Mike Gillespie

4 days ago | kingsofkauffman.com | Mike Gillespie

An ex-Kansas City starter appears headed for a new pitching job. Almost four years have passed since Danny Duffy last threw a pitch for the Kansas City Royals — or any other major league team, for that matter. Just days after lowering his ERA to 2.51 with a one-run, four-inning start against Baltimore, his second flexor strain of the 2021 season forced him to the Injured List and interrupted what had been sizing up as one of his best campaigns ever.

1 week ago | kingsofkauffman.com | Mike Gillespie

Kansas City adds some outfield depth. Rudy Martin has traveled many a baseball road since the Kansas City Royals chose him in the 25th round of the 2014 amateur draft. But unlike the journeys of Brandon Finnegan, Ryan O'Hearn, Tim Hill, and Scott Blewett, all of whom the Royals also picked in that draft, Martin's never ended at Kauffman Stadium.

1 week ago | kingsofkauffman.com | Mike Gillespie

Two ex-Kansas City hurlers are headed in very different directions. Earlier this year, as the varied promises of another baseball season began to dawn in the spring training camps of Arizona and Florida, Austin Cox and Ross Stripling, two pitchers with markedly different professional résumés, pinned their aspirations of returning to the major leagues on the non-roster invitations to spring camp the Kansas City Royals handed them.

1 week ago | kingsofkauffman.com | Mike Gillespie

Former Braves ace has big night for Kansas City's Double-A club. As the case of Peyton Wilson tended to prove before his recent promotion to Triple-A Omaha, it's hard for any player to turn eyes away from Jac Caglianone when the Northwest Arkansas Naturals are in action. Caglianone is, after all, the top Kansas City Royals prospect, the young star everyone wants to see and so many hope will make it to the majors sooner rather than later.

2 weeks ago | kingsofkauffman.com | Mike Gillespie

Someone has to go when Blanco gets back. If all goes according to plan, Omaha, the Triple-A farm club of the Kansas City Royals, will welcome two additions to its roster before hosting Indianapolis Tuesday morning. The KC organization promoted red-hot infielder-outfielder Peyton Wilson from Double-A Northwest Arkansas to Omaha Monday, then announced a few hours later that Royals outfielder Dairon Blanco is "anticipated" to join the Storm Chasers on an injury rehab assignment Tuesday.