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Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: Royals

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and over the course of November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the fifth...

Shin-Soo Choo Launches Three Home Runs, Seven RBI in Tribe Victory

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Shin-Soo Choo put his slump behind him in a big way Friday night. Choo hit three homers, including a grand slam, and the Cleveland Indians moved out of the AL Central basement with an 11-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The 28-year-old right fielder, a native of South Korea, was batting...

Roto Rush: Is Ubaldo Jimenez the New King of the Hill?

Ubaldo Jimenez is the best fantasy pitcher, bar none. He's arguably the most dominant pitcher in baseball. And on Wednesday he showed, once again, why this is the case. Jimenez won his league-leading ninth game on Wednesday, throwing eight innings of shutout baseball. It was his second consecutive start where he didn't...

New Studs on the Block: Bardeen Edition

New Studs on the Block takes a look at players ready to make the leap from "possibly productive fantasy player" to "must-have fantasy stud." Going last is usually something that I try to avoid at all costs, no matter what I am doing in life. And when Matt Snyder and R.J. White made their "New Studs" selections before me,...

Fantasy Baseball 2010 Sleepers: Hitters

Everyone wants to know who the next greatest player is going to be. Some people call them sleepers and some consider them undervalued based on draft position. Whatever you call these players, to make this list we're banking on them turning a corner in 2010 and giving us equity on our belief in their rising star...

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05/28/12 Francoeur, Butler homer in Royals 4-2 win Source: ABC - KMBC-TV - Kansas City MO Jeff Francoeur and Billy Butler hit home runs, and Alcides Escobar had two hits to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 on Sunday.
05/28/12 Sunday's American League Capsules Source: News and Tribune - Jefferson City MO Will Rhymes went 3 for 3 with three singles and an RBI for the Rays, who lost Saturday night on a pinch-hit, two-run homer by Jarrod Saltalamacchia in the ninth off closer Fernando Rodney.
05/27/12 Butler goes deep against Orioles Source: CBSSports.com Jason Hammel pitched six shutout innings, Chris Davis homered and drove in three runs, and the Baltimore Orioles cruised past the Kansas City Royals 8-2 on Friday night.
05/20/12 Bruce Chen's strong start carries Royals to victory... Source: Boston Herald - Boston MA A 7-3 victory, which the Royals produced Saturday night over Arizona, is normally routine stuff.
05/20/12 Interleague roundup: Red Sox stay hot, end Phillies'... Source: Austin American-Statesman - Austin TX David Ortiz homered, singled and drove in two runs as the Red Sox ended the Phillies' six-game winning streak.