KANSAS CITY -- The Royals’ bullpen gates at Kauffman Stadium swung open eight times on Wednesday afternoon, a steady dose of relievers jogging to the mound one after another, inning after inning. Together, they ended up making history.

The playoff races and the Trade Deadline are heating up, and so are several position prospects. Yankees outfielder Spencer Jones has been the hottest hitter in the Minors over the past month, slashing .427/.477/.987 with 12 homers in 18 Triple-A games entering Wednesday. That performance could get him promoted to

KANSAS CITY -- All the talk about adding offense to this Royals team at the Trade Deadline has dominated headlines for months. But in the month of July? The current offense has started to click.

KANSAS CITY – Will there be a 15th team? Left-hander Rich Hill, who tied an MLB record by pitching for his 14th team, was designated for assignment by the Royals on Tuesday, with Kansas City needing a fresh arm after Hill managed just four innings a day earlier against the

KANSAS CITY -- As the Royals celebrated the stability that extending Seth Lugo brings to their rotation now and in the future, they were also balancing the news that they’ll be without another starter for the rest of 2025. Kris Bubic will miss the remainder of the season as he

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KANSAS CITY -- Trade Seth Lugo? How about extending him? The Royals on Monday finalized a two-year contract extension with Lugo, committing to the right-handed veteran starter until at least 2027 and ending any talk of Lugo leaving Kansas City this summer or the offseason.

The Yankees' Aaron Judge and the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani continue to lead their respective league in MLB.com's latest Most Valuable Player poll. Each superstar was at the top of the past two polls as well. But is change afoot?

KANSAS CITY -- Saturday at Kauffman Stadium featured 19 innings of baseball between the Guardians and Royals, a walk-off three-run home run from Jonathan India in Game 1’s 5-3 Royals win and the shortest start of Kris Bubic’s season in Game 2’s 6-4 Royals loss with questions about the All-Star

KANSAS CITY -- A Royals rotation that has been a strength all year, ranking near the top of the league in ERA for most of the first half, has now been decimated by injuries.

KANSAS CITY -- Outside of Maikel Garcia’s two-run home run that opened scoring Saturday afternoon, the Royals’ offense looked like more of the same we’ve seen all season. They were 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position before the final at-bat in the 10th inning, with missed opportunities standing out nearly

KANSAS CITY -- Royals right fielder Jac Caglianone first felt the tightness in his left hamstring as he was running down a double in the right-center gap during Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader against the Guardians. Then he felt it again while he was running up the first-base line on

KANSAS CITY -- Sean Gamble was 10 years old when he went to his first Major League Baseball game. He sat in the outfield seats with his buddies, next to a massive fountain display and watched a team that had just won the World Series the previous fall play a

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CHICAGO -- With the July 31 Trade Deadline coming up, this week marked an important one for the Royals. If they wanted to pave their way out of being sellers at the Deadline, the team needed to take care of business against the Cubs to begin the week. Kansas City

CHICAGO -- The Royals decided to send down MJ Melendez on April 19, giving the outfielder a chance to reset following a rough start to the year. The biggest thing for Melendez was getting his swing back. He hit just .085 in his first 16 games before his demotion, and

The MLB Speedway Classic at the iconic Bristol Motor Speedway is fast approaching (see what we did there?) on Saturday, Aug. 2. It features the Reds and Braves in a regular-season game on the famed NASCAR track. No, that does not mean Elly De La Cruz will have a foot

We are in this kind of strange in-between limbo land when it comes to prospect rankings. It’s after the Draft but before the signing deadline (July 28), and we’ve historically not done any updates to our lists until after all the draftees are signed. But at the same time, we’ve

CHICAGO -- When Rich Hill took the mound for the Royals on Tuesday, it was the same spot the left-hander made his MLB debut 20 years ago on June 15, 2005, with the Chicago Cubs. After 20 years, Hill is still contributing in the Majors.

CHICAGO -- The Royals knew they had the next nine or so games to turn things around before the Trade Deadline. The team’s top hitters were going to have to step up to keep them in the American League Wild Card race. The good news for the Royals is that

The first full week of second-half action kicked off with a number of impressive offensive performances. Top 50 prospect Owen Caissie (Cubs) moved within two homers of equaling his career high while Jhostynxon Garcia (Red Sox) left the yard twice. Ben Kudrna (Royals) showed out for pitchers with one of