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Kansas City Baseball Vault

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A show featuring analysis, opinion, and stories about Kansas City baseball: past, present, and future. Our focus is usually on the Royals, but we'll also discuss the Monarchs, the KC A's, and other teams in Kansas City's history.

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Welcome to the Kansas City Baseball Vault! In this first episode for Baseball Prospectus Kansas City, Jeff Herr and Michael Engel break out some projected stats for key Royals players and discuss whether they'll perform better than or... more
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This week, we covered the Royals' recent cuts to whittle down the number of players in big league camp. We talked about the addition of Dillon Gee to the 40 man roster, the role of Danny Duffy, Christian Colon's missed opportunity, and -... more
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As spring training games started up, the Royals started making a little bit of news. And Jeff returned to help host (after his first few weeks adjusting to parenthood). The Royals signed Salvador Perez to a contract extension, so we talked... more
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The Royals are in camp at spring training. Games are approaching on the calendar. A World Series title defense is about to begin. Pretty awesome, right? This week, Craig Brown of Royals Authority fame joined Mike to discuss some... more
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Spring training approaches, so this week Mike invited Hunter Samuels (@huntersamuels on Twitter) on the show to discuss some questions ahead of the players reporting. The theme was position battles, and featured thoughts on... more
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If you look at the Royals' financial commitments past 2017, it's pretty obvious that a lot of guys on the team today won't be around two years from now. Many of the contracts on the team will expire after 2017, so we tried to assess the situation... more
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One side effect of following a winning baseball team we've discovered is that the "wait until ___ when the prospects arrive" (ah, 2011, we missed you, sort of) isn't really a thing anymore, so Jeff and Mike have lost track of the fine details of the... more
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Last time, we went over the starting pitching options left for the Royals and lo and behold, they signed one of them. We discussed the Ian Kennedy deal (that's still pending physical) and how he might fare in Kansas City and the factors that led... more
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So now that the Royals have signed Alex Gordon, it's time to add a starting pitcher. This week, we looked at the names still out on the market, the best fits for the Royals, and the guys we want the Royals to take a chance on. Follow the... more
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After doubts (and very reasonable ones) and prolonged waiting, the Royals finally re-signed Alex Gordon. We pretty much just took the whole show to gush about him, but we did also discuss his 4-year, $72 million contract, and its impact... more
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