...
• 4/5 KC Kingdom: KC Kingdom: Sweet Victory, Ebert, Target Hates Fat People: ABOUT LAST NIGHT… Jeremy Guthrie picked up right where left off last season, going six innings and striking out nine while...
• 4/5 PhoulBallz.com: Series Preview: Royals at Phillies, April 5-7: The Phillies will kick off their 2013 home schedule with interleague play for the very first time this week as the visiting Kansas...
• 4/4 TheLeadoffWalk: Day Four Quick Hits: Part One: Royals 3, White Sox 1 Kelvin Herrera: While Aaron Crow and Greg Holland both tossed scoreless innings in relief...
• 4/4 Southside Showdown: Royals prove the White Sox to be undeniably mortal, win series finale: In continuing the week’s theme of The 2012 White Sox: The Sequel!, the South Siders  were completely overwhelmed by Jeremy...
• 4/4 Kings of Kauffman: Jeremy Guthrie Leads Royals to First 2013 Win: After two games and three days of tension, panic, and frustration, the Royals put one in the win column for the first time in...
• 4/4 Southside Showdown: Attempting To Make Jeremy Guthrie A Bad Investment – Lineups 4/4: This time last year Jeremy Guthrie was preparing to make his Colorado Rockies debut after being traded from the Orioles for Jason...
• 4/4 KC Kingdom: Kansas City Royals Recap: Long Balls Damage Ervin Santana; Bats Still Ice Cold; Panic?: It’s too early to panic, right? For any other fan base in the country, two losses wouldn’t be any reason for a lump...
• 4/4 Kings of Kauffman: Already Time to Panic?: Game two of the 2013 season saw the another loss in the young season, and seemingly deflated a fan base hungry for a winner. Is...
• 4/4 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Who’d you rather?: Over the past several weeks we’ve compared and contrasted several players at similar positions with often similar skill...
• 4/3 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Drop Second Game to White Sox: First the good news. Unlike on Opening Day, the Royals crossed the plate (twice even) on Wednesday afternoon. The bad news: unlike...
• 4/3 TheLeadoffWalk: Day Three Recap and Observations: Royals vs. White Sox: White Sox 5, Royals 2 Adam Dunn: For all the guff Adam Dunn catches for what he can’t do well (field, run, not...
• 4/3 Southside Showdown: The One Where We Wait For Another Tyler Flowers HR – Lineups 4/3: Without the same anti**** as Monday’s game the White Sox will go ahead and play again today, in front of a dramatically lesser...
• 4/3 Kings of Kauffman: Opening Day Thoughts: For the third straight year the Royals failed to score a single run off their opponent’s Opening Day starting pitcher. There’s...
• 4/3 Kings of Kauffman: Get Ready For More Jarrod Dyson. Sort Of.: In discussing the makeup of the roster with Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star, Ned Yost pointed out an added benefit to rostering...
• 4/2 MLBTradeRumors: Does Elvis Andrus Affect Ian Desmond?: Back in November, I wondered if Alexei Ramirez's four-year, $32.5MM deal could be a point of reference for the Nationals and...
• 4/2 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Opening Day Freeze-Out; Shields Did His Job; Hitters Did Not: Many of us worried this would happen. Warm weather March batting averages crumbled into nothing more than dust in the **** Chicago...
• 4/2 TheLeadoffWalk: Opening Day Recap and Observations: Part Three: Brewers 5, Rockies 4 Troy Tulowitzki: All Tulowitzki needs is a season of full health and he’s capable...
• 4/2 Kings of Kauffman: The Danger of Relying on Small Sample Sizes: If you’ve spent any time on the internet in the past 24 hours or so, you have probably seen various baseball writers and fans...
• 4/1 Kings of Kauffman: MLB Opening Day 2013: Royals, James Shields Lose 1-0 Pitching Duel Against Chris Sale and White Sox: The Royals trotted out their new acquisition James Shields in their season opener on Monday and he performed just as they’d...
• 4/1 Kings of Kauffman: Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox – Opening Series Preview: Today the 2013 season begins for the Kansas City Royals on the Southside of Chicago against the White Sox. Here are the main nuts...
• 4/1 TheFantasyFix.com: Projecting Stolen Bases Using SBO% and Success Rate: Last year there were many disappointments in the stolen bases department: Michael Bourn, Elvis Andrus, Erick Aybar, Alex Gordon,...
• 4/1 KC Kingdom: Royals Predictions: Jacob: It’s Opening Day! Not only will we all get a fix of real, meaningful baseball today but we will also feature our last set...
• 4/1 KC Kingdom: Royals Predictions: Joel: It’s Opening Day! Not only will we all get a fix of real, meaningful baseball today but we will also feature our last set...
• 4/1 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Gordon Blasts #8; Team Hits 4 HR; Pitching Is Terrific: The Kansas City Royals gained their franchise record 25th spring training victory on Friday against 7 losses and 2 ties. As so...
• 4/1 Kings of Kauffman: Opening Day 2013: What Has to Go Right For the Royals: After a long, cold winter and an extended spring training, the wait for real, official, it-actually-counts-now baseball is back....
• 4/1 Kings of Kauffman: Kansas City Royals Set Organization Rosters: On Friday, the Royals made the last decision of spring training, choosing George Kottaras as Salvador Perez‘s backup. After...
• 4/1 Kings of Kauffman: Opening Day By The Numbers: The wait is almost over. Opening Day is one of the most anti**** days of the year and you can count me among the many that believe...
• 4/1 Baseball Musings: 2013 AL Central Preview: The division preview series continues with the AL Central. The starting point for my analysis is the 2012 WAR of the position...

• 3/29 TheLeadoffWalk: 2012's Non-All Star All Star Team: Every year, the All Star teams are announced and there is a generous amount of time dedicated to the ins and outs of any...
• 3/29 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Perez & Cain Muscle Up; Gordon Bangs 7th HR: Thirty-three down, one more spring game to go. In this Spring Training that has seemingly gone on forever, the Kansas City Royals...
• 3/29 Kings of Kauffman: Positional Power Rankings Reaction: I highly recommend going over to Fangraphs and checking out this piece, and all of the individual articles it was built from....
• 3/28 TheLeadoffWalk: Spring Spotlight: Zack Greinke: After surviving and thriving in a minor league game on March 20, Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke returned to the big...
• 3/28 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: 6 Hits for Getz; Shields Pitches Well, Mendoza Doesn’t: The Royals had two games Wednesday and couldn’t pull off a victory in either contest. They fell to the Milwaukee Brewers...
• 3/28 11th and Washington: The six covers of SI's 2013 baseball preview issue: It's that time of year. Sports Illustrated released its baseball preview cover yesterday.Actually, that should be covers. For...
• 3/28 Kings of Kauffman: Moving on from Myers: Remember Wil Myers? Of course you do. For some of you, it’s still an open wound. You’re still heartbroken. He’s like that...
• 3/26 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Davis Strong; Gordon, Escobar, Cain, Francoeur All Have 2 Hits: It is one thing to read about baseball, or even to listen to the Kansas City Royals on radio. It is quite another to get to watch...
• 3/26 KC Kingdom: Video: “I wanna see the thunder thighs!”: Spring Training is traditionally a very relaxed atmosphere and last night was no different. Ned Yost did an in-game interview,...
• 3/25 Kings of Kauffman: Kings of Kauffman Predicts the Future: Opening day is in one week, which means there’s a light at the end of the the tunnel and we can all stop saying “yeah...
• 3/25 Lasorda's Lair: Birdman Zack Greinke Makes 64 Pitches In Three Frames Against Royals: Zack Greinke, the blue bird took his first steps toward flapping his wings and flying into the regular season on time. Birdman...
• 3/25 TheFantasyFix.com: How to Handle Different Categories: Slugging Percentage: Trying to prepare for leagues that replace standard categories can be difficult because almost all of the analysis, rankings and...
• 3/25 KC Kingdom: The Kansas City Royals And Second Base: Thanks to a torrid spring, Chris Getz earned the Kansas City Royals starting base job.  Getz has hit .390/.453/.521 this spring...
• 3/25 Kings of Kauffman: The Offensive Achilles’ Heel: The Royals offense was 20th in runs scored last year, and in the American League they were 10th out of the then 14 teams (Houston...
• 3/25 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Guthrie Rolls; Francoeur Shows Life; Gordon Belts 5th: The pitching stiffened and the bats stayed hot as the Kansas City Royals took out division rival Chicago White Sox 8-2 on Sunday,...
• 3/25 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Spring Training Notes: The Regular Season is So Close: The World Baseball Classic extended this year’s spring training, and it’s starting to feel like an eternity before...
• 3/25 Kings of Kauffman: Thoughts On The Royals-White Sox Game Today: I happened to watch the Spring Training game against the Chicago White Sox earlier today, and found myself taking a lot of positives...
• 3/24 elysianfielders.com: Spring Training Stats Tell Us Almost Nothing: Last night I was poking around at baseball-reference.com, looking at Brandon Belt, for whom I hold a lot of hope.  I guess they’ve...
• 3/24 Baseball Musings: Team Offense, Kansas City Royals: The series on team offense continues with the Kansas City Royals. The Royals finished twentieth in the majors and twelfth in the...
• 3/24 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Gordon & Butler Stay Hot; Santana Goes 6; Collins Bombs: Spring conditions in Arizona are more conducive to hitting rather than pitching. If the Kansas City Royals spring performances...
• 3/23 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Option Johnny Giavotella to Triple A. Chris Getz To Start.: The Royals announced that second baseman Johnny Giavotella was optioned to Triple A on Saturday, a move that sets Chris Getz up...
• 3/22 Billy-Ball.com: Nine to Know – Soriano, Farrell, Pujols, Gordon, Cano, AGon, Mayberry, Beltre, Beltran, Manush & more: From the Bill Chuck Files… Rafael Soriano keeps losing something off his fastball. In 2009, it was 93.4, in 2010 it was...
• 3/22 Kings of Kauffman: Platoon or Bridge: Dayton and friends have come to their senses as of late.  First they took Luke Hochevar out of the starting rotation.  Then...
• 3/22 Motor City Bengals: 2013 Prediction Time: A.L. Central: In this installment of “Prediction Time” I get to the most important division in baseball for Tigers fans, and probably...
• 3/21 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Wade Davis Pitches Well; Mike Moustakas & Lorenzo Cain Go Deep: The offense bounced back yesterday in the Kansas City Royals‘ 7-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Surprise, Arizona....
• 3/21 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Chasing RibbiesI want to share three thoughts and one piece of trivia on the subject of runs batted in. Being one More......
• 3/20 Baseball Jerks: MLB Spring Training Stats Leaders: March 20: Spring training is a young man’s game. While experienced vets tend to take it easy as they ramp up for the games that actually...
• 3/20 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Kansas City Royals: After improving their starting rotation the Royals can be considered a sleeper team entering the 2013 season.  Major League...
• 3/20 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Guys I’m DraftingMy advice is to always draft who you want to. These are guys I’ve taken a long look at, did More......
• 3/20 Through The Fence Baseball: Kansas City Royals preview: Playoff dreams not unrealistic: If you’ve been a Kansas City Royals fan for long, as I have, then you’ve been hearing “they’ll be good in a couple...
• 3/19 Baseball Press: 2013 Breakout Seasons and Spring Training Slugging: Domonic Brown's SLG% indicates he could have a big year. (US Presswire)A couple weeks ago, I wrote an article discussing how...
• 3/18 MLB Injury News: Royals rumors: Kansas City wants to add an outfielder: The Kansas City Royals would like to add a left-handed-hitting outfielder who could help spell Jeff Francoeur against tough...
• 3/18 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Mendoza Makes a Case, 16 Singles, Butler & Gordon Knock In 2 Each: After a two game hiatus from the win column, the Kansas City Royals bashed out 18 hits to put a beat down on divisional rival...
• 3/15 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Simple Sabermetrics: OBP and SLGSometimes it’s OK to talk about the basics. I’m playing in a league this year with the a few of More......
• 3/14 Baseball Jerks: 2013 MLB Spring Training Stats Leaders: March 13: While a lot of the top names in baseball are getting their spring reps at the World Baseball Classic, a lot of the younger guys...
• 3/14 numberFire: MLB Fantasy Preview 2013: Top Outfielders Overvalued This Year: Thinking about taking McCutchen or Bautista in the first round? Might want to think again.See More Ryan Braun Mike Trout Matt...
• 3/13 Diamond Ring: What to Watch when Watching those Royals: The eleven game winning streak was fun (yay!) but we all know it's Spring Training and doesn't count. As often as not, the win-loss...
• 3/13 Baseball Jerks: 2013 MLB Spring Training Stats Leaders: March 13: While a lot of the top names in baseball are getting their spring reps at the World Baseball Classic, a lot of the younger guys...
• 3/13 Swingin' A's: Swingin’ A’s at Spring Training: Day 1: I have been so excited about the 2013 edition of the Oakland Athletics that I simply couldn’t wait until April 1st to see...
• 3/13 Venom Strikes: Patrick Corbin Has Stronghold on Fifth Rotation Spot: Patrick Corbin continues to impress as he shut down the Seattle Mariners in Tuesday’s spring training match up in Peoria, Arizona....
• 3/13 KC Kingdom: Royals Lorenzo Cain: Breakout Candidate If Healthy: The Kansas City Royals would love to have Lorenzo Cain‘s bat in the bottom third of their batting order every day. He offers...
• 3/13 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Shields’ Mixed Results, Gordon Homers, Perez & Mendoza Return: Is it strange to feel disappointed when the Kansas City Royals lose a Spring Training game? The Royals suffered only their second...
• 3/13 fantasyteamadvice.com: Odds to win the 2013 AL Central title (Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians, and Minnesota Twins): The American League Central 2013 edition is expected to be a one horse race with the Detroit Tigers the overwhelming favorites...
• 3/12 fantasyteamadvice.com: American League Central division projections for 2013 MLB – who will win the AL Central this season: The American League Central 2013 edition is expected to be a one horse race with the Detroit Tigers the overwhelming favorites...
• 3/12 Kings of Kauffman: Realistic Win Total for 2013: No one could have asked for a better start to the spring than the way the Royals have been playing.  As a team they are absolutely...
• 3/11 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Finding Outfield ValueAt the tail end of last week I recorded a fantasy baseball podcast segment for The Phil Naessens Show.  We More......
• 3/10 StoopSports.com: 30 in 30: Kansas City Royals: To lead you into the MLB season Stoop Sports’ MLB staff is embarking on a 30 day journey, where we will give you pre-season...
• 3/9 KC Kingdom: Royals Alex Gordon’s Power Potential (Part Two): The Kansas City Royals left fielder Alex Gordon spent a lot of time working on his swing with former hitting coach Kevin Seitzer...
• 3/9 Kings of Kauffman: Billy Butler – Royals Hall of Famer?: Since he first debuted as a big leaguer in 2007, Billy Butler has been a very productive player for the Kansas City Royals. Despite...
• 3/8 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Streak Ends, Gordon & Lough Stay Hot, Santana Looks Good: The streak is over but let’s no panic. The Kansas City Royals were thumped yesterday by the Seattle Mariners 12-2, halting...
• 3/7 KC Kingdom: Royals Recap: Shields, Gordon Push Streak to 11: We want to introduce something new today for KC Kingdom: a daily recap of the Kansas City Royals game from the day before along...
• 3/7 Kings of Kauffman: Gordon, Smith, Shields Keep KC Streak Alive: We’re going streaking!  I know…you don’t have to be the one to tell me to calm down. It’s only spring training, but normally,...
• 3/6 Bronx Baseball Daily: Across the AL: Undefeated Royals Look Strong in Spring: With an 8-1 victory over the Reds on Sunday afternoon, the Kansas City Royals earned their ninth straight win and thus remain...
• 3/5 mlbreports.com : Kansas City Royals Payroll in 2013 – And Contracts Going Forward: Like us on Facebook here Tuesday, March.05, 2013 By Michael McGraw ( Royals Correspondent) With the Royals finishing the 2012...
• 3/5 MLB Injury News: Royals rumors: Kansas City seeking outfielder: The Kansas City Royals would like to add an outfielder this spring, according to Danny Knobler of CBS Sports, and the club will...
• 3/4 Baseball Press: Spring Training Stats Can Mean Something: Did Chris Young miss his breakout season due to injury? (US Presswire)Spring training is in full swing, and fantasy owners everywhere...
• 3/4 KC Kingdom: When To Get Excited About The Royals: Nine games. That’s how many consecutive Spring Training games the Kansas City Royals have won. Nine meaningless games. There...
• 3/4 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon Vs. Billy Butler: From what I have been hearing and reading this spring, my feeling is that Royals fans believe that Alex Gordon is the best overall...
• 3/4 Baseball Musings: Tarring Brett: George Brett has some fun with Jeff Francoeur and Alex Gordon as the latter two show fans how to pine tar a bat. Your browser...
• 3/4 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Spring Training Streak Continues: The Royals are 9-0-1 in spring training so far, with their only “loss” happening in the second intrasquad game. As...
• 3/3 MLBTradeRumors: AL Central Notes: Royals, Indians, Tigers: The Royals' unbeaten streak to open Cactus League play has people talking, although some (twitter link) would advise not...
• 3/3 KC Kingdom: Royals Alex Gordon’s Power Potential (Part One): In the Kansas City Royals 3-2 spring training win over the Cincinnati Reds Friday , Chris Getz hit a home run.  This is significant...
• 3/1 MLBTradeRumors: Notable Transactions From March 2012: Most clubs have addressed their significant roster questions by the time players report to Spring Training, but there are always...
• 3/1 Kings of Kauffman: Kings of Kauffman Mailbag – Ep.8: Spring Training has started. The bickering has begun. Will the 2013 Kansas City Royals be a 90-game winner and make the playoffs,...

• 2/28 El Maquino: OSCAR TAVERAS IS WORTH WAITING FOR: THE BIG PIECE > Sorry that I have to be the buzzkill two days in a row, but nobody else is writing these columns. By now I...
• 2/28 MLB Dirt: Why The Royals, Mariners, and Indians Will Vie For a Wildcard: Unlike past seasons….the three teams that made the boldest moves during the off season were the Royals, Mariners, and Indians. ...
• 2/28 Kings of Kauffman: Luke Hochevar: Enigmas, Adjustments, and a (Not So) Secret Weapon?: Barring some sort of trade or a collapse that makes release unavoidable, the Royals will begin the year with Luke Hochevar likely...
• 2/28 Kings of Kauffman: The National Perspective: Last night, I held a writing workshop for some students at UNL. Because there’s no dress code, and I’m not a fashion person,...
• 2/27 Kings of Kauffman: A Word From The Basement: One of the things that’s amused me this off season is the criticisms leveled at those who aren’t buying the Royals as...
• 2/27 Kings of Kauffman: Elliot Johnson and Mike McCartney Stop by the Kansas City Baseball Vault: While snow fell in Kansas City, the Royals were busy getting spring training underway and taking the field against the rest of...
• 2/26 Bleeding Yankee Blue: BRETT GARDNER'S GOTTA GO DEEP: I heard it.  It was grisly.  The Yankee fan’s worst nightmare- getting blasted by a pitch.  And it happened,...
• 2/26 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Gordon Sits Out Win Against Diamondbacks: Kansas City defeated Arizona 16-4 on Monday afternoon getting offense from nearly every Royal who played in the game. KC had one...
• 2/25 Baseball Press: Clinical Notes: Spring Training Injury Updates: Matt Kemp should see spring training at-bats very soon. (US Presswire)We're just about complete with the first week of spring...
• 2/23 KC Kingdom: Royals And Spring Training Stats: It is very easy to get overly excited about Spring Training performances. Fans are so connected with their teams that when players...
• 2/23 mlbreports.com : Bryce Harper – The Nats LF: Like us on Facebook here Saturday, February. 23/2013 By David Huzzard (Nationals Correspondent via Citizens of Natstown.com –...
• 2/23 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Spring Training 2/22: Rangers Tie Royals in Spring Opener: Finally. More than just drills. More than just intrasquad games. The Royals played a real-life spring training game on Friday...
• 2/22 Kings of Kauffman: Ned’s Glorious Lineup: Of all the things that won’t matter a bit once opening day gets here, I have to believe that the lineup of the first Spring...
• 2/21 Diamond Ring: Pitcher Previews: Last year, some of you might remember that I was too depressed to project Royals pitching. With Bruce Chen starting the Royals...
• 2/20 Through The Fence Baseball: Are Kansas City Royals legitimate contenders in AL Central?: For the first time in a decade, the Kansas City Royals have a chance to contend for a playoff spot. Now, it probably won’t be...
• 2/19 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Spring Training 2/19: Nobody Wins Intrasquad Matchup: Leave it to the Royals. In a matchup that pitted Royals from the United States against Royals from other nations, neither team...
• 2/19 Fire Brand of the American League: Jonny Gomes a Go Go?: Hunter Golden swoops in on a Tuesday and does the unthinkable. He fondles Jonny Gomes' plate approach and finds new, innovative...
• 2/18 Redlegs Review: Ranking the top 10 left fielders in baseball: Hate him or love him, Braun is one of the best outfielders in the game by: Chase Fitzgerald Staff Writer 1. Ryan...
• 2/18 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Spring Training 2/18: Fun With Outfielders: Today’s biggest notes seem to be outfield-related. First, Bob Dutton was able to get more information on Lorenzo Cain, who...
• 2/18 Diamond Ring: Season Preview - Outfield: There's not going to be much competition in the outfield for the Royals.  Short of injury the starters will be Alex Gordon,...
• 2/17 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Spring Training: On Lineups, Locks and More: Spring training news keeps coming out of Surprise as the Royals continue to prepare for the 2013 season. After some visa issues...
• 2/15 Diamond Ring: Season Preview - Infield: This is truly my favorite time of year.  Spring is just around the corner.  Gloves and ear muffs are starting to be...
• 2/11 KC Kingdom: Royals Spring Training Opens Today With Hope: As happens every spring, hope is in the air.  It is the one time of the year that every team in the major leagues still has a...
• 2/11 Baseball Jerks: 2013 Fantasy Baseball Rankings – Outfielders: When it comes to ranking fantasy outfielders, the biggest difficulty comes from the sheer volume of choices.  There are simply...
• 2/8 KC Kingdom: 10 Intriguing ST Questions For The Royals, Part 2: The Kansas City Royals are excited about all the new faces (and arms) brought in over the long off-season.  There is fresh hope...
• 2/7 Kings of Kauffman: The Lineup – Out of Order?: Piggybacking off a great Marcus Meade article regarding flawed logic and proper use of talent…I thought I’d take a closer...
• 2/5 KC Kingdom: Royals Should Have A Better Team Slogan: The Kansas City Royals released their lackluster 2013 team slogan yesterday, the ever stirring “Come To Play.”  Yawn.  After...
• 2/3 Kings of Kauffman: Taming Tigers Will Be Tough: The Detroit Tigers may not be the super-human juggernaut that many analysts believe they are … but they’re pretty **** close....
• 2/3 Blog Red Machine: How Will Shin-Soo Choo’s Defense Affect The Reds In 2013?: The Reds made an important offensive upgrade this winter when they shipped Drew Stubbs out of town, along with shorstop prospect...
• 2/2 Kevin Slowey Was Framed: 2013 Kansas City Royals Preview from a Minnesota Twins fan: Let's take a look at the competish, shall we?  The Kansas City Royals have been the sexy team in each of the last couple...

• 1/30 SoDo Mojo: Hutch Award Luncheon Honors Barry Zito: Last weekend, the gates of Safeco Field swung wide to welcome Mariners fans to a baseball carnival. Today, they opened for a different...
• 1/23 Braves Journal: Where Do We Go From Here? 2012.6 Free Agency and Trades (by W.C.G.): In The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver looked at several different fields of prediction to illustrate both the power and the...
• 1/23 Kings of Kauffman: A Tale of Two Players: For all the advancements in statistics and projections, baseball is never a perfect science. Players break out when they’re...
• 1/21 The Sports Provocateur: A.L. Central Dream Lineup: Motown's Monsters Drive the Lineup: The American League Central Dream Lineup is led by the Detroit Tigers dynamic duo in the Three and four holes.  Each of the...
• 1/21 Kings of Kauffman: Perez: The Royal Lynchpin: Salvador Perez is to the 2013 Royals as procreation is to mankind—necessary for survival. It gets mentioned here and there,...
• 1/18 Kings of Kauffman: Pitching? What about the other guys?: I’ve harped on the starting pitching quite a bit over the past few months, so I thought it only to pick on the position players...
• 1/16 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon And Batting First: Spring Training is just around the corner and that means we’ve reached the time of year where fans and writers start speculating...
• 1/14 i70baseball.com: Best Defensive Team In AL Might Be In KCThe 2013 Kansas City Royals may be the best defensive team in all of the American League....
• 1/13 Behind the Plate: 2013 Left Field RankingsAnother accolade for Mike T [...] ...
• 1/12 Kings of Kauffman: Market Fresh: Thomas Neal: When the Cleveland Indians signed Nick Swisher, they made room for him on the 40 man roster by designating Thomas Neal for assignment....
• 1/12 Fire Brand of the American League: Coming to the Defense of Shane Victorino: Part OnePart one of a two part series defending the Boston Red Sox offseason acquisition of Shane Victorino....
• 1/10 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon’s Adjustments: If you’re looking for a face of the Royals franchise, right now, look no further than Alex Gordon. Sure, Billy Butler was...
• 1/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: KC Royals Hitting & Pitching Projections: Kansas City Royals – Predicted Finish: Second Place, AL Central The Royals have been waiting for next year since 1985, which...
• 1/9 Through The Fence Baseball: Is draft-pick compensation limiting Michael Bourn market?: No player has been more enigmatic this offseason than free-agent outfielder Michael Bourn. Making the National League All-Star...
• 1/8 Kings of Kauffman: The 2013 Lineup I’d Like To See: We’re in the home stretch now. Or, in baseball terms, we’re rounding third on the off-season. Only about a month and a half...
• 1/7 i70baseball.com: 2013: Do or die for the Kansas City RoyalsThe team is going "all in" for the 2013 season....
• 1/5 Rays Colored Glasses: How Much Are the Rays Risking By Starting Wil Myers at Triple-A to Begin 2013?: The Rays are one bat short of being ready to go on a playoff run. Wait, are they? They’re missing a DH, fine, but they have...

• 12/31 Baseball News Source: Kansas City Royals Reach Agreement With Endy Chavez: Royals add outfield depth with Chavez signing The Kansas City Royals have reached agreement with free-agent outfielder Endy Chavez....
• 12/30 Kings of Kauffman: Top Five Royals Moments In Attendance of 2012: As we wind down the final days of 2012 let me take one more look back at my top five moments of this past season. I made it into...
• 12/29 Kings of Kauffman: Royal Resolutions for 2013: Tuesday we’ll flip the calendar to 2013 and be that much closer to pitchers and catchers reporting which means the season will...
• 12/28 Kings of Kauffman: Getting Royals Contingency Plans Ready Now: If the Royals are going to contend in 2013, it’s going to take more than just the stars coming through. If Alex Gordon struggles,...
• 12/26 Kings of Kauffman: Impatience: We’re a few days from 2013, which means a few days closer to spring training and a few days closer to Opening Day. The temperature...
• 12/26 The Flagrant Fan: Alex Gordon is king of Missouri: If you look at the overall value of non-pitching ballplayers over the last two seasons, you would probably guess most of the...
• 12/25 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon Could Join Exclusive Company in 2013: It seemed to come out of nowhere after years of struggles and frustrating injuries, but in 2011 Alex Gordon broke out in a big...
• 12/25 Kings of Kauffman: Royal Investments: So you’ve got a Royals fan in your life and you are desperately searching for that delightful gift that will bring a smile...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: Across the Diamond: Hot Stove League Edition #6 – Hamilton, Sanchez, Myers: The signing of Josh Hamilton was big news this week Editor’s Note: Across the Diamond: Hot Stove League Edition is a new weekly...
• 12/23 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Christmas Wish List: With Christmas only a few days away why not ask for some Royals gifts or those that hopefully benefit Kansas City in 2013. With...
• 12/21 Blue Jays Nation: Month In Review: by Lucan C. (@_lucanc) There's only three times in a year when there's a lot of action in baseball; Spring Training, the...
• 12/21 KC Kingdom: More Trade Fallout: Stop Bashing Wil Myers: Blockbuster or blockheaded? Whether you are for or against Dayton Moore’s mega trade with the Rays, hopefully we’ve...
• 12/20 Kings of Kauffman: The Importance of Salvador Perez: If all goes according to plan, the rest of the decade will see Salvador Perez behind the plate in Kansas City. The Royals made...
• 12/19 Through The Fence Baseball: Will Kansas City Royals challenge in AL Central next season?: It seems like, for years now, baseball writers and executives have said the Kansas City Royals are just a few seasons away from...
• 12/17 Kings of Kauffman: Retro Rumors: Barry Bonds and the Royals: After the 2007 season, the Royals had finished last or second to close to it in most significant offensive categories. Second...
• 12/16 Kings of Kauffman: Why Won’t the Royals Win 90?: I’m going to prove to you why you should be optimistic for the 2013 Royals season. I’m going to do it with numbers, speculation,...
• 12/16 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Optimists Club: It feels as if the Royals are done making any big moves for the rest of the offseason. Sure, things could develop out of nowhere...
• 12/16 Tomahawk Take: More Low-End LF Targets: While it’s mid-December and the left field situation is still unresolved in Atlanta, there are plenty of candidates remaining...
• 12/14 Baseball News Source: Across the Diamond: Hot Stove League Edition #6 – Hamilton, Sanchez, Myers: The signing of Josh Hamilton was big news this week Editor’s Note: Across the Diamond: Hot Stove League Edition is a new weekly...
• 12/14 Kings of Kauffman: I’m on board: I know you’re probably tired of reading about the Tampa trade by now…and while I was looking forward to writing about it,...
• 12/12 MLBRandomFandom: Kansas City Royals Team Page: KANSAS CITY ROYALSMLBDepthCharts Team PagePlayers 1-25 by Number Score1. Alex Gordon (7.75)2. Billy Butler (7.5)3. James Shields...
• 12/11 60ft6in.com: Rays Take Advantage of Suddenly Impatient Royals: Josh Robbins wrote about the recent Royals/Rays trade on Monday, this is my view of the deal…. What’s the rush in...
• 12/11 i70baseball.com: Royals Fans Need To Embrace A Chance: We have all been embarrassed by our own family. Whether it’s an overzealous parent, a misbehaving kid, a drunken uncle, or a...
• 12/10 The Captain's Blog: Experts Sling Arrows, but Shields Gives Royals Fighting Chance: A six year, $147 million contract is too rich for the Kansas City Royals’ blood. So, when Zack Greinke agreed to terms with...
• 12/10 Baseball Jerks: Royals Finally Trade Wil Myers, Sacrifice Future to Break .500: I want to root for the Kansas City Royals. Really, I want to. As someone who writes about prospects for a living, I like when...
• 12/10 El Maquino: WHY THE ROYALS DID WHAT THEY DID: I usually reserve this site for Cardinals stuff, but since I’m from Kansas City and the Royals are my unwanted stepchild,...
• 12/10 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Royals Pull Trigger for Shields: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /*...
• 12/10 Baseball Jerks: James Shields, Wade Davis To Kansas City, Wil Myers to Tampa Bay: For weeks and weeks, the Tampa Bay Rays dangled RHP James Shields to see what they could get for him on the open market. Knowing...
• 12/10 Kings of Kauffman: Why I Love Baseball And The Royals: I have a soft spot for Royals fans who come to their fanhood from different perspectives. I stopped playing baseball after my...
• 12/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon back to leadoff?: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon could return to the leadoff role in 2013 because the team envisions 1B Eric Hosmer returning...[+] as a force in the middle of the order.
• 12/6 Kings of Kauffman: Wil Myers for James Shields Rumor Gains Steam: The rumor that started before the Winter Meetings gained some steam on Wednesday night when Ken Rosenthal sent out this tweet:...
• 12/5 MLBTradeRumors: NL East Notes: Santana, Braves, Reed Johnson: Here are a few Wednesday morning NL East updates out of Nashville: The Mets would be open to eating a portion of the money...
• 12/4 Rising Apple: Royals and Blue Jays Seem Most Compatible Mets Trade Partner: The Winter Meetings got off to a quick start yesterday; we saw Angel Pagan get $40 million over four years to stay with the Giants,...
• 12/4 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Winter Meetings: Early Day 2 – Mostly Quiet on the Nashville Front: Day two of the Winter Meetings hasn’t been very wild, but there have been a few developments and details that clear up the...

• 11/30 Rising Apple: Royals Inquired About R.A. Dickey; Nationals Acquire Denard Span: Royals GM Dayton Moore is determined to improve Kansas City’s starting rotation for 2013; he’s already added Ervin...
• 11/30 Kings of Kauffman: The Royals, Destiny and Powerball: Maybe you’ve heard about this story by now. The nation worked itself into a frenzy this week in preparations for a record...
• 11/29 Baseball Jerks: Future Jerks: Wil Myers a Future Red Sox?: That sound you hear is the Hot Stove beginning to whistle, and if the heavily rumored trade between the Boston Red Sox and Kansas...
• 11/29 StanGraphs: How Much Will the New Royals’ Ace Cost?: It’s probably a sin to talk about the Cardinals’ cross-state rival here, but the Kansas City Royals, willingly or...
• 11/29 MLBTradeRumors: Royals, Mets Discussed R.A. Dickey: The Royals have talked to the Mets about R.A. Dickey as they continue to search for a top-of-the-rotation starter, Jon Heyman...
• 11/28 Kings of Kauffman: Year Six Series: The Hitters: A couple weeks ago I looked at individual starting pitching performances during the Dayton Moore era and compared the results...
• 11/28 Release Points: 2013 Kansas City Royals Top Prospects: System Overview: The farm system, which graduated the likes of Alex Gordon, Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Billy Butler and Aaron...
• 11/27 i70baseball.com: Why I’m thankful I’m a Royals fanThis Thanksgiving, there's many things to be thankful for, including being the fan of a up and coming baseball team....
• 11/26 Motor City Bengals: Dayton Moore And His Talent Usage: For those of you who don’t know who Dayton Moore is, he is the GM of the Kansas City Royals. For those of you wondering...
• 11/26 Kings of Kauffman: Which Royal to Trade? Poll Results: Stop me if you’ve heard this one – the Royals might need to make a trade to get a top-notch starter this offseason....
• 11/26 Tomahawk Take: Should Braves Consider Wil Myers?: There’s a Wil, is there a Way? The Royals are listening are the Braves talking. . .   B.J. Upton rumors continue to dominate...
• 11/25 Kings of Kauffman: Butler for Shields: It Makes Too Much Sense: So many trade rumors swirling around. So much trade talk flying everywhere. It’s hard to keep track of it all. It’s hard to...
• 11/24 Kings of Kauffman: More Royals Trade Rumors With No End in Sight: The latest rumor that has everyone abuzz today is Jeff Passan’s report that the Royals are “shopping” outfielder...
• 11/23 MLBTradeRumors: Passan's Latest: Myers, Fowler, Asdrubal, McCarthy: The Royals have been shopping top prospect Wil Myers but only in exchange for starting pitching, reports Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan. ...
• 11/22 Kings of Kauffman: How bad can he be?: Jeff Francoeur is likely going to be a Kansas City Royals player when opening day 2013 rolls around. After a dismal 2012, and...
• 11/19 Southside Showdown: One last toast to Alex Rios’ 2012 season: In the last bit of official recognition his 2012 performance will receive, Alex Rios finished 15th in last week’s AL MVP...
• 11/18 Kings of Kauffman: Hultzen, Mariners, and Trading Roadblocks: A post from ESPN.com writer David Schoenfield today explained, essentially, what every Royals fan already knows. If the Royals...
• 11/18 D.C. Baseball Yesterday and Today: Zimmerman at Aberdeen: It is the summer of 2004 and Ryan Zimmerman is playing for Team USA. While we make the drive up to Aberdeen, Maryland, Team USA...
• 11/18 MLBTradeRumors: Silverman's Latest: Greinke, Royals, Rays, Blue Jays: Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski told Michael Silverman of The Boston Herald that he was unsure if he'd be able to acquire Miguel Cabrera...
• 11/17 Kings of Kauffman: Reviewing Ned Yost: Like him or hate him, Ned Yost is the Royals manager going into 2013. Maybe the Royals will come out flat like they did in 2012...
• 11/17 Rising Apple: Melky Cabrera Signs With Blue Jays; Mets Ink Brian Bixler: There was plenty of news coming out yesterday regarding the Mets as we continue to inch closer to the Winter Meetings. First off,...
• 11/17 Rising Apple: Melky Cabrera Signs With Blue Jays; Mets Sign Brian Bixler: There was plenty of news coming out yesterday regarding the Mets as we continue to inch closer to the Winter Meetings. First off,...
• 11/16 Tomahawk Take: Separating Fact From Perception Part III Cody Ross: I suppose Cody Ross’ name has popped up in conversations about the Braves left field job more than any other over the past three...
• 11/16 YankeeAnalysts.com: Finding The Next Great Swish/C-Grand-Type Trade Candidate: (The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) Barring a a big-time unexpected swerve, the Yankees seem pretty well...
• 11/16 Feelin' Kinda Blue: My 2012 IBWAA awards ballot: Trout, Braun, Hernandez, Kershaw and more: Now that award season is officially over, it's time to reveal my ballots for the Internet Baseball Writers Association of...
• 11/15 Kings of Kauffman: Rumor Mill – Will KC Go Big?:   Look at all these rumors, surrounding me everyday. This is a fun time of year, but right now trying to separate fact from...
• 11/14 Kings of Kauffman: Former Uber-Prospect Brandon Wood Signs With Royals: Before the 2006 season, Brandon Wood was Baseball America’s #3 overall prospect. Today he signed a minor league deal with...
• 11/14 Tomahawk Take: Braves CF Options – Would Lorenzo Cain Fit?: Word surfaced last week that the Braves were exploring a trade with Kansas City for Lorenzo Cain and with the suggestion yesterday...
• 11/13 Tomahawk Take: Should Braves Swap Kris Medlen For Alex Gordon? No Thanks.: I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s become commonplace for those who watch the Braves now and then and look at statistics...
• 11/12 Rays Colored Glasses: A David Price Trade Is Not As Likely to Happen As Some People May Think: Not a day goes by without some writer that people consider a baseball pundit discusses the Rays trading a starting pitcher. The...
• 11/12 Tomahawk Take: Separating Fact From Perception Part II Nick Swisher: This is the second in my series about hyped free agents and today I’m looking at Nick Swisher. While Swisher’s isn’t...
• 11/11 Kings of Kauffman: Rumors: The off-season annoys me. I have to prepare to deal with all the possible player-acquiring scenarios that give me great hope all...
• 11/9 BoSox Banter: Why signing Adam LaRoche makes sense for the Red Sox: By Jeff Louderback Free of the cumbersome long-term contracts that accompanied Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez, the Red Sox...
• 11/9 Kings of Kauffman: Operation Offseason Improvement: The Right 25: In the midst of football season a po**** phrase we’ve heard from our friends on the other side of the Truman Sports Complex...
• 11/8 mlbreports.com : James Shields or David Price: Tampa Bay Rays are Ready to Trade an Ace: Thursday November 8th, 2012 Bernie Olshansky:  With center fielder B.J. Upton most likely leaving for free agency, the Tampa...
• 11/8 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Hand Out Hardware For 2012: The Royals have handed out a few team awards, most notably giving their Player and Pitcher of the Year trophies to Billy Butler...
• 11/6 Kings of Kauffman: Dismal Kansas City Parallels: It’s a rough year for Kansas City sports. The Royals launched “Our Time” then promptly lost 12 games in a row...
• 11/6 Kings of Kauffman: Kings of Kauffman Mailbag – Ep. 6: Hello and hi there. It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these – six months to be exact – so there is quite the pile...
• 11/6 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Alex Gordon Wins Second Gold Glove: Tonight the gold glove winners are being announced in each league.  During an hour long program on ESPN2, winners in both leagues...
• 11/2 SoDo Mojo: Final List of possible targets: I have done multiple posts dedicated to talking about ways to improve the offense this season. Even though it may seem redundant...
• 11/2 Blog Red Machine: Reds Trades: A Rumor and A Possibility?: The biggest trade rumor that has involved the Reds is the one regarding David Wright of the New York Mets. It was suggested by...
• 11/2 Call to the Pen: Gold Glovers Always Underappreciated: It is so much more difficult to build a re**** as a great fielder than it is as a great hitter. The big boppers and their stats...
• 11/2 StanGraphs: AL Central Review: 2012 AL Central Predicted Standings 1. Detroit Tigers 2. Kansas City Royals 3. Cleveland Indians 4. Chicago White Sox 5. Minnesota...

• 10/31 Tyler's Think Tank: Gold Glove Review: I don't put much stock in Gold Glove awards (Fielding Bible Awards are where it's at). Too often they seem to go to flashy players...
• 10/31 Baseball Reality Tour: 2012 All Defensive Teams: Major League Baseball announced the 2012 Gold Glove award winners last night. As a suggested prerequisite to the information below,...
• 10/31 Baseball Jerks: 2012 Gold Glove Winners, No Mike Trout?: Your 2012 Gold Glove winners have been officially announced. This year nine players received the award for the first time, the...
• 10/31 Climbing Tal's Hill: Gold Glove Winners Announced: The Gold Glove winners have been announced. Baseball awards have begun to mean less and less to me over the years. From all-star...
• 10/31 Yankees Fans Unite: 2012 Fielding Awards: Last night the Gold Glove awards were announced, and our very own Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano were named to the American League...
• 10/31 YankeeAnalysts.com: Yanks And Royals As Potential Trade Partners?: (The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) Yesterday This past Saturday Chad Jennings of LoHud brought up the...
• 10/31 Baseball News Source: 2012 Gold Glove Award Winners – McCutchen, Headley, Reddick Among First-Time Selections: Josh Reddick was among nine first time Gold Glove winners The 2012 Gold Glove winners from the National League and American League...
• 10/30 For Baseball Junkies: 2012 Gold Glove Winners: ALC - Matt Wieters (2nd award)1B - Mark Teixeira (5)2B - Robinson Cano (2)3B - Adrian Beltre (4)SS - J.J. Hardy (1)LF...
• 10/30 SOX & Dawgs: 2012 AL & NL Rawlings Gold Glove Teams: The 2012 Rawlings Gold Glove Teams for each league came out on Tuesday night and while the Boston Red Sox had two nominees...
• 10/30 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers: Top Moments of 2012: The Detroit Tigers’ season ended in deflating fashion, but it’s unfair to forget some of the incredible moments this...
• 10/30 Rays Colored Glasses: Desmond Jennings’ Case For The Gold Glove: Ah, the Gold Glove Award. Given each year to those who are thought to be the best defenders at their respective positions, this...
• 10/30 Jays Journal: Should Blue Jays Kick Tires On Martin Prado: Say what you want about John Farrell, but the man made one solid point before he left Toronto. Outside of their obvious needs...
• 10/28 Rising Apple: Alex Gordon Could be on the Market; Cabrera Gets Triple Crown Award: So, the Royals need some starting pitching for 2013, and they’re willing to trade away one of their young position players...
• 10/27 Kings of Kauffman: Trade Rumors Swirling Around Royals Hitters: While we wait for the 2012 season to end and the offseason to begin, Royals fans are interested to see how the Royals will attempt...
• 10/27 MLBTradeRumors: Olney's Latest: Sanchez, Royals, Hosmer: Here's the latest from ESPN's Buster Olney (Insider req'd)... Some executives and agents predict that Anibal Sanchez could...
• 10/24 i70baseball.com: Royals Name Hitting Coach And Assistant: The Kansas City Royals today named Jack Maloof as the club’s Major League hitting coach and Andre David as the assistant Major...
• 10/23 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: 9 Players who give you a complete Fantasy Baseball Lineup Revisited: In February we ran a series of predictive posts as a Countdown to the 2012 fantasy baseball season. Those predictions have come...
• 10/23 mlbreports.com : The Robert Whitmer 5-Point Plan to Fix the Yankees: Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 Robert Whitmer:  If I gave you 196 million dollars and told you that you could take that money and...
• 10/22 i70baseball.com: If the Orioles can do it, so can the Royals.There's a reason for the Royals to be optimistic next year. It's the Baltimore Orioles....
• 10/22 Kings of Kauffman: Reviewing WARs of the Past: Hitter’s Edition: Wins above replacement (WAR) has been a hot topic as of late.  A lot, or all of it, deals with the American League MVP award...
• 10/19 Kings of Kauffman: What Happened to Hosmer?: There have been plenty of complaints about the Royals pitching. We know that’s got to get better. But what about the hitting?...
• 10/11 Call to the Pen: 2012 Season Review Series: Kansas City Royals: It was supposed to be “Our Time”. Before the 2011 season, the Royals were anointed kings of the minor leagues with...
• 10/11 Kings of Kauffman: The Business of Breaking Even: Baseball is a sport. Sports success is measured in wins and losses by fans, players, general managers, etc. I like to think team...
• 10/10 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Kansas City Royals: The Royals will pursue pitching in the hopes that a deeper starting staff will result in the club's first winning record in a...
• 10/8 MLBTradeRumors: Arbitration Eligibles: San Diego Padres: The Padres are next in our 2013 Arbitration Eligibles series.  With a dozen players, they have one of the largest arbitration...
• 10/7 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: 2012 Royal Wrap-Up: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ...
• 10/4 Kings of Kauffman: Kevin Seitzer Out as Royals Hitting Coach: In 2011, the Royals finished sixth in the American League in runs scored. In 2012, they fell back to 12th in the AL in a year...
• 10/4 Kings of Kauffman: Who is most valuable?: Another season of Royals baseball has ended short of the playoffs. All the talk will now be about the postseason or arguing over...
• 10/4 B-R Blog: What if I Think Defensive Measures and Replacement Level Measures are Meaningless?: If you think all defensive measure are bunk and no better than random noise, use oWAR. It is every part of WAR, but assumes everyone...
• 10/3 Tyler's Think Tank: Chris Davis Breaks Through (Finally): Davis launches a go-ahead home run in yesterday's game at the Trop The Baltimore Orioles eked out a 1-0 win over the Tampa...
• 10/2 High Heat Stats: Monday game notes (expanded big gulp edition): Now with infinitely more Shanty Hogan mentions! Astros 3, @Cubs 0: Houston’s last back-to-back shutouts of 4 hits or less...
• 10/2 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Season Winding Down: It’s only natural to lose interest this time of year. For a brief time, the Royals weren’t mathematically eliminated...
• 10/2 Through The Fence Baseball: These top prospects could be grabbing headlines in 2013: Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Yu Darvish and Yoenis Cespedes sure gave us a serious look at the next generation of ballplayers this...
• 10/1 Kings of Kauffman: The Monday Rant: Addressing The Storylines: “It’s been four weeks since the last Monday Rant and the reason for the absence is really quite obvious: what is there, really,...
• 10/1 Motor City Bengals: Tigers Top Royals, Celebrate AL Central Championship: Tigers 6, Royals 3 (box score) Like a stubborn husband who found himself in the wrong neighborhood and refused to ask for directions...
• 10/1 WahoosOnFirst: Indians Win Series, Thrash Royals 15-3: Less than 24 hours after watching their modest three game winning streak come to an end, the Indians bounced back in a big way...

• 9/30 Kings of Kauffman: September in a Nutshell: Going into the last full month of the season, the Royals had some nice momentum and the phrase “.500″ was even starting...
• 9/30 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Cleveland Wastes Countless Opportunities, Falls in 14; Royals 7, Indians 6: By Bob Toth It may have taken extra innings, but Kansas City was able to hand Cleveland their first loss in the Sandy Alomar...
• 9/30 WahoosOnFirst: Royals Outlast Streaking Tribe 7-6 in 14: The Indians have been playing arguably their best baseball in a long while. They came into last night’s game with the Royals...
• 9/29 Chicken Friars: A Case For Melky In San Diego: No, I have not lost my mind. I am sure many people will laugh at the headline of this post, and think that I have lost my mind....
• 9/28 WahoosOnFirst: Series Preview: Kansas City Royals vs. Cleveland Indians: So the Cleveland Indians fire their manager, and now they’re going to rip off a six-game win streak, and never have a losing...
• 9/27 Call to the Pen: Doug Fister Sets American League Record for Consecutive Strikeouts: Detroit Tigers pitcher Doug Fister set a new American League record on Thursday by striking out nine consecutive batters during...
• 9/27 Motor City Bengals: Doug Fister Sets American League Record for Consecutive Strikeouts: The American League Central race isn’t the only excitement going on at Comerica Park today as the Tigers take on the Kansas...
• 9/27 Motor City Bengals: Tigers Survive Royals, Grab Sole Possession of First Place: Tigers 5, Royals 4 (box score) When I wrote that Jim Leyland should keep Rick Porcello on a short leash, I never anti**** that...
• 9/26 Motor City Bengals: Jim Leyland Should Have Rick Porcello On A Short Leash Tonight: The Tigers were able to pull into a tie for the division lead with their win on Tuesday night, but, while that might be cause...
• 9/25 Kings of Kauffman: Fun with WAR (Wins Above Replacement): After reading Buster Olney’s latest blog post “Framing the American League MVP debate“, it had me thinking about...
• 9/24 Kings of Kauffman: Series Preview Royals at Tigers September 24-27: The Royals (70-82) head out for their last road trip of 2012 when they play at Detroit and Cleveland this week. First is a four-game...
• 9/24 MLBTradeRumors: Four Agents Join Excel Sports Management: Four MLB agents are joining Excel Sports Management, the firm owned by baseball agent Casey Close and two others, Liz Mullen of...
• 9/23 WahoosOnFirst: Indians’ Royal Problems Continue, Fall to K.C. 5-3: Another night, another loss for the Cleveland Indians. What else is new? Last night’s debacle followed the exact same script...
• 9/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon back in the lineupKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon (hand) returned to the lineup Saturday, Sept. 22, against the Cleveland Indians....[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon (hand) returned to the lineup Saturday, Sept. 22, against the Cleveland Indians.
• 9/22 Kings of Kauffman: Many Heroes in Royals 6-3 Win Over Indians: A team effort pushed the Royals over the Indians on Friday night. The Royals sent out a lineup without Alex Gordon and Salvador...
• 9/21 Kings of Kauffman: Many Heroes in Royals 6-3 Win Over Indian: A team effort pushed the Royals over the Indians on Friday night. The Royals sent out a lineup with Alex Gordon and Salvador Perez...
• 9/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon sidelined: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon (hand) was not in the lineup Friday, Sept. 21. Manager Ned Yost said Gordon hurt his hand on...[+] a slide at home plate Thursday, Sept. 20. Gordon might return Saturday, Sept. 22.
• 9/21 Diamond Ring: Finding Optimism: Twenty games left and many Royals fans have diverted their attentions elsewhere. The Kansas City Chiefs may be terrible this year,...
• 9/21 Diamond Ring: Billy Gordon and Alex Butler: Their careers have been linked since being 1st round draft picks in back-to-back years.  It even went so far that Baseball...
• 9/21 Diamond Ring: Division Needs, Royals: This is an evaluation of the AL Central going to into next year.  Using Cot's Contracts I've figured the amount...
• 9/21 Diamond Ring: Slap Singles 8/8: In his Royals career Jonathan Sanchez had an ERA of 7.76.  Jeremy Guthrie is currently sitting at 7.71. The Royals went...
• 9/20 Kings of Kauffman: Leading off for your Kansas City Royals: Lineups are a tricky topic, especially on a team like the Royals, with so many developing hitters. One thing we know for certain...
• 9/19 Southside Showdown: Wasted Opportunities Propel the Legend of Chen: Bruce Chen has faced the White Sox four times this season. In those four starts he’s given up 15 runs and the two teams have...
• 9/18 Southside Showdown: Gavin Floyd Emerges as Victor in Surprise Pitching Duel: Nobody expected a pitching duel. Alejandro De Aza made it clear he was not looking to parti**** in one either by leading the game...
• 9/17 Southside Showdown: White Sox-Royals Series Preview With Kings of Kauffman: Oh those pesky Royals. Cy Chen and company are preparing to shatter the hopes and dreams of White Sox fans, and the White Sox...
• 9/16 i70baseball.com: Projecting the Royals Pitcher and Player of the YearEach year, not matter how dreadful it is, a player and pitcher of the year is named by the Kansas City Royals....
• 9/16 Halo Hangout: Halo Highlights- Angels Lose On Back to Back Home Runs: It took four pitches. It only took four pitches and the season almost went up in flames. Luckily for the Angels, the Orioles beat...
• 9/15 Kings of Kauffman: Salvador Perez Walkoff Caps Royals-Angels Pitching Duel: For most of Saturday night’s game, the Royals couldn’t do much at all against former Royal Zack Greinke and the Angels....
• 9/15 Baseball Musings: Last Minute Power: Zack Geinke had pitched eight and one third shutout innings, then gave up a single to Alex Gordon. At 109 pitches, Mike Scioscia...
• 9/15 i70baseball.com: Magic NumbersThe Royals still have some things to play for....
• 9/15 Kings of Kauffman: Never Too Soon to Call the Royals Next Year’s Sleeper: I remember back in  2009, the season hadn’t started yet, the Royals had just traded for power-hitting Mike Jacobs and a...
• 9/14 Kings of Kauffman: Lorenzo Cain’s Diagnosis: Hamstring Strain: Last night, Lorenzo Cain dove for a ball in the bottom of the tenth inning and stayed down after the play, then left the game....
• 9/14 Halo Hangout: Series Preview: Angels Head to KC to Take on the Royals: The Angels head to Kansas City to take on the Royals this weekend. The Angels are 3.5 games out of the second wild card spot....
• 9/14 Kings of Kauffman: Chaos Ensues As Royals Blow Final Game Against Twins: It started as a nice friendly game. The Royals scored twice in the first inning and added a run in the fifth and it was enough....
• 9/12 Diamond Ring: Finding Optimism: Twenty games left and many Royals fans have diverted their attentions elsewhere. The Kansas City Chiefs may be terrible this year,...
• 9/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon sets career high in doubles: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon set a career high with his 46th double of the season Friday, Sept. 7, against the Chicago White...[+] Sox.
• 9/7 Diamond Ring: Billy Gordon and Alex Butler: Their careers have been linked since being 1st round draft picks in back-to-back years.  It even went so far that Baseball...
• 9/7 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Ask Nash: How Valuable is Stephen Strasburg?: Nash I’m in a 5×5 head to head keeper league where I am set to make the playoffs.  I currently have Stephen Strasburg and...
• 9/6 Kings of Kauffman: What Might Have Been: Wil Myers is everywhere these days. Minor League Player of the Year over at Baseball America. Nice interview at Fangraphs. He...
• 9/4 Kings of Kauffman: Jeremy Guthrie Solid Again in Royals Win Over Rangers: Jeremy Guthrie rattled off another quality start and Alex Gordon and Johnny Giavotella homered to center to help the Royals avenge...
• 9/4 Kings of Kauffman: Wil Myers Had a Good Day: It started this morning when Baseball America announced that Omaha Storm Chasers outfielder Wil Myers had been named their Minor...
• 9/4 Kings of Kauffman: More Mixed Signals, More Awkward Logic: For the third straight game Monday, David Lough started in right field and batted leadoff. Lough, a 26-year-old whose minor league...
• 9/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon snaps hit streakKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon's hitting streak ended at 10 games Sunday, Sept. 2....[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon's hitting streak ended at 10 games Sunday, Sept. 2.
• 9/1 Kings of Kauffman: As September Hits, David Lough and Manuel Pina Called Up: Since the calendar has turned to September 1, Major League Baseball’s rosters have expanded to allow all players on the...

• 8/31 i70baseball.com: Tigers ‘tamed’ in Kansas CityThe sweep of the Detroit Tigers Thursday sealed up a winning month of August for the Kansas City Royals....
• 8/31 Kings of Kauffman: The Royals, Extensions and Cautionary Tales of Big Contracts: A key tenet of Dayton Moore’s Process is developing homegrown players. Since taking over, he’s rebuilt the Royals...
• 8/31 Kings of Kauffman: The Not So Hot Corner: A stat popped up on the video board at the games the last two nights that I found really intriguing.  The more I thought about...
• 8/29 Kings of Kauffman: Peek-A-Boo Baseball: Has anyone seen the Royals today? Nope – because they’re hiding again. Oh – wait…there they are! Taking...
• 8/29 Kings of Kauffman: Luke Hochevar – A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma: Riddle me this Royals fans – How does the guy who faced 12 batters and gave up 7 embarrassing earned runs in the first inning...
• 8/29 Kings of Kauffman: Close Call: Royals Beat Tigers in Wild Slugfest: A close call in the top of the ninth saved the Royals in a back and forth matchup against Detroit.   Greg Holland was trying...
• 8/29 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Candidate: Dexter Fowler: The Rockies are expected to discuss a contract extension with Dexter Fowler this offseason in an attempt to keep him in Denver...
• 8/27 SOX & Dawgs: Monday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/27: After winning 8-6 yesterday, the Boston Red Sox look to finish up the homestand with a series win this afternoon in the finale...
• 8/27 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon excelling in third spotKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon has nine RBIs in 11 games since moving from leadoff to No. 3 in the order....[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon has nine RBIs in 11 games since moving from leadoff to No. 3 in the order.
• 8/27 SOX & Dawgs: Monday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/27: After winning 8-6 yesterday, the Boston Red Sox look to finish up the homestand with a series win this afternoon in the finale...
• 8/27 SOX & Dawgs: Sunday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/26: After blowing a big lead and falling 10-9 in 12 innings, the new look Boston Red Sox look to get back on track in the third...
• 8/26 BoSox Injection: Red Sox Blow Six Run Lead, Fall 10-9 In Extras: This was a major roller-coaster game for the Red Sox as the Royals took a three run lead, the Red Sox came back and grabbed a...
• 8/26 SOX & Dawgs: Sunday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/26: After blowing a big lead and falling 10-9 in 12 innings, the new look Boston Red Sox look to get back on track in the third...
• 8/25 SOX & Dawgs: Saturday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/25: After rallying for a 4-3 win last night, the Boston Red Sox look for a second straight win in the second game of a four-game...
• 8/25 SOX & Dawgs: Saturday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/25: After rallying for a 4-3 win last night, the Boston Red Sox look for a second straight win in the second game of a four-game...
• 8/24 SOX & Dawgs: Friday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/24: After being swept by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Boston Red Sox look to turn the seven-game homestand around tonight...
• 8/24 SOX & Dawgs: Friday Red Sox Mediocrity - 8/24: After being swept by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Boston Red Sox look to turn the seven-game homestand around tonight...
• 8/24 Diamond Ring: Division Needs, Royals: This is an evaluation of the AL Central going to into next year.  Using Cot's Contracts I've figured the amount...
• 8/24 Fire Brand of the American League: The Advanced Scout – Kansas City RoyalsThe Advanced Scout tries to glue his pulled-out hair back into his head as he analyzes the Kansas City Royals...
• 8/22 Rays Colored Glasses: Game 123: Bats Get Back on Track to Lift Rays to Series Victory vs. Royals: The Rays’ bats went on a one-day vacation on Tuesday, costing them an easy win. But the bats came back on Wednesday afternoon...
• 8/22 Royally Speaking: Gio Is Free But Now He Has To Hit: Before I get to Johnny Giavotella I want to spend a little time on Chris Getz. In a season shortened by injuries...
• 8/22 Kings of Kauffman: Eric Hosmer and the Lost Season: Quick – I say “Alex Gordon,” what is the first image that comes to mind?  Gordon’s face-plant early in the season as...
• 8/21 Baseball News Source: AL Recaps – Rays Move Closer to Yankees With Win over Kansas City: Kansas City 1  - Tampa Bay 5  - Jeremy Hellickson cruised through seven innings allowing one run on six hits to lead Tampa...
• 8/21 Kings of Kauffman: The Monday Rant: Trading From A Position of Perceived Strength: How far away are the Royals from contending, really? That’s an important question that needs to be answered as September approaches...
• 8/20 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays-Royals Preview With Kings of Kauffman’s Mike Vamosi: Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk to Mike Vamosi, a staff writer for the esteemed Royals website Kings of Kauffman. I talked...
• 8/20 Phillies Nation: Dom Brown’s Monte Hall Paradox: As regular readers of Phillies Nation may have deduced, I am an avid fan of professional wrestling. While I attempt to limit my...
• 8/18 Baseball News Source: AL Recaps – Adam Dunn Hits 400th Career Home Run – White Sox Lose: Chicago 4 – Kansas City 9 - Adam Dunn hit his 35th home run of the year, and his 400th career home run but it was not enough...
• 8/18 i70baseball.com: Here they go againThe kings of irrelevant success are at it early in 2012....
• 8/18 Southside Showdown: Milestones and Errors – White Sox Drop Another in KC: The White Sox were once again unable to pull out a win against the villainous Bruce Chen. The Panamanian Pouncer (he only pounces...
• 8/18 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Recap: A’s @ Royals Game 115: Seldom does a team win a game when they manage a mere three hits. That is exactly what happened tonight as the A’s were...
• 8/17 i70baseball.com: It’s broke, fix it: The third spot in the batting order is supposed to be a position that a guy gets the opportunity to get guys who are on base...
• 8/17 Royally Speaking: If It's Not Broke, Yost It!: Last year Ned Yost made a move so bold and unexpected that it was universally applauded. He inserted one of his best hitters,...
• 8/16 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon to stick in third spot: Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost said OF Alex Gordon's move from leadoff to the third spot in the batting order is a long-term...[+] move.
• 8/13 High Heat Stats: How do some players maintain such high BAbips?: Some players seem to be able to maintain really high BAbips (batting average on balls in play.) It’s one thing for a guy...
• 8/13 Baseball News Source: Which Top Prospects will Join Machado, Olt in the Majors?: His team in the midst of a pennant race and desperately needing more production out of the third base spot, Orioles general manager...
• 8/13 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Candidate: Martin Prado: The Braves currently sit atop the NL Wild Card race thanks in large part to the impact and versatility of Martin Prado. The 28-year-old...
• 8/10 i70baseball.com: Rearranging the deck chairs on the S.S. RoyalsThe Royals make a series of cosmetic moves as the 2012 season sinks into oblivion....
• 8/9 High Heat Stats: Thursday game notes – AL: Rays 7, @Blue Jays 1: Matt Moore turned in Tampa’s third straight strong start (1 R, 2 H in 6 IP), and the Rays moved...
• 8/9 Baseball Musings: Success and Failure at Camden Yards: The good news for the Orioles on Thursday night was the debut of Manny Machado. The youngster went two for four with a triple...
• 8/9 Diamond Ring: Slap Singles 8/8: In his Royals career Jonathan Sanchez had an ERA of 7.76.  Jeremy Guthrie is currently sitting at 7.71. The Royals went...
• 8/4 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Fire Coach Doug Sisson; Next Stop, Playoffs: The Royals fired first base coach Doug Sisson this morning. His coaching responsibilities included baserunning, outfield and bunting,...
• 8/4 i70baseball.com: The offense strikes backAfter just a horrendous month of July, the Kansas City Royals start off the month of August on a good note....
• 8/3 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Losing Skid Hits Six as Indians Swept in Extras; Royals 7, Indians 6: By Bob Toth The Cleveland Indians made up a six-run first inning deficit but fell short in extra innings, swept out of Kansas...
• 8/3 WahoosOnFirst: Royals Finish Off Sweep of Tribe 7-6:   Another night, another loss and along with it the Indians playoff aspirations for the 2012 season get that much closer...
• 8/2 Baseball News Source: Mike Trout – AL Player of the Month – Rookie of the Month: Mike Trout became the first American League player to win the American League player of the month and rookie of the month in the...
• 8/2 Full Spectrum Baseball: Welcome (Back) to the Bigs, Kid: Domonic Brown: After the trade dusts cleared, the Phillies were left with two vacant starting outfield spots, leading to the call up Tuesday...
• 8/2 WahoosOnFirst: Indians Drop Fifth Straight as Royals Beat Tribe 5-2: Zach McAllister had a rare bad outing and the Tribe’s offense continued to be MIA Wednesday night as the Royals breezed...
• 8/1 WahoosOnFirst: Derek Lowe Rocked Again as Royals Beat Indians 8-3: Derek Lowe had another miserable outing and the Indians couldn’t come back from an early deficit Tuesday night as the Royals...

• 7/31 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Lowe-Down Beating By Kansas City; Royals 8, Indians 3: By Dave Roberts After being swept in Minnesota by the Twins over the weekend the Indians sought to get back on the winning track...
• 7/31 WahoosOnFirst: Series Preview: Cleveland Indians at Kansas City Royals: Sometimes there aren’t enough words to describe something you just saw. The sheer amazement of the situation, or lack there...
• 7/30 Crown Crazed: New York Yankees Interested in Trading for Alex Gordon?: According to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, the New York Yankees may be interested in trading with the Kansas City Royals...
• 7/30 Kings of Kauffman: The Monday Rant: The Trade Deadline Cometh: There isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said. This season has to rank among the most disappointing of the last two...
• 7/29 SoDo Mojo: Potential Life After The Trade Deadline:   Update: According to Dave Cameron of USSM (via Twitter), the Mariners are pushing hard to Brandon Belt, so throw the Giants...
• 7/26 Kings of Kauffman: Series Preview Royals at Mariners July 26-29: Kansas City (41-56) heads north following three games in Anaheim which they lost two-of-three against the Angels. The Royals are...
• 7/26 Crashburn Alley: Please Don’t Trade For Chase Headley: We don’t disagree with each other much here at Crashburn Alley. It’s nice most of the time, because we get along much...
• 7/25 Halo Hangout: Halo Highlights- Offense Only Musters Four Hits In Loss: Many scouts were at the Big A to check out Garrett Richards, as the Angels may dangle him in trade talks. You have to wonder if...
• 7/24 Halo Hangout: Halo Highlights- Morales Pinch Hit Lifts Halos To Win: The Angels needed to rally late and they did exactly that as they came up with three in the eighth to break the tie and get game...
• 7/24 SOX & Dawgs: Adrian Gonzalez Named AL Player of the Week: I guess there's a silver lining in everything as Boston Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez was named the AL Player of the...
• 7/23 Kings of Kauffman: Trade Rumors Swirl Around Current Royals As Deadline Approaches: It’s been a busy afternoon with the movement of Anibal Sanchez to Detroit, Ichiro to the Yankees and maybe-possibly-not...
• 7/23 SOX & Dawgs: Adrian Gonzalez Named AL Player of the Week: I guess there's a silver lining in everything as Boston Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez was named the AL Player of the...
• 7/23 Kings of Kauffman: The Monday Rant: Moving the Goalposts: This is year six. The Royals lost on Sunday in a fashion that bad teams make a habit of losing: with the same formula they always...
• 7/22 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Hernandez, Upton, Bard, Gordon: As teams scan the trade market for pieces that can make a difference down the stretch, many GMs are experiencing sticker shock,...
• 7/21 Diamond Ring: Nick Blackburn 2: The Revenge: Tonight, the Royals and the Twins battle to avoid becoming the last team in the American League to reach 40 wins. The stakes couldn't...
• 7/21 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon and the Magic Leadoff Spot: Sports are weird. Baseball is weird. Athletes are weird. Take a player like Melky Cabrera. For years, he floundered to be an average...
• 7/19 MLBeef.com: Follow up to Jay Bruce profle: Who else would you choose?: Posted on July 19, 2012 by Taylor I know that I painted Jay Bruce’s performance so far in his career as acceptable.  Many...
• 7/19 MLBTradeRumors: Braves, Martin Prado Have Not Discussed Extension: Earlier this week we heard that the Braves will attempt to sign Martin Prado to a contract extension since they view him as their...
• 7/18 Kings of Kauffman: Eric Hosmer May Not Be As Good As We Hoped He Would Be: Are you old enough to remember when Saturn cars were first introduced by General Motors?  The makeup of these new vehicles was...
• 7/17 Motor City Bengals: Deadline Central: Kansas City Royals: As the trade deadline approaches and the rumors begin to fly, I thought I would take a team by team look at the A.L. Central,...
• 7/17 Kings of Kauffman: A Question of Jeff Francoeur: If you’ve been reading our articles at Kings of Kauffman for a while, you might know that my first article ever published...
• 7/16 Diamond Ring: Enough is Enough: I try to remain calm and not write posts when I'm really angry really excited at/about the team, players, or coaching staff.  I'm...
• 7/14 i70baseball.com: Meet Your (Future) Royals All StarsCan we get the All Star Game to come back in, say, 2016?...
• 7/13 Diamond Ring: What To Expect From the Royals After the Break: Baseball kicks back in today and it's time to figure out what to expect from the Royals.  They will be better in the second...
• 7/11 Diamond Ring: Making a case out of it: The All Star game is coming up in less than 2 weeks.  We know for sure that the Royals will have at least 1 player on the...
• 7/11 Kings of Kauffman: It Was All A Dream…: As Royals fans wake up today and try to shake off their post All-Star hangover, I thought I’d share with you this awful...
• 7/10 The Baseball Page: Kansas City Royals trade rumors: With a 37-47 record at the break, the Kansas City Royals appear poised...
• 7/10 i70baseball.com: Royals Mid-Term Report Card By Position: As we sit at the All-Star Break, we take some time to reflect on the Kansas City Royals performance by position in the first half...
• 7/9 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: The Second Annual TVPRCRP All-Star Teams: I still hate the All Star Game. When I was a kid it was exciting, you got to see the National League play the American League...
• 7/8 High Heat Stats: Quiz – Seinfeld hitters: HHS reader with the moniker “Insert Name Here” was lamenting that a recent quiz was too easy, and was pining for something...
• 7/6 i70baseball.com: A season half full: Although three games remain before the All-Star break, the Kansas City Royals concluded the first half of their season on a good...
• 7/6 Kings of Kauffman: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Greatness: In today’s know-everything-first, savior-in-the-making, prospect pleasure land, people tend to over-hype everything. Media allows...
• 7/5 Kings of Kauffman: A Preview of the 2012 All-Star Game FanFest: Major League Baseball opened the doors to its annual FanFest to Kansas City media on Thursday. FanFest is an annual event in the...
• 7/3 Kings of Kauffman: Savior Has Arrived: I like to call Salvador Perez “Savior” for a couple reasons. First, his first name translates to “savior.”...
• 7/2 Kings of Kauffman: The Monday Rant – Butler Is An All-Star, Gordon Continues To Star, Francoeur Still Struggles: The Royals lost three games over the weekend to the Twins and in all of those losses the glaring deficiencies of the roster shined...
• 7/1 Royally Speaking: Billy Butler: All Star: After watching Alex Gordon get snubbed last year in favor of a relief pitcher I was expecting the same thing to happen again....

• 6/28 i70baseball.com: You know, Alcides Escobar is a pretty good shortstopFor a flashy position like shortstop, Alcides Escobar seems to fly under the radar....
• 6/27 Kings of Kauffman: Trade Bait: Jeff Francoeur: After a resurgent 2011 season, the Royals signed Jeff Francoeur to a two year contract at a total value of $13.5 million. Now,...
• 6/27 i70baseball.com: The Non-Quantifiable Jeff FrancoeurThe Kansas City Royals are, arguably, one of the most exciting franchises in the league today....
• 6/25 Kings of Kauffman: Luke Hochevar’s Shutout Highlights a Complete Win: After a miserable series against the Cardinals, the Royals bounced back unfazed.   Luke Hochevar continued to build on recent...
• 6/25 Kings of Kauffman: Mood Swings: On Thursday, the Royals were off and things were good. A sweep of Milwaukee and road series wins at St. Louis and Houston brought...
• 6/25 The Baseball Page: 10 Players to Watch For in the Futures Game: Ten Players to Watch for in Futures Game Every year during the All Star break, selected minor league players flock to the city...
• 6/25 The Baseball Page: 10 Players to Watch For in the Futures Game: Ten Players to Watch for in Futures Game Every year during the All Star...
• 6/23 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 72: Royal Teed: Hey, I remember these guys! This is the team that won the World Series, and dominated baseball in April! Swagger has returned...
• 6/23 Royally Speaking: OOTP 13: To celebrate the launch of Out Of The Park Baseball 13 the developers of the game released copies of the game to bloggers willing...
• 6/21 Kings of Kauffman: Skeptical Optimism and the Royals: In Pittsburgh, the Royals looked rough at the plate, awful on defense and ended up dropping all three games to the Pirates. They...
• 6/21 Kings of Kauffman: Who Will Be the Royals Best Player in 2013?: I waste an inordinate amount of time staring down the statistical columns of the Baseball Reference web site, trying to find meaning...
• 6/20 WasWatching: 66 Games Into HIs 2012 Season, A-Rod Has A Slugging Percentage Of .412: Paging Dr. Galea… Paging Dr. Anthony Galea… Lowest SLG% in A.L. through yesterday’s games, for players sans...
• 6/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon excelling in leadoff spot: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon said he's feeling better mentally since moving to the leadoff spot, and he entered the game...[+] Tuesday, June 19, hitting .342 with a .453 on-base percentage in 20 games in the top spot. Manager Ned Yost is unlikely to move Gordon out of the top spot now.
• 6/19 i70baseball.com: All Star Celebrity Softball Game RostersGame Will Be Televised Immediately Following the State Farm Home Run Derby on ESPN on July 9th...
• 6/17 High Heat Stats: Sunday supplement — now with 60% game coverage!: Orioles 2, @Braves 0: A day after Jason Hammel‘s 1-hitter left him at 7-2, Wei-Yin Chen attained the same record with...
• 6/16 STLCardinalBaseball: GAME 66: Waking A Sleeping Beast: The best team in the National League has been slumbering for the majority of almost two months. Many observers wondered about...
• 6/16 FanSided: The Roller Coaster Royals: I don't know what's gotten into the Royals the last few days but I like it. In a season that's seen a complete 0-fer during the...
• 6/13 Roto Think Tank: Hitters Over or Underperforming: I don't get as many non-Twitter questions nowadays as I used to, but Zucchini Boy had a good one:what process do you usually use...
• 6/13 FanSided: Is Ned Yost the Worst Manager in the Major Leagues?: Anytime things don’t go as expected, we all look for a reason.  Why did it happen?  Who is to blame?  The Royals 2012 season...
• 6/13 Royally Speaking: Greinke Returns To The K: The day I've been dreading since December 2010 arrived last night, and honestly, it went about as well as possible. Zack Greinke...
• 6/13 YankeeAnalysts.com: Trade Musings: Outfield Targets: “I haven’t been looking,” Cashman said. “That doesn’t mean that (it’s out of the question). Now you’ve passed the...
• 6/12 Baseball Musings: Ruining Greinke’s Return: Zack Greinke returned to Kansas City for the first time since his trade to the Brewers. He showed the old fans that he still has...
• 6/12 i70baseball.com: Injuries Make It Difficult To Judge These Royals: With the ravage of injuries the 2012 Kansas City Royals have sustained, there is no real way to fairly evaluate these Royals based...
• 6/12 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball: How to Find Money: Have you ever found money? There are two ways that I have found money: 1. On the street, coins (mostly pennies) and the occasional...
• 6/11 i70baseball.com: Royals All-Time Draft Team: The Kansas City Royals are on a pretty good run with their first round draft picks, dating back to 2002 and the selection of Zack...
• 6/10 Throw the Challenge Flag: Game 59: Pirates vs. Royals Recap: The brooms were out and the excitement level was high on Sunday afternoon when the Pittsburgh Pirates completed their sweep...
• 6/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Who Won’t Be Traded At The Deadline?: Everyone’s coming up with their lists of players who are going to be available or traded at the upcoming MLB trading deadline....
• 6/9 Throw the Challenge Flag: Game 58: Pirates vs. Royals Recap: June is usually a time of the year that the Pittsburgh Pirates dread. The reason is because interleague play has haunted their...
• 6/5 i70baseball.com: Zimmer aims to continue Royals’ run of first round success: The Royals took Kyle Zimmer with their first pick in the 2012 draft, and though the team isn’t exactly in the hunt for a pennant,...
• 6/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Royals Game 54: Tom Milone takes on the Royals. He hasn’t been sharp on the road but hopes to remedy that against the Royals. Former Athletic...
• 6/4 Through The Fence Baseball: Will the Kansas City Royals ever be good again?: We’ve heard it for years, the Royals will be good in 2012, 2013, 2014. Well it’s 2012, and I believe the time is now for this...
• 6/2 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Royals Game 53: Brandon McCarthy takes the hill for Oakland looking to get back on track this 2012 season. For the Royals they send Luke Hochevar...
• 6/1 Baseball Musings: Two is Enough: The Royals defeat the Oakland Athletics 2-0 as Felipe Paulino pitches six shutout innings and Yuniesky Betancourt gets the game...

• 5/31 District Sports Page: Fantasy Baseball: Scouting the Waiver Wire — Week 2: It’s another week and the draft season is over. It’s always sad when drafts come to an end. Now, you are at the mercy of injuries...
• 5/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon admits to success in leadoff spot: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon, who has gone 6-for-17 with a walk in the leadoff spot in the past four games, is starting to...[+] realize that he's more productive in the spot. 'I kind of do fit there, maybe,' Gordon said. 'It's a carry-over from last year, maybe. Wherever I'm hitting, that's where he's going to put me. Maybe it is different for me.'
• 5/31 i70baseball.com: The Royals fans love-hate affair of Jeff FrancoeurSome Royals fans love to hate Jeff Francoeur. Why is that?...
• 5/30 Baseball Musings: Doubling Gomez: Jeanmar Gomez came into action on Wednesday with a low slugging percentage allowed, .320. Only nine of the 39 hits he allowed...
• 5/29 i70baseball.com: Is it time to trade Wil Myers?If you are ever looking for the definition of forcing an organization’s hand, you need look no further than Wil Myers....
• 5/27 PaulLebowitz.com: Sticker Shlock: “Don’t be surprised if the Twins give at least some thought to trading Justin Morneau.” Um, yeah. No kidding. The above...
• 5/27 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Oswalt, Willingham, Figgins, Soriano: The number of players on the disabled list is actually down overall this season, but you'd have a hard time getting the Red Sox,...
• 5/24 mlbreports.com : Kansas City Royals: Do They Have Enough Pitching to Become Contenders?: Thursday May 24th, 2012 Bernie Olshansky: This season was all set up to finally be the year that the Royals would have a good...
• 5/23 YankeeAnalysts.com: Yankees Too Old For The Young Royals, Still Win 8-2: Tonight was test number three for Andy Pettitte, who was last seen devastating the Red’s lineup with 8.0 shutout innings...
• 5/23 High Heat Stats: The Mount Rushmore of the Kansas City Royals: We finish the 1969 round of expansion with the Kansas City Royals. Just as a reminder, we’re trying to figure out which...
• 5/21 It's About the Money (Stupid): Set bats to “fail,” Scotty. Yanks shut out by Royals: This is the part where I'm supposed to recap tonight's game and add a little bit of insight for your enjoyment but...that's...
• 5/20 Kings of Kauffman: Royalman Report 5/20/12 – Fake Ned’s Trip to Omaha Recap – LIVE 7 p.m. CST: The Royalman Report - logo by @AHairOffSquare Fake Ned took a trip up to Omaha to watch the Storm Chasers and was lucky enough...
• 5/17 i70baseball.com: The Royals replacements are doing all right (so far)The Royals have lost some key players to injuries, but their replacements are playing well....
• 5/16 FanSided: Jeff Francoeur, the Greatest Outfield Arm of Our Generation: There are thousands of different statistics in baseball.  Some statistics get lots of press – home runs, strike outs, batting...
• 5/15 i70baseball.com: #OurTime to have more than one All-Star again?: It has been 12 years since the Royals have had multiple players in the MLB All-Star Game, but this could be the year that streak...
• 5/15 MLB Dirt: Why is Wil Myers Playing 3B?: Kansas City Royals top prospect, and my number 16 overall prospect in the game, Wil Myers is off to a great start this season...
• 5/11 MLBTradeRumors: Blue Jays Inquired On Hamels, Victorino: In anti**** of possible midseason trades, the Blue Jays have asked the Phillies about left-hander Cole Hamels and center fielder...
• 5/10 SOX & Dawgs: Red Sox News & Notes - 5/10: On paper, this was supposed to be a relatively easy stretch of nine games for the Boston Red Sox. They had three games each...
• 5/10 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 5/9: After winning falling last night 6-4, the Boston Red Sox look to take the series tonight in the rubber game of a three-game...
• 5/10 i70baseball.com: The Royals and Mental ToughnessThe Kansas City Royals have talent, but to they have what it takes mentally to win?...
• 5/10 Fragile Freddy's: Game Thirty Recap: BOS – 003 000 000 – 3 – 8 – 1KCR – 300 100 00x – 4 – 9 – 0 The Red Sox lost their third consecutive series to...
• 5/10 Fragile Freddy's: Game 29 Recap: BOS – 020 110 000 – 4 – 9 – 0KCR – 030 000 03x – 6 – 7 – 1 The Sox lost a tough one as the combination of Daniel...
• 5/10 SOX & Dawgs: Red Sox News & Notes - 5/10: On paper, this was supposed to be a relatively easy stretch of nine games for the Boston Red Sox. They had three games each...
• 5/10 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 5/9: After winning falling last night 6-4, the Boston Red Sox look to take the series tonight in the rubber game of a three-game...
• 5/8 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 5/7: After being swept at home by the AL East leading Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox head back out on the road for a brief...
• 5/7 Fragile Freddy's: Game 28 Recap: BOS – 401 200 040 – 11 – 16 – 1KCR – 022 000 100 – 5 – 10 – 1 After a soul crushing weekend in which the Sox played...
• 5/7 Fire Brand of the American League: The Advanced Scout – Kansas City RoyalsThe Advanced Scout wipes the barbecue sauce from his face and analyzes the Kansas City Royals....
• 5/7 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 5/7: After being swept at home by the AL East leading Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox head back out on the road for a brief...
• 5/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon matches career high with four hits: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 4-for-5 with a double, two runs scored and an RBI Saturday, May 5, against the New York...[+] Yankees. The four hits matched a career high.
• 5/5 YankeeAnalysts.com: Game 27: The $29 Million Designated Hitter: Alex Rodriguez is getting another start at DH tonight, as Nunez attempts another error-less game. Here are the lineups tonight....
• 5/2 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon on fire: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon is hitting .458 in his last six games after going 2-for-4 with a run and a strikeout Wednesday,...[+] May 2.

• 4/30 Kings of Kauffman: Kings of Kauffman Mailbag – Ep. 5: Well now, this sure has been a month to forget. April hasn’t been so kind to the Royals – again – and all the warm and fuzzies...
• 4/30 Kings of Kauffman: Hosmer’s Struggles: About two weeks ago there were enough Royals fans on Twitter and other places bemoaning the struggles of Gold Glove left fielder...
• 4/29 i70baseball.com: Turning Point: Maybe it only makes sense that the Kansas City Royals would have to overcome a 12-game losing streak before making their first...
• 4/27 PaulLebowitz.com: American League Patience Or Panic?: Let’s take a look at some teams that, prior to the season, had expectations but have struggled out of the gate. Should they...
• 4/26 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: KC Bats Around In 5th To Drop Tribe; Royals 4, Indians 2:   This afternoon’s contest at Progressive field showed all the signs of a gloomy day in Cleveland. Even the weather didn’t...
• 4/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon picking it up: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon had two hits and a walk in a winning effort Thursday, April 26. After his three hits Wednesday,...[+] April 25, he's raised his average to .213 in the last two games.
• 4/25 High Heat Stats: Games of Monday & Tuesday (4/23-24): Playing a little catch-up here; thirty teams generate a lot of box scores! Any neglect of your team is unintentional…. Tuesday...
• 4/25 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Long Ball Takes Down Tribe; Royals 8, Indians 2: By Matthew Van Wormer First, let’s take a moment to look at the positives. The Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox both...
• 4/24 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Game #15 – Kansas City Royals (3-13) vs. Cleveland Indians (8-6): By Matthew Van Wormer The Indians are returning to the s**** of Lake Erie after an outstanding road trip where the Indians did...
• 4/24 FanSided: Series Preview: Cleveland Indians vs. Kansas City RoyalsThe Cleveland Indians make their long awaited return to Progressive Field tonight after ...
• 4/20 Baseball Musings: Drought Over: The Toronto Blue Jays turned their first triple play in 33 years: The Kansas City Royals had runners on first and second in the...
• 4/20 Mets360.com: Mets Notes: Duda’s start, Thole’s AVG, Citi Field trends: Mets fans had high expectations for Lucas Duda heading into the season. He did not produce much offensively right out of the gate...
• 4/19 Royally Speaking: Production By Position - 2012 vs 2011: If I told you on the morning of April 6th that the rotation would allow three runs or less in nine of the first twelve...
• 4/19 i70baseball.com: Royals fall flat on their face at home A losing streak early in the season makes fans wonder if the 2012 Royals are the same old Royals of the past....
• 4/19 i70baseball.com: Royals Gordon to be spokesperson for Fanfest: Kansas City Royals left fielder Alex Gordon has been named spokesperson for 2012 MLB All-Star FanFest, which will be held at the...
• 4/18 Kings of Kauffman: Staying Positive Through Minor League Performances: The Royals are 3-8 entering tonight’s game against Detroit. They’ve lost six in a row. Alex … [visit site to...
• 4/18 The Baseball Page: Early season busts – Trade or hold? Fantasy baseball 2012Early season busts – Trade or hold? Fantasy baseball 2012...
• 4/18 i70baseball.com: Waters remain muddy as Royals search for answersThe Royals hoped going into 2012 that competition for most of their positions had come to an end....
• 4/17 High Heat Stats: Monday Night Baseball (roundup): The anti**** duel between multiple Cy Young Award winners went off the rails early, as Tim Lincecum yielded 4 runs on 4 hits...
• 4/15 i70baseball.com: Distaster strikesIt started around 11:30 AM as I pulled into Lot F and checked my phone to see Ned Yost’s Opening Day lineup....
• 4/13 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: First Inning Outburst Paces Tribe Past KC; Indians 8, Royals 3: By Sean Tuttle The Cleveland Indians‘ bats were alive and well this afternoon in Kansas City as the Tribe plated seven...
• 4/13 i70baseball.com: The “K” Never Looked So Good: The Kansas City Royals began their season just seven days ago but it has been over two months since most of the organization has...
• 4/13 WahoosOnFirst: Series Preview: Cleveland Indians at Kansas City Royals: The great rivalry renews itself on the most au**** of days, Friday the 13th, as the Cleveland Indians taking their talents to...
• 4/12 i70baseball.com: The Royals are at .500 and head back to Kansas CityThe Royals have a 3-3 road trip in California and head to KC for an important ten game home stand....
• 4/12 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: Royals @ A’s Game 7: CSNCalifornia is not broadcasting this one so we get the joy that is listening to Rex Hudler call a baseball game for FoxSports...
• 4/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon has first hits, HR: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 2-for-5 with his first home run of the season, a walk and two RBIs Wednesday, April 11,...[+] against the Oakland Athletics. The two hits were his first of the season after starting out hitless in 17 at-bats over his first five games.
• 4/11 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: Royals @ A’s Game 6: The A’s and Royals will not start on time as there is soggy weather in Oakland tonight. Danny Duffy, who got his first major...
• 4/10 i70baseball.com: Is One Series Enough To Begin Raising Expectations For The Royals?: The Kansas City Royals are only 3 games into the season, however, they have already given fans much reason to believe things could...
• 4/9 i70baseball.com: Three To Watch: Royals invade OaklandThe Kansas City Royals opened their 2012 campaign sending a message that they truly do believe in the "Our Time" slogan. ...
• 4/8 MLBTradeRumors: MLBTR Originals: This week's original analysis and reporting from the MLBTR team.. Ben Nicholson-Smith spoke with John Smoltz about...
• 4/7 i70baseball.com: 2012 Opening Day: A game of opposites: For the first time since the incredible evening of September 28th, 2011 the Kansas City Royals finally took the field for a game...
• 4/6 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Opening Day Royal Predictions: Making predictions before the season starts is kind of a worthless endeavor but as baseball fans, it sure is fun. ...
• 4/6 Blogging From The Bleachers: Season Preview: American League Central: Opening Day is here and 25-man rosters have been set. It seems as good a time as any to start to preview the upcoming season....
• 4/6 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Votto, Cain, Gordon, Luebke: On this date in 2004, Luis Gonzalez of the Diamondbacks and Luis Gonzalez of the Rockies both hit home runs. It was only the...
• 4/6 Full Spectrum Baseball: Finding Keepers: Kansas City Royals: The Kansas City Royals probably aren’t going to factor into any playoff scenarios this season but many of their young players...
• 4/6 i70baseball.com: Waiting No MoreThe season is finally here. No more what ifs, no more predictions, just statistics and results....
• 4/5 i70baseball.com: Brett to serve as Ambassador for All Star Game: Brett to Parti**** in All-Star FanFest, Taco Bell All-Star Sunday Events and MLB All-Star Game Charity 5K & Fun Run Presented...
• 4/5 i70baseball.com: It’s about time for the Royals to play ball!The Royals 2012 season is about to begin, but some questions still remain....
• 4/4 i70baseball.com: Last Minute Anxiety: What If It All Goes Horribly Wrong for the Royals?: With the Kansas City Royals officially opening their 2012 season this Friday, the optimism for some fans is now being replaced...
• 4/4 i70baseball.com: Spring Stats: Hitters Heat Up in Arizona: With the desert in the rear view mirror and the Cactus League preseason in the books, it’s about time to get things going for...
• 4/4 FanSided: 2012 MLB Division Preview: AL Central: In 2011, the Tigers won the AL Central handily by 15 games, after a hot start from the Indians made Cleveland look like the team...
• 4/3 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Signings For the Future: The Royals’ General Manage Dayton Moore seems to be taking a page out of John Hart’s General Managing handbook. ...
• 4/3 Tyler's Think Tank: 2011 All Breakout Team (NL): C Miguel Montero (4.5 bWAR) Arizona's backstop has had trouble staying on the field, but as he showed last year (his age 27...
• 4/1 Royally Speaking: Spring Training's Highs and Lows: Spring training this year............has been weird. It's been a roller coaster of emotions as something good would seemingly...
• 4/1 MLBTradeRumors: Central Links: Axford, Tigers, Hosmer: Three years ago today, the Reds traded Jeff Keppinger to the Astros for a player to be named later. That player ended up being...

• 3/31 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: This Week In Small Market Baseball - 3-31-12: With the season right around the corner, and a lot of small market squads are making last minute roster...
• 3/31 The Baseball Page: Fantasy Baseball: BABIP Wonders – Five Guys That Could RegressFantasy Baseball: BABIP Wonders – Five Guys That Could Regress...
• 3/31 i70baseball.com: Gordon Signs ExtensionFour-Year Guaranteed Contract Also Includes Player Option for 2016...
• 3/31 Call to the Pen: Alex Gordon, Kansas City Royals Announce Four-Year Extension: Alex Gordon and the Kansas City Royals announced a four-year/$37.5 million contract extension that will keep the slugger in KC...
• 3/31 Baseball Musings: Gordon’s Gold: The Royals locked up Alex Gordon for four years. The agreement overrides a previous one-year agreement. Gordon will now make $6...
• 3/31 MLBTradeRumors: Royals, Alex Gordon Agree To Extension: 6:10pm: The deal is worth $37.5MM over four years with a player option for 2016 at $12.5MM, tweets Bob Dutton of the Kansas City...
• 3/30 i70baseball.com: 2012 Key Player: Le quartier français: A cannon of an arm from right field, electric power from the right side of the plate, and a veteran leader in the clubhouse, Kansas...
• 3/30 i70baseball.com: 2012 Key Player: David FreeseWill David Freese build off his postseason success?...
• 3/23 High Heat Stats: Stat Challenge scoring and projections: Every fantasy league has different rules, and here’s how FanDuel.com scores it for hitters: 1B = 1pt 2B = 2pts 3B = 3pts...
• 3/23 High Heat Stats: Stat Challenge scoring and projections: Every fantasy league has different rules, and here’s how FanDuel.com scores it for hitters: 1B = 1pt 2B = 2pts 3B = 3pts...
• 3/22 i70baseball.com: Meet the newest Royals, Humberto Quintero and Jason BourgeoisThe Royals acquire Quintero and Bourgeois to fill some holes....
• 3/21 FanSided: Is Alex Gordon the Royals Best Option to Leadoff?: [caption id="attachment_12513" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Royals will likely ask Gordon to leadoff and aggressively...
• 3/21 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Spring Training Watch: Out of Left Field: Yonder Alonso , Dayan Viciedo and Michael Brantley are under the radar LF options. As a guy that is a huge advocate for individual...
• 3/21 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Kansas City Royals: The Royals sat out the trade market for top starting pitchers, instead adding a pair of short-term lefties to their rotation,...
• 3/20 The Baseball Page: 2012 Fantasy Baseball AL-Only Outfielder Rankings2012 Fantasy Baseball AL-Only Outfielder Rankings...
• 3/18 i70baseball.com: Royals Spring Training Thoughts: After an up and down week in Surprise, I think everyone is actually more confused about this Kansas City Royals team than they...
• 3/16 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Cain, Hamels, Aybar, K-Rod, Escobar: Happy birthday to Kevin Youkilis (33), Jon Jay (27) and Leo Nun...er, make that Juan Oviedo (30).  This is the first time...
• 3/15 Full Spectrum Baseball: Oops! Errors in baseball cards – Alex GordonAlex Gordon’s rookie card was the hottest in all of baseball....
• 3/15 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Stl Cardinals – Pure Fantasy:   No, it isn’t THAT kind of fantasy.  It’s “fantasy baseball”, and it might be the only time that...
• 3/14 The Captain's Blog: Fall Guys: Will 2011’s Biggest Breakout Players Take a Step Back in 2012?: Identifying potential breakout players is a fun way to enjoy the optimism of a brand new season. But, what about those players...
• 3/13 High Heat Stats: Not my fault: players who performed well when their team lost: Here are the 2011 leaders for most games with at least 0.10 WPA in team losses: Rk Player Year #Matching 1 Carlos Lee 2011 21...
• 3/13 PaulLebowitz.com: 2012 Baseball Guide Radio Appearance: I’ll be a guest tonight at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time on Breakin’ the Norm with former big leaguer Les Norman on 810 WHB talking...
• 3/13 MLB Dirt: 2012 Kansas City Royals Preview2012 Kansas City Royals Preview...
• 3/12 Baseball Musings: Team Offense, Kansas City Royals: Johnny Giavotella (left) hopes to set up Eric Hosmer (right) for tons of RBI this season. Photo: Scott Sewell/Icon SMI The series...
• 3/12 Full Spectrum Baseball: Open Mic: Critique This Draft Part 2Consider this a 2nd open invitation to critique a fantasy baseball draft....
• 3/11 Roto Think Tank: 2012 CBS A.L.-Only Results: Outfield (Part I): Since there are so many outfielders to write about, I'm breaking this up into two parts.THE BEST OF THE BUNCHJose Bautista $38,...
• 3/7 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Guerrero, Lee, Gordon, Giolito: The Yankees signed Orlando Hernandez to a four-year, $6.6MM contract on this date 14 years ago. El Duque posted a 3.96 ERA in...
• 3/7 Baseball Analytics: Should K.C. Extend Alex Gordon Now?: After four frustrating seasons marred by hip and thumb injuries, Alex Gordon moved from third base to left field in 2011 and finally...
• 3/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon negotiations to heat up: The Kansas City Royals' contract extension negotiations are expected to heat up with OF Alex Gordon later this spring, according...[+] to major league sources. Gordon is likely to command a deal that will surpass $55 million.
• 3/6 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Royals, Heyward, Diamondbacks: On this date 25 years ago Andre Dawson signed a one-year, $650K contract with the Cubs. Owners were colluding against players...
• 3/6 MLBTradeRumors: Analyzing The 2013-14 MLB Free Agent Class: We're always looking ahead here at MLBTR, hence our recent publication of the 2013-14 free agent class.  These players project...
• 3/1 i70baseball.com: Royals Spring is in full swing in ArizonaThe Cactus League games haven't started yet, but there's still a lot going on for the Royals....

• 2/29 Baseball Musings: Objective PMR, Leftfielders: The series on objective probabilistic model of range (PMR) continues by looking at leftfielders. I’ll show teams as a whole...
• 2/28 Tyler's Think Tank: Why I think Ryan Braun is Innocent: We all know the grimy details of the Ryan Braun scandal by now, so I won't bother to rehash them here.  All I want to say...
• 2/28 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Updates: Cabrera, Gordon, Hamilton: The Cardinals and Yadier Molina are closing in on a five-year deal in the $70-75MM range. Here are more updates on extension...
• 2/27 MLBTradeRumors: Royals To Make Major Announcement: The Royals will make a major announcement concerning the contract status of one of their players in 40 minutes, the team announced....
• 2/27 MLBTradeRumors: Top 2014 MLB Free Agents: Extensions have a way of thinning the free agent herd.  The latest star player off the board is Nationals third baseman Ryan...
• 2/23 i70baseball.com: Leading The Young Royals Into Battle: Royals fans like to talk about the crop of young, exciting players, but how about the men who will lead them into the 2012 Major...
• 2/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Ned Yost sees Alex Gordon as leadoff hitter: Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost said Sunday, Feb. 19, that he still sees OF Alex Gordon as his leadoff hitter, a spot he filled...[+] 89 times last season. 'We'll see what develops,' Yost said. 'I like Gordy leading off. I like somebody with some pop in his bat coming up when the lineup comes back around. He was our best on-base guy last year, and he can do a lot of things - drive the ball out of the park, drive the gaps, .300 hitter, takes his walks, works the pitcher. He does everything you want a leadoff guy to do.'
• 2/19 Baseball Press: Spring Training Stats Can Mean Something: Some saw Michael Morse's 2011 breakout coming. (Icon SMI)Spring training is right around the corner, and fantasy owners everywhere...
• 2/17 i70baseball.com: The Deadly Sin Of GreedAlex Gordon and his new contract have been the hot topic of the Kansas City Royals off season....
• 2/17 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy Baseball Focus: American League outfielders: Editor’s Note: Fantasy Baseball Focus is a breakdown of each league, position by position. Each team receives a fantasy analysis...
• 2/17 Baseball Musings: Changes, Kansas City Royals: The Royals look to Jonathan Sanchez to improve the rotation. Photo: Tony Medina/Icon SMI The Royals finished the 2011 season 71-91,...
• 2/15 Ramblings of Baseball: RomoBall Fantasy Preview – Sixth Edition (51-60): Having a game plan on draft day is generally a good thing (it means you have done some prep) but it can also be dangerous. We...
• 2/15 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Gr33nazn’s 2012 Fantasy Baseball Guide: Since “Gr33nazn’s 2011 Fantasy Baseball Guide” was incredibly po**** with all 3 of our loyal readers, I felt...
• 2/13 Royally Speaking: On Gordon And Aging: I noticed an interesting thing the other day while looking at 20+ home run seasons by Royals outfielders, all but...
• 2/12 MLBTradeRumors: MLBTR Originals: 2/5/12 - 2/11/12: Sunday nights mean it's time to take our weekly look back at the original content and scoops provided by the MLBTR team. Let's...
• 2/12 Release Points: Alex Gordon Is Not a Regression Candidate: Forget about the questions, the numerous ifs or whens, Alex Gordon is going to regress in 2012.  That much we know, the question...
• 2/12 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 2/5/12 - 2/11/12: Here's a look back at the week that was.. The Orioles shipped Jeremy Guthrie to the Rockies on Monday for pitchers Jason...
• 2/11 Yankees Fans Unite: AJ for Clint Robinson would make sense: AJ Burnett trade rumors are in no short supply.  We’ve heard Pittsburgh and Seattle as possible scenarios but Dan Martin...
• 2/10 Yankees Fans Unite: AJ for Clint Robinson would make sense: AJ Burnett trade rumors are in no short supply.  We’ve heard Pittsburgh and Seattle as possible scenarios but Dan Martin...
• 2/10 i70baseball.com: King Midas: A Royals FanWins are what fans are looking for and that is what defense achieves....
• 2/9 Baseball Musings: Royals Arbitration Free: Alex Gordon settled with the Royals, clearing the Kansas City arbitration slate. Now Alex Gordon has something extra to celebrate...
• 2/9 MLBTradeRumors: Central Links: Gordon, Molina, Astros, Braun: Seven years ago today, the Cubs traded Kyle Farnsworth to the Tigers for Scott Moore, Roberto Novoa, and Bo Flowers. Farnsworth...
• 2/9 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Avoid Arbitration With Alex Gordon: The Royals and Alex Gordon have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year contract, the team announced. Bob Dutton of The...
• 2/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon's incentives: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon can make an extra $25,000 this year for 700 plate appearances, which would be 12 more than his...[+] career high set last year. The team continues to work on a long-term deal for Gordon.
• 2/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon avoids arbitration: The Kansas City Royals signed OF Alex Gordon to a one-year, $4.775 million deal Thursday, Feb. 9, to avoid salary arbitration....[+]
• 2/9 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers, Nelson Cruz Agree To Two-Year Deal: Nelson Cruz passed his physical, and his two-year deal with the Rangers is worth $16MM plus incentives, MLBTR has learned....
• 2/9 MLBTradeRumors: Orioles Notes: Jones, Kim, Davis: The Orioles won their arbitration hearing against Brad Bergesen, so the right-hander will earn $800K in 2012. Center fielder...
• 2/9 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers, Nelson Cruz Nearing Two-Year Deal: THURSDAY: The deal would likely be worth $15MM-plus, Grant tweets. Cruz appears to have avoided arbitration, though nothing's...
• 2/9 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers, Nelson Cruz Avoid Arbitration: The Rangers avoided arbitration with outfielder Nelson Cruz, Andy Slater of 640-AM Sports in South Florida tweets (hat tip...
• 2/8 MLBTradeRumors: Comparing Cruz, Jones, Gordon In Arbitration: Arbitration eligible outfielders Nelson Cruz, Adam Jones, and Alex Gordon all remain unsigned.  As outfielders with at least...
• 2/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Close to deal with Alex Gordon: The Kansas City Royals are close to signing OF Alex Gordon to a one-year deal to avoid salary arbitration Tuesday, Feb. 7. A deal...[+] is expected to be worth between $4.8 million and $5 million. The two sides are expected to continue talks for a multi-year extension once a one-year deal is finalized. Kansas City reportedly is offering a four-year pact worth roughly $30 million.
• 2/7 MLBTradeRumors: A Closer Look At Unsigned Arbitration Eligible Players: Less than a month ago, 142 MLB players filed for salary arbitration. Today, just 16 of those players remain unsigned, as MLBTR’s...
• 2/7 MLBTradeRumors: Royals, Gordon Nearing One-Year Deal: The Royals appear to be nearing a one-year deal with arbitration eligible outfielder Alex Gordon, Bob Dutton of the Kansas City...
• 2/5 House of the Bluebird: The Curious Case of Travis Snider: Photo by SillyGwaillo licensed under Creative CommonsTravis Snider is a peculiar player, one who recently has me pondering...
• 2/4 High Heat Stats: A fantastic picture to get you ready for spring training (RT if you like sunshine & great catches): Baseball pictures don’t get better than this… Austin Jackson caught this fly ball over the wall in the bottom of the...
• 2/1 MLBTradeRumors: 25 Arbitration Eligible Players Remain Unsigned: The arbitration hearing period has begun, and 25 players remain unsigned.  At a hearing, the team and the player's agency...

• 1/31 Kings of Kauffman: Benched? What’s After the Royals starters.: Can you name the last American League World Series champion? Sure.  It was two years ago when the New York Yankees won their...
• 1/30 Kings of Kauffman: Locking Up Eric Hosmer: Eric Hosmer: Ballplayer. Photo Credit: Steven Bisig-US PRESSWIRE As of right now, the Royals are still negotiating with Alex Gordon...
• 1/28 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Candidate: Eric Hosmer: This past week was a rough one for the Royals. Not only did they watch the reigning division champs add Prince Fielder, but...
• 1/28 MLBTradeRumors: Largest Remaining Arbitration Cases: When the offseason started, there were approximately 196 arbitration-eligible players left unsigned. The vast majority of those...
• 1/25 Royally Speaking: Single Season Home Run Leaders Since 2004: The general consensus is that either Eric Hosmer or Mike Moustakas will eventually break Steve Balboni's franchise record of 36...
• 1/24 Kings of Kauffman: Giving Extensions: Since the Royals’ game has become developing good-to-great players and then keeping those players around to build a strong...
• 1/23 i70baseball.com: The Long and Short ”Stop” of It: The Kansas City Royals have been slightly active again this week.  They have signed all of their arbitration eligible players...
• 1/22 Through The Fence Baseball: Breakout candidate 2012: Kansas City Royals’ Eric Hosmer: Many people look at the Kansas City Royals’ 71-91 record last season and quickly ignore everything about them heading into...
• 1/21 The Daily Catch: Royals Turning Corner: This article is courtesy of our friends at Baseball Me Love 2011 was the dawn of a new era for the Royals. Their minor league...
• 1/21 MLBTradeRumors: AL Central Notes: Eldred, Gordon, Carmona: It was on this day in 1993 that Tigers legend Charlie Gehringer passed away at the age of 89.  Gehringer spent his entire 19-year...
• 1/20 Tyler's Think Tank: Baseball's All Overrated Team: C Geovany Soto-The 2008 NL Rookie of the Year has been up and down over the last four years.  Just look at his rollercoaster...
• 1/20 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Red Sox, Gordon, Francis, Montero, Braves: Friday night links.. It appears that talks between the Rockies and Red Sox regarding Marco Scutaro are dormant, but Rob...
• 1/19 i70baseball.com: ROYALS ANNOUNCE 2012 PROMOTIONS & SPECIAL EVENTSRetro Batting Practice Jersey, Frenchy Quarter Thursday & 2nd Annual Celebrity Classic Game Highlight Promotions Lineup...
• 1/18 The Captain's Blog: Butler Would Serve Yanks Need at DH, but Royals May No Longer Be Looking to Flush Away Talent: The names most often mentioned as candidates for the Yankees’ DH opening read like a who’s who from the early part of the...
• 1/17 MLBTradeRumors: Arbitration Filing Numbers: Many players avoided arbitration today, but dozens of others exchanged figures with their teams in anti**** of hearings. Most...
• 1/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon files for arbitration: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon is filing for $5.45 million in salary arbitration. Kansas City is countering at $4.15 million....[+]
• 1/17 i70baseball.com: Royals Avoid Arbitration With Three Pitchers: The Kansas City Royals announced today that the club has agreed to terms on one-year Major League contracts with right-handed...
• 1/17 i70baseball.com: Royals And Maier Avoid ArbitrationThe Royals and Mitch Maier have avoided arbitration....
• 1/16 i70baseball.com: Royals Avoid Arbitration With Getz: The Kansas City Royals announced tonight that the club has agreed to terms on a one-year Major League contract with infielder...
• 1/16 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Agree to Terms with Brayan Pena, Chris Getz: It’s that time of year when arbitration starts to creep up. Teams and players will exchange arbitration figures up to January...
• 1/16 i70baseball.com: Royals Avoid Arbitration With Pena: The Kansas City Royals announced today that the club has agreed to terms on a one-year Major League contract with catcher Brayan...
• 1/16 i70baseball.com: Breaking Down The Royals RotationTaking a look at the Royals rotation as it compares to the rest of the American League Central....
• 1/16 i70baseball.com: “Dominating” Left FieldTaking a look at the left fielders in the American League Central....
• 1/16 Baseball Daily Digest: Deadly Accurate: AL Central: Our review of Baseball Prospectus’ 2011 PECOTA projections continues with the hits and misses of the American League Central,...
• 1/12 Kings of Kauffman: Projecting Alex Gordon’s Extension: Will Gordon get a payday? (courtesy of MindaHaas.net) In the offseason before 2011, Alex Gordon promised to dominate, then went...
• 1/10 Tyler's Think Tank: Questionable Baseball MVPS; 1970-1979: 1979 NL Willie Stargell tying Keith Hernandez Despite receiving just four first place votes, "Pops" managed to finish in a...
• 1/10 i70baseball.com: Royals Locked Out of Hall Once Again: Former Kansas City Royals players better appreciate their place in Kansas City, because they won’t be taking up residence in...
• 1/9 i70baseball.com: Royals Begin Caravan With Local Autograph Event: Rally House Event Featuring Chen, Gordon, Hosmer & More Opens Annual Caravan; Additional Stops in Kansas City & Nebraska...
• 1/8 i70baseball.com: Is It Really Time For A Gordon Extension?Is now the time to extend Alex Gordon?...
• 1/8 Royally Speaking: The Consistently Good Billy Butler: Nothing gets the Royals section of twitter raging like a good old fashion Billy Butler debate. Due to his great second half the...
• 1/6 i70baseball.com: Line ‘Em UpWith Spring Training looming in the curtains, the stage of the 2012 season is soon going to be a reality....

• 12/29 i70baseball.com: A Royal Blue Island In A Sea of Cardinal RedRoyals fans can be anywhere, but when they are stuck in Cardinal country, it gets a bit tough....
• 12/27 i70baseball.com: Optimism Is Well Placed For Royals FansFor Royals fans, it's OK to be optimistic, but too soon for confidence...
• 12/27 MLBTradeRumors: Arbitration Eligible Extension Candidates: From Matt Moore to Chris Carpenter, extensions for players not eligible for arbitration happen all the time.  More commonly,...
• 12/24 High Heat Stats: The most valuable batters of 2011: The most valuable batter of 2011Icon SMIFollowing on from the top pitchers post, here are the top batters of 2011 using the same...
• 12/24 Through The Fence Baseball: Fielder in class of his own among remaining free agents: When the MLB offseason first began, all the talk was about which teams would sign Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder, easily the...
• 12/21 Royally Speaking: The Sanchez/Cabrera Trade And How It Affects 2012: In one swift move Dayton Moore improved the rotation and the team's defense. After receiving no suitable offers for Melky Cabrera...
• 12/13 High Heat Stats: Metsclusive: The Best Single Franchise Players for Each Team: Jose Reyes's  departure for South Florida makes him the latest Mets star to get away. In fact, very few players of any value...
• 12/12 Kings of Kauffman: Royalman Report 12/11/11 – Talking Prospects, CBA with Nathaniel Stoltz: The Royalman Report, LIVE Sundays at 7 pm CST The Royals didn’t make a big splash at the Winter Meetings,  but there were...
• 12/12 Through The Fence Baseball: What the 2005 MLB draft would look like with a do-over: The 2005 amateur baseball draft is widely considered to be one the best of all time. With a two-time Cy Young winner, four Rookie...
• 12/12 The Golden Sombrero: Top 50 Prospects: #28 – Jake Odorizzi: #28 Jake Odorizzi Kansas City Royals DOB: 3/27/1990 Previous Rank: 35 ETA: 2013 As the highest ceiling player moved for Zack Greinke...
• 12/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Interested in locking up Alex Gordon long-term: Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore said Wednesday, Dec. 7, that the team is exploring a long-term deal for OF Alex...[+] Gordon. 'We respect Alex a great deal in what he's accomplished here,' Moore said. 'We believe he's going to continue to perform very well into the future. And we are going to work very hard to keep him here - we want to keep all of our players here long-term.'
• 12/7 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Exploring Long-Term Extension For Gordon: Following a break-out campaign that earned Alex Gordon MVP votes, the Royals would like to lock up the 27-year-old for the long...
• 12/6 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Winter Meetings Day Two: Aaron Harang Heads North: When we left off last night, the Aaron Harang signing wasn’t yet official, since it appeared Harang might be holding out...
• 12/1 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Announce Award Winners: The Royals named their organizational award winners this afternoon, recognizing outstanding performance in 2011. Along with Eric...

• 11/25 Motor City Bengals: How Far Are Royals From Division Crown?: Someday in the near future, fans of the Detroit Tigers will remember fondly the days when the Kansas City Royals were merely a...
• 11/23 Fungoes.net: Verlander is no Bob Gibson: The BBWAA selected Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander as the American League Most-Valuable Player. The last Cardinal pitcher to...
• 11/22 High Heat Stats: Home Runs:One at a Time- Now Complete: A while back, over at the old blog, I took a look at the players who hit the most home runs without hitting more than one in a...
• 11/21 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Verlander Wins AL MVP: Justin Verlander won the American League MVP award, according to the Baseball Writers Association of America.  Verlander took...
• 11/20 Through The Fence Baseball: Kansas City Royals 2012 lineup preview: It’s hard to believe a team that finished 20 games below .500, fourth in their division and hasn’t been to the playoffs...
• 11/17 Fragile Freddy's: Freddy's Two-a-Days: Kansas City Royals: 71-91, 4th place, 24 GBFragile Freddy’s “Two A Days” series continues today with the Kansas City Royals.  Each day...
• 11/17 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB mock draft 2.0: Lucas Giolito projects first: The 2012 MLB amateur draft will be held on June 4-6.While most college players will have to wait until spring to play again, many...
• 11/16 Bus League Baseball: Prospect A-Z Day 3: Yoenis Cespedes: Trevor Bauer was the subject of yesterday’s Prospect A-Z feature. The former UCLA standout raised his draft stock throughout...
• 11/15 High Heat Stats: 2011 Leaders and Trailers in BABiP (Batting Average on Balls in Play): Just out of curiosity I wanted to look at BABiP leaders and trailers (among both hitters and pitchers) in 2011.Here are the batters...
• 11/15 i70baseball.com: Curb Your EnthusiasmNext year's expectations of the Kansas City Royals might be at an all-time high....
• 11/9 i70baseball.com: KC Hopes Better Days Ahead For Fall Rising StarsThe Royals farm hands did not do much to improve their stature in the Rising Stars game....
• 11/8 i70baseball.com: Don’t Stop Now, DaytonThe Royals fans: then and now....
• 11/4 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Lowe, Hanley, Frasor: On this date last year, the Rockies traded Miguel Olivo to the Blue Jays for cash. Toronto declined Olivo's $2.5MM option later...
• 11/3 SpreadStumpers: 2012 World Series Champion Odds: After taking a look at the 2012 MLB World Series Champion odds, a few things jumped out at me. Here is the complete list, courtesy...
• 11/2 Halo Hangout: Aybar First Angel Shortstop to Win Gold Glove Since ’67: Los Angeles's Erick Aybar was named the AL's Gold Glove winner at shortstop for 2011. It's Aybar's first award...
• 11/2 SOX & Dawgs: 2011 AL & NL Rawlings Gold Glove Teams: As a fan of the Boston Red Sox, we haven't really had any feel good moments since late August. But that changed on Tuesday night...
• 11/2 For Baseball Junkies: The Envelope, Please: Gold Glove Winners Announced: Your 2011 Gold Glove winners are:ALC - Matt Wieters1B - Adrian Gonzalez2B - Dustin PedroiaSS - Erick Aybar3B - Adrian BeltreLF...
• 11/2 It's About the Money (Stupid): Gold Glove winners announced: The winners of the 2011 Rawlings Gold Glove awards were announced last night, which means that it's time to make fun of the selections...
• 11/2 SOX & Dawgs: 2011 AL & NL Rawlings Gold Glove Teams: As a fan of the Boston Red Sox, we haven't really had any feel good moments since late August. But that changed on Tuesday night...
• 11/1 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon Wins AL Gold Glove in Left FieldWhat a difference 18 months makes. Back in May of 2010, Alex Gordon was … [visit site to read more]...
• 11/1 i70baseball.com: Defense=Offense?: Yesterday, three finalists were named at each position for Gold Glove winners.  As expected, Alex Gordon and Jeff Francoeur made...
• 11/1 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon and Jeff Francoeur: Mining For Gold: Finalists for the American League Gold Glove Awards were announced today and Royals outfielders are well-represented. Alex Gordon...

• 10/31 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: The MSTI 15-Step Plan for 2012: It’s time for another edition of the yearly plan, in which I put on my GM hat and try to piece together a competitive 2012...
• 10/25 i70baseball.com: Royals And Gordon Team Up: The Kansas City Royals and outfielder Alex Gordon are hosting an online auction featuring unique autographed memorabilia to benefit...
• 10/22 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Prospect Review: David Lough: Last February, I asked the question “is this the year David Lough makes his debut?” After a 2009 where he hit a combined...
• 10/21 Roto Think Tank: 2011 BBA American League Stan Musial (MVP) Award: After running through the analysis for this year's Baseball Bloggers Alliance Stan Musial Award, my two biggest dilemmas...
• 10/20 MLB Dirt: Stan Musial Award – American League MVP: In one of the tougher awards to decide from, I had to choose between Jose Bautista and Jacoby Ellsbury at the top of my American...
• 10/18 i70baseball.com: 12 Reasons to be Excited for 2012Twelve reasons that Royals fans should already be getting fired up for 2012....
• 10/14 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Epstein, Votto, Sabathia: Seven years ago today, the Brewers claimed Derrick Turnbow off waivers from the Angels. The then-27-year-old emerged as Milwaukee's...
• 10/13 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Kansas City Royals: The Royals' offseason revolves around their search for top-of-the-rotation pitching. Guaranteed Contracts Billy Butler,...
• 10/13 B-R Blog: Lance Berkman & Jacoby Ellsbury are comeback players of the year: Lance Berkman and Jacoby Ellsbury have each been awarded their league's comeback player of the year award. Those 2 guys were among...
• 10/6 Fragile Freddy's: 2011 in Review - The Minor Leagues: We have contemplated the big boys at the Major League level but of course we should consider the minor leaguers as well. ...
• 10/4 i70baseball.com: 2011 Royals’ AwardsTaking a look at this writer's picks for the best of the Royals 2011....
• 10/2 Feelin' Kinda Blue: My 2011 MLB Awards ballot: The 2011 Major League Baseball season has come to a close and the Dodgers are not playoff-bound for the second consecutive year....

• 9/30 Bronx Baseball Daily: A Quick Look at the AL MVP Possibilities: For about a month now Yankees fans have been chanting ‘MVP, MVP’ during most of Curtis Granderson‘s at bats...
• 9/29 Royally Speaking: And Now, Leading Off for the Kansas City Royals...: ..?Alex Gordon has been nothing short of terrific this year. He's been amazing at home; he's been solid on the road. His May...
• 9/27 Kings of Kauffman: A Rollercoaster Named Mendoza: Mendoza walks in. (photo by Gage Matthews) Luis Mendoza, the Mexican lord of pitching, has gone through a lot in his professional...
• 9/24 i70baseball.com: Lets Go, Lets Do This: Royals Fans have been searching for something, anything that might point to a resurgence of an organization that was not even...
• 9/23 i70baseball.com: Top 10 Royals Outfielder SeasonsRanking the best outfield seasons in Royals history....
• 9/21 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB Draft Preview: Who will your team draft?: The 2012 amateur draft is still 9 months away, but it’s never too early to start thinking about who the top prospects are, especially...
• 9/21 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB Draft Preview: Who will your team draft?: The 2012 amateur draft is still 9 months away, but it’s never too early to start thinking about who the top prospects are, especially...
• 9/20 MLB Dirt: Overlooked 5-Tool Players: I think we sometimes mistake the meaning of what a 5-tool player is. At first glance, we want to call guys like Matt Kemp and...
• 9/20 Kings of Kauffman: Flash Gordon: They're basically the same person. Saviors of the universe. It’s award season, I suppose, and I started the discussion...
• 9/20 Fungoes.net: Sabermetric MVP update: AL top 20: It’s close enough to the end of the season for us to feel comfortable unveiling a leaderboard for our so-called sabermetric...
• 9/19 Kings of Kauffman: Fun With Extra Bases: If you had made a checklist before the season started and po**** it with items that would encourage you as a Royals fan, it would...
• 9/19 i70baseball.com: The Day .400 Slipped Away: The broiling heat of 1980 finally subsided, but not before school started in the fall. As August rolled into September and football...
• 9/16 B-R Blog: Quick recap for Thursday 9/15/11: Rays win, but will they run out of time?: -- Evan Longoria kick-started Tampa's assault on Fenway with a 2-out, 3-run HR in the 3rd. A couple weeks ago, the Mets' outstanding...
• 9/12 Baseball Musings: Rays of Hope: The Tampa Bay Rays inched a bit closer to Boston as they defeat the Orioles 5-2. Jeff Niemann pitched seven strong innings, allowing...
• 9/12 MLBTradeRumors: Arbitration Eligibles: Kansas City Royals: The Royals are next in our arbitration eligibles series. First time: Mitch Maier, Chris Getz Second time: Luke Hochevar,...
• 9/12 B-R Blog: Recap for Sunday 9/11/11: Seventeen days and three races left!: -- Rays 9, Red Sox 1 (wild-card gap down to 3 in the loss column): With Jon Lester on the hill, Boston was banking on the adage...
• 9/11 Tyler's Think Tank: Similar Royal Stats: The Kansas City Royals are mired in another lost and forgettable season, buried deep in the AL Central Standings and on pace for...
• 9/11 Baseball Musings: Doubles Leader: Alex Gordon hit two doubles in the Royals 2-1 victory over Seattle Sunday afternoon. That gives him 45 doubles on the season,...
• 9/9 i70baseball.com: A Relative Onslaught: 2011 Royals OffenseExamining some encouraging signs from the Royals offense....
• 9/7 Baseball Musings: Rock’em-Sock’em Royals: Kansas City hitter started to go on a tear on August 20th, the day they scored nine runs against the Red Sox. Before that date,...
• 9/4 Kings of Kauffman: Saturday Night Live Blog – Sunday Edition: **** and greetings and how are ‘ya? I’m back from a mini hiatus (or extended if you’re counting at home) to announce my...
• 9/3 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Royals Wash Away Chances; Royals 5, Indians 1: By Mike Brandyberry Bull Durham said, “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes it rains.” In a strange season...
• 9/3 Kings of Kauffman: Mining For Gold: The Alex Gordon Story: On September 15, 2008, David DeJesus committed an error in centerfield. It was the last one he would commit as a Kansas City Royal...
• 9/3 B-R Blog: Friday Falkenbergs: Games of 9/2/2011: [No emery-ball specialists on the mound tonight -- that I know of -- but there was a "Cy" in action....] -- Justin Verlander won...
• 9/2 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Indians Survive KC Rally; Indians 5, Royals 4:   By Mike Brandyberry In a tale of two games in one, the Indians won the first half of the contest and were able to survive...
• 9/2 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Game Preview: Cleveland (68-66) vs. Kansas City (57-81): By Matt Van Wormer The Indians wrapped up an 11 game home stand yesterday afternoon, taking a loss, 7-0 as the bats looked like...
• 9/2 i70baseball.com: Royals DefenseExamining the 2011 defense using both stats and observation....
• 9/2 B-R Blog: “And down the stretch they come!” – Games of Thursday 9/1/2011: -- St. Louis completed a 3-game sweep in Milwaukee. Albert Pujols went 4 for 4 with 2 HRs, including his 12th career grand slam...
• 9/1 Baseball Musings: The Comeback Game: The Royals and Tigers played a wild game, each team losing the lead twice. The Royals jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but the Tigers...
• 9/1 The Golden Sombrero: Changeups and **** A Southpaw’s Perspective for 8/31/11: -       Another Yankees vs. Red Sox series got underway last night…yawn.  At least there was a little bit of tension...

• 8/31 Baseball Reality Tour: 2011 American League MVP Race: We had so much fun last week, checking in with the contenders of the 2011 National League MVP, that we couldn't resist checking...
• 8/31 Motor City Bengals: Doug Fister Showing His Worth for Tigers: Detroit Tigers’ hurler Doug Fister is making a habit out of perfection. In his previous start, Fister retired the first...
• 8/30 i70baseball.com: Alex Gordon 2.0What a ride it has been so far for Alex Gordon....
• 8/30 B-R Blog: Recap Lite: Monday 8/29/2011: -- Tim Lincecum's streak of 9 straight starts with at least 6 IP and no more than 2 runs allowed dissolved in an unprecedented...
• 8/29 Baseball Musings: Finding Holes: Alex Gordon went four for five Monday night as the Royals downed the Tigers 9-5. One of those hits left the yard, Alex’s...
• 8/28 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Cabrera Ca-Bombs Late Homer; Indians 8, Royals 7:   By Mike Brandyberry Asdrubal Cabrera hit a three run home run in the bottom of the eighth to help lead the Indians past...
• 8/27 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Game Preview: Kansas City (54-78) vs. Cleveland (64-64): By Matt Van Wormer While the “Thomecoming” didn’t go exactly as planned for Jim Thome last night (0-4, 2 K),...
• 8/26 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Game Preview: Kansas City (54-77) vs. Cleveland (63-64): By Matt Van Wormer Ubaldo Jimenez trying to get back on track?  The Indians being under .500 for the first time since being...
• 8/25 Kings of Kauffman: Balance of Power Revisited: About six weeks ago, I was curious about the possibility of four Royals reaching 20 homers or more in 2011, which has happened...
• 8/24 i70baseball.com: Francoeur Signing Signals New EraKansas City may no longer be the Siberia of the major leagues....
• 8/24 The Golden Sombrero: Golden Sombrero: Alex Gordon (again): Top 1: Alex Gordon stuck out swinging against Brandon Morrow Top 2: Gordon struck out swinging against Morrow Top 4: Gordon...
• 8/21 SOX & Dawgs: Morning Red Sox Delight - 8/21: After falling last night, the Boston Red Sox look to avoid a spilt of the series in the finale of a four-game set with the Kansas...
• 8/21 SOX & Dawgs: Morning Red Sox Delight - 8/21: After falling last night, the Boston Red Sox look to avoid a spilt of the series in the finale of a four-game set with the Kansas...
• 8/20 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 8/20: After winning for the second night in a row, the Boston Red Sox look for a third straight win in the third-game of a four-game...
• 8/20 Boston Globe: Close shave for Gonzo, not for the Sox: By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff KANSAS CITY — For the first time since he joined the Red Sox, Adrian Gonzalez took the field...
• 8/20 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 8/20: After winning for the second night in a row, the Boston Red Sox look for a third straight win in the third-game of a four-game...
• 8/19 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 8/19: After a solid team win last night, the Boston Red Sox look to make it two in a row tonight against the Kansas City Royals at...
• 8/18 i70baseball.com: Naturally Speaking: Development Slow For Prospect MyersThe urgency for the Royals to find outfielders seems to have lessened considerably....
• 8/18 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 8/18: With the offense taking a vacation over the past three-game homestand, the Boston Red Sox will have to hope it comes back to...
• 8/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Hating Frenchy—The Jeff Francoeur Experience: The Royals signed outfielder Jeff Francoeur to a 2-year contract extension worth $13 million. This eliminates a $4 million mutual...
• 8/18 My Pinstripes: Blue Makes Yankees See Red: It was only a matter of time today before Major League Baseball admitted the umpires blew it when they didn't overturn a home...
• 8/17 YankeeAnalysts.com: Yankee comeback falls short in 5-4 loss to Royals: So close. The Yankees managed to load the bases in the ninth against Royals closer Joakim Soria, making the righty throw 40 pitches...
• 8/17 Yankees Daily: Yankees at Royals Game 121 -2011: Starting Lineups New York Yankees Derek Jeter SS Curtis Granderson CF Mark Teixeira 1B Robinson Cano 2B Nick Swisher RF Andruw...
• 8/16 Yankees Daily: Yankees at Royals Game 120 -2011: Starting Lineups New York Yankees Derek Jeter SS Curtis Granderson CF Mark Teixeira 1B Robinson Cano 2B Nick Swisher RF Andruw...
• 8/16 NY Baseball Digest: Brandon Nimmo Can Be An Impact Propsect in the Mold of Bryce Harper: Now that he’s officially a New York Met, with his freshly signed with his $2.1 million dollar contract firmly in hand, it’s...
• 8/16 Yankees Daily: Derek Jeter drives in three Runs as Yankees beat Royals 7-4: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Derek Jeter had three hits and drove in three runs, including two with a go-ahead triple in the sixth...
• 8/15 Yankees Daily: Yankees at Royals Game 119 -2011: Starting Lineups New York Yankees Brett Gardner LF Derek Jeter SS Curtis Granderson CF Mark Teixeira 1B Robinson Cano 2B Nick...
• 8/15 YankeeAnalysts.com: Series Preview | Yankees vs. Royals II: Revenge is a dish best served by obliterating the opposition: The Yankees only get the Royals six times all season, and the final three of those games begins tonight at Kaufman Stadium. As...
• 8/14 MLBTradeRumors: Alex Gordon, Royals Plan To Discuss Extension: It took a few years longer than expected, but Alex Gordon has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the Royals'...
• 8/14 El Maquino: ST. LOUIS CARDINALS: SEASON 112, EPISODE 119: After the Cards got out-pitched and fell to five games behind the Milwaukee Brewers last night, I went through the toughest part...
• 8/13 i70baseball.com: Needing To Head Out WestTrips to the East coast have not gone so well this season, perhaps the Royals need the beaches out West to ease their minds....
• 8/6 i70baseball.com: Red Hot HittingThe Royals are swinging a hot bat and driving the ball, winning games, and playing good baseball....
• 8/5 B-R Blog: Random Recap for Thursday 8/4: [Rounding up the day's action while still pondering the scoring of Brendan Ryan's "infield triple"....] -- Cliff Lee became the...

• 7/31 Baseball Daily Digest: Blog Eat Blog: Changing Pastures: The last weeks of July are marked by packed bags and plane tickets, as a multitude of ballplayers experience a sudden change...
• 7/30 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: U-Win Tonight, U-Get Help Tomorrow; Indians 5, Royals 2:   By Mike Brandyberry In a game that was hardly noticed for seven innings, the Indians came from behind with four runs in...
• 7/30 Kings of Kauffman: Don’t Call It a Comeback: Fangraphs has an early look at potential candidates for Comeback Player of the Year and it’s tough to argue against their...
• 7/30 SOX & Dawgs: Red Sox News & Notes - 7/29: If it weren't for a rare one bad inning from Josh Beckett on Thursday afternoon, the Boston Red Sox might have beaten the Kansas...
• 7/29 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Pathetic Performance; Royals 12, Indians 0: By Matt Van Wormer Optimism was in the air as the lowly Royals came into town Friday after a slugfest with the Boston Red Sox....
• 7/29 SOX & Dawgs: Red Sox News & Notes - 7/29: If it weren't for a rare one bad inning from Josh Beckett on Thursday afternoon, the Boston Red Sox might have beaten the Kansas...
• 7/28 Fragile Freddy's: Game 103 Recap: KCR – 000 400 000 – 4 – 8 – 0 BOS – 002 000 010 – 3 – 8 – 0 A beautiful Thursday afternoon went to **** in a hand...
• 7/28 SOX & Dawgs: Morning Red Sox Delight - 7/28: After two straight nights of offensive explosions, the Boston Red Sox look to wrap up the four-game set with the Kansas City...
• 7/27 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 7/27: After yet another offensive explosion last night at Historic Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox look to make it two wins in a row...
• 7/27 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 7/27: After yet another offensive explosion last night at Historic Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox look to make it two wins in a row...
• 7/26 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 7/26: After falling in extra innings last night, the Boston Red Sox look to get back on track tonight in game two of a four-game set...
• 7/26 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 7/26: After falling in extra innings last night, the Boston Red Sox look to get back on track tonight in game two of a four-game set...
• 7/26 Boston Globe: Postgame wrapup: Royals 3, Red Sox 1: The start of last night's game was delayed more than two hours by rain. Marco Scutaro struck out in the bottom of the 14th to...
• 7/26 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 7/25: After sweeping the Seattle Mariners over the weekend, the Boston Red Sox will now play their next 14 games against foes from...
• 7/25 SOX & Dawgs: Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 7/25: After sweeping the Seattle Mariners over the weekend, the Boston Red Sox will now play their next 14 games against foes from...
• 7/25 Fragile Freddy's: Series Preview - Kansas City Royals: Pitchers:Monday – Jon Lester (10-4, 3.31) vs. Kyle Davies (1-9, 7.32)Tuesday – Andrew Miller (4-1, 4.65) vs. Danny Duffy (2-4,...
• 7/24 Rays Colored Glasses: Jennings Was the Spark but Rays Record the Loss: My questions going into tonight’s game were, will Desmond Jennings be the spark everyone hopes he will be, and will Jeff...
• 7/21 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Win in Extra Innings on Wild Pitch: In what could best be described as a sleeper of a game, the Royals won Wednesday night with an extra innings dash towards home...
• 7/21 Baseball Musings: Walk Off Wild Pitch: A pitching duel between the White Sox and the Royals ends when Sergio Santos uncorks a wild pitch with two out and runners on...
• 7/19 The Biz of Baseball: MLB Trade Deadline Buyers: AL Edition: Yesterday, Rob looked at those in the National League that could be buyers at the trade deadline. Today, he looks at the American...
• 7/13 Through The Fence Baseball: Royals first half: How we got here and what it means: The Royals are in last place again, and I’m not all that bothered by it. Are you? Sure, it was a fun spring – the Royals were...
• 7/12 Release Points: Premature Promotion: Chisenhall’s Debut Comes Before He Has Time To Solve Lefties: The ensuing pressure of a pennant race can make for a lot of regrettable decisions.  August 30, 1990; the Boston Red Sox, with...
• 7/12 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: The Inaugural TVPRCRP All-Star Teams: I hate the All Star Game. When I was a kid it was exciting, you got to see the National League play the American League for the...
• 7/12 Southside Showdown: Konerko Arizona-Bound: Okay, so Paul Konerko was going to Arizona anyway – he lives in Scottsdale, but now he’ll be going donning a cap of...
• 7/12 Kings of Kauffman: The Royalman Report (7/10/11) with Guest Brandon Warne: After a week off to observe the Independence Day weekend, Royalman Troy Olsen and I were back in studio with another episode of...
• 7/6 MLB Dirt: Loads of Talent in the Outfield: National League Shane Victorino (PHI) – Snubbed from the “real” roster, The Flyin’ Hawaiian has the 3rd...
• 7/4 Kings of Kauffman: What #VoteAlex Means: You can vote for Alex Gordon as the final AL All-Star by texting “A1″ to 89269.  You can also vote on MLB.com here....
• 7/4 Royally Speaking: Mile high madness: Yesterday wasn't Alex Gordon's day, first he got snubbed and then he got hurt. He apparently wasn't the All-Star lock that I thought...
• 7/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Stardom: The All Star Game is meaningless. It’s a moneymaker and gets the fans involved. The winning league gets home field advantage...
• 7/3 Kings of Kauffman: Alex Gordon: Snubbed: Let’s face it, as a team in last place, it’s difficult to justify the Royals getting more than one player into the...
• 7/3 B-R Blog: Sunday Smorgasbord – games of Saturday, July 2: [A Whitman's sampler of Saturday action, with neither leaves nor grass....] -- White Sox 1, Cubs 0 ... for the first time in MLB...
• 7/2 It's About the Money (Stupid): Yankees All-Star Roster Math: Curtis Granderson, Robinson Cano, Alex Rodriguez, and Derek Jeter are in, barring unprecedented late runs.  How does it look...
• 7/1 Royally Speaking: 81 down, 81 to go: Only five teams in franchise history have had a worse record after 81 games than this years Royals (33-48). This probably surprises no...

• 6/26 Obstructed View: Mike Quade, You Are A Dumbass: It's the bottom of the 8th inning on Saturday night and I had sat in Kaufmann Stadium and watched the Cubs and Royals play a very...
• 6/24 Obstructed View: Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (30-44) vs Kansas City Royals (31-44): For a while there it looked like the Royals might contend in the weak AL central. Much like the Cubs they got off to a decent...
• 6/24 Cut Four: American League All Stars: The Major League Baseball All Star game is set to take place on Tuesday, July 12th, just over two weeks away. Online voting for...
• 6/23 YankeeAnalysts.com: Open Thread: The Yankees’ Awesome Outfield: A post by Dave Schoenfield at the SweetSpot Network caught my eye yesterday: Using the top three rated outfielders for each club,...
• 6/21 Yankees Daily: Gordon Should Be Royally Considered for All-Star Game: I am not going to lie, the Kansas City Royals have been a fun group to watch play baseball. They have top prospects Eric Hosmer,...
• 6/20 Roto Think Tank: A.L. FAAB Log: June 20, 2011: Zach Stewart $8. I don't know if I've ever seen two more divergent opinions on a prospect than John Sickels and Kevin Goldstein's...
• 6/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Melvin Doubles His Win Total: I listened to last night’s game while drive through Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. It was a nice an easy game to follow...
• 6/4 Motor City Bengals: Feeling a Draft – Local Edition: Recently, Kings of Kauffman has profiled several of the top available High School and College prospects that will be selected...
• 6/2 PaulLebowitz.com: The Perils Of Prospects: The Royals oft-repeated “embarrassment of riches” in prospects took a hit today as it was reported that Double A lefty...

• 5/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon sends another into the seats: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 2-for-4 with a solo home run, walk and two runs scored Monday, May 30, against the Los...[+] Angeles Angels of Anaheim. After hitting just two homers in April, Gordon has five in the month of May with one day left.
• 5/30 Motor City Bengals: Soria’s Struggles Hurt Royals Again, Royals lose 10-8: So is now a good time to question the health of Joakim Soria? Fresh off an inning in Texas on Friday, an inning in which Royals...
• 5/29 B-R Blog: American League left fielders are terrible so far: Reader Eddy E. wrote in with this gem: Split G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB BAbip tOPS+ ▴ sOPS+ as LF 706...
• 5/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon's hit streak snapped: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon was hitless in three at-bats with a strikeout Saturday, May 28, against the Texas Rangers, ending...[+] a eight-game hitting streak.
• 5/28 Royally Speaking: Hey, the Royals have a leadoff hitter: Continuing his development into the next David DeJesus, Alex Gordon has really taken to the leadoff spot. He has hit .293/.356/.610...
• 5/28 Nolan Writin': Feliz Fails Again – Another Blown Save Examined: Remember last season? If a game made it to the ninth inning with the lead, there were no concerns. Neftali Feliz was solid; even...
• 5/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon forces extra innings: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon hit a solo home run in the top of the ninth inning Friday, May 27, against the Texas Rangers...[+] to force extra innings. He finished 2-for-6 with a double, walk and three runs scored.
• 5/27 The Golden Sombrero: Golden Sombrero: Alex Gordon: Top 1: Alex Gordon struck out on a foul tip against Jake Arrieta Top 3: Gordon hit a ground-rule double to...
• 5/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Ned Yost sticking with new lineup: Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost used his new lineup with OF Alex Gordon hitting leadoff for the eighth straight game Thursday,...[+] May 26, and he hasn't indicated that he will switch it any time soon. 'I don't see a value in changing a lineup every day, I don't see where it gives us an advantage. I think it tends to give you more of a disadvantage when guys are wondering where they're hitting every day,' Yost said. 'The whole thing for me is to keep an atmosphere in that locker room that is conducive to their success - not having to guess about where I'm going to hit today, what I'm going to do. You try to keep things as stable as you can.'
• 5/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon hits fifth HR: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 2-for-5 with a solo home run and two runs scored Tuesday, May 24, against the Baltimore...[+] Orioles. He was hitting in the leadoff spot of manager Ned Yost's batting order.
• 5/24 Baseball Moves: Waiver Mavens – How am I Doing? (Batting Edition): Let’s take a look at how I’m doing with Waiver Mavens. To judge my abilities I examined my offense first. I grabbed...
• 5/24 Motor City Bengals: It’s All Good: Fresh off a 9-8 extra inning loss to the Cardinals on Sunday, a game in which Royals pitchers walked 13(!) batters, the unraveling...
• 5/23 Fungoes.net: Rasmus and the Cardinal walking men: Bases on balls may not be the most exciting element of the game, but they are an effective tactic for winning. And one of the...
• 5/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon snaps futility stringKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon singled to snap an 0-for-10 slump Thursday, May 19....[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon singled to snap an 0-for-10 slump Thursday, May 19.
• 5/19 Royally Speaking: Time to move Melky down: There is plenty of blame to go around for last nights 5-4 loss to the Texas Rangers, 13 walks issued by the pitching staff and...
• 5/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon batting first in lineupKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon is leading off in the starting lineup Wednesday, May 18....[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon is leading off in the starting lineup Wednesday, May 18.
• 5/15 Baseball Moves: Waiver Mavens – Week 7 – Minor a Major?: Week 7 and things are rolling along here for Waiver Mavens… Batters Jhonny Peralta, Detroit Tigers (3B, SS, MI, CI) owned...
• 5/13 YankeeAnalysts.com: Royals throttle Yankees 11-5; win first series at Yankee Stadium since 1999: Remember when I said that “anything less than two out of three against the Royals at home would have to be considered a...
• 5/12 It's About the Money (Stupid): Game 35: Royals 11, Yankees 5: Ivan Nova had seemed to turn his season around with three impressive starts, but Thursday was not his night, as he got hit...
• 5/12 The Daily Catch: Insane Softball Game Translated: After reading this article about a 48-47 final score of a high school softball game with a bunch of ridiculous stats, it got me...
• 5/12 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Notes: Hosmer, Francoeur, Duffy: Not only did the Royals beat the Yankees in Yankee Stadium last night, they did so behind Eric Hosmer's first MLB home run. Here's...
• 5/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon receiving break: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon is getting the night off Wednesday, May 11, and will return Thursday, May 12. 1B Eric Hosmer...[+] will hit third in the lineup Wednesday.
• 5/11 Motor City Bengals: Royals Lose By Inches: If you told me that the Royals would hold the Yankees to three runs with Kyle Davies starting, I’d have thought that we...
• 5/10 The Daily Catch: The Bizarro Division: The AL Central standings are looking more like a Bizarro division than those of a division in Major League Baseball in this decade....
• 5/10 Motor City Bengals: The Road Once Traveled: April 2, 2007 was supposed to be the turning of a franchise, the day the semi-local kid that grew up a Royals fan was supposed...
• 5/10 YankeeAnalysts.com: Yankees vs. Royals I: The Royals are in second place?: Following a much needed day off after playing 16 straight games, the Yankees get back to business tonight at the Stadium for a...
• 5/9 Royally Speaking: It's always sunny in Kansas City: A couple of commenters more or less called me out for the decidedly negative tone this blog has taken lately, and I gotta say,...
• 5/9 Royally Speaking: It's always sunny in Kansas City: A couple of commenters more or less called me out for the decidedly negative tone this blog has taken lately, and I gotta say,...
• 5/8 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Royals Game 35: 2:34PM CDT: And that is not the way to get to the bullpen early as the A’s let Francis get a six-pitch inning in the top...
• 5/7 Through The Fence Baseball: Ranting and Raving: Cole Hamels, Frodo Baggins and getting away with bandwagon murder: I’ll be the first to admit that fantasy baseball isn’t exactly my “forte” when it comes to fantasy leagues. If...
• 5/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon homersKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 1-for-4 with a solo home run against the Oakland Athletics Friday, May 6....[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 1-for-4 with a solo home run against the Oakland Athletics Friday, May 6.
• 5/6 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s @ Royals Game 33: 7:24PM CDT: Opposite field home run for Alex Gordon – his third on the campaign – gives the Royals a 1-0 lead. See...
• 5/5 Royally Speaking: Stay the course: As of this post, the Royals are 16-13, so it is understandable that some fans are impatient about players that are not producing....
• 5/2 COSFBA: Waiver Saviors: April's Fantasy Baseball All-Stars: My Waiver Saviors articles have always been about finding players available in a high percentage of leagues (I use ESPN and Yahoo!...
• 5/1 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon drives in three runs Saturday: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 2-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs against the Minnesota Twins Saturday, April 30....[+]
• 5/1 Baseball Musings: The .500+ Club: With the action over in the American League, there are only six teams above .500 at the end of April. The Kansas City Royals are...

• 4/29 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Lineup notes: Kansas City Royals 2B Chris Getz and 1B Kila Ka'aihue are both back in the starting lineup Friday, April 29. OF Alex Gordon is...[+] playing left field.
• 4/29 Roto Think Tank: Gearing Up: A.L. Week 5: May 2-8, 2011: Rising UpAlex White (4% owned last week, 13% this week)In non-carryover leagues, White might not be owned. But even in keeper...
• 4/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon's hit streak is over: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon was hitless in three at-bats with a walk Wednesday, April 27, against the Cleveland Indians,...[+] as his career-high 19-game hit streak was snapped.
• 4/27 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Two benched: Kansas City Royals 1B Kila Ka'aihue and 2B Chris Getz were benched Wednesday, April 27, with OF Alex Gordon moving to first and...[+] OF Jarrod Dyson starting in center field. 3B Mike Aviles moved to second and 3B Wilson Betemit started at third. Ka'aihue is hitting just .186 with six RBIs in 20 games this year, while Getz is batting .234 with five hits in 39 at-bats in his last 12 games. 'I'm giving Kila a bit of a break,' manager Ned Yost admitted. 'It's always been my experience that when a guy struggles, you give him an opportunity to work through it until he gets to the point where he's really fighting himself mentally. Then you need to take a step back.' Yost insisted that the team is not giving up on Ka'aihue at this juncture.
• 4/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon extends hit streak to 19: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 1-for-4 with a double, runs scored and RBI Tuesday, April 26, against the Cleveland Indians,...[+] pushing his career-high hit streak to 19 games. Gordon is 31-for-81 (.383) during the impressive streak.
• 4/25 Nolan Writin': Kansas City Royals (12-9) at Texas Rangers (13-7) Series Finale Preview: The Texas Rangers host the Kansas City Royals today for the series finale of this three-game series in Arlington. The Rangers...
• 4/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon has AL's current longest hit streak: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 1-for-4 Sunday, April 24, to extend the American League's longest active hit streak to...[+] 18 games. Gordon is 30-for-77 (.390) during the impressive run.
• 4/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon extends hitting streak Saturday: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 1-for-3 against the Texas Rangers Saturday, April 23, to extend his hitting streak to 17...[+] games, according to The Associated Press. He is batting .397 (29-for-73) during the streak.
• 4/23 MLB Fantasy Recon: Buy or Sell - The Best of the April Pick Ups: How come Boston used Masterson out of the bullpen?Charlie Saponara over at Fantasy Baseball 365 takes a look at those hot pick...
• 4/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon extends hitting streak: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored Friday, April 22, extending his hit streak to 16...[+] games. Gordon is batting .400 (28-for-70) during the impressive streak.
• 4/22 The Helmholtz Way: Weekly MLB Review: April 14th -20th Meltdown in Twin City? Joe Nathan, who was one of the most dominant closers in baseball, showed that he is not...
• 4/22 MLB Fantasy Recon: Buy Low & Sell High - Notes from Razzball: Party like its 2006Lance Berkman is back in a big way.  Not to mention he received a ton of print here, there were a lot...
• 4/22 The Process Report: Ryan Braun’s Extension and Evan Longoria: The Brewers re-signed Ryan Braun to a five-year extension worth $105 million yesterday afternoon. Whenever contract values that...
• 4/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Three with double-digit hit streaks: The Kansas City Royals have three players with double-digit hit streaks for the first time since 2001, The Associated Press reports....[+] Royals OF Alex Gordon is at 14 games, IF Wilson Betemit is at 11 games and OF Jeff Francoeur has a 10-game hitting streak.
• 4/21 MLBTradeRumors: Close Continues To Represent 12 Former CAA Clients: Derek Jeter, Ryan Howard and Derrek Lee aren’t the only former CAA clients agent Casey Close will continue to represent now...
• 4/20 COSFBA: Fantasy Baseball News and Notes from April 19th, 2011: Here are some fantasy baseball tidbits I picked up from games played on April 19th, 2011: DH Adam Dunn, CHW has two hits in...
• 4/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon pushes hit streak to 13 games: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 2-for-4 with a double, run scored and RBI Tuesday, April 19, against the Cleveland Indians,...[+] extending his career-high hit streak to 13 games, reports The Associated Press. Gordon also stole his first two bases of the season.
• 4/19 MLB Fantasy Recon: Daily Notes from Monday with The FB Hot Stove: Mr. Lowrie should have your attentionJed Lowrie probably got your attention last night, while none of the Sox are hitting Lowrie...
• 4/18 The Process Report: Regarding Chris Davis: I addressed potential first base alternatives over the weekend and named Rangers 1B/3B Chris Davis as one. Today, Jon Heyman of...
• 4/18 MLB Fantasy Recon: Waiver Wire Fliers - Jurrjens, Francoeur, Ogando: Francoeur and Gordon are more alike than you realizeToday's 3rd waiver wire installment comes from the Bleacher GM and hits...
• 4/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon extends hitting streak: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon extended his hitting streak to 11 games Sunday, April 17, and is hitting .429 (21-for-49) with...[+] 11 RBIs and 14 runs scored during the streak, according to MLB.com's Spencer Fordin. He entered the game Sunday leading the league in hits (22), runs (14) and doubles (eight).
• 4/16 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon gets three hits : Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 3-for-4 with two RBIs against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, April 16, according to Doug...[+] Tucker, of The Associated Press. He leads the league with 22 hits.
• 4/16 Baseball Musings: Felix Victimized: Felix Hernandez only lasted five innings, and his defense didn’t help as he allowed five runs to the Royals on Saturday....
• 4/15 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon out todayKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon will receive the day off Friday, April 15, The Kansas City Star's Terez A. Paylor reports....[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon will receive the day off Friday, April 15, The Kansas City Star's Terez A. Paylor reports.
• 4/15 Diamond Hoggers: Your day after wrap & recap: The notables from yesterday’s action in baseball…. Florida Marlins 6, Atlanta Braves 5 I watched this game in its entirety...
• 4/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Three have strong performances : Kansas City Royals 2B Mike Aviles went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored, while OFs Alex Gordon and Jeff Francoeur each...[+] went 2-for-4 with a run and two RBIs versus the Minnesota Twins Wednesday, April 13, according to The Associated Press.
• 4/13 MLB Fantasy Recon: I Told You So - Daily Notes for 4/13/11: Pineda is a must own in all formatsNotes from Tuesday's games;Josh Hamilton - will miss 6- 8 weeks with an arm fracture. ...
• 4/13 MLB Fantasy Recon: Wednesday Morning Links - 4/13/11: Here's your daily dose of Fantasy Baseball News;The Fantasy Fix looks at Josh Hamilton's Injury and evaluates some waiver wire...
• 4/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon has consistent approach: One American League executive is praising the swing of Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon this year, according to ESPN.com's Jayson...[+] Stark. 'His bat head is in the zone a lot longer,' said the executive. 'He's not coming off with his top half the way he used to, so he's driving balls to left-center field. But he's still turning on balls in the inner half.'
• 4/12 Royally Speaking: The first week: With the Royals enjoying the day off it seems like the perfect time to reflect on the season's first week, in all its small sample...
• 4/11 Baseball Musings: Early Season Surprises: A little over a week into the season, there are some pleasant surprises in the game. The first two are the offenses of the Indians...
• 4/10 MLB Fantasy Recon: Player Notes with Fantasy Freddie - MLB.com: Matt Thornton holds his job, but not the gameFred Zinkie over at MLBolgs.com brings some quick notes about some po**** Sunday...
• 4/10 MLB Fantasy Recon: Beware the Rookies, Notes from FBV: ROY & WHIP killer? OMG!You should read this article from Razzball, December 2008 before preceding into Brett Barton's notes...
• 4/10 Motor City Bengals: Sizing Up the Central After 8: I said to myself before yesterday’s game began that if the Tigers couldn’t win this one, the season would have gotten...
• 4/9 MLB Fantasy Recon: Keeper, Sleeper, or Bust from the Bleacher GM - Rios, Choo: Right place at the right timeJeff Furtah over at the Bleacher GM brings us reviews of some surprising starts.  Telling us...
• 4/8 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Mariners, Cousins, Walden: April 8th has been a busy day in baseball history. Three years ago the Mets played the final home opener at 45-year-old Shea Stadium,...
• 4/8 MLB Fantasy Recon: 10 Lists of 10 from TMR - Team Names: Davis traditional starts slowJust wanted to run through a couple of notes from Matthew Berry's "10 Lists of 10."  A few noteworthy...
• 4/7 Fantasy Sports Information: Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups: The fantasy baseball season is well underway, and it’s time for fantasy owners to drop some of their dead weight and look...
• 4/7 MLB Fantasy Recon: Hot Starts - Buy and Sell from The Buzz -: Everyone is buying into Alex Gordon's startHoward Bender over at Fantasy Baseball Buzz runs through players off to hot starts...
• 4/7 MLB Fantasy Recon: Waiver Wire Fliers from COSFBA Morrison, Martin, & More: Logan Morrison should be on your teamDaniel Aubain over at COSFBA brings us some familiar names and some new names with Waiver...
• 4/7 The Golden Sombrero: The Return of Alex Gordon: As I mentioned a couple of pieces ago, my 1B in the Denslow Cup this season is Billy Butler.  I currently...
• 4/6 MLB Fantasy Recon: The New & Improved Mark Teixeira and More Notes from the Professor: Are you missing out on this Twins lefty?Mark Teixeira is on a personal mission to prove me wrong.  I spent the entire month...
• 4/6 B-R Blog: 2011 On Base 10+ Times Through 4/5/11: This is just one of the fun little things you can do with Play Index' Game Finder - how many players, to date this season, have...
• 4/6 COSFBA: Waiver Saviors: April 6th, 2011: Waiver Saviors will be a semi-regular feature on COSFBA looking for players available in a majority of leagues (ESPN and/or Yahoo!)...
• 4/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon posts three extra-base hits: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and his first home run of the season Tuesday, April 5, against...[+] the Chicago White Sox.
• 4/5 MLB Fantasy Recon: Waiver Wire Fliers - Pickups of the Week from 365: Enough Alex Gordon alreadyGiants second baseman Freddy Sanchez is once again healthy and hitting like he was back in 2009 when...
• 4/5 Cut Four: 2011 Projections: Kansas City Royals: The Kansas City Royals have been so bad for so long that fans are no longer frustrated with the team. They just laugh at the entire...
• 4/5 Call to the Pen: Aaron Crow to the Royals’ Bullpen–Right or Wrong?: Of all the controversial moves made as teams set their rosters a few days ago, few inspired more debate than Kansas City installing...
• 4/4 Diamond Hoggers: Your day after wrap & recap: The notables from yesterday’s action in baseball…. Los Angeles Dodgers 7, San Francisco Giants 5 The Dodgers took...
• 4/4 MLB Fantasy Recon: Monday Morning Player Notes - Longoria, Hanigan, Gordon: Buy that man a beer!Evan Longoria is the big news this weekend.  The third baseman is expected to miss three weeks with an...
• 4/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon has four-hit game: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 4-for-6 with a double, walk, four runs scored and an RBI Sunday, April 3, against the Los...[+] Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
• 4/3 Baseball Moves: Waiver Mavens, Official Week 1 Edition: Well with the odd scheduling the MLB presented to us, I present the official first week’s Waiver Mavens… Enjoy! -MG...
• 4/2 MLB Fantasy Recon: Buy and Sell from Razzball: Brett Gardner as good as Jacoby Ellsbury?Razzball offers some early roster move advice on Jacoby Ellsbury - based on a belief...

• 3/27 Baseball Moves: Waiver Mavens: First of 2011: OK, the first true installment of Waiver Mavens is here. Heading into the season I’m going to focus on underrated players that...
• 3/25 Baseball Press: Breakout Seasons and Spring Training Slugging: Bautista's 2010 spring training slugging percentage indicated a breakout. (Getty)In early February, I wrote an article discussing...
• 3/25 YankeeAnalysts.com: A Look at the 2011 Kansas City Royals: Our previews of the teams in the American League march on. Click here to see the other posts in this series. It almost seems a...
• 3/24 MLB Fantasy Recon: 2011 Fantasy Baseball Position Battle Updates: Beachy is no Minor talentSpring Training is serving its purpose as teams are narrowing down their rosters for opening day. We...
• 3/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Lineup shaping up: Kansas City Royals 3B Mike Aviles is slated to lead off for the team, followed by either 2B Chris Getz or SS Alcides Escobar,...[+] DH Billy Butler, 1B Kila Ka'aihue and OF Melky Cabrera in the fifth spot, The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton reports. OF Alex Gordon projects to hit sixth, followed by OF Jeff Francoeur, the catcher's spot and either Getz or Escobar.
• 3/21 MLB Fantasy Recon: 2011 Fantasy Baseball Post-Hype Sleepers to Believe In: The Hardball Times brings us the latest list of Post-Hype Sleepers, or "Another Alex Gordon Mention."  Here's who made the...
• 3/21 Baseball Musings: Team Offense, Kansas City Royals: A big year with the bat by Kila Ka'aihue will raise the Royals runs expectations. Photo: Icon SMI The series on team offense...
• 3/18 MLB Fantasy Recon: Spring Training Update: Cactus League Round Up: Injury updates and position battles are usually my focus with spring updates, but its always nice to hear when someone your big...
• 3/16 Mastersball.com: Cactus League Notes (3/16): Alex Gordon Redux: Long past the “post hype” period, young (still only 27) Royal Alex Gordon is one of the hottest hitters in Arizona He may...
• 3/16 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon swats HR Tuesday: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon went 2-for-3 with a home run, his third of the spring, and three RBI Tuesday, March 15, reports...[+] Bob Dutton, of The Kansas City Star. Gordon's homer was a no-doubter. He now has a solid .367 (11-for-30) batting average with a .558 on-base percentage in 13 spring games.
• 3/15 MLB Fantasy Recon: 2011 Reocon: Updated Third Base Rankings - MLB Dirt: I was one of the many disappointed in Evan Longoria's lack of power last year.  I heavily invested in the youngster as he...
• 3/15 MLB Fantasy Recon: 2011 Recon: Outfield Sleepers - Going Deep: We've looked at a couple different Outfield Sleeper Lists here already at the Recon, most are generally the same.  Alex...
• 3/14 Baseball Press: Not With a Ten-Foot Pole: Outfielders: Stubbs was good in 2010 but don't count on a repeat in 2011. (AP)With fantasy drafts hitting full stride over the next few weeks,...
• 3/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon on spring surge: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon has surged midway through spring camp, according to The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton. He is...[+] 8-for-14 in his last six games after admitting his timing was off earlier in spring as he sought to incorporate those swing changes into game-speed conditions. He also has 11 walks in 12 games that, combined with his recent production, generate a .550 on-base percentage.
• 3/13 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 3/6/11 - 3/13/11: As we continue to follow the spring's positional battles and injury reports, let's recap the major hot stove headlines from the...
• 3/13 Royally Speaking: Sunday linkage: It was nice to see Alex Gordon showcase his dominating alter ego yesterday, he's now hitting .330/.550/.630 this spring and leads...
• 3/12 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Villone, Moorad, Lidge, White Sox: Links for Saturday night, as Alex Gordon continues to enjoy a productive spring.... The contract Ron Villone signed with...
• 3/11 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Notes: Escobar, Cabrera, Ka'aihue: Royals GM Dayton Moore tells ESPN.com's Buster Olney that Alcides Escobar is different from some other players he has acquired...
• 3/10 Royally Speaking: Morning tweets: I like this. If true, and no reason to believe it's not, it shows Dayton Moore still believes Alex Gordon is capable...
• 3/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Teams asking about Alex Gordon: Several teams have inquired about Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon, but their asking price remains high, ESPN The Magazine's...[+] Buster Olney reports.
• 3/10 MLBTradeRumors: Teams Inquiring On Alex Gordon: Other teams have asked the Royals about Alex Gordon, according to ESPN.com's Buster Olney (on Twitter). And although the hype...
• 3/10 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Seek Young Catcher: The Royals are looking for a young catcher, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (on Twitter). One possible trade chip, Alex...
• 3/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon snaps out of slump: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon snapped out of his spring funk, posting three hits in three at-bats with a double, run scored...[+] and two RBI Wednesday, reports Bob Dutton, of The Kansas City Star. Gordon entered with just two hits in 16 at-bats (.125), although he also had nine walks.
• 3/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Marginalizing Transitions: Concerns about the Phillies age and offense are becoming more pronounced with the continued injury woes of Chase Utley. Utley’s...
• 3/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Three return: Kansas City Royals SS Alcides Escobar (infection) and OF Alex Gordon (back) returned to the lineup Tuesday, March 8, after missing...[+] a few days with minor ailments, The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton reports. IF Wilson Betemit (elbow) is also making his spring debut.
• 3/1 PaulLebowitz.com: Developmentally Disoriented: You need only look at Mets camp with Jason Isringhausen or Yankees camp with Mark Prior to see the pitfalls of prospects carting...

• 2/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Starting outfield set: The Kansas City Royals will begin the season with OF Alex Gordon manning left field, OF Melky Cabrera playing center field and...[+] OF Jeff Francoeur patrolling right field, reports Bob Dutton of The Kansas City Star.
• 2/28 Bus League Baseball: Hall of Famers and the Draft: Who Went Where, and When: For the third part of my I-Don’t-Know-How-Many-Parts-It-Will-Eventually-Be series on the draft, I took a look at where current...
• 2/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon doesn't play Thursday: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon (leg) did not play Thursday, Feb. 24, after experiencing leg cramps Sunday, Feb. 20, according...[+] to The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton. Gordon will serve as the DH Friday, Feb. 25.
• 2/24 Baseball Musings: Five-Year PMR, Third Basemen: The five year look at PMR using an objective probabilistic model of range continues with third baseman. Here is the data for the...
• 2/22 MLB Fantasy Recon: Draft Board Analysed: Sleeper Canidate Jose Tabata Pirates: The Baseball Professor has a great piece on why you should be drafting Jose Tabata ahead of the likes of Johnny Damon, Alex Gordon,...
• 2/15 Royally Speaking: Best Case Scenarios: Part II: In moving on to the second part of this series, it is time to discuss some best case scenarios for the young position players...
• 2/15 Mastersball.com: Life and Death in the Transactions #23: This time, Casey Fossum and Ryan Shealy found their names on the transaction list today, two players who have haunted my roster...
• 2/10 Royally Speaking: WAR and Age and Royals: Now that I know the top seasons by age I decided to look at the 2011 roster and their ages this year, basically I just wanted...
• 2/9 Royally Speaking: Remember when Alex Gordon was the next George Brett?: It's getting harder and harder to recall when Alex Gordon last wore the next George Brett label, from ages 23-26 Gordon has hit...
• 2/1 Royally Speaking: Splash: Dayton Moore made an interesting comment on the radio last week, well two really, the first was he expects Alex Gordon to hit...

• 1/27 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon working on swing: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon has been working with hitting coach Kevin Seitzer since Dec. 1, making major adjustments to...[+] his swing, The Kansas City Star's Terez A. Paylor reports. 'I'll let you guys find out in spring training,' said Gordon, who declined to go into specifics. 'I know there was something he wanted to do with my swing last season when I got called up, but to do it in the middle of the season, it's kind of hard to change your ways at that point.'
• 1/16 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 1/9/11 - 11/15/11: It's time to take a look back at the week that was.. The biggest surprise of the week was arguably the Yankees' signing of...
• 1/15 The Biz of Baseball: Arbitration Watch: Kyle McClellan, Ben Francisco, Alex Gordon and Luke Hochevar All Sign: Cardinals Keep McClellan with One-Year Deal Cardinals GM John Mozeliak cleared the Cardinals arbitration slate agreeing on...
• 1/14 Royally Speaking: The most pointless signing of the Moore era: I'm not sure who held this distinction 24 hours ago (HoRam? Ponson? Spork?) but I definitely do now. Melky Cabrera's addition...
• 1/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon avoids arbitration: The Kansas City Royals avoided arbitration with OF Alex Gordon Friday, Jan. 14, by agreeing to a one-year deal, according to The...[+] Kansas City Star. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
• 1/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | More on Alex Gordon: Updating a previous item, the Kansas City Royals avoided arbitration with OF Alex Gordon Friday, Jan. 14, by agreeing to a one-year,...[+] $1.4 million deal, according to The Kansas City Star's Terez A. Paylor. Gordon will have a chance to make $100,000 in incentives.
• 1/14 MLBTradeRumors: Royals, Alex Gordon Avoid Arbitration: The Royals and Alex Gordon agreed to a one-year deal for 2011, avoiding arbitration, the team announced. Gordon made $1.15MM...

• 12/19 Baseball Press: Hot Stove: Zack Greinke traded to Milwaukee: Greinke moves to the NL Central and should post very good numbers. (AP) The Winter Meetings are over, but the MLB Hot Stove...
• 12/19 The Golden Sombrero: Thoughts and Reflections: Greinke trade, Brewers rotation, Royals farm, Wood, LaRoche and more…: ESPN’s Buster Olney finally confirmed last night’s rumor that Zack Greinke had been traded to the Milwaukee...
• 12/12 The Golden Sombrero: Around The League: Carl Crawford, Alex Gordon, Brandon Belt, Ricky Henderson and more…: Even though the San Francisco Giants re-signed 1B/OF Aubrey Huff, they will consider breaking camp with prospect...
• 12/12 PaulLebowitz.com: Sunday Lightning 12.12.2010: What's a Cliff Lee? You know it's gotten ridiculous when laymen are able to explain the various tax ramifications of Cliff...
• 12/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | More on Melky Cabrera: Updating a previous item, the Kansas City Royals are close to signing free-agent OF Melky Cabrera (Braves) to a one-year deal...[+] worth $1.25 million plus $250,000 in incentives pending a physical, according to MLB.com's Dick Kaegel. Cabrera could platoon with OF Alex Gordon in left field. He could also figure into the center field battle, which includes OFs Jarrod Dyson, Mitch Maier and Gregor Blanco.
• 12/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Corner outfielder needed: The Kansas City Royals are in need of a right-handed-hitting corner outfielder, according to The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton....[+] “We’ve got Alex Gordon, Gregor Blanco and Mitch Maier in our outfield right now,” general manager Dayton Moore said, “and we have Jarrod Dyson competing. They’re all left-handed hitters. So one could easily identify that we need a right-handed-hitting outfielder.”
• 12/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Padres | No fire sale, says GM: San Diego Padres general manager Jed Hoyer has told reporters the trade of 1B Adrian Gonzalez to the Boston Red Sox is not a white-flag...[+] deal. 'I just want to be clear. This is not the start of a fire sale. This is not us giving up on 2011 at all,' Hoyer said. 'This is a difficult decision that was made because Adrian Gonzalez was going to leave at the end of the year. Because, in theory, the price that we could get back from him would drop so precipitously, potentially in-season or at the end of the season.'
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Yankees | On verge of making offer to Cliff Lee: The New York Yankees are on the verge of making a large offer to free-agent SP Cliff Lee (Rangers), according to ESPNNewYork.com's...[+] Andrew Marchand. 'I'm willing to get serious,' said general manager Brian Cashman, who once again was scheduled to talk with agent Darek Braunecker on Tuesday night. The Yankees would like to cap a potential Lee deal at six years and may go as high as $25 million per year.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Orioles | Looking at other shortstop options: The Baltimore Orioles are now looking at St. Louis Cardinals SS Brendan Ryan, Minnesota Twins SS J.J. Hardy and free-agent SS...[+] Orlando Cabrera (Reds) after ending trade talks for Tampa Bay Rays SS Jason Bartlett, according to ESPN.com's Jayson Stark.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rays | Dan Johnson re-signs: The Tampa Bay Rays re-signed 1B Dan Johnson to a one-year deal Monday, Dec. 6, to avoid salary arbitration, according to CBSSports.com....[+] Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mets | Showing interest in Chad Qualls: The New York Mets are showing interest in signing free-agent RP Chad Qualls (Rays), according to ESPNNewYork.com's Adam Rubin....[+]
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Orioles | Trade for Jason Bartlett falling apart: The Baltimore Orioles' efforts to trade for Tampa Bay Rays SS Jason Bartlett are falling apart, according to ESPN.com's Jayson...[+] Stark. The Orioles were willing to trade OF Nolan Reimold to the Rays.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cubs | Meeting with Carlos Pena: The Chicago Cubs will meet with the representative for free-agent 1B Carlos Pena (Rays) Tuesday, Dec. 7, according to ESPNChicago.com's...[+] Bruce Levine. Pena is looking for a two- or three-year deal.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Red Sox | Looking into Carl Crawford: The Boston Red Sox have requested medical information on free-agent OF Carl Crawford (Rays), even though they may be long shots...[+] to land the outfielder, according to The Boston Globe's Nick Cafardo.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mets | Three candidates for hitting coach: Andy Van Slyke, Don Long and Dave Hudgens are the New York Mets' three candidates for the hitting coach position, according to...[+] ESPNNewYork.com's Adam Rubin. The team interviewed Hudgens Tuesday, Dec. 7.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Orioles | Make offer to Kevin Gregg: The Baltimore Orioles have extended a two-year deal worth between $8 and $10 million to free-agent RP Kevin Gregg (Blue Jays),...[+] according to The Baltimore Sun's Jeff Zrebiec.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Mike Aviles could play third: Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost is leaning toward having 3B Mike Aviles play third base next season, according to MLB.com's...[+] Dick Kaegel. 'As we stand here today, yeah, I think Mike Aviles can play third base,' Yost said. 'I think he can do it efficiently and productively, but that's going to be up to him.' 3B Mike Moustakas will likely begin the season in the minors, but the team will get an extended look at him in Spring Training.
• 12/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Orioles | Alfredo Simon a trade chip: Baltimore Orioles RP Alfredo Simon could also include RP Alfredo Simon, along with OF Nolan Reimold, in a trade for Tampa Bay...[+] Rays SS Jason Bartlett, according to The Baltimore Sun's Jeff Zrebiec. Simon's inclusion in the trade does not seem to be a deal breaker.

• 11/27 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Orioles, Manny, Astros, Uribe, Tejada: Happy birthday to two former All-Star catchers!  Future Hall-of-Famer Ivan Rodriguez turns 39 today, while Angels manager Mike...
• 11/17 MLBTradeRumors: Rockies Interested In Kouzmanoff, Cantu, Wigginton: The Rockies have expressed interest in Athletics' third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff, tweets Troy Renck of The Denver Post. He adds...
• 11/17 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Park, Guillen, Rays: Links for Wednesday, the second day of the GM Meetings, as Ron Gardenhire and Bud Black take home Manager of the Year honors... Chat...
• 11/11 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Rumors: Greinke, Gordon, Francoeur: Royals GM Dayton Moore told Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star that he doesn't expect to trade Zack Greinke any time soon. “There’s...
• 11/11 The UpperCard Network: Blue Jays Inquire On Greinke, Gordon: The Blue Jays have inquired about the availability of Zack Greinke and Alex Gordon of the Royals writes Bob Elliott of the Toronto...
• 11/11 MLBTradeRumors: Blue Jays Have Inquired On Greinke, Gordon: The Blue Jays have inquired about the availability of Zack Greinke and Alex Gordon, according to Bob Elliott of the Toronto...
• 11/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Blue Jays | Inquire about Zack Greinke, Alex Gordon: The Toronto Blue Jays have inquired about the availability of Kansas City Royals SP Zack Greinke and OF Alex Gordon, the Toronto...[+] Sun's Bob Elliott reports.
• 11/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Vin Mazzaro, Justin Marks acquired: The Kansas City Royals acquired SP Vin Mazzaro and P Justin Marks from the Oakland Athletics Wednesday, Nov. 10, in exchange for...[+] OF David DeJesus, according to The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton. Mazzaro figures to join the team's rotation next year. With DeJesus leaving, the team's outfield next year figures to be OFs Alex Gordon in right, Gregor Blanco or Jarrod Dyson in center and Mitch Maier in left. Marks is expected to start the season at Single-A Wilmington.

• 10/28 MLBTradeRumors: Amateur Signing Bonuses: Brewers: Next up in our series looking at each team's spending on amateur prospects, the Brewers... Rickie Weeks, $3.6MM (2003) Ben...

• 9/13 Baseball Moves: The Time is NOW!: You’ve made it this far. You feel pretty darn good about yourself. Through your hard work you are now in the top half of your...
• 9/4 Wezen-Ball: Tater Trot Tracker: September 3: Six games on Thursday led to nineteen home runs. Fourteen games yesterday led to sixteen home runs. That's just how things go...
• 9/4 Wezen-Ball: Tater Trot Tracker: September 3: Six games on Thursday led to nineteen home runs. Fourteen games yesterday led to sixteen home runs. That's just how things go...

• 8/31 MLBTradeRumors: Arbitration Eligibles: Kansas City Royals: A look at the Royals players who will be eligible for arbitration after the season... First time: Luke Hochevar, Billy Butler,...
• 8/26 Call to the Pen: Call-Ups or Hang-Ups: Kansas City Royals (Louis Coleman and More): Once again it is collaborative post time here on Call to the Pen.  This month’s topic is September call-ups.  To get the...
• 8/18 NY Baseball Digest: Relax Yankee Universe: The Yankees are slumping. No doubt about it. They can’t hit lately and are losing games they should be winning. But as you...
• 8/18 Call to the Pen: What’s Next: Carl Crawford, Brandon Inge, Chris Carter, Kila Ka’aihue: The Baltimore Orioles have the worst record in the American League, but contending clubs won’t be shopping for upgrades...
• 8/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon improving: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon (heel) said his sore left heel is improving, the Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton reports. He suffered...[+] the injury shortly before he was called up from the minors, and the team thinks it could be plantar fasciitis. Gordon said the pain is more in one spot than the whole bottom of his foot now.
• 8/6 The UpperCard Network: Will Greinke Be A Royal After Next Year’s Deadline?: Some things never change leading up to the July 31st non-waiver trade deadline. The Royals being sellers is one: Alberto Callaspo,...
• 8/5 El Maquino: Zack Wants to Be A Yankee: Zack Greinke made comments about the Royals’ Operation: 2012*.  The highlights: “The biggest problem is I have two more...
• 8/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon homers againKansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon hit his third homer in five games Tuesday, Aug. 3, The Associated Press reports. ...[+] Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon hit his third homer in five games Tuesday, Aug. 3, The Associated Press reports.
• 8/1 Baseball Musings: Gordon Hitting: The Royals win their third in a row as the beat Baltimore 5-4, taking three out of four in the series. Alex Gordon picked up two...
• 8/1 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon using shortened swing: Kansas City Royals hitting coach Kevin Seitzer said OF Alex Gordon has worked on shortening his swing in order to catch up to...[+] inside fastballs and off-speed outside pitches which he has struggled to hit throughout his career, according to Terez A. Paylor of The Kansas City Star. 'I'm not trying to pull the ball every time now,' Gordon said. 'I'm trying to go the other way a lot more.'
• 8/1 Wezen-Ball: Tater Trot Tracker: July 30: Sorry for the lateness of the post today. I made mention of it on Twitter this morning, but I've been pretty busy this weekend...
• 8/1 Wezen-Ball: Tater Trot Tracker: July 30: Sorry for the lateness of the post today. I made mention of it on Twitter this morning, but I've been pretty busy this weekend...

• 7/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon's three-run homer helps win Friday: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon hit a three-run homer Friday, July 30, as part of a 7-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles, according...[+] to The Associated Press.
• 7/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Orioles | Alfredo Simon blows save in ninth: Baltimore Orioles CL Alfredo Simon (2-2) blew a save in the ninth inning Friday, July 30, when he surrendered a home run to Kansas...[+] City Royals OF Alex Gordon, according to The Associated Press.
• 7/29 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon to play left field: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon will be the team's everyday left fielder after the team traded OF Scott Podsednik to the Los...[+] Angeles Dodgers, according to The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton. 'It allows us to put Alex Gordon in left field and just left him go,' manager Ned Yost said. 'It also opens up a spot for Mitch Maier to get more playing time. Both of those things are important.'
• 7/29 Call to the Pen: Royals/Dodgers Trade Analysis: Scott Podsednik for Two Prospects: In the second trade of July 28, the Kansas City Royals sent starting outfielder Scott Podsednik to a Manny Ramirez-less Dodger...
• 7/23 Baseball Press: Under the Radar - AL-Only (Week 17): Cameron appears healthy enough to contribute.(AP) Each week Baseball Press will be providing some Under the Radar...
• 7/23 Baseball Daily Digest: Roto Lunch – July 23: News fallout: Despite Ozzie Guillen’s hedging, pick up J.J. Putz if he’s still available for some reason. Wilson...
• 7/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon coming up: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon will be called up from Triple-A Omaha when OF David DeJesus (thumb) goes on the disabled list,...[+] ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney reports.
• 7/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon recalled: Updating an earlier report, Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon was recalled from Triple-A Omaha, the Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton...[+] reports.
• 7/22 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Notes: DeJesus, Trades, Ankiel, Gordon: David DeJesus left tonight's Royals/Yankees game with a sprained right thumb, suffered after colliding with the wall in an attempt...
• 7/9 Baseball Press: Under the Radar - Second Half Hitters: Relocation for DeJesus would boost his value. (AP) Each week Baseball Press has provided some Under the Radar fantasy...
• 7/1 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: MLB | PCL All-Star roster announced: The Pacific Coast League announced its All-Star roster for the 2010 season Thursday, July 1, according to MLB.com's Danny Wild....[+] The roster will consist of Toronto Blue Jays C J.P. Arencibia, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 1B Mark Trumbo, San Francisco Giants 2B Brock Bond, Texas Rangers 3B Chris Davis, St. Louis Cardinals SS Tyler Greene, Los Angeles Dodgers OF Jay Gibbons, Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon, Colorado Rockies OF Matt Miller, Los Angeles Dodgers DH John Lindsey, Chicago Cubs SP Thomas Diamond, Seattle Mariners SP Luke French, San Diego Padres SP Ernesto Frieri, Colorado Rockies P Matt Reynolds, Oakland Athletics C Josh Donaldson, Los Angeles Dodgers C Lucas May, Chicago Cubs IF Darwin Barney, Milwaukee Brewers IF Luis Cruz, Colorado Rockies IF Brad Eldred, Kansas City Royals IF Kila Ka'aihue, Florida Marlins IF Hector Luna, Toronto Blue Jays IF Brett Wallace, Houston Astros OF Brian Bogusevic, Toronto Blue Jays OF Chris Lubanski, St. Louis Cardinals P Brandon Dickson, San Francisco Giants P Steve Edlefsen, Texas Rangers P Michael Kirkman, Oakland Athletics P Clayton Mortensen, Arizona Diamondbacks P Jordan Norberto, Texas Rangers P Pedro Strop and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim P Rich Thompson.

• 6/21 The UpperCard Network: Around The Diamond: Pirates Fielding Iwamura Offers: Baseball news to start the week: Pirates GM Neal Huntington tells Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the team...
• 6/16 MLBTradeRumors: 2004 Draft Throwdown: Now that six years have passed since the 2004 draft, let's take a look at a few of the choices teams made between prospects at...
• 6/14 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Off-Day Trade Fantasy: Alex Gordon: We all know that if the Dodgers are making a big splash on the trade market this summer (spoiler alert: they won’t be),...
• 6/14 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Phillies, Astros, Lee: Some links to check out while we wait to see if Jon Garland can help the Padres extend their lead in the NL West... Paul...
• 6/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | No rush to bring up Alex Gordon: The Kansas City Royals are in no rush to promote OF Alex Gordon from Triple-A Omaha due to a crowded outfield, the Kansas City...[+] Star's Bob Dutton reports.
• 6/11 Baseball Press: Under the Radar - AL-Only (Week 11): Bill Hall is making the most of his playing time. (AP) Each week Baseball Press will be providing some Under the...
• 6/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon on fire at Triple-A: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon is hitting .370 with 10 homers and 29 RBIs in 135 at-bats at Triple-A Omaha, according to MILB.com....[+]
• 6/8 MLBTradeRumors: Christian Colon "Ready To Go" At Short Or Second: Fourth overall pick Christian Colon says his game is polished enough to take him to the majors before long and he's not the only...
• 6/3 Baseball Press: Under the Radar - AL-Only (Week 10): Alex Gordon's return is imminent. (AP) Each week Baseball Press will be providing some Under the Radar fantasy players...

• 5/27 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Cardinals, Gordon, Winn, Brewers: Some Thursday notes from around the majors... With Kyle Lohse possibly gone for the season, Joe Strauss of the St. Louis...
• 5/25 Baseball Press: Minor Tweaks - (Week 6): Mike Moustakas is no flash in the pan (MiLB) Every week during the season, I'm going to take a look at some of the hot...
• 5/20 MLBTradeRumors: Stark On Hanley, Royals, Astros, Rays, Pedro: Teams called about Hanley Ramirez after this week's drama, but the Marlins informed them that they have no interest in dealing...
• 5/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon hitting well in minors: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon is hitting .363 in 12 games with Triple-A Omaha and went 11-for-22 with three home runs and...[+] 10 RBIs last week, according to The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton.
• 5/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon looking good in left field: Kansas City Royals OF Alex Gordon has made an excellent transition to left field with Triple-A Omaha, according to The Kansas...[+] City Star's Bob Dutton. Gordon is doing everything that the team has asked him to do and has done it with flying colors.
• 5/11 MLBTradeRumors: Where Could Alex Gordon Go?: Let's face it: if the Royals aren't going to give Alex Gordon a chance to play regularly when they are 11-21, 10 games out of...
• 5/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | No interest in trading Alex Gordon: The Kansas City Royals have made it known that they have no interest in trading 3B Alex Gordon, according to ESPN's Jayson Stark....[+] The team is projecting 3B Mike Moustakas at third base, 1B Eric Hosmer at first and 1B Billy Butler as their full-time designated hitter by 2012. If Gordon can adapt to playing left field, he can still fit himself into the team's long-term plans.
• 5/6 MLBTradeRumors: Stark On Gordon, Dunn, Lowell: The five most untradeable contracts in baseball?  ESPN's Jayson Stark's poll of baseball executives say it's Alfonso Soriano,...
• 5/5 MLBTradeRumors: Discussion: Alex Gordon: Earlier this week, the Royals optioned former first-round pick Alex Gordon to the minors. The second overall pick in 2005, Gordon...
• 5/5 MLBTradeRumors: 2011 Contract Issues: Kansas City Royals: The Royals face four contractual options after the season: Right fielder David DeJesus has a $6MM club option with a $500K...
• 5/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon moving to outfield: Kansas City Royals 3B Alex Gordon will be making the transition to left field with Triple-A Omaha, according to MLB.com's Dick...[+] Kaegel. It is not known if Gordon's future as a third baseman with the team is over. 'If you look at how we're set up internally with our talent potentially, Alex fits in left field,' general manager Dayton Moore said. 'We're not closing the book on anything but, for the last year or so, he's been taking fly balls out there and it's something we've been talking about internally for over a year now.'
• 5/3 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Vazquez, Gordon, Tigers: Links for Monday, as Joe Blanton prepares to make his 2010 debut... Joe Pawlikowski of River Ave. Blues looks at the pitchers...
• 5/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alex Gordon optioned to Triple-A: Kansas City Royals 3B Alex Gordon was optioned to Triple-A Omaha on Sunday, May 3, according to Royals.MLB.com. The team wants...[+] Gordon to play every day now that 3B Alberto Callaspo has taken his spot.
• 5/2 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Byrnes, Colon, Twins, Mets, Rays: A few links to browse, as we prepare for the Mets' third consecutive appearance on Sunday Night Baseball.... Dave Cameron...

• 4/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Rick Ankiel, Alex Gordon sitting Wednesday: Kansas City Royals OF Rick Ankiel (quadriceps) and 3B Alex Gordon are both out of the starting lineup Wednesday, April 28, according...[+] to MLB.com's Dick Kaegel. OF Mitch Maier is replacing Ankiel and 2B Alberto Callaspo is starting for Gordon. Gordon is 4-for-18 on the current homestand. 2B Willie Bloomquist receives the start at second base.
• 4/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Alberto Callaspo could displace Alex Gordon at third base: Kansas City Royals 2B Alberto Callaspo is expected to shift over to third base when 2B Chris Getz (oblique) is activated from...[+] the 15-day disabled list, according to Bob Dutton and Ryan Young of The Kansas City Star. As a result, current 3B Alex Gordon would end up going to the bench. An alternative situation which had been explored in spring training was using Callaspo as the regular designated hitter while Gordon plays third base, but current DH Jose Guillen is batting .352 with six home runs and 13 RBIs.
• 4/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Royals | Gordon, Guillen homer Wednesday: The Associated Press reports Kansas City Royals 3B Alex Gordon and OF Jose Guillen hit home runs in a winning effort Wednesday,...[+] April 21. It was Gordon's first home run of the year and Guillen's sixth.
• 4/20 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Nationals, Angels, Royals: As the West Coast games get started, here are some tidbits to snack on... The Washington Post's Adam Kilgore reports that there...