Sugar Ray Marimon and Matt Fields lead the Naturals while the offense continues to sputter for the Chasers. Affiliates went 2-1 today. HR Call: None   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Matt Fields 2-4  3 RBI Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Sugar Ray Marimon 7.0 IP 2 H 0 R 3 BB 7 K   Omaha Storm Chasers 1             Albuquerque Isotopes 4 The Chasers offense struggled, in the past 3 games they ...

Short of selling out what remains of a graduated and conscripted BFSITHOW, the Royals are pretty much what they are going to be from top to bottom. The problem is, the top is actually pretty bad, offensively speaking. "How bad is it?" you ask, the Pop-Tartâ„¢ crumbs tumbling from the corners of your mouth. Well, it is worse than last year. And last year was pretty brutal. In 2012, the Royals hit .265/.317/.40 ...

Huge day for Matt Fields lead the Affiliates to a 2-1 record. HR Call: Brett Eibner (7), Matt Fields (17,18)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Matt Fields 3-4  3 R   2 HR  3 RBI Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Justin Marks  6.0 IP  3 H 1 R 0 BB 6 K Omaha Storm Chasers 0                  Iowa Cubs 2 Justin Marks pitched quite well, but the offense was shut down by Chris Rusin. Marks pitched 6.0 inn ...

As draft picks are starting to sign and short season ball has begun, I wanted to continue to look at some draft picks by the Royals. So in this post, using videos available on Youtube, I'll look at three more picks made by the Royals with some short notes based on the videos of each. Carter Hope 3rd round Pitcher out of the Woodlands High School in Texas. Via LandThief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtheA ...

Here come the Royals. After falling as low as 23-32, the Royals are now 33-34. Yes, that's right. They are 10-2 in their last 12 games to creep up to near .500 and now they head to Cleveland to take on the team directly ahead of them in the standings. If the Indians name led itself to replacing the "roller" in rollercoaster better, they'd be an even better example than the Royals are. They started 8-13, the ...

Yordano Ventura threw fire, Bubba had his best game, and the Rey Navarro was the hero for the Naturals. The Affilaites had a 2-2 record today. HR Call: Brett Hayes(7),  Manny Pina (5),  Rey Navarro (4,5)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Bubba Starling 5-5  2B  SB Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Yordano Ventura 5.0 IP  3 H  1 R  1 BB  5 K Omaha Storm Chasers  3                     Iowa Cubs 1 Yord ...

The Affiliates showed some power today, but came away with a 2-5 record. HR Call: Adam Moore (7), Manny Pina (4), Matt Fields (16), Dennis Raben (1), Daniel Mateo (7)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Manny Pina 2-2   R  2B  HR  3 RBI Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Edwin Carl 4.0 IP  2 H 0 R 0 BB 3 K Omaha Storm Chasers 5            Iowa Cubs 9 In a game that was suspended yesterday in the 6th in ...

Good games by Orlando Calixte and Brooks Pounders highlighted a bad day for the Affilaites as they went 0-4. HR Call: Orlando Calixte (3), Brett Eibner (6), Mark Threlkeld (1)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Orlando Calixte 3-5  2 R   HR  RBI Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Brooks Pounders 7.0 IP 4 H 2 R 2 BB 4 K Omaha Storm Chasers       Iowas Cubs   Suspended. With the game tied 5-5 in the 6th ...

This is much more fun. Since last Friday, the Royals are 6-1 and they've won pretty much every which way. They've led the whole way and won comfortably, they've come from behind, they've come from almost completely out and they've absolutely demolished a team. And now they sit at 31-33. They may not ever get back to .500, but I fully admit that I didn't think they'd even get that close. Last night's game wa ...

The Affilaites pitched quite well today with 5 different starters going 5.0 innings and giving up under 2 runs. With a couple of blown games by the bullpen they finished with a record of 3-3. HR Call: Xavier Nady (11), Quintin Berry (1), Matt Fields (15), Orlando Calixte (2), Mark Donato (4), Cam Gallagher (1)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Whitt Merifield (2 games) 4-5 2 R    2B Pine Tar Press Pi ...

The Royals travel to Tampa to take on a Rays team that is very good again. This is also a team that lost both games to the Royals in an earlier series and was on their way to a third before the umpires inexplicably called the game. The Rays have found their power stroke even more than when they played the Royals and now rank fifth in the American League in homers and features five players with at least eigh ...

Kyle Zimmer picked up his first win, Alec Mills ran his scoreless streak to 17 innings, and Wilmington exploded for 17 hits to highlight a 1-4 day for the Affiliates. HR Call: None   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Parker Morin  4-5  R   3 RBI Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Kyle Zimmer  6.0 IP   6 H   2 R   2 BB  4 K Omaha Storm Chasers  4                    Nashville Sounds 5  The Chasers had ma ...

How things have changed in the span of a week, right? Wrong!  Yes, the Royals put together a nice six-game winning streak, winning a series versus the Minnesota Twins and sweeping the Houston Astros.  On top of that, they even stole  a game from the Detroit Tigers.  I'm here to caution you not to get sucked back in by that winning streak.  I'm not suggesting the streak wasn't positive, because there is no s ...

A rough day for the affiliates as they all struggled on offense. The good news Felipe Paulino looked great in his first rehab start. The affiliates ended the day with a 1-4 record. HR Call: Irving Falu (1)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Orlando Calixte 2-4   2 2B  RBI  Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Felipe Paulino 5.0 IP  2 H 0 R  2 BB  6 K Omaha Storm Chasers 2                  Nasheville Sou ...

If anybody has an idea on what to do now, I'm all ears (or eyes, I guess). Last week, the Royals were 23-31, mired in a month-long stretch of absolutely abysmal baseball. They had tumbled all the way out of first place contention, through the moors of middle class and into the slums of the destitute and untouchable. They had won two of their last four games, and it felt like the bells of St. Mary's were rin ...

Bad outing from Sam Selman and Danny Duffy were highlighted by offense in Omaha, a Naturals winning streak, and Daniel Stumpf's brilliance as the Affiates went 3-1. HR Call: Anthony Seratelli (6), Brett Hayes (5,6),  Bubba Starling (7)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Jarrod Dyson 3-3 2 R  2B  2 BB  4 SB Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Daniel Stumpf 7.0 IP 2 H 2 R 1 BB 6 K Omaha Storm Chasers  10 ...

With the draft concluding on Saturday and the Super Regionals going on at the same time, baseball fans are given the unique opportunity of being to immediately see a few of the players that were drafted by their teams. The Royals drafted two different first baseman from college programs currently playing in the Super Regionals. Shane Conlon (624th overall) Kansas State 1B A lefty hitting Junior, Conlon does ...

The Tigers come to town to face the suddenly on fire Kansas City Royals and it will provide the Royals with a big test to determine if they just got fat against the dregs of the American League or if they've really turned a corner. The Tigers are an enigma of sorts in that they should probably have the best record in the American League, but instead they have the fifth best. Still, they have a 5.5 game lead ...

If you're a fan of arbitrary endpoints (and who isn't?), this Royals season as been quite a ride. Hence the extremely clever name of "the Royalcoaster." You may recall that after 27 games, the Royals were at the top of the ride, sitting at 17-10. Articles were written about how much potential this team had and how they could make some serious noise of the next five months and maybe finally knock down that d ...

A good day for offense as the Affiliates went 2-1. HR Call:  Adam Moore (6), Brian Fletcher (5)   Pine Tar Press Hitter of the Day: Brian Fletcher 2-3   2 R  2B  HR  RBI  BB  SB Pine Tar Press Pitcher of the Day: Omaha (Everett Teaford, Louis Coleman, Will Smith, Michal Mariot) 9.0 IP 5 H 0 R   3 BB 9 K Omaha Storm Chasers 7                   Oklahoma City Redhawks 0 Four Chasers combined on a 5-hit sh ...