Weekend Rumblings - News for October 13, 2018

Weekend Rumblings - News for October 13, 2018

Jim Callis at MLB.com covers Brady Singer and other Royals at the Instructional League

“He’s been outstanding,” Kansas City vice president and assistant GM for player personnel J.J. Picollo said. “He’s been really good with his fastball, with his command maybe off a tick, and his slider has been very good. He’s trying to bring his changeup along, and last Monday he threw three changeups in one sequence that all were above average.

”All three of his pitches are good and there’s a lot of deception in what he does. Once he locates his pitches, he’s going to be very, very good.”

Eric Longenhagen at Fangraphs is optimistic about the Royals can produce a homegrown core that can contend.

If all this pitching hits it’s actually not all that long. Maybe you start seeing a stream of big leaguers graduating in 2-3 years. If three of Mondesi, Lee, Pratto, Melendez and Seuly work out, that plus some of these college arms is a nice core.

Kiley McDaniel at Fangraphs likes 2018 draft pick Daniel Lynch.

Drake: How would you rate the early returns and upside of the Royals 2018 draftees: Kowar, Lunch, Bubic and Isbel? Would you have any of them as fringe top 100 guys?

Kiley McDaniel: We like Lynch the most, but he isn’t quite top 100 yet. I could see Singer getting there this winter–we had him in that 135-170 tier pre draft and he’s starting to throw the changeup more now while some guys have graduated since then.

MLB Pipeline names Seuly Matias and Richard Lovelady as top prospects in the Royals’ system.

Salvador Perez is the 2018 Royals’ nominee for the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award.

There were a million ways the Brewers could have screwed up their off-season.

Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius will get Tommy John surgery.

The Cubs fire hitting coach Chili Davis.

The Yankees will shop Sonny Gray this off-season.

Could Bryce Harper end up in St. Louis?

The Dodgers released a minor league accused of sexual assault and kept it quiet.

Lenny Dykstra is indicted on meth and cocaine possession charges.

A re-make of the movie Rookie of the Year is in the works.

Where are all the women play-by-play broadcasters?

MLS’s Crew will be staying in Columbus under new ownership.

Lindsey Buckingham sues Fleetwood Mac for getting kicked out of the band.

FLAVOR TOWN is coming to Kansas City with a new Guy Fieri restuarant.

First Man got the technical details of the moon landing right.

Your song of the day is Stanley Turrentine with Where or When.