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How Good Would the Royals All-Decade Team Be? Part 2: The Pitchers
The official team site recently announced the All-Decade Team. In Part 1, we evaluated the lineup, here we look at the pitching staff. SP1 - Zack Greinke: The 2009 Cy Young Award Winner headlines the ...
So How Good Would the Royals All-Decade Team Be? Part 1: The Lineup
There was a recent story on the official site announcing the all-decade team. The selection panel was the following: Art Stewart, Denny Matthews, Mike Sweeney, Mike Swanson (VP of broadcasting) and Di...
Hal McRae, Racism, and the Disputed 1976 Batting Title
I'm teaching a course on the 1970s and the first assignment of the semester asked my students to analyze a magazine advertisement from the period. To make things a little easier, I picked up a bo...
Looking Back at the Top Royals Prospects for 2005
In 2004 Baseball America rated Billy Butler as the top prospect in the Royal system. Nice call. Butler has developed into a nice young hitter for the Royals, and still appears to have room to grow. (I...
The Mystery of John Wathan's 1980 MVP Vote
I may need to create a "Notes & Queries" section on this site... I was working on a post discussing the worst catchers in Royals history (this came up in the game thread today) and I discovered t...
The David DeJesus Era
Have you been enjoying the David DeJesus Era in Kansas City? Did you even know it had been going on? I haven't been above sarcastically celebrating inconsequential players on this site before and in f...
Early Nominees for the 2007 Andy Sisco Award
While certainly stripped of the romance of Cubs of Red Sox fandom, following the Royals means being preconditioned to disappointment. As Christopher Ricks once said of Philip Larkin, disappointment is...
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