Patrick Thomas Leonard

Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 225 lb.

Born: October 20, 1992 in Katy, Texas, US
High School: St. Thomas HS (Houston, TX)

Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 5th round of the 2011 from St. Thomas HS (Houston, TX).

• 5/21 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: Enny Romero Tosses Shutout Ball But Bullpen Collapses As Biscuits Fall: Three games in the Rays organization, three bullpen collapses. Yuck. Double-A Southern League: Huntsville Stars (MIL) 3, Montgomery...
• 5/20 Sports Talk Florida: Jake Odorizzi Makes HIs Rays Debut In Afternoon Affair Versus Blue JaysJake Odorizzi ready to make his Rays debut against a struggling Blue Jays. Lineups Posted....
• 5/18 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: Patrick Leonard Hits First Home Run of the Year As Hot Rods Shut Out Whitecaps: One of the seemingly forgotten pieces in the James Shields – Wil Myers trade is Patrick Leonard. Leonard hit for nice power...
• 5/16 Sports Talk Florida: Rays Notes: Price To DL, Torres Up, Lineups PostedDavid Price to disabled list, Alex Torres to help bullpen, Jake Odorizzi to start Monday....
• 5/16 i70baseball.com: The Evolving Kansas City Royals: The Pitching: Pitching, pitching and maybe a little pitching. This is where general manager Dayton Moore earned his paycheck this offseason....
• 5/2 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: 9th Inning Rally Not Enough for Hot Rods as They Fall in 10 Innings: Is it good for the wellbeing of a team to finish a game by having a rally fall short? Does it build momentum for the next frustration,...

• 4/28 Kings of Kauffman: Catching Up On Departed Royals: “The Trade” Edition: The Royals had to make a lot of decisions and changes during the offseason. So far, they’re paying off, as they stand alone...
• 4/22 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: Patrick Leonard Drills Go-Ahead Single in 9th as Hot Rods Rally to Beat Dayton: In his first season in the Rays organization, Patrick Leonard has had himself a tough time. The only piece acquired in the Wil...
• 4/20 Rays Colored Glasses: The Undercards: Montgomery Biscuits Set Franchise Record in Victory: When a batter is on, they say that the baseball looks as though it is the size of a beach ball. In the Montgomery Biscuits 12...
• 4/19 Kings of Kauffman: Wade Davis and THE TRADE: I have been considering building a capital budgeting framework for valuing baseball trades, and Wade Davis’ start this week...
• 4/17 Baseball News Source: Kansas City Royals Wade Davis Shuts Down Red Hot Braves: How do you shut down the red hot Atlanta Braves? Send Wade Davis to the mound. Davis  threw  seven shutout innings,  scattering...
• 4/16 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: 30 Players, 30 Teams - Kansas City Royals: Source: Jamie Squire/Getty Images North America In this series, we are going to spotlight one player on each of the 30...
• 4/4 Seedlings to Stars: Kansas City Royals Hitting Prospects: Will Starling Step Up to Fill Myers Void?: Kansas City is the next stop for the Seedlings to Stars 2012 STAT-Scan series, and the biggest blip on the screen is still the...

• 3/24 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: AL Preview: Central States Edition: With Spring Training underway throughout baseball, we will take a look at the offseason moves made by the other American League...
• 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...
• 3/9 Call to the Pen: The Tampa Bay Rays: The Little Market Team That Could: The little market team that could, the Tampa Bay Rays keep chugging up the nasty American League East hill towards another 90...
• 3/4 Kings of Kauffman: Draft Stock And Who To Keep A Watchful Eye On: The Royals have had a busy offseason, and will continue to have a busy spring  leading up to the MLB draft come June. General...
• 3/3 Rays Colored Glasses: The Tampa Bay Rays, The Kansas City Royals, and The Margin for Error: On December 9th, 2012, the Tampa Bay Rays and Kansas City Royals executed one of the most talked-about trades in baseball in a...
• 3/1 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2013 MLB Preview – Day 6 – AL East: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2013 MLB preview.  Over the next few days you will get a team by team look at its...

• 2/28 Baseball News Source: Royals News: Shields Perfect in Spring Debut: It’s just one inning. It was only 13 pitches  In a spring training game in February.  James Shields acquired in a trade...
• 2/28 StoopSports.com: 30 in 30: Tampa Bay Rays: Harry Tomback- The Tampa Bay Rays made one of the biggest splashes of the offseason in acquiring highly touted power-hitting outfield...
• 2/28 Kings of Kauffman: The What Ifs Of One Of The Biggest Blockbuster Trades In Royals History: When the news broke that general manager Dayton Moore and the Royals agreed to ship the organization’s two brightest and...
• 2/28 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Tampa Bay Rays: The Rays addressed long-term needs with a blockbuster trade and the most lucrative contract in franchise history. They addressed...
• 2/27 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Notes: Shields, Davis, Tejada: The Royals are looking for their first .500 finish since 2003, and there's optimism that the team could surprise people following...
• 2/20 Seedlings to Stars: Kansas City Royals Hitting Prospects: Will Starling Step Up to Fill Myers Void?: Kansas City is the next stop for the Seedlings to Stars 2012 STAT-Scan series, and the biggest blip on the screen is still the...
• 2/20 Kings of Kauffman: Dayton Moore’s Sense of Time: Dayton Moore is ahead of schedule, according to, well, Dayton Moore. “I’m amazed that it’s happened this quickly,”...
• 2/19 Call to the Pen: The Kansas City Royals Flush With New Starting Pitching Entering 2013: The Kansas City Royals made one of the biggest trades of the offseason. Minor League Player of the Year Wil Myers and three other...
• 2/12 Rays Colored Glasses: Tampa Bay Rays Complete James Shields/Wil Myers Deal, Send Elliot Johnson to Kansas City Royals: In 2013, the Rays are going to have a lot of former Rays to root for on the Kansas City Royals (except, of course, when they’re...
• 2/12 Rays Colored Glasses: If The Rays Go Fishing For The Longterm, Should They Net Mike Carp?: With the almost last minute signing of Kelly Johnson and the 2013 roster potentially set for spring training now under way, it’s...
• 2/12 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Acquire Elliot Johnson: The Royals announced that they acquired utility player Elliot Johnson from the Rays as the player to be named later in the December...
• 2/6 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Reid Brignac, Elliot Johnson Talk Leaving Rays, Rays Prominent Among “32nd Team”: It was exciting for the Rays to officially sign Kelly Johnson and Kyle Farnsworth for next season, with both having the ability...

• 1/24 KC Kingdom: What Did the Kansas City Royals Get In Wade Davis?: It has been a little over six weeks since the General Manager for the Kansas City Royals, Dayton Moore, traded top prospects Wil...
• 1/15 Baseball News Source: Tampa Bay Rays: Wil Myers Ready, Willing and Paitent: Wil Myers visited Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg Florida for the first time as a member of the Tampa Bay Rays organization....
• 1/14 Rays Colored Glasses: Our First-Ever RCG Mailbag: Did the Rays Make a Mistake By Dealing Wade Davis?: Here at Rays Colored Glasses, we do everything we can to come up with interesting articles that provide Rays fans with incisive...
• 1/8 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Rays Among Best Minor League Systems, Alex Cobb, Rays Shift Scouting Staff: This offseason, the Rays dealt away two pitchers who have been a big part of their major league team, right-handers James Shields...
• 1/5 Rays Colored Glasses: Waiting For Opening Day: With the 2013 Under Armour High School All-America Game being played yesterday at Tropicana Field, it was hard not to watch the...
• 1/3 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Minor League Ball’s John Sickels Ranks the Rays’ Top 20 Prospects: The Rays have been known for years and years now for their minor league system. The last few seasons, we have seen so many of...

• 12/25 Rays Colored Glasses: Holiday Shopping Just Isn’t Andrew Friedman’s Thing: The best shoppers know that the best time to buy the product they’ve been waiting for is not necessarily during the times...
• 12/23 Rays Colored Glasses: Could the Diamondbacks’ Cody Ross Signing Reignite Talks of Justin Upton Going to the Rays?: The Arizona Diamondbacks entered the 2012 offseason looking to deal from an outfield surplus. A multiplicity of rumors made it...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: Rays and Royals Trade Analysis: Kansas City acquired two major league ready players, and Tampa Bay received coveted prospects The Royals think they are a pitching...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: James Shields, Wade Davis To Royals for Wil Myers and Prospects: The coveted Myers may start in left field for Tampa Bay Tampa Bay has agreed to trade James Shields and Wade Davis to the...
• 12/21 Rays Colored Glasses: Hamilton, Pujols Duo Could Have Been the Devil Rays’: A week ago, the Angels stunned everyone with their blockbuster deal when they signed center fielder Josh Hamilton to a five-year...
• 12/21 The Baseball Haven: Are the Royals Good Enough to “Go for It”?: Kansas City Royals GM Dayton Moore apparently thinks that his team is good enough to win within the next two years. That has to...
• 12/19 Rays Colored Glasses: Would Kendrys Morales Be A Worthwhile Acquisition for the Rays?: Sometimes a sequence of events seems to fall perfectly into place. After the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim signed Josh Hamilton,...
• 12/17 Rays Colored Glasses: After Offseason Moves, Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays Are Trending in Opposite Directions: When the Rays traded James Shields, it was widely viewed as an excellent trade for them based on the four prospects they received:...
• 12/17 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 12/9/12 - 12/15/12: With yet another crazy week of hot stove madness, let's step away from the action to catch up on the week that was here at MLBTR... For...
• 12/14 i70baseball.com: I come to praise the Shields-Davis trade, not to bury itThe Royals did what they had to do for a chance to win....
• 12/13 MLBRandomFandom: The Trade That Finally Happened: By Danny MaddenThis week may have been the worst week for baseball to start going crazy with their trades. First, the Royals destroy...
• 12/12 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Fans’ Reactions To James Shields’ Trade To The Royals: It’s been three days since the blockbuster trade between the Rays and Royals, and fans from both teams have mixed feelings about...
• 12/12 Rays Colored Glasses: The Turned-Down Trade Offer That Made The Shields to the Royals Trade Happen: We heard for a while that the Kansas City Royals were targeting a topflight pitcher and were willing to trade top outfield prospect...
• 12/12 KC Kingdom: Royals and Rays Trade: The Right Return at the Right Time?: When the news broke late last night about the Royals big trade, I nearly lost my mind. After gathering myself and doing some breathing...
• 12/11 Baseball Press: Hot Stove: James Shields Traded to the Royals: James Shields adds talent and experience to the KC rotation. (US Presswire)Late Sunday night, the Tampa Bay Rays and Kansas...
• 12/11 mlbreports.com : Dissecting The Royals And Rays Trade: Shields And Davis For Wil Myers + Prospects: Tuesday, Dec.11/2012 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer/Website Owner): We at the MLB Reports have established that we are far...
• 12/11 The Baseball Continuum: So about the weekend…: Things we learned over the weekend: The Dodgers have a lot of money You know how I wrote that analogy of how the Yankees are like...
• 12/11 Rays Colored Glasses: The Financial Side Of Trading James Shields And Wade Davis: One of the realities facing the Tampa Bay Rays are their payroll restrictions. As much as the Rays may want to hang on to their...
• 12/11 Kings of Kauffman: Processing The Wil Myers/James Shields Trade: So many reactions. So many opinons. So much chaos. The Royals and Rays put themselves into the spotlight today after their Sunday...
• 12/11 PaulLebowitz.com: The Rays-Royals Trade Part II—The Responses: When someone has a following—justified or not—they can pretty much do or say anything and that base is going to agree with...
• 12/11 Baseballhotcorner.com: Fan Fuel: Greinke signs, Rays trade Shields: BY CLAYTON RICHER – FAN FUEL BLOGGER It was a weekend ruled by the pitcher. Names like Zack Greinke, James Shields, Wade...
• 12/11 Blog Red Machine: Reds Trade Rumors: Still Looking at Lead-off: Yes, Ryan Ludwick is in the fold for at least another two years. Can we please see what’s behind curtain #2? Or did we initially...
• 12/11 Seedlings to Stars: Royals Deal Myers and More to Tampa Bay for Shields: The Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to what amounts to be a seven player trade, according to Ken Rosenthal of...
• 12/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Royals-Rays Trade: Fantasy Baseball Value of All Players Involved: Two small market clubs made a big hot stove splash when the Royals acquired James Shields from the Rays. Wade Davis will More......
• 12/10 Behind the Plate: Behind the Trade: Rays Receive King's RansomWil Myers is part o [...] ...
• 12/10 Rays Colored Glasses: Blockbuster Trade A Win For Both Rays And Royals: It was almost a given that the Tampa Bay Rays would trade some of their rotation depth at some point during the offseason. The...
• 12/10 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Revamp Rotation Over Weekend: The Dodgers are doing some high end holiday shopping this offseason. After spending $183 million between Zack Greinke‘s...
• 12/10 Baseball News Source: Rays and Royals Trade Analysis: Kansas City acquired two major league ready players, and Tampa Bay received coveted prospects The Royals think they are a pitching...
• 12/10 KC Kingdom: Dayton Flushes Future: Trades Myers, Odorizzi and More: Were you looking forward to seeing Wil Myers at Kauffman Stadium in a Royals uniform? Well you’re now out of luck as Dayton...
• 12/10 MLBRandomFandom: Royals-Rays Trade Analysis: By Nick CesareYesterday I worked all day, got home in time to watch the 2nd half of the Giants win, caught a good portion of the...
• 12/10 Motor City Bengals: Offseason Central: James Shields to Kansas City: The button finally got pushed on the long-rumored James Shields for Wil Myers trade. Wil Myers will be going to Tampa Bay, James...
• 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 Rays Colored Glasses: Trading Shields to Royals A Significant Short-Term Risk for the Rays But A Steal of A Trade for the Future: The Rays pulled off a franchise-defining trade on Sunday night, trading away James Shields and Wade Davis to the Kansas City Royals...
• 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 PaulLebowitz.com: The Rays-Royals Trade Part I—The Truth: The Rays traded RHP James Shields, RHP Wade Davis and a player to be named later to the Royals for OF Wil Myers, RHP Jake Odorizzi,...
• 12/10 Splash Hit Blog: Outside Perspective to the Sunday Night MegaDeal: For people that didn’t have much to do last night, General Managers Andrew Friedman and Dayton Moore gave the baseball folk...
• 12/10 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: David Price, Rays Stunned After What Andrew Friedman Called “Most Difficult Trade to Date”: It’s almost incomprehensible to imagine the Rays without James Shields. Shields has been a dependable starter for the Rays...
• 12/10 MLB Dirt: Rays Rob the Royals in Blockbuster Trade: The Tampa Bay Rays have traded James Shields and Wade Davis to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for the bat they have been...
• 12/10 MLBTradeRumors: Poll: The Rays-Royals Trade: The Rays and Royals made a major trade last night, and in the 12 hours or so since the teams announced the deal, many executives,...
• 12/10 Bleeding Yankee Blue: KANSAS CITY ROYALS TRADE FOR SHIELDS IS "BIG": The Royals have wanted and needed pitching for a while now and finally, they got some.  The Tampa Bay Rays have traded...
• 12/10 Nolan Writin': James Shields has been Traded to KC for Wil Myers and More: James Shields has been traded, along with right-hander Wade Miller, to the Kansas City Royals for top OF prospect Wil Myers, RHP...
• 12/10 MLBTradeRumors: Reaction To Rays-Royals Trade: The Royals continued adding to their rotation last night, acquiring James Shields and Wade Davis from the Rays. It cost them...
• 12/10 Rays Colored Glasses: The Blockbuster Deal We’ve All Been Waiting for Has Happened: Pretty easy to guess what RCG and every Rays website on the planet is going to be talking about today. The Rays have traded their...
• 12/10 Baseball Musings: Royals-Rays Blockbuster: The Rays send James Shields and Wade Davis to the Royals for four prospects, including Wil Myers. “We have to start winning...
• 12/10 MLB Injury News: Rays Trade James Shields, Wade Davis to Royals in Multi-Player Deal: The blockbuster of the winter offseason happened late last night.  The deal has been in the works since the Winter Meetings,...
• 12/10 Call to the Pen: Royals Trade Myers, Odorizzi for James Shields: The Kansas City Royals are the only American League club in the past six years to fail to have at least one winning season. In...
• 12/10 Baseball News Source: James Shields, Wade Davis To Royals for Wil Myers and Prospects: The coveted Myers will start in left field for Tampa Bay Tampa Bay has agreed to trade James Shields and Wade Davis to the...
• 12/10 StanGraphs: Trade: Rays Trade James Shields to Royals for Wil Myers and Others: With Zack Greinke off the free agent board, James Shields instantly became a sought-after target for a number of teams. In the...
• 12/10 Baseballhotcorner.com: Royals and Rays Complete Blockbuster: The Tampa Bay Rays traded from a position of strength dealing pitchers James Shields and Wade Davis to the pitching starved Kansas...
• 12/10 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Trade Wil Myers, Jake Odorizzi, Mike Montgomery to Tampa for James Shields, Wade Davis: A tweet by Ken Rosenthal confirming a previous report by Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times indicates that the Royals and Rays...
• 12/9 MetsToday.com: Rays Trade James Shields for Wil Myers: Jon Heyman just tweeted that the Tampa Bay Rays have traded “Big Game” James Shields and Wade Davis to the Royals...

• 8/27 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Weekly Rookie Ball Recap: Burlington went 4-5 (they played two doubleheaders last week), but still won the East Division of the Appalachian League. The...
• 8/25 Kings of Kauffman: More Than Just Bubba: Burlington Royals Clinch Appy League East Division: The Royals Appalachian Rookie League team, the Burlington Royals, celebrated their first division crown in 19 years with a victory...
• 8/24 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 23rd Minors Recap: Omaha busted out in a big way on Thursday night, as they beat New Orleans, 11-1. The Storm Chasers offense picked up 11 hits and...
• 8/20 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Rookie Ball Weekly Recap: Burlington went 3-3 last week. The Royals still lead in the East Division of the Appalachian League, but their lead has shrunk...
• 8/13 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Rookie Ball Weekly Recap: Burlington still leads the East Division of the Appalachian League with a 32-17 record. The Royals went 5-4 this past week (they...
• 8/6 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Weekly Rookie Ball Recap: It wasn’t a great week for rookie ball teams affiliated with the Kansas City Royals. Burlington went 2-4 this past week....

• 7/30 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Rookie Ball Bi-Weekly Recap: It was a very successful two weeks for the Burlington Royals. How about a ten-game winning streak that came to an end on Saturday....
• 7/28 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Express: July 28: Top stories Brewers pick up a trio for Greinke: Thursday, Doug Melvin confirmed that Zack Greinke will be traded before Tuesday’s...
• 7/16 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Rookie Ball Recap: Since I was at the Eastern League All-Star Game last week, I didn’t have the chance to recap the week of Royals Rookie Ball....
• 7/5 Seedlings to Stars: The Prospect Pulse: July 4th, 2012: The Prospect Pulse is a recap of some of the top performances in the minors from the previous day. Prospects are sorted by the...