Derek Starling

Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 3, 1992 in Gardner, Kansas, US
High School: Gardner-Edgerton HS (Gardner, KS)

Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 1st round (5th) of the 2011 from Gardner-Edgerton HS (Gardner, KS).

• 5/18 Kings of Kauffman: Jarrod Dyson, Danny Duffy, Jorge Bonifacio Injury Updates: Just as he was starting to get in a groove, Jarrod Dyson went and sprained his ankle. The Royals had been mum about his condition...
• 5/17 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Prospect Bubba Starling Looking At LASIK: After seeing Mike Trout and Bryce Harper burst onto the baseball scene and make it their personal playground, the path of Bubba...
• 5/16 Kings of Kauffman: Arrested Development: For all the talk of Ned Yost tinkering with lineups, and yeah…when you score 11 runs one night, you might want to just go ahead...
• 5/15 Kings of Kauffman: Royals May 14th Minors Recap: Omaha fought back to tie the game at 5-5, but ended up losing to Colorado Springs, 9-5 to lose the series. The Storm Chasers hit...
• 5/10 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 53: The Paper Jubilee: Happy news, everyone! On the second Friday in May 2012, I fielded Twitter questions in this space for the first time. Which means...
• 5/8 Kings of Kauffman: Royals May 7th Minors Recap: Omaha was postponed in their first game in Reno. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Thursday. NW Arkansas was...
• 5/4 Seedlings to Stars: Cliff Notes: Miguel Sano and Bubba Starling Among the Best and Worst of April: A Saturday morning edition of Cliff Notes on a day after Dixon Anderson walked five but didn’t allow a hit in six innings...
• 5/4 Kings of Kauffman: Royals May 3rd Minors Recap: Despite all the poor weather in the Midwest, Omaha opened up their home series against Memphis with a 3-1 loss. The Storm Chasers...
• 5/3 Kings of Kauffman: Catching Up on the Royals April on the Kansas City Baseball Vault: Sometimes it’s a good idea to just dive in without a plan and see what happens, and that’s what we did this week....

• 4/30 Kings of Kauffman: An April Bubba Starling Update: The Lexington Legends are off today, so Bubba Starling‘s April is complete. It’s hard to call it a success. Starling...
• 4/29 Camden Depot: Collegiate Diamonds in the Rough: Review of 2011: As mentioned before, I will occasionally make an appearance here with my non-Orioles related work (my Orioles writing is found...
• 4/26 The DoubleDay: Five Royals Pitching Prospects I Personally Need to Witness the Saberhagenary Triumphs of in Order to Remain Even Remotely Tethered to the Already Haywire Patchwork of My Sorry Faculties: 1. Yordano Ventura2. Kyle Zimmer3. Miguel Almonte4. John Lamb5. Bubba Starling (They gave up on his bat already, right?)...
• 4/24 Kings of Kauffman: Royals April 23rd Minors Recap: Omaha jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the 1st inning and never looked back in their 7-1 win in Nashville. The Storm Chasers...
• 4/22 Kings of Kauffman: This Week In Royaltown: It’s been a wild, wild week (both in the Royals universe and in this country). Anytime something shakes people the way the events...
• 4/21 Kings of Kauffman: Brief Revisit of the Royals 2011 Draft: Bubba Starling and Anthony Rendon: Before this season, so much was said about improvements to the pitching staff and how they would make the Royals competitive....
• 4/20 MLBTradeRumors: Poll: Which 2011 Top Pick Will Have The Best Career?: The Nationals have promoted third baseman Anthony Rendon and moved Ryan Zimmerman to the disabled list, the Washington Times'...
• 4/17 Kings of Kauffman: Royals April 17th Minors Recap: Omaha and Albuquerque were postponed on Wednesday and the game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Wednesday, June 19th...
• 4/15 Kings of Kauffman: Talking “42″ With Bob Kendrick, Bubba Starling With Jason Parks, and OOTP Baseball With Brad Cook on the Vault: This week on the Kansas City Baseball Vault, we discussed the young season and the Royals early success in 2013 and shared the...
• 4/6 Kings of Kauffman: Kansas City Baseball Vault: The Season Starts and Aaron Stilley Discusses Jackie Robinson: After a long winter, baseball is finally back, and after a week off, we’re back talking about the Royals. We gave our first...
• 4/5 Kings of Kauffman: Fun With Royals Prospects: Since the minor league baseball season is officially upon us now, how about one more turn around the Royals farm to see how many...
• 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...
• 4/4 Seedlings to Stars: 2013 Seedlings to Stars Top Prospects: #21-30: Over the course of the past week we’ve incrementally been unveiling our 2013 Top Prospect rankings, 10 players at a time. Compiling...

• 3/25 CardinalsFarm.com: American League Prospect Projections – UCB March Project: Every March, each member of the United Cardinal Bloggers (UCB) makes predictions for the upcoming season. The UCB is a loose collection...

• 2/22 Through The Fence Baseball: 2013 top 50 MLB prospects countdown: 40-31: A correlation exists between MLB prospects and Wall Street. One bad stretch and a prospect’s stock will nosedive. On the other...
• 2/21 Kings of Kauffman: Zimmer Top Royals Prospect in Baseball America’s Top 100:   Baseball America has released its Top 100 Prospects, and of course the first name that draws interest from Royals fans...
• 2/21 KC Kingdom: AL Central Lands 15 on Baseball America’s 2013 Top-100: There are a number of sources that release a Top-100 prospect list every offseason, but none of them is as anti**** or as respected...
• 2/20 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Assistant GM JJ Picollo Talks About Scouting and Development: The Royals are gathering in Surprise, Arizona right now for spring training and taking stock of their talent as the 2013 season...
• 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...
• 2/19 MLB Dirt: 2013 Kansas City Royals Top 16 Prospects: The Kansas City Royals traded the likes of Wil Myers, Jake Odorizzi, and Mike Montgomery and still have one of the deepest farm...

• 1/31 Motor City Bengals: MLB Farm System Rankings: #14 Kansas City Royals: It’s that time of year again. Time to give this prospect junkie his fix. Last year, I did farm system rankings for all of baseball,...
• 1/30 Kings of Kauffman: More Prospect Recognition As Royals Trio Makes MLB.com’s Top 100: Spring training can’t get here quickly enough, but in the meantime, there’s a flurry of prospect information and rankings...
• 1/30 KC Kingdom: Royals Place Three on MLB.com Top-100 Prospect List: MLB.com revealed their Top-100 prospect list today and three current and two recently traded Royals made the list. Of the current...
• 1/28 Kings of Kauffman: Three Royals Make FanSided’s Top 100 Prospects Rankings: It’s that time of year when every publication starts to crank out their annual prospect lists and the FanSided Network is...
• 1/28 Seedlings to Stars: 2013 Seedlings to Stars Top Prospects: #21-30: Over the course of the past week we’ve incrementally been unveiling our 2013 Top Prospect rankings, 10 players at a time. Compiling...
• 1/9 Kings of Kauffman: Who Should be the Royals Top Prospect?: Ever since the Kansas City Royals traded top prospect Wil Myers to the Tampa Bay Rays, I have been trying to figure out who their...

• 12/20 Kings of Kauffman: Any Crops Left on the Farm?: I’m going to take one final look at “The Trade” with the Tampa Bay Rays, and any collateral damage on the Royals...
• 12/17 Kings of Kauffman: Brian Buchanan Moves From Kane County to Lexington: The Kansas City Royals have a new Low-A affiliate and with that change came a change to the Lexington Legends: an overhaul of...
• 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...
• 12/5 Kings of Kauffman: Winter Meetings Mid-Day 3: Wild Four Team Rumors and Royals Pitching Search Continues: It’s the middle of day three of the Winter Meetings and so far the Royals haven’t made a move, but they’ve been...
• 12/3 Kings of Kauffman: A Look Back at the Royals Top 31 Prospects: #2 Bubba Starling: Even without playing a professional game, outfielder Bubba Starling was ranked as the Kansas City Royals second best prospect...

• 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...
• 11/28 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...

• 10/6 Seedlings to Stars: Reviewing Our 2012 Top-100: #51-60 (Z.Wheeler to Milone): Today we’re back with a look at the next group of ten from Nathaniel’s 2012 S2S Top-100 list. If you’d like to check out...
• 10/3 Kings of Kauffman: Realistically, When Will The Royals Be Competitive?: The word “Competitive” is a perfect example of how words and events can have different meanings to different people.  A miserable...

• 9/20 Kings of Kauffman: Minor Change: Royals Add Lexington Legends As Low A Affiliate: On Wednesday, the Kane County Cougars announced that they had agreed to a player development contract (PDC) with the Cubs. As...
• 9/7 Kings of Kauffman: MLB.com Names Four Royals Prospects to Postseason Top 100 List: Before 2011, everyone under the sun called the Royals system the Best Ever, including landing nine players on Baseball America’s...
• 9/4 Kings of Kauffman: Burlington Loses Appy Title on Walk-Off Grand Slam: It was **** that to name an Appalachian League champion, it would take extra innings. All three games were decided in the bottom...
• 9/2 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Express: September 2: Top stories Cole wins AAA debut: It only took 12 solid starts with Altoona for the Pirates to believe he was ready for AAA, and...
• 9/1 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Hand Out Minor League Awards: The Royals went through all of their minor league affiliates and dished out awards to recognize the player and pitcher of the...
• 9/1 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 31st Minors Recap: The month of August ended on a high-note for some of the KC Royals minor league affiliates. The month didn’t end so well...

• 8/31 Seedlings to Stars: Standout Sprouts: August 30th, 2012 – Taylor Cole and Zachary Borenstein: Standout Sprouts is a recap of what I consider to be the top performances in the minors from the previous day. These are broken...
• 8/30 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 30th Minors Recap: A seven-run first inning for Memphis put away Omaha, 12-4. It was an ugly game from the beginning, as the Redbirds pounded out...
• 8/30 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 29th Minors Recap: Omaha beat Memphis, 6-2. The Storm Chasers pounded out 14 hits, with five players having multi-hit games. Catcher Adam Moore went...
• 8/29 Full Spectrum Baseball: Down On The Farm: Kansas City Royals: Wil Myers is one of the most exciting hitting prospects in all of baseball, but is he enough for the Royals' system to overcome...
• 8/28 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 28th Minors Recap: Omaha was shut out by Memphis, 5-0. The Redbirds scored four runs in the bottom of the 2nd inning. Newly promoted Michael Mariot...
• 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...
• 8/26 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 26th Minors Recap: Omaha scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning and held on for the 7-2 victory over New Orleans. The Zephyrs out-hit...
• 8/26 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 25th Minors Recap: Omaha beat New Orleans, 5-1. The Storm Chasers received a great start from Nate Ad**** He allowed just one run on six hits and...
• 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...
• 8/25 mlbreports.com : Top 5 Center Field Prospects in Baseball: Saturday August 25th, 2012 Codey Harrison: (Lead MiLB Prospect Analyst) - Today represents the final installment of the three-part series...
• 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...
• 8/22 Baseball News Source: Top Five Outfield Prospects In Baseball: Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore has a peculiar allegiance to 28-year-old right fielder Jeff Francoeur. Though...
• 8/22 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 21st Minors Recap: It was a tough night for Omaha, as they lost to Nashville, 7-0. It was actually another tough start for Chris Dwyer, who allowed...
• 8/21 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 20th Minors Recap: Nashville scored six runs in the top of the 2nd inning and Omaha could not recover, as they lost 9-1. The Storm Chasers collected...
• 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...
• 8/19 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 19th Minors Recap: One day after clinching their second straight divisional title, Omaha beat Nashville 5-1. The Storm Chasers hit three solo homeruns...
• 8/19 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 18th Minors Recap: Omaha returned home and beat Nashville, 5-3. The Storm Chasers also clinched the American Northern Division of the Pacific Coast...
• 8/18 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 17th Minors Recap: Omaha finished up their West Coast trip with a 5-1 loss in Las Vegas. It was a matchup of Doug Davis against former Storm Chaser...
• 8/17 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 16th Minors Recap: Omaha completed their comeback over Las Vegas, but it took 11 innings. They won 7-6. Down 6-3 heading into the top of the 9th...
• 8/16 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 15th Minors Recap: Omaha received a solid start, but lost in walk-off fashion in Las Vegas, 3-2. Danny Perales delivered the game winning hit, a...
• 8/15 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 14th Minors Recap: Omaha beat Las Vegas in the first game of their four-game series, 7-0. The Storm Chasers had two 3-run innings to go along with...
• 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...
• 8/12 Kings of Kauffman: Royalman Report – Talking Pitching Development, Home Runs and Perhaps Nonsense: We’re back on at our normal time of 7 p.m. CST tonight and talking about the state of the Royals in the post-Yuni era. The...
• 8/11 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 10th Minors Recap: Omaha held on to beat Tuscon, 4-3. After Tuscon tied the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the 5th inning, the Storm Chasers came right...
• 8/10 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 9th Minors Recap: Omaha enjoyed their day off (I think they had a golf outing) and begin a seven-game road trip to Tuscon and Las Vegas. Down 4-1...
• 8/8 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 8th Minors Recap: With the game tied at 2-2, Colorado Springs scored two runs in the top of the 9th inning en route to their 4-2 victory over Omaha....
• 8/7 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 6th Minors Recap: With the bases loaded and two outs, Clint Robinson (2-for-5) flied out to end the game, as Omaha lost to Colorado Springs, 10-7....
• 8/7 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Express: August 7: Top stories MiLB recognizes Player of the Week recipients: Every Monday, Minor League Baseball announces each league’s Player...
• 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....
• 8/5 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 4th Minors Recap: Omaha lost to Reno, 4-2 as Nate Ad**** was the hard luck loser. He allowed two unearned runs on seven hits and one walk over eight...
• 8/2 Kings of Kauffman: Royals August 1st Minors Recap: After watching Reno score three runs in the top of the 3rd inning, Omaha came back with four runs of their own and another two...
• 8/1 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 31st Minors Recap: Omaha used two 5-run innings to beat OKC, 12-5. OKC scored five runs in the bottom of the 3rd inning. Chris Dwyer recovered from...

• 7/31 Seedlings to Stars: Prospect Pulse: July 30th, 2012 – Rainy Lara and Yazy Arbelo: The Prospect Pulse is a recap of some of the top performances in the minors from the previous day. Prospects are sorted by the...
• 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....
• 7/29 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 29th Minors Recap: Omaha only scored in three innings, but it was enough, as they beat OKC, 11-1. The Storm Chasers collected 15 hits, with eight...
• 7/27 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 26th Minors Recap: Omaha‘s three-game winning streak came to an end with a 5-1 loss in New Orleans. The Storm Chasers scored their lone run...
• 7/26 Kings of Kauffman: Five Royals Minor League Players to Watch Moving Forward: The Royals are a cushy 1000 games out of first in the AL Central. They’ve been injured, ineffective, and impotent. I feel safe...
• 7/24 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 23rd Minors Recap: Omaha scored two runs each in the sixth and seventh innings to defeat Round Rock, 4-1. Wil Myers hit a two-run homerun in the...
• 7/20 Seedlings to Stars: Prospect Pulse: July 19th, 2012 – Kyle Hendricks and Gregorio Petit: The Prospect Pulse is a recap of some of the top performances in the minors from the previous day. Prospects are sorted by the...
• 7/19 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 19th Minor Recap: Omaha lost to OKC, 9-8, as Jake Odorizzi picked up his first loss of his Triple-A career. He allowed seven runs (five earned,...
• 7/19 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 18th Minors Recap: Omaha has now lost four in a row, all to OKC, with a 10-5 loss. The Storm Chasers led 5-4 until a five-run top of the 8th inning...
• 7/18 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 17th Minors Recap: Omaha lost to OKC in a hot day game, 7-6 in ten innings. Doug Davis got the start (it was suspected that he might make the start...
• 7/17 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 16th Minors Recap: If you thought Monday night’s KC Royals game was bad, then you didn’t get a chance to check out the Omaha game. They...
• 7/16 Seedlings to Stars: 2012 Fish Watch: Kansas City Royals – June Edition: The first thing you need to know about The Fish Watch is that it’s not a list of sleepers. It is instead a list of players...
• 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....
• 7/15 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 15th Minors Recap: Iowa scored nine runs over the third and fourth innings to beat Omaha, 9-1. Nate Ad**** took the loss, as he allowed all nine...
• 7/13 Motor City Bengals: MCB’s Top 50 MLB Prospects:     Now that we have made it through the Tigers mid-season top 30 prospects list, I thought I would take my shot at...
• 7/9 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Podcast: Episode 1: Welcome to the ReIntroduction of the Busleagues Podcast. We have two segments on This week’s podcast, the first is with Scott...
• 7/8 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 8th Minors Recap: Omaha continued their struggles in Iowa, as they lost the final three games heading into the All-Star break, with a 6-5 loss on...
• 7/7 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 6th Minors Recap: Omaha lost to Iowa, 5-4 in 11 innings. With two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning, Alfredo Amezaga delivered an RBI single...
• 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...
• 7/6 Kings of Kauffman: All-Star Edition of the Kansas City Baseball Vault with George Brett, Toby Cook, Bob Kendrick and Bud Daley: Download the full mp3 here or listen in the embedded player above. We’re all gearing up for the 2012 MLB All-Star Game,...
• 7/4 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 4th Minors Recap: Omaha won the opener of their five-game road series in Iowa, 11-2. The Storm Chasers led 6-0 after two innings. Doug Davis continues...
• 7/4 Kings of Kauffman: Royals July 3rd Minors Recap: Omaha put together a six-run bottom of the first inning, but saw Albuquerque score eight runs over the next four innings en route...
• 7/3 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Royals Prospect Watch: Wil Meyers: Hey baseball fans...have you heard the name Wil Meyers yet? I bet you have! If I am Jeff Franceour, I'm not getting...
• 7/3 Seedlings to Stars: The Prospect Pulse: July 2nd, 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...
• 7/3 Kings of Kauffman: Bubba Starling’s Big Day: Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come. Outfielder Bubba Starling homered twice and drove in six runs on Monday night...
• 7/2 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Rookie Ball Weekly Recap: The big news concerning the KC Royals rookie level affiliates was the professional debut of last June’s top pick, Bubba...
• 7/1 Kings of Kauffman: Royals June 30th Minors Recap: Omaha beat Albuquerque, 8-7. After the Isotopes scored four runs in the top of the 4th inning to tie the game, Omaha scored a...

• 4/5 MLBTradeRumors: Largest Contracts In Draft History: Baseball new collective bargaining agreement went to rather extreme lengths to restrict amateur spending, so the days of big money...

• 1/24 MLB Dirt: Cameron Gallagher Interview: Over the past several years the Kansas City Royals have accumulated one of the most impressive collections of young talent in...
• 1/12 MLB Dirt: 2012 Kansas City Royals Top 16 Prospects: The Kansas City Royals saw top prospects Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Danny Duffy, Salvador Perez, and Johnny Giavotella all graduate...

• 11/23 MLBTradeRumors: CBA Reactions: Yesterday, MLBTR's Ben Nicholson-Smith broke down ten key aspects of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.  More reactions...
• 11/18 i70baseball.com: Seedlings To The Stars: Cleto, Ventura, StarlingBubba Starling makes an appearance in the top 100 prospects....