Tony La Russa returns to good health, returns to White Sox picture White Sox manager Pedro Grifol declines comment on reported meeting with Reinsdorf, La Russa. Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 23, 2023
White Sox search for one decision-maker to lead baseball-operations department Williams and Hahn are gone, but Getz, Haber and Grifol could be part of the Sox’ management team in 2024. Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 23, 2023
Jacob deGrom, Rangers Eye Surprise MLB Playoff Run Big free-agent signings—especially Jacob deGrom—and an old-school pitching approach have Texas believing it can get to October. Sports Illustrated · Apr 13, 2023
Here we go again: It’s April 6, and the Royals have already dug a hole The umpires gathered near the third-base line, waiting for a replay to determine whether Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. had hooked a baseball on the fair side of the foul pole. And waiting to answer what became the most intriguing, coin-flip question of the opening home stand of the season. Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2023
Vahe Gregorian: After two years of injuries, former Royal Danny Duffy pursues a comeback with Rangers SURPRISE, Ariz. — As he’s done virtually every year since being drafted by the Royals in 2007, Danny Duffy last month checked into the very spring training complex from which he’s launched nearly every season for half his life now. Tribune News Service · Mar 8, 2023
Vahe Gregorian: Ned Yost enters Royals Hall of Fame as epitome of their rise from futility to glory KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A few weeks before I started at The Kansas City Star in June 2013, I was getting acclimated to the Kansas City sports scene when I read of Royals manager Ned Yost’s rant in Oakland about the struggles of young Mike Moustakas. Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2023
‘Trust’ between Chris Young, Dayton Moore led to Rangers’ outside-the-box hiring Everybody in baseball is looking for a way to exploit a market inefficiency, but even for the most radical analysts, this is outside-the-box. Tribune News Service · Nov 29, 2022
Here’s what to know as Kansas City Royals head into MLB offseason Major League Baseball’s annual “hot stove” season officially fired up on Thursday afternoon with the start of free agency. More than 160 free agents hit the open market and became eligible to sign with any team, including the Kansas City Royals. Tribune News Service · Nov 11, 2022
Royals to Hire Matt Quatraro as New Manager, per Report Quatraro has spent the past four seasons with the Rays, most recently as the team’s bench coach. Sports Illustrated · Oct 30, 2022
What happens next to Shohei Ohtani and Angels? Dodgers' 2012 sale might provide clues The Angels have not had a playoff team since 2014. Now that Arte Moreno said he's exploring a sale of the team, what happens to the current team and what is the future of Shohei Ohtani with the Angels? Los Angeles Times · Oct 4, 2022
Royals Fire Longtime Executive Dayton Moore Kansas City is cutting ties with its president of baseball operations, who was with the club since 2006. Sports Illustrated · Sep 21, 2022
Dayton Moore is out as Royals’ president of baseball operations KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Dayton Moore Era is over in Kansas City. Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022
Vahe Gregorian: In wake of Toronto debacle, Royals would be well-served to fast-forward their future KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Dayton Moore took over as general manager of the Kansas City Royals in 2006, one of the pillars of his approach was to change a failing culture (210 losses the previous two seasons, for starters) by seeking to establish a selfless mindset and spirit throughout… Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2022
Unvaccinated Royals Lay Bare Their Lack of Commitment Ten Royals will miss a series in Toronto due to their unwillingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Their ignorance is hurting themselves and their team. Sports Illustrated · Jul 14, 2022
Tribune News Service · Jul 13, 2022 Royals will be without 10 players for road games in Toronto: The details KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Signs in the Kansas City Royals clubhouse Wednesday reminded players to have their passports and vaccination cards with them for the trip to Toronto.
Tribune News Service · Jun 23, 2022 Vahe Gregorian: Past may or may not be prologue for Royals, but Dayton Moore deserves more respect KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The week I started working at The Star, in June 2013, the Royals hadn’t been to a postseason since 1985 and fell to 23-32 with a loss to Minnesota at the beginning of a nine-game homestand.
Tribune News Service · May 28, 2022 Vahe Gregorian: Entrepreneurial, charitable life helps explain Royals owner John Sherman’s approach KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Starting a business, John Sherman smiled and said, can be “harrowing.” He often points to the debut of Inergy L.P., which he launched shortly before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 scrambled his “young, fragile” endeavor.
Tribune News Service · May 17, 2022 Sam McDowell: Kansas City Royals’ firing of hitting coach proves a change in front office operations About eight months ago, the Kansas City Royals unveiled a revision to their front office structure that was essentially greeted with a shrug of the shoulders. After all, what really changes with a new general manager if the former one is still on staff, receiving a promotion of his own?
Los Angeles Times · Apr 15, 2022 Bill Shaikin: Dodgers' Dave Roberts calls out MLB for reducing opportunities for Black players LOS ANGELES — The word Dave Roberts kept coming back to was "uncomfortable."
Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022 Royals commit to manager Mike Matheny beyond upcoming season SURPRISE, Ariz. — Manager Mike Matheny believes the Kansas City Royals are poised for a breakthrough, and even if it happens next season, he’ll be in the dugout when the franchise returns to the playoffs for the first time since 2015.
Tribune News Service · Mar 17, 2022 Sam McDowell: Zack Greinke's return to KC is more than a nice story. It reveals the Royals' plans. Like so many before him, he left to win. He left because he felt that was the only way he could win.
Tribune News Service · Feb 22, 2022 Vahe Gregorian: Why J.J. Picollo was right for the KC Royals' GM job, and his mindset amid MLB lockout Following a promising freshman year of baseball at North Carolina State, J.J. Picollo underwent elbow surgery. Then he endured a sophomore funk that left him believing his prospects were dwindling with the Wolfpack.
Tribune News Service · Jan 23, 2022 Vahe Gregorian: Five years after death, Royals' Yordano Ventura is both revered and cautionary tale KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two eternal images of Yordano Ventura are enshrined side by side in a frame on Dayton Moore's desk. And, indeed, they do frame the trajectory of the shooting star gone too soon, after too much too soon, and the cautionary tale left in his vapor trail.