The Royals announced they have signed utility player Harold Castro to a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training. The 31-year-old is a six-year MLB vet with the Tigers and Rockies and has played every position on the field except catcher. For his career he has hit .278/.303/.366 with 16 home runs in … Read more
Pitchers and catchers will report to spring training in less than a month, yet several big free agents remain unsigned. Pete Alonso, Ha-Seong Kim, Alex Bregman, Anthony Santander, Jurickson Profar, Jack Flaherty, and Tanner Scott are just some of the players that remain unsigned. The slow market has caused at least a few free agents … Read more
The Royals announced their minor league coaching staffs for 2025, with few changes. Mike Jirschele will begin his 34th year in the organization, again leading the Omaha Storm Chasers in Triple-A. Assisting Jirschele in Omaha will be returning hitting coach Bijan Rademacher, pitching coach Dane Johnson, and assistant pitching coach David Lundquist. Joining the staff … Read more
Today marks the beginning of a new international signing period, as teams will welcome fresh-faced young players – mostly from Latin America – into their organizations. The international market can be a crapshoot – teams are gambling on teenagers who are barely old enough to drive in the United States, hoping their bodies fill out, … Read more
The start of the international signing period for 2025 has begun. Many players have agreed to sign with teams, but today is officially the day they can make those contracts official. 2025 is a bit different as pitcher Roki Sasaki is available to sign. Having him part of this international class may cause some chaos … Read more
MLB Pipeline writes about the top international prospect in each farm system. Royals: Yandel Ricardo, SS (No. 8) There’s something to be said for catcher Ramon Ramirez, who has gone from a $57,500 signing to a powerful catcher at 19. For now, we’ll lean on last year’s big international signing in Ricardo. The Cuban native … Read more
With the offseason in full swing and the Royals looking at ways to build off of a strong 2024, it is a great time to pull together the Kansas City Royals’ top 25 prospect list. Last year, many considered the Royals’ farm system to be one of the weakest in all of baseball due to … Read more
The Royals unveiled a preliminary list of 23 non-roster invitees to big league camp in Arizona for spring training, and it includes 2024 first-round pick Jac Caglianone, as well as top prospects Blake Mitchell and Carter Jensen and former first-round pick Gavin Cross. Free agents Cavan Biggio, Taylor Clarke, and Junior Fernández were also invited. … Read more
The Royals came to terms with all of their remaining arbitration-eligible players, reaching agreement with Kris Bubic, Hunter Harvey, Carlos Hernández, Kyle Isbel, MJ Melendez, and John Schrieber, according to Anne Rogers. Thursday was the deadline for players to come to terms with arbitration-eligible players before exchanging figures for hearings. The Royals had previously come … Read more
With the offseason in full swing and the Royals looking at ways to build off of a strong 2024, it is a great time to pull together a Kansas City Royals’ top prospect list. Last year, many considered the Royals’ farm system one of the weakest in all of baseball. That wasn’t all negative – … Read more