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Sports Central October 25, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Royals Win Pennant on the Run The Royals are headed for a Series against the New York Mets that promises at minimum to be as arduously exciting as the American League Championship Series they just finished against the Toronto Blue Jays. |
Sports Central October 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crazyball They know the Mets won't be pushovers, at least as much as the Mets know the Royals won't be, either. |
Sports Central September 26, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Clinch the AL Central Last year, they needed the wild card play-in game to kick their way into a postseason run that ended one game short of a World Series triumph. This year, the Kansas City Royals won't have to worry about that kind of tension. |
Sports Central November 3, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crowned Royals, Drowned Mets On a dark night when the New York Mets needed a Dark Knight to keep them alive in the World Series, Matt Harvey did everything he could. And it ended up for nothing. |
Sports Central October 13, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
These Royals Can Hit Like, Well, Orioles, If Need Be The Royals hitting home runs? The Orioles stealing bases? The Royals becoming baseball's first team to win four extra-inning games in one postseason? Oops. They just did that. |
Sports Central October 16, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Crowned Royals Ride Roach Coach to Series You can point to lots of moments in which you might have known in your gut of hearts that the Royals were going to go to the World Series. |
Sports Central October 2, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Win a Hunt-and-Peck Thriller Bernard Malamud and Douglas Wallop themselves couldn't have written Tuesday's script. Kansas City, which hasn't seen the Royals anywhere near the postseason since the Reagan Administration, wouldn't have bought it prior to Tuesday night. |
Sports Central October 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The World Series Win's a Bum's Rush Nitpick all you want, but it's falling on deaf ears in San Francisco and a lot of other places. Whomever else did whatever else Madison Bumgarner was the World Series this year |
Sports Central April 23, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
A Wild Weekend in Kansas City Who did these Royals and Athletics think they were -- the Dodgers and the Giants? The Red Sox and the Yankees? |
Sports Central October 30, 2015 Louie Centanni |
Why the Royals Wanted the Mets, And Why It's Working Two games into the 2015 World Series, a lot of fans are scratching their heads asking the same question: "Are the Royals really this much better than the Mets?" |
Sports Central August 14, 2015 Greg Suttich |
Are Blue Jays the MLB's Best Team? The Toronto Blue Jays appear to be headed to the playoffs for the first time since the 1993 season when they won the World Series. |
Sports Central February 16, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
How Much of a Bargain is James Shields? What are the Padres getting for the coming four years? Shields's most obvious ability is the innings he dines upon. |
Sports Central October 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Giants Give the Pirates the Bum's Rush Out The Giants' bludgeoning of the Pirates in the National League's wild card game wasn't exactly the kind of hair raiser the Royals and the Athletics raised up the night before. |
Sports Illustrated June 4, 2003 Daniel G. Habib |
Jay Walkers With a get-on-base mantra, red-hot Toronto is running up the score. |
Sports Central August 10, 2015 Jonathan Lowe |
Don't Buck the Trend In Toronto, baseball fans have been waiting for the Blue Jays to trend in the same way that their beloved Raptors have on the basketball court. |
Sports Central July 9, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
No Royals v. NL After All, But... The genuinely bad news: the all-star voting is still broken and still in need of fixing. (Er, repairing). |
Sports Illustrated August 22, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Call to arms Young starters fizzle, so Jays look to veterans... "The Igniter" is ready... Going South... Griffey's effect... Making their mark... |
Sports Central April 22, 2006 Robert Pelletier |
Blue Birds Take Flight Going into the first series of the season against the Yankees, the Toronto Blue Jays' new acquisitions were behaving exactly the way they've always behaved. |
Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central June 21, 2010 Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Sports Central June 30, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Ah, the Trade Winds Blow... The author predicts what kind of trade winds are blowing across the rosters of major league baseball. |
Sports Central June 24, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
All-Star Vote Broken? Here's a Repair My American League ballot went as follows, and these players remained the WAR leaders at their positions as of Friday morning. |
Sports Central June 18, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Cardinal Sinners? Royal Stuffers? If the St. Louis Cardinals' front office isn't facing an investigation into whether they hacked into the Houston Astros' internal data networks, Kansas City fans are gleefully stuffing online all-star ballot boxes in favor of the Royals. |
Sports Central July 7, 2014 Andrew Jones |
MLB Midseason Awards While there are still plenty of games to play, it is fitting to look at who is on track for a few of the various awards that will come out at season's end. |
Sports Central May 28, 2008 Mike Round |
MLB Contenders or Pretenders? Buy or sell the Marlins as an NL East threat?... Buy or sell Detroit making the playoffs?... Buy or Sell Lance Berkman as NL MVP?... etc. |
Sports Central December 10, 2005 Mike Griffenberg |
Overspending Doesn't Win Championships This is the season of the giving, but some Major League Baseball general managers are taking this notion to the extreme. |
Sports Central February 26, 2007 Mark Janzen |
2007: The Year of the Blue Jay? After a moderately successful season last year, Toronto is taking aim at first place. |
Salon.com June 6, 2002 King Kaufman |
The ax Five baseball managers have felt the blade since Opening Day. Coincidence, or is something going on? |
Sports Central July 23, 2009 Matt Thomas |
Is Halladay Really Going to Be Traded? Here are the 10 most valuable facts you need to know about the 2009 MLB trade deadline. |
Sports Central December 13, 2005 Eric Maus |
Blue Jays Not Ready to Soar Just Yet The Toronto Blue Jays have opened up their wallets and should be better next season, but keep in mind that they were just an 80-win, third-place-team last year. |
Sports Illustrated March 6, 2000 Jeff Pearlman |
Prime prospects SI's Pearlman predicts the future in his mailbag debut - spring training questions. |
Sports Central May 30, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Monday: K.C. Royals: Chaotic The Kansas City Royals are taking a serious run at the indelible record set by the 40-win New York Mets in 1962. |
Sports Central April 12, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Hope (and Panic) Springs A look at the baseball teams a few weeks into the season. Who looks hopeful, who looks awful, and who may become the dark horse of the season. |
Sports Illustrated March 29, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball At bargain-basement prices, some Rule 5 pickups bring teams a major league boost |